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"colored" poems
who knew that in about 4 years time, or maybe 10,000 years lost in 10,000 multi hued tears, id be on the same trip- dancing to the same shimmering inner grove as before- braiding fresh cut flowers- delicate genital-hands, unfolding in prayer into my subconscious mind or perhaps into my hair- saving colored prism fragments of knowledge or nonsense- digesting intoxicating incense smoke into the deep throated green streaked laughter chasms that are my lungs- spinning vinyl, spun mind unwinding, undulating through string music- contemplating the sunset's sweet immaculate form, reoccuring and balancing itself right outside my window- dressing in shells, bones, and beads; kaleidoscope fabric dripping from the ******* like mother Kali in a Fellini flick- peeping out at heads slinking down the ****** pavement streets- my hairy angelic form grooving intensely, spastic- body flung, strung out in hot patterns of mirrored arms and legs- brain brew bubbling; wicked, fantastic- limbs waving and grabbing at tangible tasty morsels, smelling strongly of indigo and patchouli- the East smiling on me and my intrepid journey to the ocean city- head thrown back in tranquil madness- pipe smoke curling like ancient hound howls from the corners of my lips- smiles spread like insanity, a wicked disease lost in the forgotten finger painted confounds of creamy ****** milk consciousness- basking in lamplight of the golden glistening Now.
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 1:26 AM UTC
girl-child flashback
Mid-October, with leaves spilled like colored pencil shavings --- the streets dicing our town into neat, unfair portions --- and me, eatin' that *****
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Oct 3, 2016
Oct 3, 2016 at 8:32 PM UTC
The Fall
cedar planks line the dim lit hall morning snow begins to fall sepia print in a chipped wood frame embers spark from the franklin flame rustling sounds from bunks below records play in a tight alcove bacon grills on an iron sheet gloves are warmed by baseboard heat bean bags tossed on colored **** papka placed as a punching bag red brick wall with mounted poles windows filled with glacier bowls whiskey jack on the southern rail a frozen patch of wine and ale pine cones fall in gathering white brothers bathed in firelight sleighs are on the table top canyon road is at a stop northern winds that bite the face lines are up the gondola base cornice clipped by gully goats the rubber man appears to float alpine depths are on the rise peaking sun through parting skies triple ropes and nordic luge honored guests from baton rouge gelande jumps on rainbow drive nostalgia’s light and warm reply
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Jan 2, 2017
Jan 2, 2017 at 5:50 PM UTC
yellow ducks of buckhorn
What's wrong with you, with us, what's happening to us? Ah our love is a harsh cord that binds us wounding us and if we want to leave our wound, to separate, it makes a new knot for us and condemns us to drain our blood and burn together. What's wrong with you? I look at you and I find nothing in you but two eyes like all eyes, a mouth lost among a thousand mouths that I have kissed, more beautiful, a body just like those that have slipped beneath my body without leaving any memory. And how empty you went through the world like a wheat-colored jar without air, without sound, without substance! I vainly sought in you depth for my arms that dig, without cease, beneath the earth: beneath your skin, beneath your eyes, nothing, beneath your double breast scarcely raised a current of crystalline order that does not know why it flows singing. Why, why, why, my love, why?
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Love
Leg off the table you red face recruit! put on the offensive and break down the bolted door! you are the soul saver the peddle maker the calibrator with colored handbills and front line rhetoric join the masquerade in ivy league style! politicking with cunning guile invisalign smile blackened vile bleeding the funnel with gold plate omega and crocodile shoes get on stage and dance you fool! you are the headline maker the pantomime juggler the compromised closer pull out that 5 page review (bullet points only please) and polish those weathered lines! did you give it your all? the door tags and pleasantries the tidings and clippings the irrevocable claims and postured blames all those impressionable basics put to the test? you know the call (straight from those cold academics) the pie chart gurus and contract killers (complete with bone in finger) whipping their frenzied crew in an all night charade old yellar and the gatekeeper sure seem amused (sharpening their inquest behind closed doors) firing up the shiit storm with those hostile priicks and a slew of insatiable cures there’s laughter from the back room the dripping nose and wavering hand the cut white lines and checkpoint tales the pipeline romance and lacking form (of a basic essential character!) soundboard and narratives for logging time slouching on the steel case over moot points ready to play the 3 weight butter card (if need be) might I remind you it’s only an inquiry (with a slight hint of concern!) surely no malfeasance or deception intended so step back from the melt down and cut to the chase! headlines to breadlines penthouse to outhouse those immoral pursuits have taken their toll (haven’t they?) madman or rogue (you take your pick) for the scores and tabulations are final shame on you for the foul play the bold hypocrisy and order desk games the back stabbing blames and spurious names just sign on the dotted line ~ this banter is killing me
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Jan 4, 2017
Jan 4, 2017 at 1:12 PM UTC
The Recruit
