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"clash" poems
The napalan man in a violet cape   descended the stair with a lopsided gait a wretched procession, subscribers in cue rattling off as they stream from the pew   sounds and smells from a shadowy place a catholic priest to gin up base lanterns strung from bolted doors cobbled streets and wooden floors   stepping stones and iron bell fortified by the citadel hallowed halls and sepulcher dragon cane for the horse drawn tour castle turret,  archer holes centaur scribed in chamber bowls garden columns in courtyard view the blood ballet and hullabaloo   ancient tombs on warrior grounds gods and saints who made their rounds goliath still with battered scythe knelt in prayer and mummified   battle fires and crowds that roar gallows, caves, abysmal war   gargoyles flock the terraced slope pearly gates to bring on hope   serpents, snakes and burning ash lava bombs and trident clash mariners drift in absentee as neptune rises from the Tyrrhenian Sea
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Dec 2, 2016
Dec 2, 2016 at 9:20 PM UTC
Cinque Terre
Every light makes a shadow And every shadow is darkness. The darkness holds a secret A secret never to be revealed by the light. Every person is light But everyone holds a secret. A secret buried deep within themselves Covered in darkness. When the light meets the darkness They clash. There is no neutral or gray. In the end, only one is left standing.
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Oct 27, 2011
Oct 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM UTC
Internal Struggle
I clash into my fabric, Like it's the waters of a bath. Behold the ripples from my fingers, Before I walked upon their path. Pills are skipping stones, That land at unsteady feet. I'm falling, or I'm drowning, Sleeping with torture underneath. With Carnations at the bedside, The yellow won't change my hue. For their inexplicit meanings, Are wrapped in dripping blue. And the taps rung through my head, Were the bath; now forming puddles. You asked how I had left, But you didn't notice the bubbles ---------------------------------------------------
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 4:31 AM UTC
Carnations
The mushroom The unfolding instant of creation (fertilisation) not an instant separate from breakfast It all flows down & out, flowing but that instant: not fire & fusion (fission) but a moment of jellied ice, crystal, vegetative mating merging in cool slime splendour a crushing of steel & glass & ice (instant in a bar; glasses clash, clink, collide) far-out splendour heat & fire are outwards signs of a Small dry mating ~~~ event in a room event in space a circle Magic rite To call up the godhead spirits, demons The shaman calls: “When radio dark night…” We are eating each other. ~~~ The Voice of the Serpent dry hiss of age & steam & leaves of gold old books in ruined Temples The pages break like ash I will not disturb I will not go Come, he says softly an old man appears & moves in tired dance amid the scattered dead gently they stir ~~~ I received an Aztec wall of vision & dissolved my room in sweet derision Closed my eyes, prepared to go A gentle wind inform’d me so And bathed my skin in ether glow ~~~ Drugs are a bet w/ your mind ~~~ The cigarette burn’d my fingertips & dropp’d like a log to the rug below My eyes took a trip to dig the chick Crouch’d like a cat at the next window My ears assembled music out of swarming streets but my mind rebelled at the idiot’s laughter The rising frightful idiot laughter Cheering an army of vacuum cleaners ~~~ Mouth fills w/taste of copper. Chinese paper. Foreign money. Old posters. Gyro on a string, a table. A coin spins. The faces. There is an audience to our drama. Magic shade mask. Like the hero of a dream, he works for us, in our behalf. How close is this to a final cut? I fall. Sweet blackness. Strange world that waits & watches. Ancient dread of non-existence. If it’s no problem, why mention it. Everything spoken means that, it’s opposite, & everything else. I’m alive. I’m dying. ~~~ 1st wild thrush of fear -A phone rings There is a knock on the door. It’s time to go. No.
