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Prosecco cocktails, être pour la danse, cassis pour moi avec limoncello, madame, passion fruit, and blood oranges très grownup, breakfast at Tiffany's, she is all sunglasses and Audreyfied, me and George P., struggling writers, checking if i got enough cash or have to exit smooth, just in case, maybe we leave our coats behind, as ransom? lincoln center plaza cross-dressers, past the opera, the sun, a balmy thirty five degrees, laughing at us teasingly, cause tonight and tomorrow, *********** all the day, winter kisses in case we forgot, early March first belongs to the Ides of Winter Afternoon of a Faun, another ballet, origin, a Mallarmé poem. (you begin to comprehend) yes quite so, a perfect synopsis of the day, Acheron imported from Scarlett Liam who lives in the U.K., but comes to choreograph here, for gloria Americana sundown, soul cold back, "lest we forget," but the dancers bid us adieu with a rousing waltz, frenchified, La Valse, une poème chorégraphique, by Ravel, bien sûr! aroused and heart gladdened, return home for for veal chop love two hours of *** banging, kitchen banishment, (Yay!) chanterelles steeped in red wine, coverlet for a non-vegan tasting, English peas, red and purple potatoes, and for desert, a diet dream of verbal exchanged of detailed I love you's He: I love you, She (happy), replies: I love you more. (this repartee ballet, has been rehearsal danced before) He: Why? She: Because you are kind and generous, to street beggars, my single friends, good and smart, love art, and never let me down, and love my cooking, leave space for others when you park, go thru life making waiters and ticket takers smile and laugh, sleep for hours your head on my hip, write me crazy love poems about veal chops He: What's for desert tonight? She: A ****
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 8:41 PM UTC
a love poem ~ veal chops and the ballet
Prosecco cocktails, être pour la danse, cassis pour moi avec limoncello, madame, passion fruit, and blood oranges très grownup, breakfast at Tiffany's, she is all sunglasses and Audreyfied, me and George P., struggling writers, checking if i got enough cash or have to exit smooth, just in case, maybe we leave our coats behind, as ransom? lincoln center plaza cross-dressers, past the opera, the sun, a balmy thirty five degrees, laughing at us teasingly, cause tonight and tomorrow, *********** all the day, winter kisses in case we forgot, early March first belongs to the Ides of Winter Afternoon of a Faun, another ballet, origin, a Mallarmé poem. (you begin to comprehend) yes quite so, a perfect synopsis of the day, Acheron imported from Scarlett Liam who lives in the U.K., but comes to choreograph here, for gloria Americana sundown, soul cold back, "lest we forget," but the dancers bid us adieu with a rousing waltz, frenchified, La Valse, une poème chorégraphique, by Ravel, bien sûr! aroused and heart gladdened, return home for for veal chop love two hours of *** banging, kitchen banishment, (Yay!) chanterelles steeped in red wine, coverlet for a non-vegan tasting, English peas, red and purple potatoes, and for desert, a diet dream of verbal exchanged of detailed I love you's He: I love you, She (happy), replies: I love you more. (this repartee ballet, has been rehearsal danced before) He: Why? She: Because you are kind and generous, to street beggars, my single friends, good and smart, love art, and never let me down, and love my cooking, leave space for others when you park, go thru life making waiters and ticket takers smile and laugh, sleep for hours your head on my hip, write me crazy love poems about veal chops He: What's for desert tonight? She: A ****
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My Sunglasses I’ve got all of Tucson trapped behind my sunglasses I’ve framed mountain ranges in the frames of my Raybands I’ve got reflections of saguaro’s stranding still in front of my eyes I have sunny days taking refuge underneath my shades I’ve domesticated the giant star that rides blues skies into walking the edge of my brow I use black plastic as onyx shields So Tucson, I see you. There’s an art revolution beating at your horizon I’ve seen it skirting around these wastelands They tell us we’re wasting our time Telling the roadrunner to run back home When its nest was here since the beginning of time Tucson. I’ve seen folklorico and mariachi pay tribute to your origins on the hottest of days I’ve seen in the shadows in underground art forms Graffetti. There’s a protest in there somewhere. I’ve even witnessed it in pen to paper In lips to mics. In cafés in your desert nights for your desert nighttime audiences. Tucson, your culture and artistic value shines too bright for others to see. Your artistic worth shines too bright for others to broadcast They tend to only record your overdoses and murders Seems like our televised story tellers prefer to paint us in immoral reds The only time they pay the south side attention is when the south side is aching It doesn’t help that schools force you to choose business Give you chance to study law all the while cut out your art programs Fine art is required by universities but they don’t always expect you to get that far. Tucson’s fine art is too fine and infinite to be recognized by those undeserving Society wants to capture our southern brethren as outlaws not poets We’re called the misfit of the desert. As if every spray can, paint stroke, choreographed twist, Slam poem wasn’t something to take pride in. I’m sorry they only pay your schools attention when ambulances are parked in your driveways And administrators get caught in doing ***** deeds. I see your talent wasted. Your talent shown. To remind myself of your artistic significance, I’ve framed you On walks home I photograph your murals. Listen to the poets in the hallways. Observe the dancers compose and the musicians choreograph I’ve caught your reflection in my corneas’. I’ve dilated my pupils thoughts behind my sunglasses. Framed your mountain ranges in my frames. Took cover in your shades. Trained the artistic freedom and right to walk on my brow Tucson I see you.