Leg off the table you red face recruit! put on the offensive and break down the bolted door! you are the soul saver the peddle maker the calibrator with colored handbills and front line rhetoric join the masquerade in ivy league style! politicking with cunning guile invisalign smile blackened vile bleeding the funnel with gold plate omega and crocodile shoes get on stage and dance you fool! you are the headline maker the pantomime juggler the compromised closer pull out that 5 page review (bullet points only please) and polish those weathered lines! did you give it your all? the door tags and pleasantries the tidings and clippings the irrevocable claims and postured blames all those impressionable basics put to the test? you know the call (straight from those cold academics) the pie chart gurus and contract killers (complete with bone in finger) whipping their frenzied crew in an all night charade old yellar and the gatekeeper sure seem amused (sharpening their inquest behind closed doors) firing up the shiit storm with those hostile priicks and a slew of insatiable cures there’s laughter from the back room the dripping nose and wavering hand the cut white lines and checkpoint tales the pipeline romance and lacking form (of a basic essential character!) soundboard and narratives for logging time slouching on the steel case over moot points ready to play the 3 weight butter card (if need be) might I remind you it’s only an inquiry (with a slight hint of concern!) surely no malfeasance or deception intended so step back from the melt down and cut to the chase! headlines to breadlines penthouse to outhouse those immoral pursuits have taken their toll (haven’t they?) madman or rogue (you take your pick) for the scores and tabulations are final shame on you for the foul play the bold hypocrisy and order desk games the back stabbing blames and spurious names just sign on the dotted line ~ this banter is killing me
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“When an injured athlete urge a comeback to field for love of game, his vulnerability toward previous muscle wound hinder his mental ability to go on with a full swing. Though, same rule implicate for people who hold bleeding pen to draw alphabetic emotions” Yesterday I met one of those fragile birds. She carry fractured pen fingers under her beautiful skin, has curious eyes with strange shyness and a touched heart. The pursue of selflove somehow quelled her creative charm. I never expected to encounter someone so likeminded. She put away her pen to avoid emotions, identically similar reason made me quit this so-called ability which once lured bunch of close friends and many others who never knew the face behind these emotionally colored pages... Wish I could feel her feathers and let her touch my scars, but her shivering Fragile Soul stopped me to become a... ‘Bad Boy She Craves For...’
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Apr 6, 2019
Apr 6, 2019 at 3:35 PM UTC
Fragile Soul!
In time you’ll recover and absolve push those scorned impressions aside hammer down the jaded edges and sing that delightful commoners song the one you sang so well in what seems a lifetime ago You really had it you know that fiery disposition and nimble cunning those butter chords and derelict style we could see it -- we could all see it it was all it took to turn the evening tide (and rile that buck fever) heads bashing tongues lambasting middle fingers high and raising Cain on those may fly statesmen There were no rules when it came to your survival no textbook rally or common bond no structured songbird or bravado stage you either made it, or laid it “life by the ***** Mr. Poppy would say a kaleidoscope of dreams with rich colored imagery hardened artisan seams in a carefully woven motif But something got lost in the needle point something sinister and distorted took hold the quirks and street genius that were your lifeline gave way to grunts and squeals and chilling night crawlers the colors faded quickly to a cold confining grey There was no grace in the new world no retribution or switch back no salvation or accorded finale only edged platforms of blackened steel that kept you cased in a silent vanquished cell shivering cold with fear night without day all in the shadow of death But time heals all and the polish sneakers and open sores are long gone (though the roman nose and shallow cleft remain) indeed the falconer beat the widow maker this go around and I’m hopeful it won’t happen again and if it does you’ll see me standing hand on heart with that old verse in hand: he ain’t tainted or silly, and most certainly not forgotten… he ain’t loony or fixed, or a product of his self-doing… he’s just a straight shootin’ guy, who had the most of it figured out
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Jan 29, 2017
Jan 29, 2017 at 8:38 PM UTC
The Commoners Song
In time you’ll recover and absolve push those scorned impressions aside hammer down the jaded edges and sing that delightful commoners song the one you sang so well in what seems a lifetime ago You really had it you know that fiery disposition and nimble cunning those butter chords and derelict style we could see it -- we could all see it it was all it took to turn the evening tide (and rile that buck fever) heads bashing tongues lambasting middle fingers high and raising Cain on those may fly statesmen There were no rules when it came to your survival no textbook rally or common bond no structured songbird or bravado stage you either made it, or laid it “life by the ***** Mr. Poppy would say a kaleidoscope of dreams with rich colored imagery hardened artisan seams in a carefully woven motif But something got lost in the needle point something sinister and distorted took hold the quirks and street genius that were your lifeline gave way to grunts and squeals and chilling night crawlers the colors faded quickly to a cold confining grey There was no grace in the new world no retribution or switch back no salvation or accorded finale only edged platforms of blackened steel that kept you cased in a silent vanquished cell shivering cold with fear night without day all in the shadow of death But time heals all and the polish sneakers and open sores are long gone (though the roman nose and shallow cleft remain) indeed the falconer beat the widow maker this go around and I’m hopeful it won’t happen again and if it does you’ll see me standing hand on heart with that old verse in hand: he ain’t tainted or silly, and most certainly not forgotten… he ain’t loony or fixed, or a product of his self-doing… he’s just a straight shootin’ guy, who had the most of it figured out