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Explosion
The mushroom The unfolding instant of creation (fertilisation) not an instant separate from breakfast It all flows down & out, flowing but that instant: not fire & fusion (fission) but a moment of jellied ice, crystal, vegetative mating merging in cool slime splendour a crushing of steel & glass & ice (instant in a bar; glasses clash, clink, collide) far-out splendour heat & fire are outwards signs of a Small dry mating ~~~ event in a room event in space a circle Magic rite To call up the godhead spirits, demons The shaman calls: “When radio dark night…” We are eating each other. ~~~ The Voice of the Serpent dry hiss of age & steam & leaves of gold old books in ruined Temples The pages break like ash I will not disturb I will not go Come, he says softly an old man appears & moves in tired dance amid the scattered dead gently they stir ~~~ I received an Aztec wall of vision & dissolved my room in sweet derision Closed my eyes, prepared to go A gentle wind inform’d me so And bathed my skin in ether glow ~~~ Drugs are a bet w/ your mind ~~~ The cigarette burn’d my fingertips & dropp’d like a log to the rug below My eyes took a trip to dig the chick Crouch’d like a cat at the next window My ears assembled music out of swarming streets but my mind rebelled at the idiot’s laughter The rising frightful idiot laughter Cheering an army of vacuum cleaners ~~~ Mouth fills w/taste of copper. Chinese paper. Foreign money. Old posters. Gyro on a string, a table. A coin spins. The faces. There is an audience to our drama. Magic shade mask. Like the hero of a dream, he works for us, in our behalf. How close is this to a final cut? I fall. Sweet blackness. Strange world that waits & watches. Ancient dread of non-existence. If it’s no problem, why mention it. Everything spoken means that, it’s opposite, & everything else. I’m alive. I’m dying. ~~~ 1st wild thrush of fear -A phone rings There is a knock on the door. It’s time to go. No.
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Light train chugging, working to outrun Over exerting, pulling along your freight Sand is running out under the diminishing sun Fastidiously you tug on your enormous weight Segmented equal in seven hulking proportions Weaving between sleeping rocky giants Assertion in your drive gifted from the high heavens Borne of light your cargo load of tenants Silver blurred rays glinting back as reply As you power your way through Defying seconds, before the last rays should die Against odds, delivering what is due Questing to alleviate my inflicted darkness Spear of brilliance slicing through my mind Illuminating the farthest and tiniest of crevices Nook and crannies that willed me blind Careful manoeuvring to keep your balance Through scenic views fraught with treachery Furiously working to keep your cadence Hopeful of unloading the load you carry What lies dormant in that cargo of yours? What sleeps easy within those boxcars? What stokes the fire to diligently run your course? What promises you bear, travelling near and far? Bales of hope and crates of strength Supplies of kindness and self-worth Reside within your immense length Intact and lay quiet within your formidable girth Reliant on the light that fuels and feeds Your axles seem tireless guiding forth those wheels Thundering over land with the power of a thousand steeds Armed to your teeth with alloys and steels Expelling grit and dirt as you pummelled across Grey-white fumes, shoot up to the sky Flag flogged by wind, billow and toss Blaring your whistle as you race on by Propelling forward, horizon up ahead There it is...in all its tenebrous glory Darkened locomotive seething mad with dread Brace for the clash and the loads the two carry
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 8:03 AM UTC
Light Train (II)
Light train chugging, working to outrun Over exerting, pulling along your freight Sand is running out under the diminishing sun Fastidiously you tug on your enormous weight Segmented equal in seven hulking proportions Weaving between sleeping rocky giants Assertion in your drive gifted from the high heavens Borne of light your cargo load of tenants Silver blurred rays glinting back as reply As you power your way through Defying seconds, before the last rays should die Against odds, delivering what is due Questing to alleviate my inflicted darkness Spear of brilliance slicing through my mind Illuminating the farthest and tiniest of crevices Nook and crannies that willed me blind Careful manoeuvring to keep your balance Through scenic views fraught with treachery Furiously working to keep your cadence Hopeful of unloading the load you carry What lies dormant in that cargo of yours? What sleeps easy within those boxcars? What stokes the fire to diligently run your course? What promises you bear, travelling near and far? Bales of hope and crates of strength Supplies of kindness and self-worth Reside within your immense length Intact and lay quiet within your formidable girth Reliant on the light that fuels and feeds Your axles seem tireless guiding forth those wheels Thundering over land with the power of a thousand steeds Armed to your teeth with alloys and steels Expelling grit and dirt as you pummelled across Grey-white fumes, shoot up to the sky Flag flogged by wind, billow and toss Blaring your whistle as you race on by Propelling forward, horizon up ahead There it is...in all its tenebrous glory Darkened locomotive seething mad with dread Brace for the clash and the loads the two carry
