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The Sky Was
This Advent moon shines cold and clear, These Advent nights are long; Our lamps have burned year after year, And still their flame is strong. "Watchman, what of the night?" we cry, Heart-sick with hope deferred: "No speaking signs are in the sky," Is still the watchman's word. The Porter watches at the gate, The servants watch within; The watch is long betimes and late, The prize is slow to win. "Watchman, what of the night?" but still His answer sounds the same: "No daybreak tops the utmost hill, Nor pale our lamps of flame." One to another hear them speak, The patient virgins wise: "Surely He is not far to seek,"-- "All night we watch and rise." "The days are evil looking back, The coming days are dim; Yet count we not His promise slack, But watch and wait for Him." One with another, soul with soul, They kindle fire from fire: "Friends watch us who have touched the goal." "They urge us, come up higher." "With them shall rest our waysore feet, With them is built our home, With Christ." "They sweet, but He most sweet, Sweeter than honeycomb." There no more parting, no more pain, The distant ones brought near, The lost so long are found again, Long lost but longer dear: Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, Nor heart conceived that rest, With them our good things long deferred, With Jesus Christ our Best. We weep because the night is long, We laugh, for day shall rise, We sing a slow contented song And knock at Paradise. Weeping we hold Him fast Who wept For us,--we hold Him fast; And will not let Him go except He bless us first or last. Weeping we hold Him fast to-night; We will not let Him go Till daybreak smite our wearied sight, And summer smite the snow: Then figs shall bud, and dove with dove Shall coo the livelong day; Then He shall say, "Arise, My love, My fair one, come away."
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Advent
This Advent moon shines cold and clear, These Advent nights are long; Our lamps have burned year after year, And still their flame is strong. "Watchman, what of the night?" we cry, Heart-sick with hope deferred: "No speaking signs are in the sky," Is still the watchman's word. The Porter watches at the gate, The servants watch within; The watch is long betimes and late, The prize is slow to win. "Watchman, what of the night?" but still His answer sounds the same: "No daybreak tops the utmost hill, Nor pale our lamps of flame." One to another hear them speak, The patient virgins wise: "Surely He is not far to seek,"-- "All night we watch and rise." "The days are evil looking back, The coming days are dim; Yet count we not His promise slack, But watch and wait for Him." One with another, soul with soul, They kindle fire from fire: "Friends watch us who have touched the goal." "They urge us, come up higher." "With them shall rest our waysore feet, With them is built our home, With Christ." "They sweet, but He most sweet, Sweeter than honeycomb." There no more parting, no more pain, The distant ones brought near, The lost so long are found again, Long lost but longer dear: Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, Nor heart conceived that rest, With them our good things long deferred, With Jesus Christ our Best. We weep because the night is long, We laugh, for day shall rise, We sing a slow contented song And knock at Paradise. Weeping we hold Him fast Who wept For us,--we hold Him fast; And will not let Him go except He bless us first or last. Weeping we hold Him fast to-night; We will not let Him go Till daybreak smite our wearied sight, And summer smite the snow: Then figs shall bud, and dove with dove Shall coo the livelong day; Then He shall say, "Arise, My love, My fair one, come away."
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Tiny hands barely able to hold a bottle, now drink out of one,containing toxins. Tiny ears that used to hear bad words and coo, now spit them like wildfire. Tiny mouths that would be forced to take icky medicine, now pop pills and insert drugs into their being. Tiny eyes looking at life as a breeze,no cares in the world,now turn into eyes that crave attention but don’t care what we have to do to get it We are spoiling the pure bodies we once had. People are sleeping around, when I remember the worst thing you could do is hand-hold. We take the things we had as kids, and ruin them. We honestly take the cuteness and turn it into ... well that's for you to decide. You pick if your morals are guided with a compass, or thrown away like garbage. Who am i to judge? But I've also learned,these days,My darling.. This is adolescence.