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over the past weeks a gentle autumn sun has painted colored leaves upon the ground and thinned the bright abundance of the wooded ranges most of the harvest is securely stored by now or sold at morning markets by weathered men and women in country garbs vintners are busy with their lots fermenting grapes and entertaining those who see their visit as pleasant pastime and escape from daily urban chores hunters and lumbermen are waking up to shoot and mark schools by this time have settled into the new year teachers are happy still to share the knowledge of our world with students still inclined to listen businessmen remembering their vacations on the Bahamas or in Saint Tropez step sprightly into offices womanned by secretaries dreaming secretly of beautiful Mallorca summers and of those never-ending nights on the Algarve I guess it is a human thing to find a new beginning and do best when nature’s breath goes easy to collect the strength for yet another fruitful year or were it better that we also took a rest?            * * *
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Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015 at 4:36 PM UTC
autumn (reposted)
Hide the scars, don't let them see. *They'll call you a **** just as they please. You drink Starbucks, you take selfies. You're a White Girl, you see. You're hair is red with your Irish genes. You are a ginger with no soul in thee. Your skin is colored, your hair so dark. You are a criminal, that's how they see.
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Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014 at 11:05 PM UTC
Stereotypes
Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth, wine, smooth as a golden sword, soft as lascivious velvet, wine, spiral-seashelled and full of wonder, amorous, marine; never has one goblet contained you, one song, one man, you are choral, gregarious, at the least, you must be shared. At times you feed on mortal memories; your wave carries us from tomb to tomb, stonecutter of icy sepulchers, and we weep transitory tears; your glorious spring dress is different, blood rises through the shoots, wind incites the day, nothing is left of your immutable soul. Wine stirs the spring, happiness bursts through the earth like a plant, walls crumble, and rocky cliffs, chasms close, as song is born. A jug of wine, and thou beside me in the wilderness, sang the ancient poet. Let the wine pitcher add to the kiss of love its own. My darling, suddenly the line of your hip becomes the brimming curve of the wine goblet, your breast is the grape cluster, your ******* are the grapes, the gleam of spirits lights your hair, and your navel is a chaste seal stamped on the vessel of your belly, your love an inexhaustible cascade of wine, light that illuminates my senses, the earthly splendor of life. But you are more than love, the fiery kiss, the heat of fire, more than the wine of life; you are the community of man, translucency, chorus of discipline, abundance of flowers. I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. Drink it, and remember in every drop of gold, in every topaz glass, in every purple ladle, that autumn labored to fill the vessel with wine; and in the ritual of his office, let the simple man remember to think of the soil and of his duty, to propagate the canticle of the wine.
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Ode To Wine
Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth, wine, smooth as a golden sword, soft as lascivious velvet, wine, spiral-seashelled and full of wonder, amorous, marine; never has one goblet contained you, one song, one man, you are choral, gregarious, at the least, you must be shared. At times you feed on mortal memories; your wave carries us from tomb to tomb, stonecutter of icy sepulchers, and we weep transitory tears; your glorious spring dress is different, blood rises through the shoots, wind incites the day, nothing is left of your immutable soul. Wine stirs the spring, happiness bursts through the earth like a plant, walls crumble, and rocky cliffs, chasms close, as song is born. A jug of wine, and thou beside me in the wilderness, sang the ancient poet. Let the wine pitcher add to the kiss of love its own. My darling, suddenly the line of your hip becomes the brimming curve of the wine goblet, your breast is the grape cluster, your ******* are the grapes, the gleam of spirits lights your hair, and your navel is a chaste seal stamped on the vessel of your belly, your love an inexhaustible cascade of wine, light that illuminates my senses, the earthly splendor of life. But you are more than love, the fiery kiss, the heat of fire, more than the wine of life; you are the community of man, translucency, chorus of discipline, abundance of flowers. I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. Drink it, and remember in every drop of gold, in every topaz glass, in every purple ladle, that autumn labored to fill the vessel with wine; and in the ritual of his office, let the simple man remember to think of the soil and of his duty, to propagate the canticle of the wine.