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Those happy Morris dancers make for a happy sight They wear bright scarlet ribbons and their shirts and trousers white, They clash their sticks whilst dancing and you hear the timbers ring Though 'twould seem that Morris dancing is not a female thing. I've never seen a female Morris dancer I stand corrected if I'm wrong It has it's roots in England and to England it belong And I hope that Morris dancing will not go the way of rhyme That in a changing World it won't lose out to time. They brought their culture with them from England far away A culture perhaps fading like many of the old cultures are today With the old dances of Europe I see a link somewhere And sad to hear that Morris dancers are now becoming rare. At the Dandenong Ranges festival east of Melbourne they perform every year And after in the ***** tent they laugh as they drink their beer, They brought a thing of beauty when they brought their dancing here And to those marvellous Morris dancers let us raise our glass of cheer. Morris dancing vary from English Village to Village or so I have been told Though the times they are a changing and fading are the ways of old But those marvellous Morris dancers may they dance forever more In the sunshine of Australia far from England's rainy shore.
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Aug 10, 2010
Aug 10, 2010 at 6:17 PM UTC
Those Marvellous Morris Dancers
Everyone is distracted by mundane, shallow things that they forget a bigger picture thats in all aspects of life. **** you Clash of Clans and MTV. But maybe I'm the shallow one because I put the blame on such a stupid topic.
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 12:26 PM UTC
Ambition
I. Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they ****** ****** ****** In their icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II. Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden-notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! III. Hear the loud alarum bells— Brazen bells! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now—now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the ***** of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells— Of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— In the clamor and the clangor of the bells! IV. Hear the tolling of the bells— Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people—ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple. All alone, And who toiling, toiling, toiling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone— They are neither man nor woman— They are neither brute nor human— They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells! And his merry ***** swells With the paean of the bells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the paean of the bells— Of the bells: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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The Bells
I. Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they ****** ****** ****** In their icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II. Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden-notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! III. Hear the loud alarum bells— Brazen bells! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now—now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the ***** of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells— Of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— In the clamor and the clangor of the bells! IV. Hear the tolling of the bells— Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people—ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple. All alone, And who toiling, toiling, toiling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone— They are neither man nor woman— They are neither brute nor human— They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells! And his merry ***** swells With the paean of the bells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the paean of the bells— Of the bells: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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It was the end of the world when Ares met Mars Supposed to be counterparts, brothers in arms But on opposing sides they stood Couldn’t see eye to eye And instead of stemming the blood Each took an eye for an eye Until in time the whole world went blind The sword attacked and the spear struck back But that’s what happens when cultures clash When cultures collide With anger and hatred it starts to divide But nobody wins, cos the dead look the same on both sides It was the mother of all storms when Jupiter met Zeus There could have been a deuce; could have called a truce But each wanted more and more The two as black as thunder And instead of stopping the war Each stole the other’s thunder Until in time the whole world went under The thunder attacked and the lightning struck back But that’s what happens when cultures clash When cultures collide With anger and hatred it starts to divide But nobody wins, cos the dead look the same on both sides The underworld shook when the earth caved in Pluto and Hades together couldn’t take us all in We didn’t see when being heartless In wanting the best of both worlds That the second of the two would be darkness And together the weight of the worlds Would send us crashing down to Tartarus The rivers overflowed and the fires turned to ash But that’s what happens when cultures clash