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Nov 27, 2012
Nov 27, 2012 at 3:58 PM UTC
My Sunglasses
My Sunglasses I’ve got all of Tucson trapped behind my sunglasses I’ve framed mountain ranges in the frames of my Raybands I’ve got reflections of saguaro’s stranding still in front of my eyes I have sunny days taking refuge underneath my shades I’ve domesticated the giant star that rides blues skies into walking the edge of my brow I use black plastic as onyx shields So Tucson, I see you. There’s an art revolution beating at your horizon I’ve seen it skirting around these wastelands They tell us we’re wasting our time Telling the roadrunner to run back home When its nest was here since the beginning of time Tucson. I’ve seen folklorico and mariachi pay tribute to your origins on the hottest of days I’ve seen in the shadows in underground art forms Graffetti. There’s a protest in there somewhere. I’ve even witnessed it in pen to paper In lips to mics. In cafés in your desert nights for your desert nighttime audiences. Tucson, your culture and artistic value shines too bright for others to see. Your artistic worth shines too bright for others to broadcast They tend to only record your overdoses and murders Seems like our televised story tellers prefer to paint us in immoral reds The only time they pay the south side attention is when the south side is aching It doesn’t help that schools force you to choose business Give you chance to study law all the while cut out your art programs Fine art is required by universities but they don’t always expect you to get that far. Tucson’s fine art is too fine and infinite to be recognized by those undeserving Society wants to capture our southern brethren as outlaws not poets We’re called the misfit of the desert. As if every spray can, paint stroke, choreographed twist, Slam poem wasn’t something to take pride in. I’m sorry they only pay your schools attention when ambulances are parked in your driveways And administrators get caught in doing ***** deeds. I see your talent wasted. Your talent shown. To remind myself of your artistic significance, I’ve framed you On walks home I photograph your murals. Listen to the poets in the hallways. Observe the dancers compose and the musicians choreograph I’ve caught your reflection in my corneas’. I’ve dilated my pupils thoughts behind my sunglasses. Framed your mountain ranges in my frames. Took cover in your shades. Trained the artistic freedom and right to walk on my brow Tucson I see you.
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Don’t leave me alone, because every time you smile, the dimples in your cheeks come out like commas drawn in my life reminding me – this is not the end. Don’t leave me alone because your whispers add background music to my otherwise quiet life, Your fingers choreograph the perspective of my eyes and make sure hope clings to each corner, and I learn to hallucinate better than before- it is beautiful. Don’t leave me alone because I promise when next time you sit next to me, my incessant words won’t transform into question marks, only my eyes will look at you occasionally in case you miss the talk. Don’t leave me alone because I promise this too, on the days when you heart is too full to accommodate the memories of the past, we will go to your favorite river side and let them find their way out into the endless stream. Don’t leave me alone, because staring at horizon alone is boring, besides nobody talks about the expanse of these abbreviated colors into our lives. Don’t leave me alone because I refuse to have a life without you, may be I should have told you this in the beginning, instead of writing a poem.
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Nov 6, 2016
Nov 6, 2016 at 8:32 AM UTC
Don't Leave Me Alone
Watch the trepidation in the swinging of a chandelier, as its candles choreograph their own silhouettes on the pallid walls to the beat of the creaking ceiling. When the roof caves in, the walls will stop being a dance floor to ghostly shadows, the chandelier will crash to the table, and the song of a rusty, trepid chain will end. You will have learn to let yourself waltz to the music in your own head and you will have to learn let others watch you because you are a fire, not a ghost and you do not belong in the shadows you create when you’re secretly making your pain into art.
