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"complacency" poems
Kiss the child goodnight, tuck her in safe Lest she should dream of escape To a world where rainbows circle the skies And you are not who you have striven to be. Kiss the child goodnight, make sure you turn off the light Lest she should be unafraid and bold In the face of the infectious fear That flits through your eyes in a dark, alien alleyway. Kiss the child goodnight, hold her close and tight Lest she reaches out to the same sun That burned your naive fingertips And shattered your lofty castle in the clouds. Kiss the child goodnight, don't let her open those eyes Until she is finally lulled to deep slumber Wrapped within warm blankets And the beginnings of complacency. Kiss the child goodnight, watch her sleep in silence.
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 10:27 AM UTC
Kiss the Child Goodnight
Can you feel all the suffering, can you see it? Stop embracing the hate of your own humanity, just quit it Why all the hypocrisy? Challenge your democracy Aim for enlightenment Fight against all ill torment Oppression, alienation, inequality The government's manipulative utilities Explore your human aptitude Your mind and your magnitude Because passion is power and You can make all evil cower Work to open your third eye Don't cry or comply, but rather ask "why?" Empathy and compassion are most important Without them, moral principles remain impotent Our world is nothing compared to the entire universe We are so small, egoistic, and it's getting worse Focused on all of the wrongs ideals Creating terrible and false ordeals Our world is cruel and mean Too many people die hungry There's no such thing as equality or true justice It does not exist in this realm of consciousness If only we could shift the system and our ways Then things would continue to fall into place But change is virtually unachievable Especially when entities with just intents are inconceivable Human beings are clueless, trapped in a trance Don't let yourself fall victim to your ignorance You need to expand your knowledge and your perspective Aim to be more pensive and introspective Challenge absolutely everything you are told Form your own beliefs, don't let your mind be controlled Remove yourself from conformity and complacency And you'll realize a multitude of problems, that I guarantee *You can't trust anything
 Hear what I'm saying 
 No you cant trust anything 
Believing is damaging
 Creating is everything, it's promising Stop adhering to societal norms
 Why do you conform
 To all that
 The government tells us
 All that society spells for us Why don't you realize
 Wake up from all the lies
 The world is an intricate place, that you can't replace
 But you can change your ways and your pace 
Create some displacement in the system Stand up your rights
 And what you believe in
 Be genuine 
Imagine
 Not one person, thing, or system
 Can tell us, control us, conform us* With enough minds open and motivated We can help those oppressed and alienated We can change this race for the better Let's all work to be that kind of trendsetter Come on, let's start a movement So we can see some real improvement In our world, our ways, and our wisdom But most importantly in the system
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Apr 18, 2013
Apr 18, 2013 at 3:29 PM UTC
Corruption
Can you feel all the suffering, can you see it? Stop embracing the hate of your own humanity, just quit it Why all the hypocrisy? Challenge your democracy Aim for enlightenment Fight against all ill torment Oppression, alienation, inequality The government's manipulative utilities Explore your human aptitude Your mind and your magnitude Because passion is power and You can make all evil cower Work to open your third eye Don't cry or comply, but rather ask "why?" Empathy and compassion are most important Without them, moral principles remain impotent Our world is nothing compared to the entire universe We are so small, egoistic, and it's getting worse Focused on all of the wrongs ideals Creating terrible and false ordeals Our world is cruel and mean Too many people die hungry There's no such thing as equality or true justice It does not exist in this realm of consciousness If only we could shift the system and our ways Then things would continue to fall into place But change is virtually unachievable Especially when entities with just intents are inconceivable Human beings are clueless, trapped in a trance Don't let yourself fall victim to your ignorance You need to expand your knowledge and your perspective Aim to be more pensive and introspective Challenge absolutely everything you are told Form your own beliefs, don't let your mind be controlled Remove yourself from conformity and complacency And you'll realize a multitude of problems, that I guarantee *You can't trust anything
 Hear what I'm saying 
 No you cant trust anything 
Believing is damaging
 Creating is everything, it's promising Stop adhering to societal norms
 Why do you conform
 To all that
 The government tells us
 All that society spells for us Why don't you realize
 Wake up from all the lies
 The world is an intricate place, that you can't replace
 But you can change your ways and your pace 
Create some displacement in the system Stand up your rights
 And what you believe in
 Be genuine 
Imagine
 Not one person, thing, or system
 Can tell us, control us, conform us* With enough minds open and motivated We can help those oppressed and alienated We can change this race for the better Let's all work to be that kind of trendsetter Come on, let's start a movement So we can see some real improvement In our world, our ways, and our wisdom But most importantly in the system
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I'm thankful for an awful lot But where do I draw the line I'll be thankful for my family I'll be thankful for their memories I'll be thankful for the friends I got I'll be thankful for the things I've been taught But where do I draw this line When people tell me what to be thankful for To be thankful to live here To be thankful for freedom To be thankful we're better off than some To be thankful for things without considering the cost. In good conscious. I cannot be Thankful at the cost of misery I will not be thankful at the expense of innocent lives. I will not be thankful that things could be worse I will not be thankful for this complacency And while I'm **** sure thankful for the miracles in life. I do so ever aware and never neglecting the cost of such things, that I am demanded to be thankful for.