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Dec 16, 2016
Dec 16, 2016 at 7:54 PM UTC
When Cultures Clash
On this night The king-god Zeus does battle With the titans of old. The sky is livened By his hurled bolts of lightening. Their targets simply Unseen to the mortal eye. The calm is shattered By the clash of thunderbolt On stone and molten rock. Our protector, he remains. Though many have forgotten him To myth, legend, and lore We have forgotten the safety That his lightning strikes provide. On sunny days Cloudless nights We are allowed to forget his ways. But on this night In these dark and stormy hours, The true believers remember. That Zeus has watched over us For millennia. Battling an unseen War, waged in the tales of old But carried out before our eyes. We must recall that he, The one King-God, Zeus, has Watched over us dutifully since time Before time before memory. He has kept us safe From the titans of old. And the lightening strikes Remind us of stories untold
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Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 11:57 PM UTC
Thunderstorm
It been a while now I'm back, playing the beat on a track, Lyrically I attack, I'm an M C, So naturally, That's how I react, You might not get my psych, goin ape shyte crazy, chasin these monkeys of my back, I guess opposites still attract. Rapidly rapping raps, spitting facts, I'm what these other cats lack, cut from another cloth, Can't cut'em no slack, This rifts, rat, I'm way better than that I master my craft Like captain kirk taking a bath higher than an aircraft Plotting my path like a hovercraft Fully prepared for the crash. These other guys, think they fly, I just laugh. They get puff up, While I pass by, getting Roughed up, crossing my path Iooking like ironman with this mic in my hand, Feels like I'm hold a staff. Like a titan, I clash. I am the better man, check my clasp, I got a better plan, Better lyrical grasp, I'm so smooth, These other rappers, rap sound like *** I land minds, no gymnastic class my geographic quadgraphics better than a veteran with a can of V8 in his hand Still crazy from the war, tasted the blood of a warrior, Now I'm thirsty for more. I'm dropping bombs like the army core in 94 With more confidence than Al b sure on tour Finding common sense scattered all over the floor Picking up feed back on channel 4 Turning the microphones up, Then slam it to the floor, Cause I don't want to rap anymore, Back and forth I go, It's all a part of the flow, I'm just putting on a show, rhythm book, pinned up, It's a wrap, flow after flow, Pulling up, getting my spins up, The treble and bass doing chin ups, While I'm spitting rhythms galore,
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Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 8:09 AM UTC
Rap Artist Freestyle
It been a while now I'm back, playing the beat on a track, Lyrically I attack, I'm an M C, So naturally, That's how I react, You might not get my psych, goin ape shyte crazy, chasin these monkeys of my back, I guess opposites still attract. Rapidly rapping raps, spitting facts, I'm what these other cats lack, cut from another cloth, Can't cut'em no slack, This rifts, rat, I'm way better than that I master my craft Like captain kirk taking a bath higher than an aircraft Plotting my path like a hovercraft Fully prepared for the crash. These other guys, think they fly, I just laugh. They get puff up, While I pass by, getting Roughed up, crossing my path Iooking like ironman with this mic in my hand, Feels like I'm hold a staff. Like a titan, I clash. I am the better man, check my clasp, I got a better plan, Better lyrical grasp, I'm so smooth, These other rappers, rap sound like *** I land minds, no gymnastic class my geographic quadgraphics better than a veteran with a can of V8 in his hand Still crazy from the war, tasted the blood of a warrior, Now I'm thirsty for more. I'm dropping bombs like the army core in 94 With more confidence than Al b sure on tour Finding common sense scattered all over the floor Picking up feed back on channel 4 Turning the microphones up, Then slam it to the floor, Cause I don't want to rap anymore, Back and forth I go, It's all a part of the flow, I'm just putting on a show, rhythm book, pinned up, It's a wrap, flow after flow, Pulling up, getting my spins up, The treble and bass doing chin ups, While I'm spitting rhythms galore,
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iPad, computer, VCR. Television, cell phone, Movie star. Clash of clans, minecraft, COD. Pokemon halo, PVP. Having fun, all day, Disaster strikes. Red bar, 0%, Battery dies.