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Jan 23, 2016
Jan 23, 2016 at 10:56 PM UTC
Trepid Chandelier
In these times Looking back at her in such great distress Backing up sitting down breathing heavy now I rest Walking through numb recollections Impressions on the mind in every single action Choreograph fake rain Blood running from my swollen vein Sweat running down my face All because I’m thinking of her taste Show number one is playing on the big screen Reminiscing laughter together And what I’m now missing Tears dripping down no need to act out this pain Good for them I’m thinking Spare them from this place Learning everyone can use a little amazing grace This foundation I laid Slipping on the mud in this heavy rain Rain will come rain will go But this bottom wasn’t meant to hold I’m a soggy wash up In need of a new resting place One that shows number two on the big screen Stuck in a daze just another phase pushing through the maze just to get through the days I won’t forget you only remember Just moving on to find a new member Mutual love will cease my shaky temper
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 10:22 PM UTC
choreograph fake rain
He thinks I'm crazy When I stop while we're in the supermarket Because I love this song I choreograph And he starts to laugh At my spontaneity Yes I might be crazy Even more so lately
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 6:54 PM UTC
Impromptu
The Process There is the notion, the urging. The first spilling, the self-congratulatory Commencement ceremony for The process. Then there is the first short-pause, a quick-freeze hibernation. Then, The bubbling, The querying, the special fear, What have I started? Where is it taking me, Am I properly undressed for doing T  he process? A new vocabulary, an arm extended, but distended, Words are all angled puzzled, Capable of unity, but first, Unshaped but swollen, By the process. Hatching, head-aching, words arrive rushed, but disordered, Confused by the process. *{The exception has it own character. One kingly, run-on sentence birthed, After silent labor, a full poem, fully dilated, A shocking head of hair, full developed, So fast does "it" fall onto the paper The obstetrician arrives too late To process.}* The exception, exceptional. The normal, normative. Twenty four hours of labor, False starts, much screaming, Painful joys, hardly seamless, This process. Distractions the enemy, Compulsion the master, As you choreograph the work, In loving servitude to The process. You the doctor, insert probes, Looking for the tumors, the out of ordinary, For normal flesh is not of interest as part of The process. Finally, you do exhale, With unique the pleasure, of the longest sweetest Female ****** The breathing less labored, Tho whole, sensing a diminish-meant to convey That completion is the end of part of you, The near-end of the continuum, lessened but continuing The process.
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Sep 24, 2013
Sep 24, 2013 at 6:51 AM UTC
The Process
The Process There is the notion, the urging. The first spilling, the self-congratulatory Commencement ceremony for The process. Then there is the first short-pause, a quick-freeze hibernation. Then, The bubbling, The querying, the special fear, What have I started? Where is it taking me, Am I properly undressed for doing T  he process? A new vocabulary, an arm extended, but distended, Words are all angled puzzled, Capable of unity, but first, Unshaped but swollen, By the process. Hatching, head-aching, words arrive rushed, but disordered, Confused by the process. *{The exception has it own character. One kingly, run-on sentence birthed, After silent labor, a full poem, fully dilated, A shocking head of hair, full developed, So fast does "it" fall onto the paper The obstetrician arrives too late To process.}* The exception, exceptional. The normal, normative. Twenty four hours of labor, False starts, much screaming, Painful joys, hardly seamless, This process. Distractions the enemy, Compulsion the master, As you choreograph the work, In loving servitude to The process. You the doctor, insert probes, Looking for the tumors, the out of ordinary, For normal flesh is not of interest as part of The process. Finally, you do exhale, With unique the pleasure, of the longest sweetest Female ****** The breathing less labored, Tho whole, sensing a diminish-meant to convey That completion is the end of part of you, The near-end of the continuum, lessened but continuing The process.
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stars are dying, not becoming supernovas, or hurricane eyes, just collapsing to sleep, shh, tiny bodies flickering over the outstretched palms of children with wide eyes and feet that won't stop moving, even when holding hands as nets to catch the quiet light of sprinkles, little cake sprinkles that fall from the sky. the flowers are bending their heads to the ground, trying to hear the singing of the fauns as they dance around pre-formed groves in the forest to your left, the vibrations are travelling and amplified, if you listen carefully, so carefully, a wondering song of delight without words could reach you, stand so very still. the rain-drops are soft, caressing the ground hesitantly, asking its permission to tread on the springy moss and look for bubbles to choreograph marches for, complete with full brass band, and pixies combing hairs into a fountain of wheat coloured spoken word.