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I never knew what beauty was until I saw him With every imperfection, With every stumble, and with every stutter, My heart knocks hard inside my chest Trying to escape Hoping to be captured by his warm, calloused fingers. And you don't even know who I am That day you bumped into me I dropped all my books You helped me pick them up And I got to look into your eyes They were a lovely color Not even Picasso could recreate And you still don't even know who I am We bumped into one another again at a party You slurred apologies and "excuse me's" And I laughed it off Trying to Ignore the fact that your hand was creeping on my waist Your fingertips igniting sparks in my skin You held your deep gaze with your Picasso-colored eyes And dragged me into a room tripping over nothing I thought you finally knew who I was The next day at school you bumped into me again You had dropped my phone This time you didn't pick it up And you walked away without a second glance or apology And you still don't even know who I am
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 3:20 AM UTC
Beauty
Imagine that I could write a salve, compose an ointment of verbal herbs to heal, even mere protect the already-torn-so-easy mental flesh, just to disguise/hide the multi-colored bruising our fickle mistress-in-common provides when you are down so far another bruise joining the cast like a  floodplain subsuming one more feeding creek bed into the shapelessness of indistinguishability imagine that where atoms hide eternal between creation and destruction, borrow brief the set exact you require to restore the taken years from fathers/mothers/brothers/sisters, children, return that which went unused by the uninvited, unseemly human whim of war and lies for no gain imagine that the deep sinkhole of despair that ***** one in, years in the formation, appearing in instance, and worse does not drowns but leaves helpless, unable to climb out, and all our scratching digs us in deeper until we cannot be, seen or heard or just be imagine that a check comes in the mail, payable left open for filling-in, in the amount of full restoration, with no additional fees of guilt needed for deposit and cashing/caching out: and you wake up and the stony chest is breathing lungs free imagine that and I do; for I am the smoke of return and rest, sky inscribing, knowing precise needs and the screams and the years unfair taken, they are screened through the five perceptions, and the word weaver sets the loom for each peculiar requisition, no imagination needed imagine that you lament and anger demand verifiable proofs mathematical, cursing the knights of false hopes with untethered regret I do not imagine that; hear it and accept; my task, imagine that, making you imagine that, thus commencement of repair begins when we imagine that for this how new healthy cells  are born quiet-now,  go, imagine-that, now*
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Aug 18, 2018
Aug 18, 2018 at 1:02 PM UTC
imagine that
Imagine that I could write a salve, compose an ointment of verbal herbs to heal, even mere protect the already-torn-so-easy mental flesh, just to disguise/hide the multi-colored bruising our fickle mistress-in-common provides when you are down so far another bruise joining the cast like a  floodplain subsuming one more feeding creek bed into the shapelessness of indistinguishability imagine that where atoms hide eternal between creation and destruction, borrow brief the set exact you require to restore the taken years from fathers/mothers/brothers/sisters, children, return that which went unused by the uninvited, unseemly human whim of war and lies for no gain imagine that the deep sinkhole of despair that ***** one in, years in the formation, appearing in instance, and worse does not drowns but leaves helpless, unable to climb out, and all our scratching digs us in deeper until we cannot be, seen or heard or just be imagine that a check comes in the mail, payable left open for filling-in, in the amount of full restoration, with no additional fees of guilt needed for deposit and cashing/caching out: and you wake up and the stony chest is breathing lungs free imagine that and I do; for I am the smoke of return and rest, sky inscribing, knowing precise needs and the screams and the years unfair taken, they are screened through the five perceptions, and the word weaver sets the loom for each peculiar requisition, no imagination needed imagine that you lament and anger demand verifiable proofs mathematical, cursing the knights of false hopes with untethered regret I do not imagine that; hear it and accept; my task, imagine that, making you imagine that, thus commencement of repair begins when we imagine that for this how new healthy cells  are born quiet-now,  go, imagine-that, now*
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He watched the moon, As it became immune To his galaxy eyes. Silver liquid flowing, The night's come to a closing, As he mixed his 'sky dye.' At least, that's what the stars said, As each one rubbed his head Goodnight. Colored images glowing, His eyelids began lowering, As he, again, was forced to fight-
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Dec 20, 2017
Dec 20, 2017 at 12:25 AM UTC
'Sky Dye'
Filter the perfect shade of the forenoon sun, Not too bright, not too dull. For with ease and carefree thoughts, You let the sunbeam-drizzling fairies play As the beauty reflected in your retinas. Capture this scenic view: Where the burnt chestnut colored oaks And mudstained sweetheart sundress of yours Dance in three-four beats of waltz. The Crayola strokes of the skies And the watercolor streaks of daydreams and nightmares Paint the canvas of your disquited thoughts. This is the peripheral view from your suncrashed irises and corners, This is your world. Let your knees down to your sore feet Be engulfed by the chasms of the bewildered grass, As the smile makes it way to your plump spring lips; Callused fingers from guitar strings Twirl and twist the blades, Cutting through flesh And green and red and blue and yellow, All sorts of color came spilling from your playful bruise. From this panoramic view of yours Of a wonder wonderland, Where the ticks of clock Follow the sunflower throughout time and forever, This is the beauty of that stem: A key to escapism To a well-dreamt lovely world.