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 10:43 AM UTC
Electronics
for Harlon Rivers the river potion, the river portent, the river potent it is all of these and not one he is bank sided, observing the false idols, the image mirrored in the glass of the river transfigured molecularly he becomes something ferried frothily, forcefully as if a twig or a small thing of human manufacture, an object tossed up airborne-repeatedly his poetry: the clash of particles at the many junctions of objects and water, eddies and the currents, ceaselessly circumnavigating,   searching revisionary pathways directed, but randomized, prisoner of the flows, servant to the wind's directives and the earths magnetic indivisible undulating waves thinking, this life, its unsteady gait,  the irreverent wavering of drunkenness resultant from potent potions, portents of inopportune position in him, my own histories,  my poetic recordings also become water borne, watermarked, replayed back for me, for erasure, censure, closure and rededication this River is a tapestry, a torn map, drawn on broken shards of slivered water, living with all the others but we, are the untitled, we, are the un-entitled, and he is the Rivers <•>
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Aug 17, 2017
Aug 17, 2017 at 2:36 PM UTC
For Harlon: The River Potion
Yes its big yosef a true heavy weight makin' earthquakes through all states watch for the snakes In the grass never front for the cash who wanna clash? With a mighty Titan I'm on a God status love hoes with the **** size of Trish stratus Now tell me who's the baddest ya on a one way trip with Gladys Knight On a Midnight train to Georgia no one heard of ya Ya flows is wack your skull will get crack fuckin' with the mack I make a love connection from my smif and wesson learned ya lesson no plexin' On my team one man supreme like a lion i be the king makin' suckas sing Lullabies I feel ya soul cry reaching for the sky Ain't no ******* allowed puff a cloud til the city unda a smoke shroud Fools Talk loud but die silent known to be be violent If provoked by a fake loc my pistol loves to smoke it stays high Leavin' holy bodies to fry Who could outwrite this? my style will diss rhymes deeper than an abyss make ya **** Out ya own blood as ya face down in the mud with no crud Touchin' my eyes sleep with one eye Open scopin' and hopin' got more scams than Ken Copeland I'm still floatin' On cloud nine almost to ten sippin' gin never see me grin my lyrics touchin' Every last one of you wack rappers so come again.....
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Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 11:40 PM UTC
Lightweight
I beat my feet against the floor Thud thud thud Till the dark red blood Spews from my new nubs I bang my head into the wall Thud thud thud Till the crimson drips Drop silently into the mud I punch the glass window Thud clash crash The glass shatters and my fist Fly’s past the panes Again and again with no end In sight I rage against the night Violence incarnate Fury in human form Flesh and blood storm No sanity for this mad refugee Just blood and gore
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Jan 23, 2015
Jan 23, 2015 at 7:38 AM UTC
The Violence
I propose a painting, on a ground of white, a band of your favorite color, a band of mine. Should we arrange our stripes parallel, or should we direct them to intersect? Would the colors compliment or clash the other?
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Jan 12, 2011
Jan 12, 2011 at 5:52 AM UTC
I propose a painting
I yell and I yell enclosed by the air and yet I can't feel it. I want to hurt myself just so I can feel something So I try and I try but not a drop of blood shed. I shoot and I shoot I clash my cymbals I set myself on fire I bomb the whole **** cloud. Nothing moves. I am stuck in an infinite circle of an alternate reality. Isolated from life. I sit and sob in a cloud of white air.
