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i remember the way your hair shined through the sunny day studying the way your eyes flutter every time you stutter the words you cant say i remember how pleasing your voice was beneath my ears i remember being with you washed away my fears do you remember the days where we used to lay in the shade? forming figures in the clouds having long conversations for hours nights where we stayed up late getting into stupid debates about who's right or wrong, picking out the right song to play over and over again. remember how we fought over stupid stuff? and even though times get rough, we'd just laugh it all up do you remember when we met in September? in english class where the hours didn't last and that's where it happened so fast creating memories that we thought would remain but all we created was pain and that was the last day i saw you. sitting on the bench with another girl my heart clenched cheeks tear-drenched my pride craving for revenge. listen darling, i just want you to remember from the beginning of september remember the long-lasting splendor the last moments of us being together because i remembered and dare i keep it in my heart forever.
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May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018 at 3:40 AM UTC
r e m e m b e r
They didn't know what Diversity was... The kids, that is. Since the kids didn't know it, the teacher coined it as "“black” visibility". She wasn't sure if she could make that call so she nodded her head, looking for approval. The interviewer asked in what direction did the teacher see Diversity As if Diversity was a one-way street. Let me just refresh your memory... "“black” visibility" As if decades of progress in the schools were undone, The kids voted on Performances and Projects for “black” History Month. How shocking!... Kids of every shape, size, ability and race studying a time in history... Sounds racist to me. They wanted a Gospel Choir that is clearly only for “black” students Because I'm the student Director for the Fordham University's Rhythm of Praise Gospel Chior for the fourth year running... Maybe I'm missing something... MAYBE I'm “black”... Maybe if I close my eyes really tight... Nope, I'm still “white”. Olive brown perhaps? Only in the summer. Anyway, I digress like Sophia Patrilo from the Goldren Girls Who was Italian by the way. Just advertising for Diversity. Let's debate about "Music Debates" for a moment. Maybe you call it Debates because Hip Hop is debatable, and by the way only for “black” students. When I could argue for days upon days About how Reggaeton didn't come from Salsa but I know **** well that Salsa came first. The kids wanted to Stomp the Yard and battle it out. I do believe rap battles take place around the world And one of the best rappers I know is an English teacher in Harlem Whose hair is redder than a leprechaun. Talent Shows that showcase every student's ability Whether it be singing, dancing, performing their poetry, But still apparently that's not Diversity. Neither is an International Day Where International ways are celebrated. And finally, a Diversity Day, That clearly means diversity is separated. "They wanted a lot of things" Yeah. They asked for a whole lot... of everything BUT diversity. That's right, because they don't know what it means The Kids, that is... Then tell me please: Define Diversity. Is it seeing a “black” horse with “white” stripes Or a “white” horse with “black” stripes? Why is it between “black” and “white”? Why not between “white”, “black” brown, yellow, orange, brick red... Let's get it out of our head That teachers can't learn anything from their students, Because it sounds to me, Like they had a pretty good start to the meaning of Diversity. And if it turns out they didn't, That's what teachers are there for: Make a **** lesson about it.
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Sep 26, 2011
Sep 26, 2011 at 2:16 PM UTC
"What is Diversity?"
They didn't know what Diversity was... The kids, that is. Since the kids didn't know it, the teacher coined it as "“black” visibility". She wasn't sure if she could make that call so she nodded her head, looking for approval. The interviewer asked in what direction did the teacher see Diversity As if Diversity was a one-way street. Let me just refresh your memory... "“black” visibility" As if decades of progress in the schools were undone, The kids voted on Performances and Projects for “black” History Month. How shocking!... Kids of every shape, size, ability and race studying a time in history... Sounds racist to me. They wanted a Gospel Choir that is clearly only for “black” students Because I'm the student Director for the Fordham University's Rhythm of Praise Gospel Chior for the fourth year running... Maybe I'm missing something... MAYBE I'm “black”... Maybe if I close my eyes really tight... Nope, I'm still “white”. Olive brown perhaps? Only in the summer. Anyway, I digress like Sophia Patrilo from the Goldren Girls Who was Italian by the way. Just advertising for Diversity. Let's debate about "Music Debates" for a moment. Maybe you call it Debates because Hip Hop is debatable, and by the way only for “black” students. When I could argue for days upon days About how Reggaeton didn't come from Salsa but I know **** well that Salsa came first. The kids wanted to Stomp the Yard and battle it out. I do believe rap battles take place around the world And one of the best rappers I know is an English teacher in Harlem Whose hair is redder than a leprechaun. Talent Shows that showcase every student's ability Whether it be singing, dancing, performing their poetry, But still apparently that's not Diversity. Neither is an International Day Where International ways are celebrated. And finally, a Diversity Day, That clearly means diversity is separated. "They wanted a lot of things" Yeah. They asked for a whole lot... of everything BUT diversity. That's right, because they don't know what it means The Kids, that is... Then tell me please: Define Diversity. Is it seeing a “black” horse with “white” stripes Or a “white” horse with “black” stripes? Why is it between “black” and “white”? Why not between “white”, “black” brown, yellow, orange, brick red... Let's get it out of our head That teachers can't learn anything from their students, Because it sounds to me, Like they had a pretty good start to the meaning of Diversity. And if it turns out they didn't, That's what teachers are there for: Make a **** lesson about it.