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Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 6:30 AM UTC
Rio's Sunflower
How neatly a cat sleeps, Sleeps with its paws and its posture, Sleeps with its wicked claws, And with its unfeeling blood, Sleeps with ALL the rings a series Of burnt circles which have formed The odd geology of its sand-colored tail. I should like to sleep like a cat, With all the fur of time, With a tongue rough as flint, With the dry *** of fire and After speaking to no one, Stretch myself over the world, Over roofs and landscapes, With a passionate desire To hunt the rats in my dreams. I have seen how the cat asleep Would undulate, how the night flowed Through it like dark water and at times, It was going to fall or possibly Plunge into the bare deserted snowdrifts. Sometimes it grew so much in sleep Like a tiger's great-grandfather, And would leap in the darkness over Rooftops, clouds and volcanoes. Sleep, sleep cat of the night with Episcopal ceremony and your stone-carved moustache. Take care of all our dreams Control the obscurity Of our slumbering prowess With your relentless HEART And the great ruff of your tail.
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Cat's Dream
My childhood was sunshine, summer days, pool, book, trees, It was yellow dandelion, carpet lawn and endless blue and green as far as I could see standing on my tiptoes on a swing in the backyard jumping down onto smooth soft summer grass in the flat calm ivy-colored sea It was stars on the night sky like stars on my ceiling, hair floating up around me with my dreams, pulling me out the open window into air, into indigo, into midnight blue, nail-polish painted sky on the sweet-smelling cedar easel, in the dark room, where I come sometimes to touch the beginning with butterfly-soft fingers My childhood was hide and seek, shut up in closets, smiling, laughing, giggling, yelling tag you’re it, as it touched board game movers and pushed them one two three around boards colored like rainbows that I rode around the world and into the universe Now my childhood is two yellow foam blocks asking me, “Why?” “Where?” but I don’t know why it’s gone or where it’s gone to, all I know is that I’m not ready, but here I come
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Mar 28, 2017
Mar 28, 2017 at 12:51 AM UTC
It Happened Slowly-- In steps-- Until I Woke Up One Day This Winter and Thought to Myself, "Now, Where Has My Childhood Gone?"
You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with his golden feet? I reply, the ocean knows this. You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent bell? What is it waiting for? I tell you it is waiting for time, like you. You ask me whom the Macrocystis alga hugs in its arms? Study, study it, at a certain hour, in a certain sea I know. You question me about the wicked tusk of the narwhal, and I reply by describing how the sea unicorn with the harpoon in it dies. You enquire about the kingfisher's feathers, which tremble in the pure springs of the southern tides? Or you've found in the cards a new question touching on the crystal architecture of the sea anemone, and you'll deal that to me now? You want to understand the electric nature of the ocean spines? The armored stalactite that breaks as it walks? The hook of the angler fish, the music stretched out in the deep places like a thread in the water? I want to tell you the ocean knows this, that life in its jewel boxes is endless as the sand, impossible to count, pure, and among the blood-colored grapes time has made the petal hard and shiny, made the jellyfish full of light and untied its knot, letting its musical threads fall from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl. I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead of human eyes, dead in those darknesses, of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes on the timid globe of an orange. I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.
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Enigmas
You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with his golden feet? I reply, the ocean knows this. You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent bell? What is it waiting for? I tell you it is waiting for time, like you. You ask me whom the Macrocystis alga hugs in its arms? Study, study it, at a certain hour, in a certain sea I know. You question me about the wicked tusk of the narwhal, and I reply by describing how the sea unicorn with the harpoon in it dies. You enquire about the kingfisher's feathers, which tremble in the pure springs of the southern tides? Or you've found in the cards a new question touching on the crystal architecture of the sea anemone, and you'll deal that to me now? You want to understand the electric nature of the ocean spines? The armored stalactite that breaks as it walks? The hook of the angler fish, the music stretched out in the deep places like a thread in the water? I want to tell you the ocean knows this, that life in its jewel boxes is endless as the sand, impossible to count, pure, and among the blood-colored grapes time has made the petal hard and shiny, made the jellyfish full of light and untied its knot, letting its musical threads fall from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl. I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead of human eyes, dead in those darknesses, of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes on the timid globe of an orange. I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.