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Feb 1, 2019
Feb 1, 2019 at 9:44 AM UTC
In a Cloud of White Air
I knew I loved you When you held my hand Pretending I was your girlfriend in that bar. When we drove down the Hill, windows down Music up, singing along High as the moon in that night's sky. I knew I loved you When you called me crying about your dog And didn't know what to do. When you sang to me "Don't you worry, don't you worry child" in that club And you told me it'd get better. When you made me smile all the times I was down. I knew I loved you when you Though my weirdness was cool And when you let me be my exposed self You never judged, it was easy to Tell you my deepest secrets. I knew I loved you when we took that selfie And pretended to kiss. When it turned real as our Connection solidified through our lips I knew I loved you when we pretended It never happened because we Didn't want to lose each other. I knew I loved you all the Times we fought and drifted away for things I can't even remember. When our opinions would clash And our lives kept changing. I knew I loved you when I hated you And all your girls because I knew you could do better. I knew I loved you when you finally met her And it pleased my heart Your gamble was finally over. I Know I Love You Because I'm smiling as I immortalize our bond. I Love You My Best Friend
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 8:18 AM UTC
When I Knew
I remember the first time I felt panic, I Had been raised in a beautifully-constructed world of my mother’s making where I could Take my time and step from subject to subject like hopscotch or skipping rope because I wanted to know it all Drinking it all in, soaking in knowledge like a bath Learning everything there was to learn Leaving no stone unturned No one told me I couldn’t Swirl my fingertips in acrylics, read books on horses having *** at age seven because I wanted to be a veterinarian, hit the soprano notes though I was an alto, crush dandelions into healing potions, create a world on a stage with crying child actors, nick cardboard boxes and clocks because I knew I could move time backwards Then I grew up and The grown-up world was not so forgiving Examinations, papers, time clocks, meetings, expectations I could not meet with the excellence my soul craved I can’t breathe Fear had a choke-hold on my throat My mouth would dry, then wet as my stomach swirled and groaned with nausea My hands turned into ice picks My heart screamed like a jackhammer in concrete Every possible worst-case, best-case, win-win, lose-lose, lose-win scenario would rush and overthrow my amygdala like a union mob besieging an abusive factory that never closes, never lets them rest I didn’t realize it was because the only way to do it all and be it all and hit every deadline and finish every task was to sacrifice perfection, to become average, mediocre Assimilate And I learned the truth That that was all the world expected of me anyway You see there is no patience for anything else in the real world I can’t breathe I have no emotion, only thought processes Paralyzing, debilitating clash between suppressed desires to take my time, create, innovate, learn and the overwhelming need to Focus, decide, move faster, work harder, be on time, be better, please everyone, be everything Be nothing To where the only choice is let go of that part of yourself or go insane So I shed my skin like it was a sin I was leaving behind Just to survive Without the headaches, the heartbreak, ripping my hair out over stupid little mistakes It’s taken this long to find it in my closet again To not be afraid Of the soul it takes to Perfect
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 5:15 PM UTC
Perfectionist
I remember the first time I felt panic, I Had been raised in a beautifully-constructed world of my mother’s making where I could Take my time and step from subject to subject like hopscotch or skipping rope because I wanted to know it all Drinking it all in, soaking in knowledge like a bath Learning everything there was to learn Leaving no stone unturned No one told me I couldn’t Swirl my fingertips in acrylics, read books on horses having *** at age seven because I wanted to be a veterinarian, hit the soprano notes though I was an alto, crush dandelions into healing potions, create a world on a stage with crying child actors, nick cardboard boxes and clocks because I knew I could move time backwards Then I grew up and The grown-up world was not so forgiving Examinations, papers, time clocks, meetings, expectations I could not meet with the excellence my soul craved I can’t breathe Fear had a choke-hold on my throat My mouth would dry, then wet as my stomach swirled and groaned with nausea My hands turned into ice picks My heart screamed like a jackhammer in concrete Every possible worst-case, best-case, win-win, lose-lose, lose-win scenario would rush and overthrow my amygdala like a union mob besieging an abusive factory that never closes, never lets them rest I didn’t realize it was because the only way to do it all and be it all and hit every deadline and finish every task was to sacrifice perfection, to become average, mediocre Assimilate And I learned the truth That that was all the world expected of me anyway You see there is no patience for anything else in the real world I can’t breathe I have no emotion, only thought processes Paralyzing, debilitating clash between suppressed desires to take my time, create, innovate, learn and the overwhelming need to Focus, decide, move faster, work harder, be on time, be better, please everyone, be everything Be nothing To where the only choice is let go of that part of yourself or go insane So I shed my skin like it was a sin I was leaving behind Just to survive Without the headaches, the heartbreak, ripping my hair out over stupid little mistakes It’s taken this long to find it in my closet again To not be afraid Of the soul it takes to Perfect
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There's a ringing, ringing in my ears, You can't hear it, the people don't hear it. I draw rings, the ringing in my ears. Dark circles appear under my eyes; I am so tired from doing nothing. The lights flash and we don't blink, Forces clash and we don't blink. I can't hear what you're not saying, What you're not praying, proclaiming, For there's a ringing within my ears. It drowns out the stars, It drowns out all fright for I am so tired from doing nothing. Peace and retreat drive me mad; Retreat is not peace, it is pieces. There's a ringing, ringing in my ears, You can't hear it, the people don't hear it...