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Narcissist I Money questions hidden in cultures Instead of debates, we have the vultures They will overspend whatever their budget Destroy years hard work, their odour pungent Often called users, epiphytes of highest order Those that cannot earn sufficient to quarter Or manage their own, so they use others Spending, unfettered, is their druthers Cannot accept responsibility for damage Continue to feast on their host, they ravage Hollowing out from inside, funds they suction Weakening the structure for eventual destruction And weakened, debates then start about savings Too late, funds gone, too late for the cravings Absent conversation, leaves a bad situation Long ago, train of debate left the station What we have now is death and decay All caused by silence, as the vultures flay It will not be long until they seek a new host Just when their former home needs them most So leave they will, to claw the next poor victim Removing their talons of love and devotion Moving on, leaving behind just carcasses Warm used bodies, mark of a narcissist
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Jan 18, 2015
Jan 18, 2015 at 4:04 PM UTC
Narcissist I
Can you feel it Shh, allow the galaxy to pamper your body, blanket the essence of your mind, bit-by-bit Travel on a higher awareness to understand the galaxy’s gentle gift Close your eyes and allow your mind to softly drift Soft Moonlight Dust Illuminating the night skies, given warmth of its inner trust Centered in the sky, a star abates for its enlighten ****** Kindred minds to enrapture, as souls physically adjust So gentle, as a touch to the skin An inner space to conquer, there an exploring craving begins Awareness of self stirring into the constellation Bodies attuned beyond the stretch of imagination Savoring on the flavor of the alignment sweeten taste Desires igniting an inferno, the heat of its flames refusing to wait Overheated friction surrendering without debates Runaway yearning weakening in the presence of fate The ecstasy of the moonlight’s dust felt, abiding to the crack of dawn Emotions of the elixir slowly withdrawn A Cheshire moonrise Always a sacred communion given in surprise Masked feelings hidden behind the stars in our eyes Sprinkles of pixie dust as the moon becomes full Paired upon, as lace meets wool Interwoven and tenderly spun on a galactic spool Stars In Exile Twinkling for eyes to glimpse beyond the earth’s smile Canopus to Antares, oh how you make me shine Closing my eyes, coveting your point as I’m making you mine Settled and glittering as small diamonds binding in the sky A wondrous elopement to experience in the blink of an eye Soft whispers to the ones that shoot right before they fall Such a beautiful and breathlessly cadence to wish under them all The Gift Of The Sun’s Stroke Umm, shooting stars kept me awoke Relentless bodies bathing under the moon Caresses, touches, entwined souls echoing the note of its weakening tunes Sweeter and sweeter, deeper and deeper Bodies fueled, hot as a heater, bodies climbing steeper and steeper Heat consumes the interior of the temple Sweat of life, as movements come together and then disassemble Elated, sedated, dipping in a cool blue lagoon Kisses under the sun on a beautiful afternoon Temperatures rising not a moment too soon June slamming into summer’s heat A merriment of a sun stroke basking in the glorious feast The galaxy and its spicy passion A gift to the world to enjoy in any unbridled fashion
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 1:17 PM UTC
A Kiss Among The Milky Way
Can you feel it Shh, allow the galaxy to pamper your body, blanket the essence of your mind, bit-by-bit Travel on a higher awareness to understand the galaxy’s gentle gift Close your eyes and allow your mind to softly drift Soft Moonlight Dust Illuminating the night skies, given warmth of its inner trust Centered in the sky, a star abates for its enlighten ****** Kindred minds to enrapture, as souls physically adjust So gentle, as a touch to the skin An inner space to conquer, there an exploring craving begins Awareness of self stirring into the constellation Bodies attuned beyond the stretch of imagination Savoring on the flavor of the alignment sweeten taste Desires igniting an inferno, the heat of its flames refusing to wait Overheated friction surrendering without debates Runaway yearning weakening in the presence of fate The ecstasy of the moonlight’s dust felt, abiding to the crack of dawn Emotions of the elixir slowly withdrawn A Cheshire moonrise Always a sacred communion given in surprise Masked feelings hidden behind the stars in our eyes Sprinkles of pixie dust as the moon becomes full Paired upon, as lace meets wool Interwoven and tenderly spun on a galactic spool Stars In Exile Twinkling for eyes to glimpse beyond the earth’s smile Canopus to Antares, oh how you make me shine Closing my eyes, coveting your point as I’m making you mine Settled and glittering as small diamonds binding in the sky A wondrous elopement to experience in the blink of an eye Soft whispers to the ones that shoot right before they fall Such a beautiful and breathlessly cadence to wish under them all The Gift Of The Sun’s Stroke Umm, shooting stars kept me awoke Relentless bodies bathing under the moon Caresses, touches, entwined souls echoing the note of its weakening tunes Sweeter and sweeter, deeper and deeper Bodies fueled, hot as a heater, bodies climbing steeper and steeper Heat consumes the interior of the temple Sweat of life, as movements come together and then disassemble Elated, sedated, dipping in a cool blue lagoon Kisses under the sun on a beautiful afternoon Temperatures rising not a moment too soon June slamming into summer’s heat A merriment of a sun stroke basking in the glorious feast The galaxy and its spicy passion A gift to the world to enjoy in any unbridled fashion
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(gulp) Couldn’t resist a minute more. Relapse. I again… After six months sober... Here. In this pain I know all too well. Ten years lost to this drug my veins ache for. First breath in the morning and last thought at night, all consumed by it. Every cell in me craves it. That physical euphoria my body portraits. Feels like someone has poured pure joy into every single muscle and fiber of my being. It makes me feel so content Every single bit of me is singing and buzzing with life and love. It's like the ecstasy of ******* that first blissful, pleasurable pulsation of endorphins and serotonin. This is what I feel when I first take LOVE. And then... And then, the honeymoon stage is over. Fights erupt. Never-ending debates. Miscommunications. Misperceptions. No trust. Accusations. Lies. “I’m done...” … Again, it feels like a part of my soul is leaving my body. Again, sitting here numb. A toxic love... I’m addicted to, And there’s no way around it. It’s already deep intertwined with my veins. Yet, no matter the toxic, tragic event that happened before, I sit here, and I want nothing more than to spend my life next to this soul. To see his eyes unchanged as the skin around it wrinkles and grows old is what my heart will always desire— to stare at those eyes for the rest of eternity. Dead air… So here I’ll wait, until you decided to come into my life again and repeat this déjà vu.