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Dec 7, 2010
Dec 7, 2010 at 11:38 AM UTC
cake sprinkles take the pied piper away
Just. Eat a bowl of cereal. Sit on the kitchen floor carefully so the milk doesn't spill, scoop the flakes into your mouth by the streetlights filtering in through the window. Or climb out onto the roof. Slip out your window, hip braced on the edge, and use your arms to pull yourself up, crossing your legs on the shingles and breathing in the stardust swirling around your head. Create a masterpiece. Dip a brush in some paint, use your hands to shape clay, choreograph a dance, script a play, write a poem, draw a spring day. Make a blanket fort. Tuck the blankets over the couch, pad the floor with cushions, and flick on the TV, so you can watch cartoons while wrapped in warmth like when you were a child. Stargaze in the backyard. Tiptoe out the back door, quilt tugged tight around your shoulders, spread it out over the dewy grass and stretch out, facing the clouds and counting the stars. Learn Morse Code. -.-. --- -. ...- . .-. ... .     .-- .. - ....     -.-- --- ..- .-. ... . .-.. ..-.     .. -.     - .... .     -.. .- .-. -.- --..--     -.- . . .--. .. -. --.     -.-- --- ..- .-.     ... . -.-. .-. . - ...     -... . - .-- . . -.     -.-- --- ..-     .- -. -..     - .... .     ... .. .-.. ...- . .-.     -- --- --- -. .-.-.- Have a shower. Run the water hot so it'll burn when it hits your back, shed your clothes and step into the steam, breathing in the vapors and imagining that you stand in the heart of a geyser. Go back to sleep...? No, this elusive peace is distinctly one with the night, and it would be foolish indeed to throw away such a gift merely to function during the bland sunlight hours. h.f.m.
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May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 at 4:44 PM UTC
IDEAS THAT SEEM LIKE GOOD ONES AT 2AM
Just. Eat a bowl of cereal. Sit on the kitchen floor carefully so the milk doesn't spill, scoop the flakes into your mouth by the streetlights filtering in through the window. Or climb out onto the roof. Slip out your window, hip braced on the edge, and use your arms to pull yourself up, crossing your legs on the shingles and breathing in the stardust swirling around your head. Create a masterpiece. Dip a brush in some paint, use your hands to shape clay, choreograph a dance, script a play, write a poem, draw a spring day. Make a blanket fort. Tuck the blankets over the couch, pad the floor with cushions, and flick on the TV, so you can watch cartoons while wrapped in warmth like when you were a child. Stargaze in the backyard. Tiptoe out the back door, quilt tugged tight around your shoulders, spread it out over the dewy grass and stretch out, facing the clouds and counting the stars. Learn Morse Code. -.-. --- -. ...- . .-. ... .     .-- .. - ....     -.-- --- ..- .-. ... . .-.. ..-.     .. -.     - .... .     -.. .- .-. -.- --..--     -.- . . .--. .. -. --.     -.-- --- ..- .-.     ... . -.-. .-. . - ...     -... . - .-- . . -.     -.-- --- ..-     .- -. -..     - .... .     ... .. .-.. ...- . .-.     -- --- --- -. .-.-.- Have a shower. Run the water hot so it'll burn when it hits your back, shed your clothes and step into the steam, breathing in the vapors and imagining that you stand in the heart of a geyser. Go back to sleep...? No, this elusive peace is distinctly one with the night, and it would be foolish indeed to throw away such a gift merely to function during the bland sunlight hours. h.f.m.
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And for your love and the romance of our lives I've decided to attempt dancing and all the glories that come along. For, this romance isn't the aroma of accordion music filling the Paris streets at nighttime, while a couple dances under the streetlights, as rain begins to fall. It's a romance about humanity and desire and its heartache that tries to tango in the suburbs and tap in the slums, whose clumsy movements cause embarrassment for any party involved. This love has a rhythm unlike a big band hit or a bluegrass hand-clapper. It has a rhythm all of its own. Closest to, maybe, jazz. The real jazz. The Harlem jazz. Sparatic and unpredictable. Upbeat, swinging cymbals and trumpets. Then a slow sax, with bluesy vocals crying out in pain. Because you can't two step or foxtrot or tango to that. You must step carefully. For this romance is fragile. You cannot choreograph in advance or synchronize moves with your lovers'. You simply must listen, feel, and move. This dance of love must cause you to cry and smile and melt and ache and desire to make love all in the same motion. Or it's not love. It's an imitation aimed at the beautiful and elegant. And we aren't that. We're humans with souls and flaws who desire these false motions and harmonies of love, but who need to still understand love's true tender and heartbreaking steps that have no recognizable rhythm, but that promise a lifetime of love. So, I will not learn love's romantic moves for they are unteachable, but I will attempt, for your love and romance, my dear, to sway to the music and stay beside you and follow your lead as we wait for the drums and the horns- and the music to begin.