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Feb 21, 2015
Feb 21, 2015 at 6:43 AM UTC
Adolescence
OPPOSITE my chamber window, On the sunny roof, at play, High above the city's tumult, Flocks of doves sit day by day. Shining necks and snowy bosoms, Little rosy, tripping feet, Twinkling eyes and fluttering wings, Cooing voices, low and sweet,- Graceful games and friendly meetings, Do I daily watch and see. For these happy little neighbors Always seem at peace to be. On my window-ledge, to lure them, Crumbs of bread I often strew, And, behind the curtain hiding, Watch them flutter to and fro. Soon they cease to fear the giver, Quick are they to feel my love, And my alms are freely taken By the shyest little dove. In soft flight, they circle downward, Peep in through the window-pane; Stretch their gleaming necks to greet me, Peck and coo, and come again. Faithful little friends and neighbors, For no wintry wind or rain, Household cares or airy pastimes, Can my loving birds restrain. Other friends forget, or linger, But each day I surely know That my doves will come and leave here Little footprints in the snow. So, they teach me the sweet lesson, That the humblest may give Help and hope, and in so doing, Learn the truth by which we live; For the heart that freely scatters Simple charities and loves, Lures home content, and joy, and peace, Like a soft-winged flock of doves.
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My Doves
Any insult you could throw my way Is true. I'm worthless in every single day Who knew? When I'm near children I shy away Not coo. And when I'm angry, terrible things I say You'll rue. I **** sunshine's shining rays With blue. About people, every waking moment pray They'll shoo. And every sin which others lay I do. So every insult thrown my way Is undeniably true.
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Jun 19, 2015
Jun 19, 2015 at 2:14 PM UTC
True Insults
A - the atrocity that my life has become D - the damage, and still,  im not done D - the denial, the doom in the vile,  dangerous, daunting; forever defile I - the image I fake of myself, I- my constant &chronic; bad health. C- the cost of a chemical wealth. T for the tension, paranoia and fear. Yet it’s the letter that symbols it’s here.   I - irrational, insensible, intense. I - irresistible iridescence . O- for the option that I didn’t take, O for the others that still I forsake. And N for nervous. Nauseous. Night. N, the neophyte, turned narcissist knight. Transparent to everyone, how its hold is too true So clear its invisible, Addiction did coo:   “when you wake and feel my crave, and all my charms  different behave; resistance, strength, pain & choice, may mute my spell,  quiet my voice.” “embrace what little light is shed”  suggested addiction, faintly he said: “For I can **** the best man dead, with only shadows in their head.”
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Apr 9, 2017
Apr 9, 2017 at 1:01 AM UTC
A D D I C T I O N
Standing in the sand, smelling salty waters, Of the Caribbean seas, through the cold vibrant breeze. Watching all the tall, happy, swaying coco nut trees, And when you sniffle a little of the bake and shark it makes you want to sneeze. Then take a walk in our rivers and cook up a curry *** or stew, With fish coo coo and a little calla-loo. and you take a bite and you taste buds and glands spring water of the delicious flavors that makes you say mhmmm.     Afterwards you can visit the reefs and see the dancing colors of the under water reefs, Of the Caribbean seas, where I'm from and would always love to be. But tho forget, it's Carnival time so come in your costumes and with your coolers because you're coming out to fete, And tho forget, when you step out on "D" road of jouvert morning until night listen to the Soca music, And let it rap you up and run through your ears with melodies that will make you want to bep. Oh yes the Caribbean dream, where every man's a king and every woman's a queen.
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Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018 at 3:21 PM UTC
The Caribbean
Daddy takes me to the greenhouse, behind our rotted trailer, deep in sovereign backwoods. Marsh voices, thick like tupelo honey. The coo of a loon, hiss of a cottonmouth, shiver of a snapping turtle. The silver of swamp lilies lip the land in wild haze, a veil of ochre moss tickles my nose like gauzey ginger ale and soil clings to my ankles like a lonesome hound. Daddy’s greenhouse is a shed, a haven. A milieu of magic and fleur-de-cannabis where pixies pull my curls and gnomes dance under mushroom parasols. My hands dip into a hollow of muddy earthworms. I feel akin to the yellow blood of a butterfly or pale jade of perplexing geckos. Daddy is a shaman. He trims holy blooms that come from spirits who sing in the wind like the whippoorwill at dusk. Snipping sticky bushels, he pads tufts into his pipe, carved in the shape of a sullen armadillo. I watch him inhale. His breath stiff as a braid of mangroves. He exhales a ligneous cough. I don’t mind, much.
