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"denies" poems
Yes, you're beautiful. Yes, you're beautiful. Even if the whole world denies it. Yes, you're beautiful. Everyday, I remind myself. And the cycle continues.
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Sep 23, 2014
Sep 23, 2014 at 2:49 PM UTC
Yes, you're beautiful
Even sunflowers need the rain to grow Like recycling scar tissue you refuse to show Like holding the words to a cookbook containing the recipe for disaster Like the blood of an open wound placed by the whip of an unruly master Even sunflowers need the rain to grow Like when you finally learn the meaning of you reap what you sow Like a magnificent sand castle washed away by the sea All the sand becomes one and denies the right to be free Even sunflowers need the rain to grow Like the sting from the phrase I told you so Like a deer caught in headlights frozen dead in it's tracks Like gazing the stars if we could just climb the smoke stacks Even sunflowers need the rain to grow Like excluding truth from what you think you know Like playing life in a game of poker, and the *** is everything but cheap Karma has the high hand, face up, read'em and weep Even sunflowers need the rain to grow Like running through red lights because all you want is to go Like a jack of all trades who can't fix his own heart Like the tortoise that took off before the race even start Even sunflowers need the rain to grow Like a hundred oars and no arms to row
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Nov 4, 2010
Nov 4, 2010 at 8:31 AM UTC
Sunflowers
Lies are lies they deny you the truth. Truth is truth it denies you the lie. when examined closely both are exactly the same. They are interchangeable. People that tell the "truth" to you are denying you lies. How boring and dangerous and malevolent are people full of truth. Choose your religious truth--- Christian truth. Islamic truth. Judaic truth. Vedic Hindoo truth. Buddist truth. Capitalist truth. Socialist truth. Free market truth. Managed market truth. Monarchist truth. Democratic truth. Militarist truth. Liberal truth. Fascist truth. People that tell lies to you are denying you truthfulness. How boring and dangerous and malevolent are people full of lies. Choose your lies. Christian lies. Islamic lies. Judaic lies. Vedic Hindoo lies. Buddist lies. Capitalist lies. Socialist lies. Free market lies. Managed market lies. Monarchist lies. Democratic lies. Militarist lies. Liberal lies. Fascist lies. Truthfulness is neither truth nor lies. It exists on its own. Truthfulness is free of the Duality of Truth and Lies.. The individual Isness exists in the state of Separate and Merged with the Isness of the Universe. Permanent Mindlessness is unconditional love--just ask any Dog or Cat. The Mind separates us from the Isness of the Universe. The Mind creates Duality which is governed by Conditional Love. The individual Isness creates Unconditional Love(Consciousness) which is outside Duality. Mind cannot create Unconditional Love. The individual Isness cannot create Conditional Love. If you have Mind/Conditioned Identity in your head you cannot love Unconditionally. If you do not have Mind/Conditioned Identity then you can only love Unconditionally. If you have Mind and Conditioned Identity  you cannot be Merged with the Isness of the Universe. If you are Mindless and Conditioned Identityless you are merged with the Isness of the Universe. Conditional Love says I love you on Condition I can hate you. Unconditional Love says I will never stop loving you but I may dissapprove of your actions but I will never hate you because I cannot hate.. Conditional Love is selective--it only applies to Family and Friends and fellow GroupMind members. Unconditional Love is not selective--it applies to every living being--human or otherwise. Unconditional Love does not see people as Friends and Enemies. Unconditional Love sees people as individual Isness incarnated in bodies. Humans are deceived by the Mind into believing that the Conditioned Identity is their true Identity and deceived by the Mind into believing that they should leave the running of their brains and therefore their lives to the Mind. The individual Isness is a small but equal individual independent, nameless,formless,genderless,autonomous portion of the Isness of the Universe that people controlled by Mind are taught to call a Soul. The Soul is just another Mind created Conditioned Identity. The Atman is just another Mind created Conditioned Identity. The individual  Isness is formed from a small but equal portion of the essence of the Isness of the Universe and incarnated in a Human Body of either Gender-_male or female of any skin colour. www.beyondenlightenment.co.uk
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Jan 17, 2016
Jan 17, 2016 at 1:24 AM UTC
Truth and Lies and Truthfulness and the Isness of the Universe
Lies are lies they deny you the truth. Truth is truth it denies you the lie. when examined closely both are exactly the same. They are interchangeable. People that tell the "truth" to you are denying you lies. How boring and dangerous and malevolent are people full of truth. Choose your religious truth--- Christian truth. Islamic truth. Judaic truth. Vedic Hindoo truth. Buddist truth. Capitalist truth. Socialist truth. Free market truth. Managed market truth. Monarchist truth. Democratic truth. Militarist truth. Liberal truth. Fascist truth. People that tell lies to you are denying you truthfulness. How boring and dangerous and malevolent are people full of lies. Choose your lies. Christian lies. Islamic lies. Judaic lies. Vedic Hindoo lies. Buddist lies. Capitalist lies. Socialist lies. Free market lies. Managed market lies. Monarchist lies. Democratic lies. Militarist lies. Liberal lies. Fascist lies. Truthfulness is neither truth nor lies. It exists on its own. Truthfulness is free of the Duality of Truth and Lies.. The individual Isness exists in the state of Separate and Merged with the Isness of the Universe. Permanent Mindlessness is unconditional love--just ask any Dog or Cat. The Mind separates us from the Isness of the Universe. The Mind creates Duality which is governed by Conditional Love. The individual Isness creates Unconditional Love(Consciousness) which is outside Duality. Mind cannot create Unconditional Love. The individual Isness cannot create Conditional Love. If you have Mind/Conditioned Identity in your head you cannot love Unconditionally. If you do not have Mind/Conditioned Identity then you can only love Unconditionally. If you have Mind and Conditioned Identity  you