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~a question of a thousand dreams~^ “Where are you going now my love? Where will you be tomorrow? Will you bring me happiness?  Will you bring me sorrow? All the questions of a thousand dreams, what you do and what you see” this one composes itself for all dreams go unremembered the first, the thousandth, the  every in between, erased by the push button of opening eyes but dreams come, marching in, saints mining the raw materiel the quartermaster has stored, awaiting requisition by an unarmed unnamed corp, witnessed but never seen these dreams wisped soft willow budded, tempting taunting, leaving nothing but unanswered questions that colored come in black and white elementary clues, a pillow indentation, single hair that stretches across the sea between two pillows that is blonde or red   but certainly unmine,   dregs of soured sentiment linger like the aftertaste of too many coffees and stainless steel beers heated summers breezes give no succor or relief, and the rain following gives no pleasure, for now you are hot and soaked, but somewhere in there a dream is part replayed, and eyes widening in major league surprise, the question acknowledged, the dreams quest hinted   she has gone, neither happiness or sorrow will she provide on the morrow, no toweling of your wet hair fair, and you awake sweat besotted, it is not rain, just pain, and it is only one dream a thousand times repeated and what you do and what you see is the abraded night ahead, and you bitter laugh, for there is no more other than to think, the question answered, and you beg relief by uttering “perchance to dream” 3:49 pm see the notes!! someone accuses me of Plagiarism because  I did not acknowledge that the quote in marks and Italics was from a famous song written 39 years ago so here is my response to “just saying” congratulations on ******* me off and yes I agree, you do not know the rules “#1: Quotation Marks Are for Quoting People—Verbatim Perhaps it should go without saying, but quotation marks are for quoting people. Quoting doesn’t mean summarizing or paraphrasing; it means repeating exactly what someone said. If you put double quotes around a phrase, your reader will often assume  that someone, somewhere, said that exact phrase or sentence.“ http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/2013/09/11/10-things-you-really-need-to-know-about-quotation-marks/
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 3:59 PM UTC
a question of a thousand dreams
~a question of a thousand dreams~^ “Where are you going now my love? Where will you be tomorrow? Will you bring me happiness?  Will you bring me sorrow? All the questions of a thousand dreams, what you do and what you see” this one composes itself for all dreams go unremembered the first, the thousandth, the  every in between, erased by the push button of opening eyes but dreams come, marching in, saints mining the raw materiel the quartermaster has stored, awaiting requisition by an unarmed unnamed corp, witnessed but never seen these dreams wisped soft willow budded, tempting taunting, leaving nothing but unanswered questions that colored come in black and white elementary clues, a pillow indentation, single hair that stretches across the sea between two pillows that is blonde or red   but certainly unmine,   dregs of soured sentiment linger like the aftertaste of too many coffees and stainless steel beers heated summers breezes give no succor or relief, and the rain following gives no pleasure, for now you are hot and soaked, but somewhere in there a dream is part replayed, and eyes widening in major league surprise, the question acknowledged, the dreams quest hinted   she has gone, neither happiness or sorrow will she provide on the morrow, no toweling of your wet hair fair, and you awake sweat besotted, it is not rain, just pain, and it is only one dream a thousand times repeated and what you do and what you see is the abraded night ahead, and you bitter laugh, for there is no more other than to think, the question answered, and you beg relief by uttering “perchance to dream” 3:49 pm see the notes!! someone accuses me of Plagiarism because  I did not acknowledge that the quote in marks and Italics was from a famous song written 39 years ago so here is my response to “just saying” congratulations on ******* me off and yes I agree, you do not know the rules “#1: Quotation Marks Are for Quoting People—Verbatim Perhaps it should go without saying, but quotation marks are for quoting people. Quoting doesn’t mean summarizing or paraphrasing; it means repeating exactly what someone said. If you put double quotes around a phrase, your reader will often assume  that someone, somewhere, said that exact phrase or sentence.“ http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/2013/09/11/10-things-you-really-need-to-know-about-quotation-marks/
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Like I loved coffee, that's how I loved you. Like the first cigarette of the day. Or like a Beatles song blasted on the radio during a road trip to nowhere in particular. Like each slice of coffee cake, cinnamon and pecans delicately, deliciously curled into every little streusel. Like spring, when the snow melts into water and runs, rushes past yellow-colored, polka-dotted rain boots on a sun-soaked afternoon. I loved you like I love you; simply, completely, without frills and without doubt.