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 3:18 PM UTC
In the Swamp of '96
kisses on your warm sweet mouth tender lips caressed exploring your ******* and raised ******* .. belly and thighs enveloped those eager dark delicious places that i covet so your musk erogenous the path to your hungry soul eater of the poison apple your eyes widen bright with delight a strange synesthesia you say your smile a hypnotic alter you prone back arched belly willing as i drag a curved blade slowly across your winsome flesh worshiping you breathing your warm breath into my mouth and nostrils come now you coo i am sheildless then little strangles that excite to see how you do will you love it adorations twisted mind she demon a wizened dizzy Venus please yes her **** drenches the bed a warm viscosity legs widen feet piqued ***** exotic delicatessen Heralded i enter with long sweet butter strokes the sabbath of desire I swear i wont let you suffer... never ! why you say? because i love you lovely scythe you call as if lulled to sleep whispering dreadful incantations   . i ache to close the curtain to lifes scalding chatter wrap me in a raggy shawl impale the throat like ive alway dreamed a last exhalation flood gates pour forth as deaths dark fold dissolves all i rock you drugged absinthe and wormwood a last ***** of candles flame white gauze cinched lips on a lost mouth eyes a static pyre i linger wishing you still plush an animated glow so that i could feel your arms, now milky white relics only to take you all over again and again and again dreamer of the abyss yet you stand aberrations, smoke ghost sacrificially swaying your hips calling from Hades dancer of ritual copulation i melt like wax in the sun wither and die myself marriage Italian style dead bells in love blotted out by the Sirens of Mara
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 4:45 PM UTC
SIRENS OF MARA
kisses on your warm sweet mouth tender lips caressed exploring your ******* and raised ******* .. belly and thighs enveloped those eager dark delicious places that i covet so your musk erogenous the path to your hungry soul eater of the poison apple your eyes widen bright with delight a strange synesthesia you say your smile a hypnotic alter you prone back arched belly willing as i drag a curved blade slowly across your winsome flesh worshiping you breathing your warm breath into my mouth and nostrils come now you coo i am sheildless then little strangles that excite to see how you do will you love it adorations twisted mind she demon a wizened dizzy Venus please yes her **** drenches the bed a warm viscosity legs widen feet piqued ***** exotic delicatessen Heralded i enter with long sweet butter strokes the sabbath of desire I swear i wont let you suffer... never ! why you say? because i love you lovely scythe you call as if lulled to sleep whispering dreadful incantations   . i ache to close the curtain to lifes scalding chatter wrap me in a raggy shawl impale the throat like ive alway dreamed a last exhalation flood gates pour forth as deaths dark fold dissolves all i rock you drugged absinthe and wormwood a last ***** of candles flame white gauze cinched lips on a lost mouth eyes a static pyre i linger wishing you still plush an animated glow so that i could feel your arms, now milky white relics only to take you all over again and again and again dreamer of the abyss yet you stand aberrations, smoke ghost sacrificially swaying your hips calling from Hades dancer of ritual copulation i melt like wax in the sun wither and die myself marriage Italian style dead bells in love blotted out by the Sirens of Mara
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My eyes bleed with exhaustion. My thoughts are fuzzy like my brain is stuffed with styrofoam. My body sinks into the ugly carpet floor of my basement. My mouth tastes sour with the flavor of an unslept soul. I lie here writing instead of sleeping because it feels like the only thing I can do well, consciously. My back aches with an elders pain at late seventeen. I crave the warm embrace of my bed but am too stuck like sap to move. I'm rambling here in my brain instead of resting my frigid existence. My thoughts are slow and choppy now with the hesitation of drifty words. My rusted, chipping ears hear nothing but silence and a distant coo-coo clock. The chirps of a bird only found in my dark, dusty insanity. The world weighs upon children such as these in a universe such as this. I'm just, tired. Tired... ~S.C. Kelley
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 2:01 AM UTC
Tired. Tired..