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Nov 24, 2016
Nov 24, 2016 at 1:39 PM UTC
Thankful
Contentment is for people who are satisfied to stop thinking. To turn off all those parts of your head That constantly generate questions And continuously probe the accepted. To hush the cells jumping up and down To show you a new way to approach a topic, Begging you to acknowledge the incredible plans That could be birthed from the impossible way You see the ordinary. But I have an obligation to my mind. Yes, sometimes it feels more like shackles than duty, And yes, sometimes I want to abandon my notepad and paper On the bedside table to have a "me day"- Whatever that's supposed to mean - Or halt the carousel of whirling thoughts for a nap, But I can't. I will always be curious, at my roots. I grow from the dedication to my thoughts, upward. A tree straining towards the light of innovation. Why would I forsake the places my thoughts can take me, Or the adventures my pen can take in translating them. For the gifts this head gives me, I must always be on call, on edge, on fire. Contentment: unattainable. Even if it weren't it would interfere with the very process That would allow me to derive what meaning lies in contentment. So that's my secret. The Hulk was always angry, which is how he controlled and dominated. I'm always searching, which is how I find and thrive. I can't drown out my thoughts just to soak up the sun. That's not contentment: that's complacency. And complacency is not in my vocabulary. How funny- I am content with losing that one word For the chance to be brilliant.
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Dec 19, 2013
Dec 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM UTC
Contentment
Contentment is for people who are satisfied to stop thinking. To turn off all those parts of your head That constantly generate questions And continuously probe the accepted. To hush the cells jumping up and down To show you a new way to approach a topic, Begging you to acknowledge the incredible plans That could be birthed from the impossible way You see the ordinary. But I have an obligation to my mind. Yes, sometimes it feels more like shackles than duty, And yes, sometimes I want to abandon my notepad and paper On the bedside table to have a "me day"- Whatever that's supposed to mean - Or halt the carousel of whirling thoughts for a nap, But I can't. I will always be curious, at my roots. I grow from the dedication to my thoughts, upward. A tree straining towards the light of innovation. Why would I forsake the places my thoughts can take me, Or the adventures my pen can take in translating them. For the gifts this head gives me, I must always be on call, on edge, on fire. Contentment: unattainable. Even if it weren't it would interfere with the very process That would allow me to derive what meaning lies in contentment. So that's my secret. The Hulk was always angry, which is how he controlled and dominated. I'm always searching, which is how I find and thrive. I can't drown out my thoughts just to soak up the sun. That's not contentment: that's complacency. And complacency is not in my vocabulary. How funny- I am content with losing that one word For the chance to be brilliant.
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I rest my head in the dusky hours early in the hope I'll awaken refreshed instead in the lonely hours at 2am, 3am and 4am my body rests while my mind races with complex thought caught somewhere between sadness and complacency the past present and future merging into one clashing and colliding confusing working hard into the night sending my heart to palpitations.   I close my eyes and the words I see written on my ceiling are engrained on the insides of my eyelids crawling with the spiders I overthink instead of sleep I dream in my conscious state of what could've been what is and what might be restless in a state of exhaustion lucid in a state of total consciousness hopeless to stop the relentless tide of my imagination from rotting my brain inside and out ruining any faith I have in a night of sleep or a day of clarity and competence.   The thoughts leave when I rise again at 7am as planned with the chiming of the bells on the nightstand my head snaps into reality again focus returns in the form of routine get up, go move on, mend. Distracted and oblivious my lack of sleep haunts me until I repeat this dull cycle again tonight I live my nightmares in the lonely hours at 2am, 3am and 4am.