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Apr 23, 2018
Apr 23, 2018 at 3:47 PM UTC
Love Letter
She introduced herself, as Sunset. Batted her lashes not to be flirtatious , But to hide that her eyes were wet. All around me were blurred, but beautiful faces. Yet, my eyes only focused on hers The first that I noticed. *When I bought my first camera, From that sales-man down in Alabama. And he taught me how to use it, He said, "see here son, if I was to take your picture I'd set this camera here on portrait. But if I took a picture of that pretty little girl 'cross the road" he said with a smirk "I'd have to set this here camera on Firework"* It's funny how memories work. I think of that man now, of his coffee colored skin and straw hat. I never thought I'd need to know any of that. but right here and now I set that camera to sunset. raise it to my eye And take a picture of Sunset. As if she were a colorful sky. and that's it. some people deserve more than a portrait. And I know, I'm going to take her to a dark room. And see what develops, of her negatives. But first, I want to hear all about her crazy relatives. Who gives her, her beauty? where's she take her dog to groom? The poodle on her leash is a cutie. and what does she doodle on her notebooks? stars or hearts or sugar skulls.... Does she know she's caught me on her fishin' hook? What's she think of me, I'm sure I look dull. Why are her teary eyes so full, About to overflow. There were so many things I wanted to know.... before I took her to a dark room. But it happened And all I found in the picture that developed was gloom. I realized I was her first. And the best night of my life became my worst. because I took something from her she didn't want to give. But I just didn't know that she wouldn't want to live. Keep reading, this ends beautifully. beautifully like a sunset ends a day. But, you have to believe me when I say that's not nearly as beautifully As Sunset ends my hopes and dreams. How she ended her own life With pretty little pink pills. One....Two....Three gripped in her hand they found a picture of me. And now I know, Sunsets are all about Beautiful Endings. It's funny how memories work © copyrighted Nicole Ann Osborn
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 9:16 PM UTC
Sunset
She introduced herself, as Sunset. Batted her lashes not to be flirtatious , But to hide that her eyes were wet. All around me were blurred, but beautiful faces. Yet, my eyes only focused on hers The first that I noticed. *When I bought my first camera, From that sales-man down in Alabama. And he taught me how to use it, He said, "see here son, if I was to take your picture I'd set this camera here on portrait. But if I took a picture of that pretty little girl 'cross the road" he said with a smirk "I'd have to set this here camera on Firework"* It's funny how memories work. I think of that man now, of his coffee colored skin and straw hat. I never thought I'd need to know any of that. but right here and now I set that camera to sunset. raise it to my eye And take a picture of Sunset. As if she were a colorful sky. and that's it. some people deserve more than a portrait. And I know, I'm going to take her to a dark room. And see what develops, of her negatives. But first, I want to hear all about her crazy relatives. Who gives her, her beauty? where's she take her dog to groom? The poodle on her leash is a cutie. and what does she doodle on her notebooks? stars or hearts or sugar skulls.... Does she know she's caught me on her fishin' hook? What's she think of me, I'm sure I look dull. Why are her teary eyes so full, About to overflow. There were so many things I wanted to know.... before I took her to a dark room. But it happened And all I found in the picture that developed was gloom. I realized I was her first. And the best night of my life became my worst. because I took something from her she didn't want to give. But I just didn't know that she wouldn't want to live. Keep reading, this ends beautifully. beautifully like a sunset ends a day. But, you have to believe me when I say that's not nearly as beautifully As Sunset ends my hopes and dreams. How she ended her own life With pretty little pink pills. One....Two....Three gripped in her hand they found a picture of me. And now I know, Sunsets are all about Beautiful Endings. It's funny how memories work © copyrighted Nicole Ann Osborn
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a new beginning starts here. when we let the absence of words sink in our skin and flow through the red and blue veins. to let silence become apart of us as a whole. and to be ridden of awkward and gently colored with tranquility. when we are consumed with the most heavenly stillness, we appreciate the things that normally don’t come to eye. a new beginning starts here. an interconnection manifested in the deficiency of conversation. it is an ambience that is better than any formulation of sentences, and our unspoken vowels and consonants playfully roll around in the quiet rest of the atmosphere; it speaks louder than your steady heartbeat and collected breathing.