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Feb 12, 2018
Feb 12, 2018 at 8:54 PM UTC
Relapsed
‘I am…’ 'Or am I’? Who can say? ‘A posteriori’ leads the way For the extra and the ordinary Axiomatic sway, In the gravity of corollary, ‘A priori’ interplay Ataraxic overlay of anxious automation, As the innocence of dissonance delay. Practicing semantic contemplation, In willfully prevenient interpolation, Civilly disobedient in expediently seeming disarray, Forecasts in vague extrapolation Contrasts the millennial contagion Already underway, Filling nihilistic voids with particles in waves, To interpret dreams of Freud to free Oedipus’s slaves, A degreeless scholastic who never misbehaves, Simulated humanoid dramatic in the affect that he craves, Inflating linguistics in acrobatic raves, A thespian who plans conation with legacy engraves. The probabilistic determiner of cosmogenous debates, An apperceived inquirer of qualitative states, Inspiring proprietor of dismality abates. Challenging aporia as epistemic oscillates, Stoically, heroically, ‘one’ who amalgamates, Circling the infinite in hermeneutic calibrates. An escaped prisoner from depressive disillusion, Of an introspective extrovert who finds solace in confusion, The personable recluse fighting an illusion Breaking down the nuances of every institution. Calculating consequence as time goes to infinity Revolutionary commonsense of principal utility, An opinionated adversary, to the realist without evidence, Theorizing in futility, Stipulating every sense leading to the virility of the pretense that dominates community. Divergently converging all the efforts we’ve personified, Inadvertently submerging old traditions that unethically were codified, Hastening the urgency for purging that which cannot be modified through the merging of the certainty that will no longer coincide, Stationing the levies to finally stem the tide, Of periodic enmities disguised to be necessities so blatantly deified. Observing moral sentiments, perched upon eternity, As consequential regiments are expounded universally, To unstratify the residents indiscriminately And identify quantum elements spiritualistically, Changing collective behavior individually, Socializing constructs in joint ventured logo therapy.
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Nov 16, 2018
Nov 16, 2018 at 8:07 AM UTC
Paradoxical Tendencies
‘I am…’ 'Or am I’? Who can say? ‘A posteriori’ leads the way For the extra and the ordinary Axiomatic sway, In the gravity of corollary, ‘A priori’ interplay Ataraxic overlay of anxious automation, As the innocence of dissonance delay. Practicing semantic contemplation, In willfully prevenient interpolation, Civilly disobedient in expediently seeming disarray, Forecasts in vague extrapolation Contrasts the millennial contagion Already underway, Filling nihilistic voids with particles in waves, To interpret dreams of Freud to free Oedipus’s slaves, A degreeless scholastic who never misbehaves, Simulated humanoid dramatic in the affect that he craves, Inflating linguistics in acrobatic raves, A thespian who plans conation with legacy engraves. The probabilistic determiner of cosmogenous debates, An apperceived inquirer of qualitative states, Inspiring proprietor of dismality abates. Challenging aporia as epistemic oscillates, Stoically, heroically, ‘one’ who amalgamates, Circling the infinite in hermeneutic calibrates. An escaped prisoner from depressive disillusion, Of an introspective extrovert who finds solace in confusion, The personable recluse fighting an illusion Breaking down the nuances of every institution. Calculating consequence as time goes to infinity Revolutionary commonsense of principal utility, An opinionated adversary, to the realist without evidence, Theorizing in futility, Stipulating every sense leading to the virility of the pretense that dominates community. Divergently converging all the efforts we’ve personified, Inadvertently submerging old traditions that unethically were codified, Hastening the urgency for purging that which cannot be modified through the merging of the certainty that will no longer coincide, Stationing the levies to finally stem the tide, Of periodic enmities disguised to be necessities so blatantly deified. Observing moral sentiments, perched upon eternity, As consequential regiments are expounded universally, To unstratify the residents indiscriminately And identify quantum elements spiritualistically, Changing collective behavior individually, Socializing constructs in joint ventured logo therapy.
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Human directives, veracities unverified   Bellies belching with anger, murderers Udders dripping hate, foundling banters Hunters striking the hungered, unfortunate Glare sight to seek the truth, hold me lets sink Tear motions and debates of inequality My Dafur, the realm of the fur, demise All armed in Sudan, the arid, a battlefield Emergency alarms sirens from 2003 The indefinite complications and hunger A land of the displaced, starving nomads Hear me out in these non-dissolving conflicts Guantanamo bay detention a prison vicious A base for “war in terrorism”, reciprocal laws Inhumane human interrogations persists A breach, a revolt, the hunger riots devolve Force-feeding, torturous measures applied All undressed, humiliated, genitalia exposed A Rwanda slain in divide and rule Civil clashes, mashes, all trashed Swaying war rapes, tapes, the raves Machetes slashing necks and hands A lust of power, a genocide slaughter The Tutsi slewed and unsewn from a patch Autocratic regime boring divisions Territorial ethnic cleansing, a holocaust The oppression of Jews, Romanis, Poles Homosexuals, the disabled and mentally ill Indifference pooled in pits and camps The institutional social indoctrination The honor and killing to expose shame The violation and dishonor of moral fabric For what is “good”, “bad”, fixated moral values Buried waists and head, awaiting stones to hit Confessional secrets of only what lays within A torment watching witnesses, all dangling Marxists calls ships to stow ashore Masses kidnapped, confused in deceit Invalid contracts awaits signatures The white immigrants to be enslaved All aboard, now abroad to revolve labor Wage packages taken to pay for freedom Humans bought and sold to be owned Slaves yorked and counted as assets Bounded to serve plantations and homes A human, non human, a chattel, a slave A debt ******* offended and ***** Untamed and made to obey a master A falling global strings unturned Tunes strumming hate, war and pain Human trafficking, violence, inequality Child abuse, civil conflicts, capitalists Commercialism, zero hour contracts For if we have no rights, I have none For if we have no peace I have none
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Jan 20, 2016
Jan 20, 2016 at 6:54 AM UTC
Cruel Inhumane Autocracies