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Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 9:08 AM UTC
Lucid
And all your heros are gone, but you refuse to take off the mask. A loudmouth, a capitalist, with greasy hair and a golden toothpick, he is your enemy he is your oppressor and he sits upon a throne of coal and blood with armed security and a nation built for him, to protect him and his money, a police state, pat downs on the corner, murdered in the street, your daughters gotta eat. He grows fatter and fatter still, he loves complacency, he loves contentment, he invests heavily in both. He knows we are strong, he knows we are many, he knows he must divide us to win, he knows we're his greatest weapon, so he created Fox News, he created TMZ, stealthily, we didn't even notice, he created NPR and KVIE, he gave them masks that look like ours. They look poor, they look starved, they look like us, but they have a different master. Our master is the earth, our master is our coworker, our neighbor, our mailman, our dishwashers, our bus drivers, our minimart clerks. Our masters are not the TV, our masters are not the radio, our masters are not the New York Times, they are not National Geographic, they are not BP, they are not our principals, our administrators, our policemen, our CEOs, our investors, our bankers, our insurance providers, these people hate us, they hate us because they can't squeeze blood from a stone, and the rivers are running dry, the factories are standing still, the people, our masters and our friends, they're in the streets, they're shouting "BLACK LIVES MATTER" they're shouting "NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" "NO MORE WAR FOR OIL" **** THE POLICE" "DOWN WITH THE 1%" and soon and soon, The False Gods will grow so fat and we'll have nothing left to eat but them, and on that day we'll sit down to dine and it won't be civilized and it won't be pretty, their blood, our blood, will feed the rivers and their flesh will feed our hungry children and their money will burn and warm our chilled bones but we can't wait, we can't wait for this to happen because everyday they grow stronger, we grow weaker and the river becomes dryer. The Bourgeois is our enemy, they say 'All Lives Matter' they say 'Work Hard and Your Dreams Will Come True' BUT THEY LIE
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Jul 12, 2016
Jul 12, 2016 at 4:54 PM UTC
Untitled
And all your heros are gone, but you refuse to take off the mask. A loudmouth, a capitalist, with greasy hair and a golden toothpick, he is your enemy he is your oppressor and he sits upon a throne of coal and blood with armed security and a nation built for him, to protect him and his money, a police state, pat downs on the corner, murdered in the street, your daughters gotta eat. He grows fatter and fatter still, he loves complacency, he loves contentment, he invests heavily in both. He knows we are strong, he knows we are many, he knows he must divide us to win, he knows we're his greatest weapon, so he created Fox News, he created TMZ, stealthily, we didn't even notice, he created NPR and KVIE, he gave them masks that look like ours. They look poor, they look starved, they look like us, but they have a different master. Our master is the earth, our master is our coworker, our neighbor, our mailman, our dishwashers, our bus drivers, our minimart clerks. Our masters are not the TV, our masters are not the radio, our masters are not the New York Times, they are not National Geographic, they are not BP, they are not our principals, our administrators, our policemen, our CEOs, our investors, our bankers, our insurance providers, these people hate us, they hate us because they can't squeeze blood from a stone, and the rivers are running dry, the factories are standing still, the people, our masters and our friends, they're in the streets, they're shouting "BLACK LIVES MATTER" they're shouting "NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" "NO MORE WAR FOR OIL" **** THE POLICE" "DOWN WITH THE 1%" and soon and soon, The False Gods will grow so fat and we'll have nothing left to eat but them, and on that day we'll sit down to dine and it won't be civilized and it won't be pretty, their blood, our blood, will feed the rivers and their flesh will feed our hungry children and their money will burn and warm our chilled bones but we can't wait, we can't wait for this to happen because everyday they grow stronger, we grow weaker and the river becomes dryer. The Bourgeois is our enemy, they say 'All Lives Matter' they say 'Work Hard and Your Dreams Will Come True' BUT THEY LIE
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This... The shaking of a reed The movement of the water The flicking of a flame. This... The crying of a child The weariness of the labourer The burning skin from the sun. This... The racking pain of guilt The salty tears of loneliness The swan song of past glories. This... The masks of complacency The contracts of acceptance The closing of the mind. This... The continuing saga The words that fill the pages The lot in life we all share.
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Sep 9, 2025
Sep 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM UTC
This...
Happenstance to the melancholic gives leave the sin of pride. Inbound reconnaissance tells not the bearer of influence. Squeamish at first: a foreshadowing of calamitous bonding. A space between the mark of corporeal and the ethereal; a stringent hiatus That which rattles the concrete foundation of morality is scarcely a malleable recourse. Regret stains the unfounded soul: an enigma of ephemeral perforations. A separation of the unmitigated humanities; misandry topples the writhing snake. Impact; a cleansing of the maker's flaws integrated solemnly. Complacency arrests the administration of the abhorred; unbridled is the autonomy of a guru.   Ambivalent giftedness burdens the reliant and haughty. A flick of the tongue brings forth the cinema mortem. Castaway: alone to wade in the sea of obscenities. A temporal causality allows no mourning to abscond. Negligence is not the enemy, but indulgent wrath. Hesitant: a stroke of qualia begets the end of a maiden.