Laced with ribbons of moonlight Bangladesh a touched dream at first light. Land of my father, my mother sweeter than nectar. Purer than the driven snow brighter than raw gold. Gazing stars’ bumped up bottom down the untouched moon. Men and the six seasons living in one loving fold our one fertile sweet home! O Allah rank our martyrs our heroes up high in paradise in bloom brought Bangladesh freedom abloom! Punters cumulus clouds fly eyes on the sky blue   on a spur hanging low tune into wild coo. Picture independent Bangladesh step in on the morning rug rolls out outside the sun walk through, the moon is inside! Bask in, take your time when the twilight adds a shadow the beauty spot on your broad daylight escape to more serendipitous discovery. Eye on the stars or tuberoses on the ground our free land is inspiring, beautiful even in the dark. Laughs free from a tulip glass   across the land, air and the water upon the reed flute stirred river flowing downstream to the hilt from a deep-delved foundation out of reach her raised high flag flies over the pivotal banyan trees. Every flap of our ‘the sun in the green’ shaped flag, the light of heaven on the evergreen earth! Ah, sways in the chalice of every flower on the land cheers beyond the warm South whispers to our hearts and makes us feel proud.
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Mar 1, 2022
Mar 1, 2022 at 10:14 PM UTC
Independent Bangladesh
The skin of your shoulders, the skin of my teeth, tripping tips of fingers, eyes retreat and re-meet. We made a mess of your hair, sweet Lioness, you grappled and tore, bit, I kept it to a dull roar. You, you did coo, as I saw nothing through, coos for crooning, surreal, surreal, surreal. Excite the hunter, excite the huntress, as we take turns playing the prey. Levitate the weight, paw at my soul, I lick your sores, and beautify the remains. We made a mess of your hair, sweet Lioness, returned and renewed a sense of pulse, a sense of the thrill. You claim me again and again, claw into me, spilling my demons, whispers smoke, chaotic melody. An overgrown field of sheets laid flat, no question, no success or distraction, panting, panting, panting.
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Sep 6, 2010
Sep 6, 2010 at 9:06 PM UTC
Lioness
****** me. Yes you, You reading this poem, this plea. Come take me, fill my senses with sights and sounds and smells Come hear me moan hear me coo See my blood quickened pulse throb as you stand close ****** the whole of me nibble at me, caress me, taste me honey sweet I lie at your feet I no longer want to be an ingénue I want to be reborn, seduced by you Crush your lips to mine Crash into me
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Apr 27, 2014
Apr 27, 2014 at 2:27 PM UTC
****** me
You’re frightened but, there is no need for fear. Your eyes are barely open. Your vision is blurred beneath your thickened lashes. Blinded, you are. Hazed, you are. Sick, you are. Lying on the minted tile floor, back arched and your cheek pressed to a faded rug, you roll on your side. Tilting your head up, you moan. The vicious pulse begins pounding your wounded head. You roll again on your shrunken stomach, bubbling over with an ocean of alcohol. You drag your eyes up to the piercing light above you. Adjusting yourself slowly, your hands fumble for the floor beneath you. The muscles in your arm strain as you push yourself to sit. No strength. The stained bathtub provides something stable to grasp. Smeared makeup. Hair stuck to your hollow face. Memories scattering in the wind outside. More pounding, but this time it isn’t in your head. It’s booming outside the door. Screaming and movement is caving in on you, suffocating you.   Who’s outside?   What’s outside? "It's okay”, he says “You’re fine now.”   You turn and stare. How long has he been here?   He’s been watching you the entire time. He knows something. He’s done something to you. That’s why your in this frightening room below the ground. He stands and walks towards you. You must stay strong. Don’t flinch. No weakness. A gentle arm glides just under your leg and the other behind your waist. He lifts you up and a small whimper escapes your lips. There’s pain. He carries you into a familiar room through another door. The pounding from outside grows softer. Shoulders relax. Forehead cools. Sleepiness comes. He sits on the bed with you in his lap. Suddenly your alertness fades and you feel comforted. “How much did you drink?”  He asks timidly.   You lean your head back. Funny. “Just a little”, your words slur from your swollen tongue. You start to giggle. Arms begin to sweat. Stomach tightens. Puke. Tears. Hushed. “Shh now.  You’re fine.  It’s alright.  Breathe.  Breathe.”,  He coo's and slowly strokes your spine. Tensions released. He stands and walks to the door. “No!  Come back!”, You cry. He’s leaving. Why? You reach your hand out, like a child, but draw it back quickly. “Haven’t I always come back?  This time is no different.” Only a second passes and you’re out. Not all the way. Eyes closed. A window opens. The fan goes on. A blanket covers you. He’s there.