Human directives, veracities unverified   Bellies belching with anger, murderers Udders dripping hate, foundling banters Hunters striking the hungered, unfortunate Glare sight to seek the truth, hold me lets sink Tear motions and debates of inequality My Dafur, the realm of the fur, demise All armed in Sudan, the arid, a battlefield Emergency alarms sirens from 2003 The indefinite complications and hunger A land of the displaced, starving nomads Hear me out in these non-dissolving conflicts Guantanamo bay detention a prison vicious A base for “war in terrorism”, reciprocal laws Inhumane human interrogations persists A breach, a revolt, the hunger riots devolve Force-feeding, torturous measures applied All undressed, humiliated, genitalia exposed A Rwanda slain in divide and rule Civil clashes, mashes, all trashed Swaying war rapes, tapes, the raves Machetes slashing necks and hands A lust of power, a genocide slaughter The Tutsi slewed and unsewn from a patch Autocratic regime boring divisions Territorial ethnic cleansing, a holocaust The oppression of Jews, Romanis, Poles Homosexuals, the disabled and mentally ill Indifference pooled in pits and camps The institutional social indoctrination The honor and killing to expose shame The violation and dishonor of moral fabric For what is “good”, “bad”, fixated moral values Buried waists and head, awaiting stones to hit Confessional secrets of only what lays within A torment watching witnesses, all dangling Marxists calls ships to stow ashore Masses kidnapped, confused in deceit Invalid contracts awaits signatures The white immigrants to be enslaved All aboard, now abroad to revolve labor Wage packages taken to pay for freedom Humans bought and sold to be owned Slaves yorked and counted as assets Bounded to serve plantations and homes A human, non human, a chattel, a slave A debt ******* offended and ***** Untamed and made to obey a master A falling global strings unturned Tunes strumming hate, war and pain Human trafficking, violence, inequality Child abuse, civil conflicts, capitalists Commercialism, zero hour contracts For if we have no rights, I have none For if we have no peace I have none
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3-2-2017 (unknown date of origin) Something's wrong... you don't belong here. I said, looking down at the pineapple on my pizza. I said, looking down at the ketchup on my macaroni. I said, looking down at the cream of mushroom soup on my meatloaf. He said, looking down at me and my boyfriend, holding hands in public. Like I'm a creep.  I'm a ****** What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. You see there's these things that we learn at the dinner table. When we're kids we have certain items served to us on our plates. Whatever doesn't end up there, isn't a part of the discussion. After all, they say if you don't have a seat at the table, you are likely to be on the menu. So, when ****** orientation and gender identity aren't seated at the table of childhood, they get served for the first time in unexpected places.   Like an avante garde celebrity chef's designer meal, prepared for critiques by the food bloggers.   They get served in college classroom debates or in dorm rooms with freshman roommates.   They're on the menu in in some movies but served with a side of stereotypes and silly trope toppings.   They get grinded into glitter dust sprinkled on the annual PRIDE Parades like an overly salty seasoning mix.   They're on the menu in workplace diversity trainings, but too little too late - they get lost in the marginalized buffet.   They get served at the oppression Olympics, or actually at the Olympics unwillingly by a journalist who only pretends to eat a well-balanced diet, but really has LGBT food allergies,  if you know what I mean. In reality, these should be staple dishes consumed by commoners, consumed by you and me, consumed by children along with their healthy daily dose of broccoli and cauliflower, squash and zucchini, even eggplant.   They should be in every ******* cookbook with pictures and all different kinds of recipes! I want every child to have gay on their dinner plate, lesbian lunch, gender nonconforming on the brunch menu, and bisexual breakfast.   And everything in between in the queer spectrum served during snack breaks.   I want every child to look down at their plate and see pineapple pizza and say, gee that looks great!   I love all of the pizza toppings, no matter whether gay or nay. ... except for anchovies, of course.
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Mar 2, 2017
Mar 2, 2017 at 4:28 AM UTC
Pineapple Pizza
3-2-2017 (unknown date of origin) Something's wrong... you don't belong here. I said, looking down at the pineapple on my pizza. I said, looking down at the ketchup on my macaroni. I said, looking down at the cream of mushroom soup on my meatloaf. He said, looking down at me and my boyfriend, holding hands in public. Like I'm a creep.  I'm a ****** What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. You see there's these things that we learn at the dinner table. When we're kids we have certain items served to us on our plates. Whatever doesn't end up there, isn't a part of the discussion. After all, they say if you don't have a seat at the table, you are likely to be on the menu. So, when ****** orientation and gender identity aren't seated at the table of childhood, they get served for the first time in unexpected places.   Like an avante garde celebrity chef's designer meal, prepared for critiques by the food bloggers.   They get served in college classroom debates or in dorm rooms with freshman roommates.   They're on the menu in in some movies but served with a side of stereotypes and silly trope toppings.   They get grinded into glitter dust sprinkled on the annual PRIDE Parades like an overly salty seasoning mix.   They're on the menu in workplace diversity trainings, but too little too late - they get lost in the marginalized buffet.   They get served at the oppression Olympics, or actually at the Olympics unwillingly by a journalist who only pretends to eat a well-balanced diet, but really has LGBT food allergies,  if you know what I mean. In reality, these should be staple dishes consumed by commoners, consumed by you and me, consumed by children along with their healthy daily dose of broccoli and cauliflower, squash and zucchini, even eggplant.   They should be in every ******* cookbook with pictures and all different kinds of recipes! I want every child to have gay on their dinner plate, lesbian lunch, gender nonconforming on the brunch menu, and bisexual breakfast.   And everything in between in the queer spectrum served during snack breaks.   I want every child to look down at their plate and see pineapple pizza and say, gee that looks great!   I love all of the pizza toppings, no matter whether gay or nay. ... except for anchovies, of course.