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 11:13 AM UTC
The Horseless Jockey
It's just one ****** up little circle Full of hate and degradations, Malicious meanings and confused connotations That keeps us chasing after Futile fires. It hurts more and more And more and more, but feels as if time is speeding by without your doing. Your complacency is at fault. You feel yourself burning. You are the ashes Of a dying flame, Not the Phoenix.
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 9:11 AM UTC
Phoenix
Jumped from a plane, napped on a train, sort of in pain, hope there's some gain. Motorcycle jumped, feeling quite pumped, that stump I bumped, ascertain, minor sprain. Drunk in Deutschland, sang with an old man, couldn't pay, so i ran, my fortitude I feign. Back in America, so much to tell ya but can't stay too long. Complacency. My bane.
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Oct 31, 2010
Oct 31, 2010 at 8:44 PM UTC
Adventurous Intro.
Orange capsules of condensed vitamin C Tumble out onto my cracked, Outstretched palm, As I arch my spine towards the bathroom sink, Scooping lukewarm water from the faucet Into my half closed mouth- The tiny pills clog my upturned throat: Just two of the numerous solutions To a world too numb To contest. I've never felt more alive, Than when I'm drowning my body With handfuls of tap water And magic remedies bottled up and Marketed to a world Afraid of growing old. Lining the wall of local drug stores, One isle over from office supplies And scented laundry detergent. Multicolored, multipurpose- Labels proclaim the fountain of youth To anyone alive enough to fear it. There's never enough of reality To reach our depleted veins Through the ever present forms Of the world. Enough isn't Enough, until we've convoluted it into a tiny Plastic oval, and forced it down the throats Of those well enough to swallow it. Pharmaceutical companies proclaim their Daily gospel in the linoleum streets Of hospital waiting rooms And local grocery stores, As I cross my heart and count the Hours until my next prescribed dose Of complacency. Who knew happiness Could have the bitter after taste of Vitamin B or The credibility of Zoloft. The sandman has been replaced by Benadryl, While creativity lies stagnant Beneath adderall's indifferent thumb. Obsession is a 26 letter alphabet, Strung together by a bunch of deficiencies, Incoherently droning on To the burden of Man, And flickering neon light Of a drive-thru pharmacy.
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 1:41 AM UTC
Vitamin C
Orange capsules of condensed vitamin C Tumble out onto my cracked, Outstretched palm, As I arch my spine towards the bathroom sink, Scooping lukewarm water from the faucet Into my half closed mouth- The tiny pills clog my upturned throat: Just two of the numerous solutions To a world too numb To contest. I've never felt more alive, Than when I'm drowning my body With handfuls of tap water And magic remedies bottled up and Marketed to a world Afraid of growing old. Lining the wall of local drug stores, One isle over from office supplies And scented laundry detergent. Multicolored, multipurpose- Labels proclaim the fountain of youth To anyone alive enough to fear it. There's never enough of reality To reach our depleted veins Through the ever present forms Of the world. Enough isn't Enough, until we've convoluted it into a tiny Plastic oval, and forced it down the throats Of those well enough to swallow it. Pharmaceutical companies proclaim their Daily gospel in the linoleum streets Of hospital waiting rooms And local grocery stores, As I cross my heart and count the Hours until my next prescribed dose Of complacency. Who knew happiness Could have the bitter after taste of Vitamin B or The credibility of Zoloft. The sandman has been replaced by Benadryl, While creativity lies stagnant Beneath adderall's indifferent thumb. Obsession is a 26 letter alphabet, Strung together by a bunch of deficiencies, Incoherently droning on To the burden of Man, And flickering neon light Of a drive-thru pharmacy.