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Jun 4, 2012
Jun 4, 2012 at 9:15 PM UTC
Reassurance
You’re frightened but, there is no need for fear. Your eyes are barely open. Your vision is blurred beneath your thickened lashes. Blinded, you are. Hazed, you are. Sick, you are. Lying on the minted tile floor, back arched and your cheek pressed to a faded rug, you roll on your side. Tilting your head up, you moan. The vicious pulse begins pounding your wounded head. You roll again on your shrunken stomach, bubbling over with an ocean of alcohol. You drag your eyes up to the piercing light above you. Adjusting yourself slowly, your hands fumble for the floor beneath you. The muscles in your arm strain as you push yourself to sit. No strength. The stained bathtub provides something stable to grasp. Smeared makeup. Hair stuck to your hollow face. Memories scattering in the wind outside. More pounding, but this time it isn’t in your head. It’s booming outside the door. Screaming and movement is caving in on you, suffocating you.   Who’s outside?   What’s outside? "It's okay”, he says “You’re fine now.”   You turn and stare. How long has he been here?   He’s been watching you the entire time. He knows something. He’s done something to you. That’s why your in this frightening room below the ground. He stands and walks towards you. You must stay strong. Don’t flinch. No weakness. A gentle arm glides just under your leg and the other behind your waist. He lifts you up and a small whimper escapes your lips. There’s pain. He carries you into a familiar room through another door. The pounding from outside grows softer. Shoulders relax. Forehead cools. Sleepiness comes. He sits on the bed with you in his lap. Suddenly your alertness fades and you feel comforted. “How much did you drink?”  He asks timidly.   You lean your head back. Funny. “Just a little”, your words slur from your swollen tongue. You start to giggle. Arms begin to sweat. Stomach tightens. Puke. Tears. Hushed. “Shh now.  You’re fine.  It’s alright.  Breathe.  Breathe.”,  He coo's and slowly strokes your spine. Tensions released. He stands and walks to the door. “No!  Come back!”, You cry. He’s leaving. Why? You reach your hand out, like a child, but draw it back quickly. “Haven’t I always come back?  This time is no different.” Only a second passes and you’re out. Not all the way. Eyes closed. A window opens. The fan goes on. A blanket covers you. He’s there.
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There is a place in Colombia where kids have proven they can educate themselves better than you can. In the midst of a world we have labelled "developing" children of farmers who don't know English (but are better citizens anyway) are kicking our superior ***** There's talk of bringing the method here where, no doubt, it will be standardized (all the better to fit into a single test) and forced down our children's throats while we coo God Bless America!
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Mar 21, 2015
Mar 21, 2015 at 5:01 PM UTC
Countries Developing Developing Countries
Come and hide from them tonight They come for your blood, keep out of sight They coming looking for victims, seeking a neck They will find you and feed when they peck The vampire pigeons are going coo coo coo The vampire pigeons are coming after you Oh no, be so quiet, because they are here I can see them bobbing and I feel fear Blood red feathers and they show their crest They are here to feed then escape to the nest The vampire pigeons are going coo coo coo The vampire pigeons are coming after you What can we do? there is no where to go Can anything ever stop this evil foe But at last we are safe, I never thought of that They are fleeing, they are running from the cat The vampire pigeons are going coo coo coo The vampire pigeons are coming after you
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Feb 14, 2010
Feb 14, 2010 at 4:15 AM UTC
The Vampire Pigeons
Little ****** blighter unsightful Strut on the pavement cement Droppings like rain Feathers rough and unclean Yuck they coo They never seem new Yet we know that they Die too.