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 3:12 PM UTC
Ringing In My Ears
Beat-Up Old Car Vastly under-appreciated possession In dull blue, a MK1, no less, with original rust Inside lingering scents of Exchange and Mart top-notes of WD-40 and miscellaneous mix tapes A car like this gets into your life in lumpy knuckle-barking unsubtle ways, stays there in subtle ones That long drive back to Yorkshire in the quintessential exemplar Clutch cable snaps. ****** and Crap. Hardly helpful but can be accommodated with enough thought rough though it is on starter motor and nerves whenever anticipatory powers inadequate and we are forced to a complete red-light stop Brakes dodgier, exhaust noisier than ideal or legal Gender-ambiguous elderly tyres flirt outrageously with slick tarmac Showing their canvas underwear and male-pattern baldness Keeping this unstable, unsafe, unreliable ultimately essential lump of metal moving and on the road is a fine art Engaging, fluid and intense art; The Clash and The Specials Costello and The Cure in support A distraction then getting hauled over by plod somewhere near Bury St. Edmunds Thatcher's boys. Tax? MoT? Insurance? ID? No real interest shown Any passengers in the back? Clearly no.  Pickets?   Pickets? What? Please open the boot sir... Oh. On your way lad. Drive carefully I was, officer, I was More than you will ever know
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 9:52 AM UTC
Memories of The Miners' Strike
Dear brother Your heart has been torn By yet another Whose arms like spiderwebs Brought your heart into her mouth And let her teeth clash into it Dear brother I know the feeling Like you will find no other But I promise you That every final paper Results from many rough drafts Dear brother I see the love oozing out of you Waiting to be shared with another But learn to use it on yourself first Please Dear brother You are not someone else's "Other" You are your own You are enough Dear brother I know you have given up on Finding another But for now now we have Each other And dear brother May we both learn To love again yet another
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Sep 7, 2015
Sep 7, 2015 at 5:18 AM UTC
Dear Brother
Her soft leaves tremble as the clouds clash and collide above, revealing their deafening roar. Tremors ripple through her, beginning at her roots; the poignant sky tears straight through her rind. Vicious tears fall from melancholy stars, and she quakes under the bellow of the outraged clouds; she is alone. Turbulent, irate, ferocious, but she will remain.
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Feb 18, 2016
Feb 18, 2016 at 10:14 PM UTC
The Wailing Willow
Clash. Zap. Thunderclap. Orbitals charged with electricity collide - feels like  crossing the streams let's - smash atoms like Adam and Eve, pierce fiercely with particles blown white hot from my accelerator Insatiable Like  trying to fill up a black hole, so i accelerate her excite her, ignite her, my touch lights her on fire combust. a cloud of ecstasy like Co2  rises higher I've got my eyes on your ions take a picture it'll last longer? snap a photo digitize her particles turned pixels tilt their head skyward transcendant enlightenment, released it inside her E=mc^2 , i can please you at the speed of light we just rewrote the big bang theory and this time we got it right opposites attract and charged sparks fly we might not touch but ion be ****** if we don't try I'm a ****** intellectual I love your body AND your mind.
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Apr 5, 2012
Apr 5, 2012 at 2:13 PM UTC
****** Intellectual
Smoke signals from a silent cigarette float to the heavens and linger in the mucky conscience of regret resting on the temple, my forefinger Thumb lifted to expose a metaphorical gun countenance in prose staring at a midnight sun When will that monster again **** another that I love, Why did I so feel like I could best the powers from above I created a ghastly Adam and I dare not create an innocent Eve my future I cannot fathom all time left to grieve I will chase this gruesome snake no matter where it slithers across Hell's frozen lake this calamity summons me hither My final and only ambition is to cast a life to silence his and my cognition will clash and bite in violence I created a monster and a monster created me Madness! How it so saunters and wails as if a banshee Look over on the frozen horizon a horrid shadow stalks I, a fire stealing Titan will march out to solve this paradox
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Oct 10, 2018
Oct 10, 2018 at 8:57 AM UTC
Fallen Angel