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Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013 at 6:27 PM UTC
The Dance of Love
And for your love and the romance of our lives I've decided to attempt dancing and all the glories that come along. For, this romance isn't the aroma of accordion music filling the Paris streets at nighttime, while a couple dances under the streetlights, as rain begins to fall. It's a romance about humanity and desire and its heartache that tries to tango in the suburbs and tap in the slums, whose clumsy movements cause embarrassment for any party involved. This love has a rhythm unlike a big band hit or a bluegrass hand-clapper. It has a rhythm all of its own. Closest to, maybe, jazz. The real jazz. The Harlem jazz. Sparatic and unpredictable. Upbeat, swinging cymbals and trumpets. Then a slow sax, with bluesy vocals crying out in pain. Because you can't two step or foxtrot or tango to that. You must step carefully. For this romance is fragile. You cannot choreograph in advance or synchronize moves with your lovers'. You simply must listen, feel, and move. This dance of love must cause you to cry and smile and melt and ache and desire to make love all in the same motion. Or it's not love. It's an imitation aimed at the beautiful and elegant. And we aren't that. We're humans with souls and flaws who desire these false motions and harmonies of love, but who need to still understand love's true tender and heartbreaking steps that have no recognizable rhythm, but that promise a lifetime of love. So, I will not learn love's romantic moves for they are unteachable, but I will attempt, for your love and romance, my dear, to sway to the music and stay beside you and follow your lead as we wait for the drums and the horns- and the music to begin.
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Ballet Dancer Broken expensive ballet shoes which have been abused by her heavyweight strides. Swollen bones in her toes isn’t what she thought of. She’s always wanted to be a ballerina. Bruised knees she feels the pain every time she walks and feels it more when dancing. Tied up hair into a perfect small bun sits on top of her head with modern pins. Princess looking tutu balances nicely around her waist. Ghost white face, dark eyes appearance is key swan beauty while gliding on the stage lake. She’s on a high. Fluttering like birds ready to take flight. Fluttering arms like wings greeting the crowds. Enchanting music scares the lights to become brighter. Glittered outfits see-through tights what fits nicely. Ready to set the stage. The romance between female and male dancers has to be strong and they have to synchronise with eachother. The male dancers take control over the female's body as she moves delicately around him. En-pointe while stretching her fragile legs, wobbly limbs and weak touches while massaging her sore feet. Signs of giving up can never come to mind. This is her passion. She’s sacrificing everything. Painful satin ribbons tightening her blood circulation there’s no escaping a ballerina’s life. Naked toes touch the floor before sliding them into her new shoes. While dancing she feels free alone in her mind nothing can go wrong. She's light like a feather, petite bodied shape she's perfect. Rosie looking cheeks she's nervous. She's mirrored every arched pirouette so it has to be the best. From a hard pirouette into a plié, she knows that's the most important part of the performance. She can't fail. Can she? Her strong poses, while he lifts her leg in a perfectly straight line, pointed toes has to show off her feet. The attitude between her and her partner is occupying the crowd. Every ballet dancer cries out to be the best that's why they compete with each other. Achieving success is what every dancer feed off. She's risking her health for this moment, she's damaging every inch of the body in ways she couldn't of imagined. Every morning she tells herself she was born for this. Tired eyes, early mornings with late night yawns. Difficult choreograph's to learn. But she's flying towards her dreams. She's an artist at heart A performer by night It's worth being a ballet dancer.
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Apr 27, 2019
Apr 27, 2019 at 6:31 AM UTC
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Dancer Broken expensive ballet shoes which have been abused by her heavyweight strides. Swollen bones in her toes isn’t what she thought of. She’s always wanted to be a ballerina. Bruised knees she feels the pain every time she walks and feels it more when dancing. Tied up hair into a perfect small bun sits on top of her head with modern pins. Princess looking tutu balances nicely around her waist. Ghost white face, dark eyes appearance is key swan beauty while gliding on the stage lake. She’s on a high. Fluttering like birds ready to take flight. Fluttering arms like wings greeting the crowds. Enchanting music scares the lights to become brighter. Glittered outfits see-through tights what fits nicely. Ready to set the stage. The romance between female and male dancers has to be strong and they have to synchronise with eachother. The male dancers take control over the female's body as she moves delicately around him. En-pointe while stretching her fragile legs, wobbly limbs and weak touches while massaging her sore feet. Signs of giving up can never come to mind. This is her passion. She’s sacrificing everything. Painful satin ribbons tightening her blood circulation there’s no escaping a ballerina’s life. Naked toes touch the floor before sliding them into her new shoes. While dancing she feels free alone in her mind nothing can go wrong. She's light like a feather, petite bodied shape she's perfect. Rosie looking cheeks she's nervous. She's mirrored every arched pirouette so it has to be the best. From a hard pirouette into a plié, she knows that's the most important part of the performance. She can't fail. Can she? Her strong poses, while he lifts her leg in a perfectly straight line, pointed toes has to show off her feet. The attitude between her and her partner is occupying the crowd. Every ballet dancer cries out to be the best that's why they compete with each other. Achieving success is what every dancer feed off. She's risking her health for this moment, she's damaging every inch of the body in ways she couldn't of imagined. Every morning she tells herself she was born for this. Tired eyes, early mornings with late night yawns. Difficult choreograph's to learn. But she's flying towards her dreams. She's an artist at heart A performer by night It's worth being a ballet dancer.