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 10:04 AM UTC
Pigeon
i live in a ******** so boring tractors roam the streets in the usual traffic, but i found that you can wizen up to a title of wizard by finding inanimate things entertaining and thought provoking, because the internet will not become the next scapegoat of goldfish memory - not the next box of entertainment - it will be what god’s green earth indented. out here, where you’re far from trafalgar sq. you get crows circling back to the origin of the woods with odin on the lyre venting out against too much pigeon **** coo coo of the attired men and women marking karma with the no. 13 and being ******* on from on high, you get seagulls, even, seagulls so far into dry land... imagine! and you get the autistic zoning in of the cat’s eye, those cats are very autistic, their eyes tell the sad sad story of encapsulated solipsism - snap your fingers or meow and they look at you passing you looking at some randomised point of entering their sleeping pattern - very autistic those cats, they look at you almost cross-eyed when you try to snap them out of it - out of it being: ****** off at being awake. very autistic those cats, those cats are very autistic, they look at you looking past you, looking almost cross-eyed - don’t blame me for the zigzag or the w! so as i said, it’s so boring where i live you see tractors and crows, and the only solidification of your presence is either provided for by an addiction to television eager for the flicker - or drinking... watching bricks, thinking bits and bobs out for the torrent of slavic plumbers building the great ****** of london. lo... upon the yonder... there it blooms ******* i like places where trees tower over man's handing man brick on brick - makes the sky a bit bigger and less asthmatic.
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Oct 6, 2015
Oct 6, 2015 at 10:29 AM UTC
cats autistic
i live in a ******** so boring tractors roam the streets in the usual traffic, but i found that you can wizen up to a title of wizard by finding inanimate things entertaining and thought provoking, because the internet will not become the next scapegoat of goldfish memory - not the next box of entertainment - it will be what god’s green earth indented. out here, where you’re far from trafalgar sq. you get crows circling back to the origin of the woods with odin on the lyre venting out against too much pigeon **** coo coo of the attired men and women marking karma with the no. 13 and being ******* on from on high, you get seagulls, even, seagulls so far into dry land... imagine! and you get the autistic zoning in of the cat’s eye, those cats are very autistic, their eyes tell the sad sad story of encapsulated solipsism - snap your fingers or meow and they look at you passing you looking at some randomised point of entering their sleeping pattern - very autistic those cats, they look at you almost cross-eyed when you try to snap them out of it - out of it being: ****** off at being awake. very autistic those cats, those cats are very autistic, they look at you looking past you, looking almost cross-eyed - don’t blame me for the zigzag or the w! so as i said, it’s so boring where i live you see tractors and crows, and the only solidification of your presence is either provided for by an addiction to television eager for the flicker - or drinking... watching bricks, thinking bits and bobs out for the torrent of slavic plumbers building the great ****** of london. lo... upon the yonder... there it blooms ******* i like places where trees tower over man's handing man brick on brick - makes the sky a bit bigger and less asthmatic.
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I want to possess you. I want the quivering of your throne, The trembling of your bones underneath me. I want beautiful blood to bleed for me. Reach for me from your place _beneath_ me. Between my fingers I want to feel the struggling breaths of your heart, Pinched veins in your throat, And your whimper like a sweet **** In the dark...the dark. The dark in my selfish eyes match the night. The coo in my voice tells you it's fine... Bruises ruin ruined skin, I make you mine. Thin nails along your jaw, Devil's claw. Say it now, say it raw: You are mine. Never let another come near, Nor touch you, taste you. Raging jealousy, I fear. You are my pet who speaks when I say, my dear. On the scent of musk, a predator's lust; I must admit unsettling crime: I'm tired of watching... I'll make you mine. Now beg for me. Rope 'round your wrists, Under my control. You are darling like this. Teeth leave starved greedy marks, Labored torn lips and fingertips Where the sweat pools in the dark... The dark.