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buried behind a wall of complacency my contentment boils -- steams like pots of cleansing tea-- in the constant cold pass the peace pipe over the bones of my enemies. my rebellion is rooted deep within my veins                                        {burried under tact and sweet smiles}  but ready to return the blood of warrior women waiting to return runs within me- my abilities are their evolution from the color of my eyes to my tolerance for pain-- rooted into my skullspinesoul in a field of dinosaur bones- only the strong survive the cold this ever present frost follows me like the windigo; its return deep in the decemberjanuaryfebuary ache of my bones a disease malignant in the deep r               u n n        i         n             g tap-roots of elms-  etched into time like                skeletons in the ice tested {thawing} with every return of this ******* season, evolving from the lifeless bones of trees to the wings of birds brittle, but strong; bundled with love(hate) protecting me from the cold letting go, but wanting them to fall back like cigarette ashes in the wind this is no place or time in my life for slow acceptance but I find safety in the muscle bound bones aware, lying (insomniac), waiting for someone to breathe life into the marrow. my love- deep, engrained, rooted the pulse of human heat keeping me from the cold will I ever change? bundled against the cold, the cracking of my bones is like the creaking of the dead trees i stare up at with their songs of change and the end of fears never to thaw out again
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Nov 14, 2012
Nov 14, 2012 at 10:41 PM UTC
pass the peace pipe
buried behind a wall of complacency my contentment boils -- steams like pots of cleansing tea-- in the constant cold pass the peace pipe over the bones of my enemies. my rebellion is rooted deep within my veins                                        {burried under tact and sweet smiles}  but ready to return the blood of warrior women waiting to return runs within me- my abilities are their evolution from the color of my eyes to my tolerance for pain-- rooted into my skullspinesoul in a field of dinosaur bones- only the strong survive the cold this ever present frost follows me like the windigo; its return deep in the decemberjanuaryfebuary ache of my bones a disease malignant in the deep r               u n n        i         n             g tap-roots of elms-  etched into time like                skeletons in the ice tested {thawing} with every return of this ******* season, evolving from the lifeless bones of trees to the wings of birds brittle, but strong; bundled with love(hate) protecting me from the cold letting go, but wanting them to fall back like cigarette ashes in the wind this is no place or time in my life for slow acceptance but I find safety in the muscle bound bones aware, lying (insomniac), waiting for someone to breathe life into the marrow. my love- deep, engrained, rooted the pulse of human heat keeping me from the cold will I ever change? bundled against the cold, the cracking of my bones is like the creaking of the dead trees i stare up at with their songs of change and the end of fears never to thaw out again
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Unknown are the names of the flowers that have been trampled Birds have fallen to the Earth and long for the wind Prayers won't solve anything Only the will to fight can change the here and now! O pigs who laugh at the resolve to walk over corpses to move forward Livestock complacency? False prosperity? Give us the freedom of dying, starving wolves! The humiliation of being caged is what triggers us to fight back We hunters slaughter prey beyond the castle walls, consumed with surging bloodlust, as our crimson bows and arrows pierce scarlet holes into the twilight.
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Jun 7, 2014
Jun 7, 2014 at 10:52 PM UTC
Crimson Bows and Arrows (AoT)
The poem was inspired by a particular photo of the WT C, and after that by my first visit to the 9/11 Memorial.  On the day of 9/11, I was working about a diagonal mile away, and from our windows, we could see people jumping to their death. Open sky annulled to bordered lines of uptown edges, worldview momentarily forcibly redefined by memories of buildings and sadder days, recollections of pillars of biblical smoke rising A photograph makes me look up, and sit down historically, need to catch a breath, to rest mentally, upon a storied small bridge's steps, that I well recall, a disappeared street stoop. all were rubble then and once upon that day. Wear, tear, and older eyes distill perspective, but the hardy heart is hardly stilled by the recognizable gray upon bon vivant gray reflective surfaces of memories of buildings and sadder days So today, on a reborn street, I rest upon reconstituted speckled curbstone, the city's lowered down ledges, the city's lowered down-town boundaries, constantly redrawn, but nonetheless, always rebuilt from their own regenerated stony compost, and the NY passersby doesn't even notice a man, head in hands, silently weeping, thinking that: We throw away so much we should have kept. We keep so much we should have thrown away. Lose keepsakes, but keep our mysterious sadnesses locked away in compartments that open only to benedictions uttered in ancient tongues. Make your own list, be your own curator, catalogue visions of sophomoric triumphs, museum mile pile those early poetic drafts, be unafraid of memories raw and ungentrified, overlaid, buried underneath postmortem of dust-piles of senior critiques Finally went downtown to see where the blessed water falls into catacomb pits that once were the foundations of buildings that ruled the cityscape, downtown anchors for a modern city that exists only because it was built on million year old granite bedrock Stone monuments are stolid, discrete. Memories are of grayed, frayed edge consistency. Negatives resurrected that survive digitally, all blend synthetically, layer upon layer, essence distilled in a single, black and white photograph that serves to disturb complacency,   awaken stilled pain, reflections suppressed, are restored
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 6:36 PM UTC
9/11 Distilled