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*I watch your face as you write in the furrows of the brow, see you and the word-seeds being seized, harvested, prepared, ready-roasted for sumptuous consumption grimace and smile, alternating currents, grimace and smile, ponderous pondering chew each word, flavor extracting, does its taste fit, is it only, but, perfect? you get up, you sit, you move about, pretending, misleading, purposed to be aimless yet eyes squinting betray a fearsome full concentration rapture, a mind computing the numerical quality of words, summing, subtracting, solving for X you employ technique, formats, tools and aids, thesaurus, dinosaurus, dictionary, even pictionary when the guppy letters swim spring river current fast, little boy catch me fast run past, cannot be caught and easy captured why do I watch your face as you write? for there visaged, is your truest work,* you, your best poem *what words you select matters little to me, t'is the struggles, the blush of satisfactory, the distempered white of disillusionment, of inspiration sought but not found all these dancers, you choreograph a word-ballet in three acts, scheme a midsummer nights dream upon the stage of your face return the favor poet? watch mine, watch my face, as I read your poem and see thine own best reflection in teary eyes caught inside crows-feet, pencil thin smile lines of fine wine whimsy, in feet that airlift, the contour of who you are and think* **You, Poet, you are your best poem**
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Jun 5, 2015
Jun 5, 2015 at 11:08 PM UTC
You, your best poem
This is what it is to fall for a boy with blurry edges. He will be unfinished but you will trust him anyway. This is how you learn how tenderness can be the texture of a hand in the darkness, the chill kiss of wind on your cheek, something you never saw coming. This is how not to write a sad story. Say something a little sweeter. Smile like that night he locked his keys in his car and you spent four hours learning how to break into something you had no right to be in. Forgive him for being one more door your hands shook too hard to open. This is how your song goes. You bring the lyrics and he brings the tempo, you choreograph the dance and he forgets the steps but you forgive him. You had a dream once where you got married, you never told him that, the wedding was in your study and he showed up half an hour late. You cried. You hugged him. You were in love. Even your dreams taste like disappointment. This is how melancholy marks you, hopeful and hurting, how you make stained glass windows out of the shards inside your chest. This is how you bleed and make it something beautiful. You went to his party and you swam in the pool. You ate his ice cream and you took his love. His refrigerator looks like a love letter to your face but he won’t speak to you in person, you wonder when you stopped being two people in the same picture and started smelling like wet paint. Your life like a song you sing to yourself, an old one, the kind where the words come easy. His name like a tattoo you shouldn’t have gotten, a memory you can’t give back. How did you end up here. This is where the music stops, the band packs up, your family kisses you and walks out the door. This is when the party’s over and no one wants your sadness anymore. Vibrating and waiting. You have lived all your life to hit this note. Heart like a washing machine. Heart like a peanut butter sandwich. Heart cracked open on the surgery table, hopeful and broken. Haggard and raw. They tell you when you use a muscle too much you can hurt it. It is beautiful to be the architect of your own injuries, to choose who will do you harm. To understand that healing is just another way of getting stronger. This is how you look out the window every night and forgive him. His face like a mistake you could have made and always did, like there could still be something more than this. This is what it is to love in a world where people can be broken. To believe they can be fixed.
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Jul 28, 2013
Jul 28, 2013 at 11:33 PM UTC
Break Me
This is what it is to fall for a boy with blurry edges. He will be unfinished but you will trust him anyway. This is how you learn how tenderness can be the texture of a hand in the darkness, the chill kiss of wind on your cheek, something you never saw coming. This is how not to write a sad story. Say something a little sweeter. Smile like that night he locked his keys in his car and you spent four hours learning how to break into something you had no right to be in. Forgive him for being one more door your hands shook too hard to open. This is how your song goes. You bring the lyrics and he brings the tempo, you choreograph the dance and he forgets the steps but you forgive him. You had a dream once where you got married, you never told him that, the wedding was in your study and he showed up half an hour late. You cried. You hugged him. You were in love. Even your dreams taste like disappointment. This is how melancholy marks you, hopeful and hurting, how you make stained glass windows out of the shards inside your chest. This is how you bleed and make it something beautiful. You went to his party and you swam in the pool. You ate his ice cream and you took his love. His refrigerator looks like a love letter to your face but he won’t speak to you in person, you wonder when you stopped being two people in the same picture and started smelling like wet paint. Your life like a song you sing to yourself, an old one, the kind where the words come easy. His name like a tattoo you shouldn’t have gotten, a memory you can’t give back. How did you end up here. This is where the music stops, the band packs up, your family kisses you and walks out the door. This is when the party’s over and no one wants your sadness anymore. Vibrating and waiting. You have lived all your life to hit this note. Heart like a washing machine. Heart like a peanut butter sandwich. Heart cracked open on the surgery table, hopeful and broken. Haggard and raw. They tell you when you use a muscle too much you can hurt it. It is beautiful to be the architect of your own injuries, to choose who will do you harm. To understand that healing is just another way of getting stronger. This is how you look out the window every night and forgive him. His face like a mistake you could have made and always did, like there could still be something more than this. This is what it is to love in a world where people can be broken. To believe they can be fixed.