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Apr 20, 2018
Apr 20, 2018 at 8:15 PM UTC
I Want to Possess You
I’m in love with a ghost, a suitor of my shadow. I ache in search of him, yet the floorboard creaks In the dark of night are merely my soul wandering down my a mum hallway My sorrows coo my exhausted mind, casting a spell of sleep upon my glistening eyes. My shadow creeps out from under the crack of my door- the door that keeps my demons within four walls. My shadow, the phantom of my desires chases them into eternity. Even when these old bones break, this skin turns blue, these eyes roll back into the depths of my mind… My shadow will roam until The End
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Oct 24, 2017
Oct 24, 2017 at 6:24 PM UTC
The Man in the Shadows
The Riot Began on a Sunday Evening My dearest kin, how deceiving shout, scream, taunt Shout. Scream. Taunt. SHOUT! SCREAM! TAUNT! Ablaze with yells Bank money, In-laws from hell Little draw-backs, taxes of life It kills them, it murders every night. It grew and grew Drizzle to Hurricane Dazed, bruised embrace I, myself, a teenage girl of sixteen, I remained curled in the comforter, cotton was my security. Laying down by the side of shadow I whimper and wonder My tiny boy, my tiny love, He remains as lonely as I The bedroom is far from escape I may be used to walking the desert alone But my little love, he remains unknown. And for that first night, millionth life, I rise. My movement ripples nothing But my conscience gaping Death mission death mission death mission I refuse to sink. Pitter patter against the stony floor My footsteps whisper, but they do not stir. My dearest kin, how deceiving... I slip into his life, desiring to sooth his mind "My love, my love," I coo. He responds without further ado. "Geetika?" I desire a cry when I hear this soft, soft, kitten-like My boy, my boy, my boy. I prepare to face PTSD But all I face is a dream within a nightmare. "Did you know I got thousand points on fruit ninja this evening?" I blink. And blink. He hasn't noticed a single thing! They say his specialty is his curse But I am thanful, Because he has not heard! My boy, my boy! He remains oblivious My dreamer, my dreamer! Out of touch of reality, My little baby. Numbers and points and games engulf his mind So consumed So unaware But I AM SO THANKFUL! He hadn't noticed a single thing, my boy my boy, my dreamer...
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Jul 5, 2012
Jul 5, 2012 at 4:35 AM UTC
My Dreamer
The Riot Began on a Sunday Evening My dearest kin, how deceiving shout, scream, taunt Shout. Scream. Taunt. SHOUT! SCREAM! TAUNT! Ablaze with yells Bank money, In-laws from hell Little draw-backs, taxes of life It kills them, it murders every night. It grew and grew Drizzle to Hurricane Dazed, bruised embrace I, myself, a teenage girl of sixteen, I remained curled in the comforter, cotton was my security. Laying down by the side of shadow I whimper and wonder My tiny boy, my tiny love, He remains as lonely as I The bedroom is far from escape I may be used to walking the desert alone But my little love, he remains unknown. And for that first night, millionth life, I rise. My movement ripples nothing But my conscience gaping Death mission death mission death mission I refuse to sink. Pitter patter against the stony floor My footsteps whisper, but they do not stir. My dearest kin, how deceiving... I slip into his life, desiring to sooth his mind "My love, my love," I coo. He responds without further ado. "Geetika?" I desire a cry when I hear this soft, soft, kitten-like My boy, my boy, my boy. I prepare to face PTSD But all I face is a dream within a nightmare. "Did you know I got thousand points on fruit ninja this evening?" I blink. And blink. He hasn't noticed a single thing! They say his specialty is his curse But I am thanful, Because he has not heard! My boy, my boy! He remains oblivious My dreamer, my dreamer! Out of touch of reality, My little baby. Numbers and points and games engulf his mind So consumed So unaware But I AM SO THANKFUL! He hadn't noticed a single thing, my boy my boy, my dreamer...