The poem was inspired by a particular photo of the WT C, and after that by my first visit to the 9/11 Memorial.  On the day of 9/11, I was working about a diagonal mile away, and from our windows, we could see people jumping to their death. Open sky annulled to bordered lines of uptown edges, worldview momentarily forcibly redefined by memories of buildings and sadder days, recollections of pillars of biblical smoke rising A photograph makes me look up, and sit down historically, need to catch a breath, to rest mentally, upon a storied small bridge's steps, that I well recall, a disappeared street stoop. all were rubble then and once upon that day. Wear, tear, and older eyes distill perspective, but the hardy heart is hardly stilled by the recognizable gray upon bon vivant gray reflective surfaces of memories of buildings and sadder days So today, on a reborn street, I rest upon reconstituted speckled curbstone, the city's lowered down ledges, the city's lowered down-town boundaries, constantly redrawn, but nonetheless, always rebuilt from their own regenerated stony compost, and the NY passersby doesn't even notice a man, head in hands, silently weeping, thinking that: We throw away so much we should have kept. We keep so much we should have thrown away. Lose keepsakes, but keep our mysterious sadnesses locked away in compartments that open only to benedictions uttered in ancient tongues. Make your own list, be your own curator, catalogue visions of sophomoric triumphs, museum mile pile those early poetic drafts, be unafraid of memories raw and ungentrified, overlaid, buried underneath postmortem of dust-piles of senior critiques Finally went downtown to see where the blessed water falls into catacomb pits that once were the foundations of buildings that ruled the cityscape, downtown anchors for a modern city that exists only because it was built on million year old granite bedrock Stone monuments are stolid, discrete. Memories are of grayed, frayed edge consistency. Negatives resurrected that survive digitally, all blend synthetically, layer upon layer, essence distilled in a single, black and white photograph that serves to disturb complacency,   awaken stilled pain, reflections suppressed, are restored
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A thousand tumbles takes a bottle in the sea- a thousand dashes and whirls and swoops. A million grains of sand takes that bottle in the sea, to break apart, to come to me in fragments like a snowflake fractal. How many mermaid miles till she hands that glass to me? For I've taken out my very-ness, for you. - And my crossness. My judgement and wrath. I've taken out slight hot breathe                (for you to melt the ice on your whiskers.) I've taken out my toes when they are reaching for yours in the cavernous blanket world  through the forest of our lazy limbs. I've taken out my righteousness and my second guessing. I've taken out for you (a surprise, I was going to surprise you!) all the times you were going to be wrong to me-           and to wrong me... taken them out to sea, you see? In that bottle, pretty bottle. Broken now like too many vows. I've taken out my knowing best and finding better. I've taken out the half moon of your thumbnail as well ...I will miss that in my night sky- (perhaps I'll keep that after all.) I'll take out the complacency of holding your hand getting out of a chair. and the mindless strokes as you explain my commonplace crazy to simpler minds- I'll take out the very-ness of me, and the we-ness of us. and fill a bottle with a the brine of a thousand tears from hundred slights not slighted quite yet. I fill the bottle and gift the sea with the softness of you and the brashness of me. A thousand turnabouts it takes to reach you on the beach, a sea glass diamond ring, engage me you engaging man- and the tides tickles my feet in anticipation, marry me. marry me. just a sea glass promise for a mermaid bride waiting for the sailor man to sing her sweetly with salt on his lips Just a sea glass lullaby from the man who loves me so. Marry me, marry me And we drink sparkling water from a sea glass flute and we drink all the us and we drink all the we for sea glass could never hold a second in, sea glass is far too vain not to shine in the sun fanning your invite out in a spectrum of color that a small child's hand creates when he holds it up to the rays. Spills out all of my intentions Spoiled child, loved child, Spills out all of my intentions carelessly on the sandy floor for the tides to swallow whole. My sea glass prism chucked unceremoniously back to sea and me the mermaid bride left at her own alter... But a seashell to your ear and her my wailing sorrow calls, 'marry me, sailor. marry me.' sahn 8/5/14
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Aug 4, 2014
Aug 4, 2014 at 11:42 PM UTC
Sailor Groom and Mermaid Bride
A thousand tumbles takes a bottle in the sea- a thousand dashes and whirls and swoops. A million grains of sand takes that bottle in the sea, to break apart, to come to me in fragments like a snowflake fractal. How many mermaid miles till she hands that glass to me? For I've taken out my very-ness, for you. - And my crossness. My judgement and wrath. I've taken out slight hot breathe                (for you to melt the ice on your whiskers.) I've taken out my toes when they are reaching for yours in the cavernous blanket world  through the forest of our lazy limbs. I've taken out my righteousness and my second guessing. I've taken out for you (a surprise, I was going to surprise you!) all the times you were going to be wrong to me-           and to wrong me... taken them out to sea, you see? In that bottle, pretty bottle. Broken now like too many vows. I've taken out my knowing best and finding better. I've taken out the half moon of your thumbnail as well ...I will miss that in my night sky- (perhaps I'll keep that after all.) I'll take out the complacency of holding your hand getting out of a chair. and the mindless strokes as you explain my commonplace crazy to simpler minds- I'll take out the very-ness of me, and the we-ness of us. and fill a bottle with a the brine of a thousand tears from hundred slights not slighted quite yet. I fill the bottle and gift the sea with the softness of you and the brashness of me. A thousand turnabouts it takes to reach you on the beach, a sea glass diamond ring, engage me you engaging man- and the tides tickles my feet in anticipation, marry me. marry me. just a sea glass promise for a mermaid bride waiting for the sailor man to sing her sweetly with salt on his lips Just a sea glass lullaby from the man who loves me so. Marry me, marry me And we drink sparkling water from a sea glass flute and we drink all the us and we drink all the we for sea glass could never hold a second in, sea glass is far too vain not to shine in the sun fanning your invite out in a spectrum of color that a small child's hand creates when he holds it up to the rays. Spills out all of my intentions Spoiled child, loved child, Spills out all of my intentions carelessly on the sandy floor for the tides to swallow whole. My sea glass prism chucked unceremoniously back to sea and me the mermaid bride left at her own alter... But a seashell to your ear and her my wailing sorrow calls, 'marry me, sailor. marry me.' sahn 8/5/14