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If only my heart had words to speak It would tell you I am here, I am here I give you a piece of myself Do with it what you please And if these hands could challenge my resistance, They would have found their way into yours Clumsy and nervous Waiting for your fingers to vine into mine If my feet led me, They would sprint towards you and choreograph our steps They would not let me leave your side But they will not, and love will not leave us And my lips may not press onto yours, but these dreams will suffice For now, words are all that holds us, and the hope of what is fate The dancing stars in an upside down sky and the exchange of a morning grin And my heart cannot speak, so heat blooms inside of my chest but one day it will, when we are both ready
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Apr 12, 2016
Apr 12, 2016 at 10:33 AM UTC
What I will not allow
*when your cold fingers get the chance, let their haunting abilities of ink dance across the fine white of paper and choreograph what it's like to dance in the vast nothingness of an inevitability you were too curious to prolong.*
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 12:13 PM UTC
Grimm's Hand
I have adapted. I have planned it. Cause I have created the activities carefully around my feelings. When I choreograph my heart toward you. Like the spins of the Temptations I had you amazed by my ways. When you first heard me say, I love you.
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Oct 14, 2015
Oct 14, 2015 at 8:05 AM UTC
Choreograph My Heart
Knows the secret of the universe but doesn't know the heart it doesn't tally up! Hop onto the spacecraft fly off to the star technically that can be done mathematically can be numbered. But that deep dive deep down the sea of the soul only an interpreter of the heart can play this role. What AI can mimic that or an art can choreograph or a computer can emulate this part?
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Apr 16, 2024
Apr 16, 2024 at 9:06 PM UTC
Science Arts Religion
Words dance around in my head And I choreograph sentences But when I present them to an audience, Nobody gives a standing ovation
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Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 7:43 PM UTC
performance
I lay on my back Serenely on the morning grass, The bright sun, shines its glory into my closed eyes. Keenly shimmering through, as if they be formed of natural glass, Plush clouds choreograph alongside a composed medley with the skies Absorbing tranquility from the pure and fresh valley breeze, I breath deeply and c onceive, today has been of unimaginable ease. --END-- "Peaceful Plains"--1-1-10- Original Lying on my back in the grass, The sun is shining in my eyes. Through my eyelids as if they're glass, The clouds dancing in a medley of disguise. Feeling the fresh valley breeze, This day, it has been of some ease. --END--
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Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012 at 3:54 PM UTC
"Peaceful Plains" -- Reformed 06/28/2012- metaphoric prose of the soul at ease
every day i go into my mirror, **** in my stomach and pretend i'm a professional dancer, then i realize i'm too overweight. i care too much about everything i wish i could commit suicide, then i get sad when i find something to live for there's something deep behind everything i say i can't stand complements i don't ever say i have bulimia, because it sounds like a disease, i am bulimic i didn't catch bulimia the reason i don't like compliments is because i don't think i deserve them another thing is i don't see the point in praising a being on not being human (long story) i don't trust people just because they're human most people think there is a deep reason i just don't i don't like when people think there is something deep to something that is just simple i hate when everybody believes a lie i told and thinks too much of the truth (they don't even know the lie was a lie, they just do it) i might be the only person in the world who never has deep moments while it rains i choreograph better than i dance everybody loves my singing voice yet i hate it i wish nobody existed but animals so they could live in peace i wish i lived in an abusive home so i could stop being in between.
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Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 9:38 PM UTC
things people don't know about me
You swing dance with me, you sidestep my questions, you throw out answers to things I haven't asked yet, you jump to conclusions. You slow dance with me, you hold me just close enough, you spin me to keep distance, you keep your footing. You tap with me, you choreograph intricate routines, you make me want to watch you. You tango with me, you drip passion, you keep me up at night in a sweat. You Charleston with other girls, you keep me on my toes, you never let them see you fall. Now stay still.
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Jun 29, 2013
Jun 29, 2013 at 9:17 PM UTC
I told you that you were a dancer;
"I was the same, but I was waiting for myself on the shore to return."  -   Murakami   IIt is a difficult time. You wait for the return of yourself. You sit on the pier, watching pelicans pirouette in the air, weightless for a moment before diving into the water. The sound of their splash reminds you of something you just can’t quite remember. You sit there, eating fish after fish, washing them down with beer. You have started counting seagulls and giving them long Spanish names. You choreograph ballets, create architectural drawings of dreams, and have begun to build a home out of seashells. On weekends, people come just to see you waiting for your own return. “Where did you go?” they ask, and you simply shrug. You make new friends and take up painting, creating self-portraits, your image is repeated like the latitude and longitude lines on a map. Each morning, you lean against the railing, and the seagulls join you. You’ve made them tiny red scarves that they all wear. All of you stare, still as glass, as if any movement might blur your vision. Together, you watch the sea, straining to see yourself coming back, straining to catch a glimpse of the prow of a boat cutting through the silver morning water.