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We're mostly gregarious and polite, Like most of you. We too have our diplomatic trips 'n bumps; We never cozied to Dicky; But welcomed ex-pat refugees For safe and sound reasons. After the jimmy-rigging, how many re-pated? And we gagged on the impeachables, all fuzzy and bitter. He called the father *that ******* in Ottawa;* And Pierre wore that moniker like The Order of Canada. When you're not liked by one, you're a dove. You should visit CANDU.wow It has it all. How is Supreme Leader managing? Are his... Are my people... sitting at attention. We could real news a bomb a la Kim Jong, Or flip a stone down at Port Huron. We won't. But we could if we weren't The Great White North, so accommodating, so polite, So Coo loo coo coo coo coo coo cooo! nice... (for now)
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Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018 at 11:27 AM UTC
We Candu Too
Sleepy daze Lilac light Bright In Deaths Valley where purple petals and purple lips Part at the touch of His skeleton key finger That turn chests wide open To release souls from their broken captors Dissipate Not even a firework show for good effort Eyes wide open and I see everything you can’t seem to say with purple lips so cold and frightened There’s a thousand white dots and a thousand sound layers beneath the color Endless The red veins floating amidst your token bad eye staring straight into the ceiling fan As if it’s going to lift you up, spin your brain And attempt to unjumble the jigsaw puzzle of different words and phrases and opinions That pollute you Uproot what you’ve known to be true Since your slate was paved Since your fingers touched the invisible air Of unwritten possibility The wall is grey The lilac sits on your chest Its purple and I’m as blue as the deepest corner of the skies rocket ship neck That crevice fingers pet to coo goosebumps out from their nervous cells Where I’m hidden And quiet quiet quiet Don’t part your purple lips I’m hidden Your fingers graze the bed Like it’s planning on plotting seeds That will hopefully grow And I’m alive I’m a life I’m enlightened I’m not growing you said I’m crooked you said I’m not well rested you said And the lilac sits alone in your bedside garden Where no other plants dare to sprout And your hands turn into stray roots That weigh heavy like limp corn stalks Frayed at the edges as they approach your ghastly cemetery And all I can say is I’m sorry Futile words from purple lips that Death doesn’t silence but caresses With his skeleton key finger Pursing them into a tight grip That lets you know but doesn’t let you go I’m sorry
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Jun 19, 2013
Jun 19, 2013 at 8:40 PM UTC
Lilac
Sleepy daze Lilac light Bright In Deaths Valley where purple petals and purple lips Part at the touch of His skeleton key finger That turn chests wide open To release souls from their broken captors Dissipate Not even a firework show for good effort Eyes wide open and I see everything you can’t seem to say with purple lips so cold and frightened There’s a thousand white dots and a thousand sound layers beneath the color Endless The red veins floating amidst your token bad eye staring straight into the ceiling fan As if it’s going to lift you up, spin your brain And attempt to unjumble the jigsaw puzzle of different words and phrases and opinions That pollute you Uproot what you’ve known to be true Since your slate was paved Since your fingers touched the invisible air Of unwritten possibility The wall is grey The lilac sits on your chest Its purple and I’m as blue as the deepest corner of the skies rocket ship neck That crevice fingers pet to coo goosebumps out from their nervous cells Where I’m hidden And quiet quiet quiet Don’t part your purple lips I’m hidden Your fingers graze the bed Like it’s planning on plotting seeds That will hopefully grow And I’m alive I’m a life I’m enlightened I’m not growing you said I’m crooked you said I’m not well rested you said And the lilac sits alone in your bedside garden Where no other plants dare to sprout And your hands turn into stray roots That weigh heavy like limp corn stalks Frayed at the edges as they approach your ghastly cemetery And all I can say is I’m sorry Futile words from purple lips that Death doesn’t silence but caresses With his skeleton key finger Pursing them into a tight grip That lets you know but doesn’t let you go I’m sorry
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We're out at a bar splitting a good night of cheers Drinks and laughter flowing among peers Double shots dance around the table Tonight's the moment, tomorrow's a fable We garnish the laughter with Halloween What's your costume, how do you swing A chorus of "I'll dress up as a cowboy" Is met by a few rolling eyes, "I'll address their convoy" Not to be excluded is the gay guy in back that chimes in And competes with the rolling eyes, cowboys are mine Laughter of reveries spills faster than the drinks A 80's song, When Doves Cry, continues to play over the links A women crashes the party and exhorts the group Come on guys put your wings on, fly the coup Halloween's around the corner, make a splash, make waves Find your muse with a costume that stands up, and raves Look out to the horizon, the rarefied air, and trick for treats Find my tunnel of love with a costume that beats After a pause, a coy smile surface on rolling eye's lip Oh Melville come with me, come with me, and take a dip Double shots dance around the table Logan Robertson 10/19/17
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Oct 19, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 at 3:26 PM UTC
When Doves Laugh and Coo Over Halloween (With Writer's Notes)