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I was brought into this house Ordered from the local furniture shop Made to order according to specifications I am a wingback, Upholstered in full-grain leather   True to my rich heritage I was placed in the library Amongst the illustrious works of famous writers Half- a - century have passed, providing support To the backbone of the family Although tired, he finds solace in my cozy embrace I give him my wings to fly into the world of literature Cervantes, Bunyan, Bacon, Goehte, Dostoevsky, Chekov, Tolstoy Some of the names from the illustrious collection Not all were privileged to have a seat here He was transported to each era, savoring the rich legacy Of literature down the centuries I was privy to the mind-boggling debates Which he conducted with himself Trying to reason each work of literature A mere wingback rose to be a companion Providing sturdy support on the mahogany legs One fine day the reading session ended in deep slumber Five decades of bonding and companionship came to an end Now, I stand here, forlorn, at the corner of the library Reminiscing the reading sessions, and siesta The wingback does not have the wings to fly away from this bond © Amitav (Radiance)
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 2:35 PM UTC
The Wingback Chair
I log into the network of my self-esteem, To see the hearts and the wows and the laughs flooding in. A simple 'like' wouldn’t cut it anymore ‘Likes’ were so 2010, even 2010 was bored. ‘Cause that’s the zeitgeist of the age, you see, A tendency to wear hearts on sleeves. Loves and kisses are a dime a dozen, With a million friends and followers double. National debates and social justice petitions, Real crises, distorted renditions. High definition photos of disaster zones Flash up against cat videos on every smart phone. Snapchat filters do not lie, Just tell a story of hours gone by; Selecting the perfect background, the ideal shade To express love on the dozen’th date. But that’s the zeitgeist of the century, A tendency to wear hearts on sleeves. To document in minute detail, with extensive pictorial evidence Clockwork days of humdrum nonchalance. And perhaps the generation that came before Would call it vanity, vainglory, or something more. But it ain’t like they were without their sins, We didn’t invent tabloid columnists. And now that we are at the end, Let me sign off with this request: Like, comment, and share your love Let your heart fall out of your shirt cuff.
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 1:53 AM UTC
A Tendency to Wear Hearts on Sleeves
What can win against time, someone asked me reminiscing the journey which started eighteen months ago with me and him philosophizing intricacies of life and human emotion relishing the daily luxuries of satisfying debates when little did I know that we would walk all along fighting demons in our own being surviving closed ends of fate and loneliness The man I got to learn of his real, gentle and calm soul comforted with the truth of a warm heart eventually knocking out the dread of long distances between us relinquishing the storms in our minds embracing sparkles of different weathers Shall it really last forever self-contained or burst out with emotion believing it really is us together and our love fueled by faith in search of its way which outlasts time a shining beacon in midst of an ocean of crowded wilderness.
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Nov 21, 2016
Nov 21, 2016 at 10:25 PM UTC
eighteen months
Theres a lingering cloud when we conversate An awkward vibe we never mention Long gone are our banters and cute debates Keeping feelings minimal, avoiding questions The adorable messsages we used to send Are they ever coming back or was that it? Loving like we used to, is that real or just pretend Keep my broken heart if we ever do split You're slowly fading away from me I don't even think you realise All i can do is let you be And let me deal with all the cries. Perhaps it was the distance Or maybe it was just the time All of this gives me grievance I just want you to remain mine.
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Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 at 6:19 PM UTC
TheFeelingOfHelplessness WhenSomeoneIsSlowlyFadingAway
I wake to the news of another lynching As our boys scream Bleed Blue And over the border, the Green Girls rejoice And somewhere in Jharkhand Two families mourn the death of their men Cattle traders? Terrorists? Muslim? With cloth stuffed in their throats And arms tied behind Hatred showing in the mob mentality Another dark blot on our secular fabric And I watch a short film, India, India Of a young boy on Tuesday selling ganeshas at a temple Another image of the same boy on a Friday Selling taweez and chanting Ya Ali Outside Mumbai’s Haji Ali And on Sunday, the same boy singing the praises of the Lord outside a church, selling amulets And I smile This is the India I love, the different faiths The acceptance, the co-existence As the morning drones on, I watch and participate In the endless debates on Facebook and Twitter Of people posing, taking sides, sounding pedantic While they sit comfortably in their homes Sipping ginger tea made by an underage maid While their Labrador retriever is taken for a walk By their Nepali driver and the Muslim cook smokes a bidi In the garden with the Bihari maali where their son plays But what will happen to the sons of the lynched cattle traders? What will happen to the brothers of the women ***** What will happen to the mothers of the sons killed? What will happen to the fathers of the unborn children Killed for their mistake of being a girl child? Is this the India we want to grow up in? Is this the India we want to have children in? Is this the India we want to grow old in? Wake up, my country, it is still dawn The road is long and far and we have miles to walk Towards peace and freedom and love Towards acceptance and equality and oneness Get off that sofa and make a difference Participate, vote, empower, create, enable It’s up to you whether our country goes this way or that So, wake up, my country, it is still dawn Wake up, my country, it is still dawn
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Mar 20, 2016
Mar 20, 2016 at 7:57 AM UTC
Wake Up, My Country
I wake to the news of another lynching As our boys scream Bleed Blue And over the border, the Green Girls rejoice And somewhere in Jharkhand Two families mourn the death of their men Cattle traders? Terrorists? Muslim? With cloth stuffed in their throats And arms tied behind Hatred showing in the mob mentality Another dark blot on our secular fabric And I watch a short film, India, India Of a young boy on Tuesday selling ganeshas at a temple Another image of the same boy on a Friday Selling taweez and chanting Ya Ali Outside Mumbai’s Haji Ali And on Sunday, the same boy singing the praises of the Lord outside a church, selling amulets And I smile This is the India I love, the different faiths The acceptance, the co-existence As the morning drones on, I watch and participate In the endless debates on Facebook and Twitter Of people posing, taking sides, sounding pedantic While they sit comfortably in their homes Sipping ginger tea made by an underage maid While their Labrador retriever is taken for a walk By their Nepali driver and the Muslim cook smokes a bidi In the garden with the Bihari maali where their son plays But what will happen to the sons of the lynched cattle traders? What will happen to the brothers of the women ***** What will happen to the mothers of the sons killed? What will happen to the fathers of the unborn children Killed for their mistake of being a girl child? Is this the India we want to grow up in? Is this the India we want to have children in? Is this the India we want to grow old in? Wake up, my country, it is still dawn The road is long and far and we have miles to walk Towards peace and freedom and love Towards acceptance and equality and oneness Get off that sofa and make a difference Participate, vote, empower, create, enable It’s up to you whether our country goes this way or that So, wake up, my country, it is still dawn Wake up, my country, it is still dawn
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-music -writing -friends that care -kawaii shtuff -anime/manga -comics -hella sweet and cute ppl ;) -talking to my crush -teasing -learning something useful that i like -reading (especially cheesy romantic comedies) -most sports -talking nerdy -nerd/geek debates -youtube videos -playing guitar -playing video games -family -FOOD -photography -flirts -traveling -cows -clementines -YOU ^~^
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Dec 6, 2014
Dec 6, 2014 at 6:57 PM UTC
Happy Challenge
It's mortifying... The dilemma, the time lapse, the wait, the clock. The abstract that I so blatantly describe in my other writings. Time cannot be paused, stopped... The abstraction is so formulated into one diverse piece, the creation of such is appealing, yet reformative. Inconsequential, to the matter of science, myth, philosophy, conduct, and everything that exists beyond our mind. I hold onto this creation, because the conclusion of the matter holds many intellectual debates that cannot be won or answered. It is forbidden, it's lost. The question of right and wrong holds many definitions that are inexplicable to the concept of reality itself, when the utter illusion holds the introspection that philosophers like myself, cannot give a precise answer to. Time will let us be. It's a quiet storm, and I've never felt like this before. Sometimes I think, you're just too good for me.