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Dec 2, 2017
Dec 2, 2017 at 7:44 PM UTC
a love made out of dust and quietude / a new beginning starts here
*in the midst of an emerald slumbering forest laced with pungent scents of jaded wood a burgundy blushed tail of a chestnut hued fox scurries as copper sunbeams part the day a hospital lumes starkly nearby its aura exudes hints of melancholy commingled with faint impressions of halcyon futures not yet lived at neighboring dartmouth a student sprinting to class drops his crimson colored backpack the prospect of cancer far from his budding consciousness my beloved sits patiently pondering pensively his last chemo treatment elusion of death not far from his mind i feign to fend off future catastrophes watching letters scramble across my screen earnestly writing in a desperate attempt to be with him forevermore an aquamarine hummingbird drenched in tranquility senses the inverse its amber tipped wings stand seemingly stationary while it steals a quick glance through the window curious at chemical infusions meant to heal my beloved walks out of the austere building with rose colored glasses i feel that we’ll whirl on the tips of gilded stardust dancing with another chance to fly ©2016janetaylor
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Apr 30, 2016
Apr 30, 2016 at 1:19 AM UTC
last trip to chemo
Went to my ancestor's home on a Spring season that year.. On a Holi day in the land of Chanchadari A peaceful morning in Hoshiarpur, the doors to Himalaya Happy Holli day!! The kids shout with cheer Holi Hai! Holi Hai! Lets play Holi!!! He woke up early morning that day.. With a bucket of colored water waiting for me I stepped outside my grandpa's door In a split second I was soaked in a coloured water… From head to toes… red, orange, yellow, purple… the colors of Holi… Ohh It's a Hoi Hai day alright… Lets play Holi … Lets play Holi.. Hails spring with ecstasy and joy! The trees smile with their sprout of tender leaves and blooming flowers, The land of beauty and greatness, India, witnessing color of happiness and peace. Nation come alive to enjoy the spirit A celebration of color- Holi! An experience of content, harmony and delight. Holi colors of red, green, yellow and countless. A day's canvas - a riot of colors. Lively crowd running, dancing, playing Rainbow of colors, Lets play Holi and splish and splash!! Lets play with the frenzy colors .. play on Holi Hai day…. I am dreaming of playing with colors with you It is the Holi celebration after all. I can't play inside my home, the carpets will get tainted, I cant' play it in the yard, the grass and outer walls will get painted. I thought I would go to the secret garden of ours, and play with you Holi hai day … It's a colourful day just you and me.. In love on Holi Hai day…. Lets play Holi..
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May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 at 2:35 AM UTC
Let's Play Holi
Went to my ancestor's home on a Spring season that year.. On a Holi day in the land of Chanchadari A peaceful morning in Hoshiarpur, the doors to Himalaya Happy Holli day!! The kids shout with cheer Holi Hai! Holi Hai! Lets play Holi!!! He woke up early morning that day.. With a bucket of colored water waiting for me I stepped outside my grandpa's door In a split second I was soaked in a coloured water… From head to toes… red, orange, yellow, purple… the colors of Holi… Ohh It's a Hoi Hai day alright… Lets play Holi … Lets play Holi.. Hails spring with ecstasy and joy! The trees smile with their sprout of tender leaves and blooming flowers, The land of beauty and greatness, India, witnessing color of happiness and peace. Nation come alive to enjoy the spirit A celebration of color- Holi! An experience of content, harmony and delight. Holi colors of red, green, yellow and countless. A day's canvas - a riot of colors. Lively crowd running, dancing, playing Rainbow of colors, Lets play Holi and splish and splash!! Lets play with the frenzy colors .. play on Holi Hai day…. I am dreaming of playing with colors with you It is the Holi celebration after all. I can't play inside my home, the carpets will get tainted, I cant' play it in the yard, the grass and outer walls will get painted. I thought I would go to the secret garden of ours, and play with you Holi hai day … It's a colourful day just you and me.. In love on Holi Hai day…. Lets play Holi..
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The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we **** THOSE PEOPLE. "Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always **** those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because ... It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride: Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace. -- Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994)
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 2:25 AM UTC
Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride
The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we **** THOSE PEOPLE. "Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always **** those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because ... It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride: Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace. -- Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994)
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I've loved many boys With different colored eyes But the way I remember them is By the shape of their hands The way their thumbs curved Or how their palms felt against my own The weight of them on my thighs Or how they ran through my hair The times they zipped up my dress And settled on my shoulders The moments when they grazed my own As they handed me my keys The motion of them as they spoke And the motionless of them when they were silent The smoothness of them in the beginning And the calluses after time had passed Sometimes, I forget the faces of these boys Or the way their voice sounded over the phone But I'll never forget the way it felt With their hands intertwined in my own
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Jun 23, 2018
Jun 23, 2018 at 11:45 PM UTC
Hands