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All is good Someone else will do it There’s no urgency Isn’t that nice Oh that’s too bad I’ll get to it later Ugh, is she asking for money? Just look away Isn’t that inconvenient Hmmm, not now It can’t be that bad Another sad story Just so far away It’s not real, not fleshy But let me tell you just how fleshy it is… Let me tell you how he spat up his insides All blood and foam and green-yellow bile How he vomited all hope from his saggy-skinned chest It was such an easy operation And your $20 could have saved him No joke But instead he withered away Waiting… And then he died… And you still have your 20 bucks You still went about your day A day of stress and worry and convenience, no doubt And I was left with tears, and a body to ship
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Oct 17, 2018
Oct 17, 2018 at 2:32 PM UTC
Complacency 1
I'm As Real As Your Thoughts, Do not Fear Me Pornography's hangover Tangential emotion Birthed in a string of complacency Welcome, my Prince of the Edge of Shadows
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 3:35 PM UTC
Lascivious Edacity
PRAYER IS A TEAM SPORT [In the voice of your favourite over-excited rugby commentator.] We're inside the final quarter. We've seen a bone-cruncher of a contest today and there's no sign of a let up, the pray-ers gather for the next engagement, positioning themselves with practiced confidence, skillfully supporting each other, ready for the push.  You can see every knee and each hand bears the marks from this long muddied pray, red and brown staining every inch of their entwined limbs; - arms and hands holding fast. Front row. Second row. Back row. Digging in for the big push. The opposition has played an intelligent game, taking advantage of any lapse in concentration, any sign of tiredness, looking for any weakness to exploit.  The pray-ers know they can't afford any slips now, they need to keep up the pressure, maintain their advance deep in the opposition's half.  Every yard of gained ground needs to be defended. The pray-ers' Coach looks on - look at his smile! You can see the pride he has for his team, he's schooled them on every tactic of the opposition and now that training, that practice has paid dividends. This is a team of pray-ers that so clearly know each other well, supporting each other every step of the way. You can see their coordinated pray, their sustained effort and the sheer pleasure they feel when they are praying together. The pray-ers drive on.  The sound of their groans and deep breaths merge into one. There's a rhythm to it, a cadence as together they push and PUSH.  The opposition's footing is slipping, the pray-ers' momentum gains pace and, YES! the resistance collapses.  Oh, that must have hurt! But there's no time for complacency, the pray-ers re-form their line looking for the next opening, the next opportunity to push forward. This is a joy to see.  The Coach shouts his encouragement - this was never going to be an easy struggle; you can't dismiss the opposition - they are a seasoned though sometimes disorganised team and they can take you by surprise.  But as we've seen here today, the Coach knows that if his team of pray-ers keep to the plan and pray to their strengths, the opposition are surely in for a hiding. The pray-ers will triumph and they will take the winners' crown. - Now back to the action.
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 at 2:14 AM UTC
Prayer #9
PRAYER IS A TEAM SPORT [In the voice of your favourite over-excited rugby commentator.] We're inside the final quarter. We've seen a bone-cruncher of a contest today and there's no sign of a let up, the pray-ers gather for the next engagement, positioning themselves with practiced confidence, skillfully supporting each other, ready for the push.  You can see every knee and each hand bears the marks from this long muddied pray, red and brown staining every inch of their entwined limbs; - arms and hands holding fast. Front row. Second row. Back row. Digging in for the big push. The opposition has played an intelligent game, taking advantage of any lapse in concentration, any sign of tiredness, looking for any weakness to exploit.  The pray-ers know they can't afford any slips now, they need to keep up the pressure, maintain their advance deep in the opposition's half.  Every yard of gained ground needs to be defended. The pray-ers' Coach looks on - look at his smile! You can see the pride he has for his team, he's schooled them on every tactic of the opposition and now that training, that practice has paid dividends. This is a team of pray-ers that so clearly know each other well, supporting each other every step of the way. You can see their coordinated pray, their sustained effort and the sheer pleasure they feel when they are praying together. The pray-ers drive on.  The sound of their groans and deep breaths merge into one. There's a rhythm to it, a cadence as together they push and PUSH.  The opposition's footing is slipping, the pray-ers' momentum gains pace and, YES! the resistance collapses.  Oh, that must have hurt! But there's no time for complacency, the pray-ers re-form their line looking for the next opening, the next opportunity to push forward. This is a joy to see.  The Coach shouts his encouragement - this was never going to be an easy struggle; you can't dismiss the opposition - they are a seasoned though sometimes disorganised team and they can take you by surprise.  But as we've seen here today, the Coach knows that if his team of pray-ers keep to the plan and pray to their strengths, the opposition are surely in for a hiding. The pray-ers will triumph and they will take the winners' crown. - Now back to the action.