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Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 12:01 PM UTC
Homecoming
Memory movies Little flickers of thought Of what happened before About the fish we caught When Dad and I, together Went by ourselves to a stream. We spent the day together It feels rather like a dream. Memory moments Of wonders I have seen And what they have become And what they came to mean. Suddenly recalling back then Someone I had totally forgot. Some people stay friends But sometimes others do not. Memory music Seemed to choreograph time. There were songs playing then And in a way, they kept time; The drumbeat to life’s march, We kept right up with the beat. It went with us everywhere, then In our school, home and the street. Memory maybe But it’s part of who I’ve become Today compared to yesterday Some things are better, and some Are never going to top them Those days of bright discovery. So, I let those memory movies, When they show up, come cover me.
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Mar 16, 2016
Mar 16, 2016 at 4:12 AM UTC
MEMORY MOVIES
We poets write what's on our mind and in our heart. To us it comes naturally, never questioning it. To us its art. To every curve we feel the pen stroking on the paper wall, like a dancer swaying in rhythm and to dare not fall. From one poet to another, we have a common courtesy for most. We either love it or we don't or can share it playing host. We appreciate each others differences and poetic style. Even when we disagree, we never argue, as we smile. From one poet to another, we can feel ones pain and joy. Though we never knock each other down or do no harm employ. From one poet to another, its a way of sharing what's in our soul. Whether it be good or bad, we respect each other for simply sharing and letting go. We can write about most anything like nature, love, pain, art, or rock. The worst thing from one poet to another, is a thing called "writer's block." So when we take the time to very publically; to from our depths do share. Its a way of sharing a piece of our minds like a a window to our soul declare. Even though we may hide away from time to time. It's because we're always thinking and reflect on past experiences to rhyme. Most of us are pretty social and can be artistic in other ways. Like music, dancing, singing or acting and directing  plays. We choreograph our feelings out and lay them out as words of art. Sharing to others to enjoy a piece of our life that taketh part. We don't always say things out loud properly and publically. We are sometimes better writing in what we do best- in written poetry. From one poet to another, we know some get it or they don't. Most poets will because they can disect it or they won't. From one poet to another, we know we don't always have to rhyme our word. I prefer to write in rhyme, but when I don't- other poets don't think its absurd. From one poet to another, we write our feelings, thoughts and beliefs with ease. From one poet to another, for some its a masterpiece. Sherri Harder
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 9:43 PM UTC
From one poet to another
We poets write what's on our mind and in our heart. To us it comes naturally, never questioning it. To us its art. To every curve we feel the pen stroking on the paper wall, like a dancer swaying in rhythm and to dare not fall. From one poet to another, we have a common courtesy for most. We either love it or we don't or can share it playing host. We appreciate each others differences and poetic style. Even when we disagree, we never argue, as we smile. From one poet to another, we can feel ones pain and joy. Though we never knock each other down or do no harm employ. From one poet to another, its a way of sharing what's in our soul. Whether it be good or bad, we respect each other for simply sharing and letting go. We can write about most anything like nature, love, pain, art, or rock. The worst thing from one poet to another, is a thing called "writer's block." So when we take the time to very publically; to from our depths do share. Its a way of sharing a piece of our minds like a a window to our soul declare. Even though we may hide away from time to time. It's because we're always thinking and reflect on past experiences to rhyme. Most of us are pretty social and can be artistic in other ways. Like music, dancing, singing or acting and directing  plays. We choreograph our feelings out and lay them out as words of art. Sharing to others to enjoy a piece of our life that taketh part. We don't always say things out loud properly and publically. We are sometimes better writing in what we do best- in written poetry. From one poet to another, we know some get it or they don't. Most poets will because they can disect it or they won't. From one poet to another, we know we don't always have to rhyme our word. I prefer to write in rhyme, but when I don't- other poets don't think its absurd. From one poet to another, we write our feelings, thoughts and beliefs with ease. From one poet to another, for some its a masterpiece. Sherri Harder
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This is what I want to go out to With a pen In my palm As I choreograph each line For the last time Hoping what I write fills you of me One last poem one final time Powerful enough you can hear the rhyme As the words project from the screen So you can visualize what I mean And as I take my last breath I'll leave it unfinished for the next
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Nov 26, 2015
Nov 26, 2015 at 10:19 PM UTC
When it ends