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Nov 25, 2018
Nov 25, 2018 at 4:48 PM UTC
The quiet storm
You love to get the words out of me The words I wouldn’t use, they sound ***** You love the way I look at you I look into your eyes, and something sets free You love the way I listen to you I remember everything, Mr. Perfect doesn’t We both love crushing I crush on you And you crush me You call me your tomboy And get so possessive You say that you need me And then act submissive I adjust your dresses Sometimes your shoe laces When you keep me waiting I say you are allowed Don’t call me bro Babe, what is the ground We both love crushing I crush on you And you crush me You say you love me Every time you text I say, “I love you” You shoot hearts and rainbows back You want to know about my crushes If I ever loved a girl You wink and dance with me Say I’m the only one to make you twirl We both love crushing I crush on you And you crush me You love when I play gentleman Opening the door Letting you lead Walking you back Paying you heed You gush about my skills The way I move the swords The way I calculate The way I play with words Close discussions and debates And then we discuss How Mr. Perfect and you are hanging We both love crushing I crush on you And you crush me We are best friends And you want us to be, forever You want to hang out And go abroad together I would stand by you In all platonic capacities Even when Mr. Perfect marries you And claims you stupidly We both love crushing I crush on you And you crush me
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May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 at 11:39 PM UTC
Crushing
the child of the child of my woman, cries in the night, rooming next door, down the hall and he is all children that cry in the night, but he is more mine by right of quantity numerous are the kisses lavished, this biannual visit upon, his four year old oversized head, (so full of 'bains') his undersized, protuberanced belly body, a combo making him no longer baby, nor a grownup, both states, he denies accurately, maturely in a wobbly voice of utter certainty, but lacking the adjectives of what lies between, he debates his state thoughtfully, until distracted by other more pressing matters of state he is boy, little but vociferous, quiet, pensive, his head a weapon of...confusion and certainty that being four years old, he must perforce be permanently in skeptical awe of the world this is the best position ever, he has ascertained, to filter and behold anything, whatever newness arrives, which is constant, streaming and unending until new is fully digested, analyzed, and classified, as if he were a zoologist in a wild and untamed land only certain of what he knows with perfect certainty, he consults with me still, "you kidding?" such a sophisticated analytic interrogatory, wise in the ways of grownups, who, prone to deceive gleefully his very suspecting mind, so much so, they must be challenged and rebuffed all too frequently he cries in the night, normal tears of discomfort, physical or mental, I cannot tell, for his father his parental hearing more practiced, refined, has preceded me, such, as it should be, and I am dispatched back to my 3:00am bed, left only to ink contemplative ruminations on the state and nation of being four... and sixty, and still uncertain, even more than the little boy of wizened age of annualized four, the child of the child of my woman, on what is real, what is kidding, in a quest unending to better ascertain, the state of my own being and the transitory nature of everything all of what is thought certain, falls aside, under the withering, unwavering, critique of "you kidding?" and in this we are more kin than if our blood was physically shared
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 4:24 AM UTC
On Being Four Years Old
the child of the child of my woman, cries in the night, rooming next door, down the hall and he is all children that cry in the night, but he is more mine by right of quantity numerous are the kisses lavished, this biannual visit upon, his four year old oversized head, (so full of 'bains') his undersized, protuberanced belly body, a combo making him no longer baby, nor a grownup, both states, he denies accurately, maturely in a wobbly voice of utter certainty, but lacking the adjectives of what lies between, he debates his state thoughtfully, until distracted by other more pressing matters of state he is boy, little but vociferous, quiet, pensive, his head a weapon of...confusion and certainty that being four years old, he must perforce be permanently in skeptical awe of the world this is the best position ever, he has ascertained, to filter and behold anything, whatever newness arrives, which is constant, streaming and unending until new is fully digested, analyzed, and classified, as if he were a zoologist in a wild and untamed land only certain of what he knows with perfect certainty, he consults with me still, "you kidding?" such a sophisticated analytic interrogatory, wise in the ways of grownups, who, prone to deceive gleefully his very suspecting mind, so much so, they must be challenged and rebuffed all too frequently he cries in the night, normal tears of discomfort, physical or mental, I cannot tell, for his father his parental hearing more practiced, refined, has preceded me, such, as it should be, and I am dispatched back to my 3:00am bed, left only to ink contemplative ruminations on the state and nation of being four... and sixty, and still uncertain, even more than the little boy of wizened age of annualized four, the child of the child of my woman, on what is real, what is kidding, in a quest unending to better ascertain, the state of my own being and the transitory nature of everything all of what is thought certain, falls aside, under the withering, unwavering, critique of "you kidding?" and in this we are more kin than if our blood was physically shared
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Gates climb News and paraphernalia Modern communication Internet on vacation Today, rural Australia Goes awol in valleys, hills As seeking when hiding Frustration biding Trees, various pitfalls An Insufficient population Say Cannot build towers Excuses bely hours Trying, for connection Work with what's known Try cavalier solutions   It's the execution When, creativity shown First try computer waving Above head I'm shaking Signal not taking Despite, the swaying Next option lying on floor Hint of access, fleeting Patchy greeting So slow, won't store Then stand on top of bed Try to reach high ceiling Wobbly feeling Response, still lead Despite heat, go outside The temperature violent Connection silent If Home far, just beside Time past, similarly stung Found access best rate The paddock gate Balancing, top rung Troop to gate hopes keen As Searing heat, metal Stand and settle Tightly, cradle machine Process long, time lost A Connection success Finally access But who, counts cost? Eventually, its loaded mail As Balancing hold keen Humorous scene As Sway, in light pale Internet access by Gates Not Bill, Steve, Microsoft Hung steel aloft So basic, surely debates Climbing for a signal now Is the practical response Sadly ensconced As Rural, area know how But surely it must be time When access essential Internet critical Yet today, gates climb