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Dear Mama, you taught me well, but that's something I'd never tell, cause complacency is what you preached, so silence is what I reached. Mama, you taught me well, to sit and fiddle, do not wail, but my emotions are worth much more, when they aren't hidden behind the door. Mama, you taught me well, wishing for naught, I let myself dwell, and so I idolized all the wrong people, and followed demands like sheeple. Mama, you taught me well, to allow myself to mask my yell, my tears, my frigid fears, my feelings unspoken, when my heart lay here so broken. Mama, you taught me well, to lock myself into my own cell, and now I feel I need release, my soul deserves to be at peace. Dear Mama, you taught me well, but this sort of life I wish to quell, and so I say I must change, your lessons to me, estrange.
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Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 1:37 PM UTC
Dear Mama
A slow break in the monotony, As low whispers fill my eyes. There is a silence on the air with a subtle cruelty, Redolent of my most feverish nights. Impressionable though you are, The fierce desire of each night spent lying awake so the coarse memory of your skin may plague my mind. The Kiss never seemed so haunting, So deathly. I can't believe it would look as I feel even today. I drink the remedy in silence, But not tranquility. Complacency is a mistaken innervation. Jaded though widely perceived as infallible truth. Divinity is as tranquility strives to be, For I have witnessed your gaze, And know it to be true.
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Jun 4, 2014
Jun 4, 2014 at 6:50 PM UTC
Beauty In Resilience
mass culture     is designed      for       complacency [               ]; the Great Depression of the 30's ended the Roaring 20's; as radio brought WWII & TV Vietnam into homes where easy-chairs & TV dinners reigned in cartoon silence; Bud sneaks off to the garage to smoke bud, when the innocent stoner gets a draft card, turning radical, Bud grows his hair long & giving the middle finger to some, peace sign to others  [decades go by when hideous was fashionable];                  9/11 breaking our post-grunge neo-70's-80's haze [for what, like a week - - -                 then came the hoax of Islamophobia        spreading paranoia & nervousness in case the terrorists missed anyone;                 the 90's were already                 nostalgia by the time of the invasion of Iraq; mass culture is designed for sedentary complacency but when society is in upheaval the media just has to wait until it's all over to start promoting expensive baubles again - - -
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 4:21 PM UTC
profiting from mass cultural hysteria
Defying the consensus of complacency, And the enantiomorphic political practicality, Candidates embrace their vacillating indexicality. Spouting thrift store self reliance sapientiality, Telling lores of cultural compatibility. Hope filled promises of economic suitability, Aligned with institutional feasibility. Packaged in over-inclusive catchall empty signifiers Strewn across all media screens, communal utilitarian plan flyers. Requesting no need for responsiveness, For a vote no longer dictates precedence, In the age of social media endemic presence relevance. PFL
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Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 3:40 AM UTC
Matters Not
It was a beautiful moment Of dissatisfaction. One where she realized Complacency Does not equate With serenity. That stagnancy Does not yield joy. So she moved, Not only her feet. She moved mountains. The earth quaked beneath her, And flowers bloomed In every crack. And this, She thought, THIS is how it feels To be alive
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Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 1:24 PM UTC
Alive
Years of neglect have Covered my garden Allowing brambles and weeds To grow wild The flowers unseen underneath A cover of cascading green lushness Dotted with white and pink Hidden by thorns And winding weeds Patient beauty is waiting Yet uncaring laziness is Suffocating tender blooms Denying them light Seduced by fruit So sweet and tasty Of a thorny vine Lulled into complacency Unaware of silent unfoldment In darkness Step by step We uncover the secret Cutting away thorns Clearing out the Dead and the dying Shedding light Into places of decay Discovering flowers We never knew where there Glory in color No longer hidden Is finally able To shine © Jasmine, Wadebridge, August 2010
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Aug 7, 2013
Aug 7, 2013 at 8:42 AM UTC
Hidden Beauty