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Jan 17, 2015
Jan 17, 2015 at 7:45 PM UTC
Gates climb
Questions Please Put up a question please Throw me a question please Question, any question Burning or sensational big or small or silly easy or tough or absurd hypothetical or factual All questions are invited. Only and only questions No Answers at all As I already have answers I have answers to all the questions that ever existed, but ceased to exist today. I have the answers to prevailing questions that are making us crazy day by day I even have the answers to the questions which are still in the future's belly waiting to be born one day in this beautiful and ugly world Questions please All sorts of questions May be from geography or philosophy Or from religion to defence studies It may be from medical science or history Or from space research too Animal husbandry is no taboo Questions on skydiving are also welcome Politics is my all-time favourite although I can answer sports or adventure Questions on corruption are also solicited You can ask on oceanography or calligraphy too I know everything, literally everything but neither I am 'Google' nor 'Bing' I am not even 'Duck Duck Go' nor I claim to be 'Baidu' I guessed your question. You are wondering – "Who am I?" It's very-very simple Man! I am a nasty spokesperson from the ruling party I may be found mostly in television debates as a panelist, as a debator, as a joker as a disturbing element, as a liar as a person making hue and cries You may or may not like my answers, but, please like me, please love me Raise slogans for me, Praise me Make me famous, make me a celebrity But even if you dislike me I don't care, I have my media I have my own followers I also own a troll army I train them perfectly I pay them heavily I spend too much on News media and Social media I have my own trustworthy mob who is always ready for violence anytime and anywhere at any cost whatsoever Beware, I am from the ruling party I inherit a complete readymade system of Investigating agencies, Ready to book anyone on false and frivolous grounds. And it will take years to prove innocence Innocence may be proved, may be disproved This also depends on Money, Power and Links Or the nasty arithmetic of alliance with us in future So if you still chose to dislike me It's your choice, but wait I can still become a minister Or even a prime minister I have the quality to lure voters I have the answers to all the questions That ever existed or are existing Or that are stilling waiting to be born.
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Jan 7, 2019
Jan 7, 2019 at 2:16 AM UTC
Questions Please
Questions Please Put up a question please Throw me a question please Question, any question Burning or sensational big or small or silly easy or tough or absurd hypothetical or factual All questions are invited. Only and only questions No Answers at all As I already have answers I have answers to all the questions that ever existed, but ceased to exist today. I have the answers to prevailing questions that are making us crazy day by day I even have the answers to the questions which are still in the future's belly waiting to be born one day in this beautiful and ugly world Questions please All sorts of questions May be from geography or philosophy Or from religion to defence studies It may be from medical science or history Or from space research too Animal husbandry is no taboo Questions on skydiving are also welcome Politics is my all-time favourite although I can answer sports or adventure Questions on corruption are also solicited You can ask on oceanography or calligraphy too I know everything, literally everything but neither I am 'Google' nor 'Bing' I am not even 'Duck Duck Go' nor I claim to be 'Baidu' I guessed your question. You are wondering – "Who am I?" It's very-very simple Man! I am a nasty spokesperson from the ruling party I may be found mostly in television debates as a panelist, as a debator, as a joker as a disturbing element, as a liar as a person making hue and cries You may or may not like my answers, but, please like me, please love me Raise slogans for me, Praise me Make me famous, make me a celebrity But even if you dislike me I don't care, I have my media I have my own followers I also own a troll army I train them perfectly I pay them heavily I spend too much on News media and Social media I have my own trustworthy mob who is always ready for violence anytime and anywhere at any cost whatsoever Beware, I am from the ruling party I inherit a complete readymade system of Investigating agencies, Ready to book anyone on false and frivolous grounds. And it will take years to prove innocence Innocence may be proved, may be disproved This also depends on Money, Power and Links Or the nasty arithmetic of alliance with us in future So if you still chose to dislike me It's your choice, but wait I can still become a minister Or even a prime minister I have the quality to lure voters I have the answers to all the questions That ever existed or are existing Or that are stilling waiting to be born.
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I've just joined the Liberal Democrats, My mates reckon they're all a bunch of ***** But I say "what do you know?", "I've read their entire manifesto". Well that was a lie, If ever I've told one, In truth I know maybe 5, Policies of theirs and then I'm done. But what's the point in all of this, Cameron says "hug a hoodie", What could be next?, Give a burglar a kiss? Oh well it's all a guessing game, At the end of the day, No politician has a sense of shame, And no shortage of cash on their payday. When I turn 18, What do I do?, Vote for the colour I like best, Or speak the truth? Debates and elections, Aren't really democratic, Cause no ministers have the courage, To make their policies stick.
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Jun 3, 2011
Jun 3, 2011 at 12:36 AM UTC
Democracy... really?
Debates, filled with hate, candidates, go irate. Put it on national television, for everyone to see. Make a disgrace, of our beloved country. News lies, babies cry, watching innocent people die. The world falls apart in front of your face, with issues like the economy, borders, and race. The news lies, babies cry, watch our innocent people die. The world falls apart in front of your face, with issues like the economy, borders, and race. ****** scams, and robbery, all over the **** TV. Bias reports on politics, this is how we get our kicks. Violence, lies, and trickery, overload the dying TV. You will soon find, they’re hypnotizing our weak minds. News lies, babies cry, watching innocent people die. The world falls apart in front of your face, with issues like the economy, borders, and race. The news lies, babies cry, watch our innocent people die. The world falls apart in front of your face, with issues like the economy, borders, and race. Don’t try to misguide, the evidence we provide. Don’t try to hide, your disgusting genocide. Don’t try to hide, don’t hide, don’t hide, don’t hide, don’t hide, don’t hide, don’t hide, your nationwide genocide. Genocide, genocide News lies, babies cry, watch those innocent people die. Stand to the side, watch a genocide.
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Mar 11, 2011
Mar 11, 2011 at 5:05 PM UTC
Watching Genocide
1075 The Sky is low—the Clouds are mean. A Travelling Flake of Snow Across a Barn or through a Rut Debates if it will go— A Narrow Wind complains all Day How some one treated him Nature, like Us is sometimes caught Without her Diadem.
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The Sky is low—the Clouds are mean
There's a place for those like you and me, kid--staring through this window pane, at odds for hours. Conversations even out these nights 'til a year's passed. A smile of glass that dies too fast ain't all we're sharing; just the loudest thing we're sharing, staring through this silent frame. There's a place for those like you and me--where we can go when seasons roll                around our guts                and come back up in boiling years.           That place is here, in this square frame, with our smile of glass that breaks            too fast when dice cast cry out snake eyes;           ours are blue, and some are brown. But she looks pretty                          happy                            now. So it's back into this mirror frame for debates had through window panes and scrubbing hard with scalding water           rinsing off our name.
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Aug 18, 2015
Aug 18, 2015 at 6:52 PM UTC
Frames
Booming Rhetorics  (Spoken Word- Freestyle-Dramatics) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ==Booming Rhetorics == by Checkered Darks ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ (Copy the link below to your browser) https://soundcloud.com/user-367453778/boomingrhetorics Human nature itself is a smash of contractual responsibility. A splash of rights afloat as we sink in our psychological rooted moral panics. All I see is a cascading titanic of ventures our mislaid adventures one after another. The criss cross of chains, we bonded in tax measures, reserve treasures...... It's not my leisure I beg you don't make your pleasure. I sink in pressure, resolving Karl Mark ideology of conflicted power. Is it our born nature or nurture to live in a world of social polarisation. A pole to pole, a tug of war. Each owning and holding a rope.Is it our task to cage in boxes, fencing notions of inequalities within our society. Is it our right this notion Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. Help me out as as I wade in the swampy lowland. Treading through and through, head afloat, the submerging walk me to the shores..... Help me find my way through this dark tunnel. Help me see the light, let the sun ray penetrate my blight. In our dichotomy of democracy we have made it right. A rolling ball of ........ 1. Stock them high sell them cheap is the order of the day. 2. Social warehousing of merging demand and supply chain. 3. A disintegration of socialist entrepreneurship. 4. Re-distribution of Export Production Zones in marginalised countries. 5. A surge of capitalism on this patch we call the universe. 6.Conortions of monopoly colluding sustainability. I pass this ball to you. As the industrial revolution fades and debates of "STEEL" revolves. My Speech is a mere consideration, our contradiction. The contractual complications that we have grounded and granted ourselves as humanity. My voice is an exchange, my gift, a cloud of thoughts, an arousing hope our haunting costs.
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Apr 4, 2016
Apr 4, 2016 at 6:19 AM UTC
Booming Rhetorics (Spoken Word- Freestyle-Dramatics)
Booming Rhetorics  (Spoken Word- Freestyle-Dramatics) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ==Booming Rhetorics == by Checkered Darks ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ (Copy the link below to your browser) https://soundcloud.com/user-367453778/boomingrhetorics Human nature itself is a smash of contractual responsibility. A splash of rights afloat as we sink in our psychological rooted moral panics. All I see is a cascading titanic of ventures our mislaid adventures one after another. The criss cross of chains, we bonded in tax measures, reserve treasures...... It's not my leisure I beg you don't make your pleasure. I sink in pressure, resolving Karl Mark ideology of conflicted power. Is it our born nature or nurture to live in a world of social polarisation. A pole to pole, a tug of war. Each owning and holding a rope.Is it our task to cage in boxes, fencing notions of inequalities within our society. Is it our right this notion Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. Help me out as as I wade in the swampy lowland. Treading through and through, head afloat, the submerging walk me to the shores..... Help me find my way through this dark tunnel. Help me see the light, let the sun ray penetrate my blight. In our dichotomy of democracy we have made it right. A rolling ball of ........ 1. Stock them high sell them cheap is the order of the day. 2. Social warehousing of merging demand and supply chain. 3. A disintegration of socialist entrepreneurship. 4. Re-distribution of Export Production Zones in marginalised countries. 5. A surge of capitalism on this patch we call the universe. 6.Conortions of monopoly colluding sustainability. I pass this ball to you. As the industrial revolution fades and debates of "STEEL" revolves. My Speech is a mere consideration, our contradiction. The contractual complications that we have grounded and granted ourselves as humanity. My voice is an exchange, my gift, a cloud of thoughts, an arousing hope our haunting costs.
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Being politically correct , just to be in the rat race, Helping a deserving candidate lose out on countless opportunities Oh !! what a disgrace . Political debates in a news chat room Speakers galore , reasoning insane ... Pointing fingers like Mumma  'yeh '  Mumma ' woh '       Mama  Makosa.... I wanna have a 'Samosa' And the blah blah blah .... The news reader in fits Calls out,  time out .. in the chat room . Politics in life Fire in the mountain run run run Don't stop , run ... Take a right , a left .... no U Turn . Watch out ... don't trip... Run. **MJ , playing out loud .... "All I wanna say that they don't really care about us ...."** Lost the lyrics.........?? **MJ again .... "Heal the world make a better place for you and for me and the entire Human Race..."** Time to turn around Hit the ground Can't let the fire wipe out the beautiful village people and the flora fauna. Face it finish it !! Politics not my favourite cup of tea Might as well savour some green tea .
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Apr 22, 2017
Apr 22, 2017 at 6:55 AM UTC
Political Apathy