cannot be Merged with the Isness of the Universe. If you are Mindless and Conditioned Identityless you are merged with the Isness of the Universe. Conditional Love says I love you on Condition I can hate you. Unconditional Love says I will never stop loving you but I may dissapprove of your actions but I will never hate you because I cannot hate.. Conditional Love is selective--it only applies to Family and Friends and fellow GroupMind members. Unconditional Love is not selective--it applies to every living being--human or otherwise. Unconditional Love does not see people as Friends and Enemies. Unconditional Love sees people as individual Isness incarnated in bodies. Humans are deceived by the Mind into believing that the Conditioned Identity is their true Identity and deceived by the Mind into believing that they should leave the running of their brains and therefore their lives to the Mind. The individual Isness is a small but equal individual independent, nameless,formless,genderless,autonomous portion of the Isness of the Universe that people controlled by Mind are taught to call a Soul. The Soul is just another Mind created Conditioned Identity. The Atman is just another Mind created Conditioned Identity. The individual  Isness is formed from a small but equal portion of the essence of the Isness of the Universe and incarnated in a Human Body of either Gender-_male or female of any skin colour. www.beyondenlightenment.co.uk
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Her shadow Washed in sin, covered in blood Oh, what a sad little dove Festering secrets, slathered in shame Purity poisoned, life to blame Born unwanted, a mother denies Behind the shadow of our eyes His shadow In dynamics Of dysfunctional dismay Lost in secret family shame These emotional contacts delay That we carry 'til the end of our days Cast in stone, in foundation of lies All these shadows behind our eyes Her pain Painful memories of long ago Though, I know, I must let go Triggers upon the aching scars That burns within an injured heart Full of fear, in the wake of lies All behind the shadow of our eyes His pain An unending twitch The fast fading smile The ever bleeding heart Of a broken lost child Carrying stones up endless hills All these issue we're forced to feel And stuff them down, way down inside Behind the shadow of our eyes Her darkness Hidden is a blacken variant Attached with unbreakable sealant Of life's destiny, from the gods Concealed amid, evolved facades A mind, compartmentalized Behind the shadow of our eyes His darkness Desensitized to life, empathy left poor Bottomless abyss where my spirit now soars Love is a dream in my abandoned role The pieces won't fit my wandering soul.... The window to a soul hides Behind the Shadow of our Eyes
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May 29, 2017
May 29, 2017 at 11:44 PM UTC
Behind the Shadow of our Eyes (Collaboration with Traveler Tim)
This little man that I know with money in his sockets and routine in his pockets has self proclaimed that he is a tight *** When I envision a *** such as this, I imagine a bundle -- of securely aggregated, perfectly sharpened number two pencils. The businessman just shy of adulthood and too tired to remember –even the beginning of his of disclosure, denied his struggle to acclimate a multifarious lifestyle, appropriately suggested in the form of a triangle, and a circle, both of which embody polar opposing adaptations of humanistic routine. The two shapes: The circle, denies the break in motion by imposing a constant cycle of diligent compression, there is no room for pause only steady flow and relentless drive. This influence of life impression slows down the heart, body, and soul while speeding up time. This particular commitment accommodates the dry colorless beings that embrace and accept boxed imprisonment. Traditionally, the triangle denotes rhythmic patterns that elevate and drop to a point in which imposes a healthy reflective pause: progression, reflection, balance. As stated, as a provincial approach, a regular triangle flat on its base, peaking at the top represents a healthy, solid life routine. In contrast, the triangle can be flipped upside-down introducing an entirely new dynamic, composed of flat-lined monotony, tapered off to a regressed realm of destruction, regret and disorder. Despite the uniqueness of the standard triangle model to the man in question, it is important to compare the negative reflection, for it applies to the entirety of this investigation. We used to be lovers, he and I. We shared my giant pillow-top that I bought on the black market for a meager two-hundred fifty. -- A mere steal at that rate. We occasionally exchanged ideas, mainly about ethical concerns related to globalization and the environment. I attempted to give him a cooking lesson once, but that failed, indefinitely. The bust was not my doing, but simply, a great disinterest on his part; or better yet an inability of not being better than me at something. Everything has gotten so crowded.
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Jan 18, 2010
Jan 18, 2010 at 1:17 AM UTC
something that happens.
This little man that I know with money in his sockets and routine in his pockets has self proclaimed that he is a tight *** When I envision a *** such as this, I imagine a bundle -- of securely aggregated, perfectly sharpened number two pencils. The businessman just shy of adulthood and too tired to remember –even the beginning of his of disclosure, denied his struggle to acclimate a multifarious lifestyle, appropriately suggested in the form of a triangle, and a circle, both of which embody polar opposing adaptations of humanistic routine. The two shapes: The circle, denies the break in motion by imposing a constant cycle of diligent compression, there is no room for pause only steady flow and relentless drive. This influence of life impression slows down the heart, body, and soul while speeding up time. This particular commitment accommodates the dry colorless beings that embrace and accept boxed imprisonment. Traditionally, the triangle denotes rhythmic patterns that elevate and drop to a point in which imposes a healthy reflective pause: progression, reflection, balance. As stated, as a provincial approach, a regular triangle flat on its base, peaking at the top represents a healthy, solid life routine. In contrast, the triangle can be flipped upside-down introducing an entirely new dynamic, composed of flat-lined monotony, tapered off to a regressed realm of destruction, regret and disorder. Despite the uniqueness of the standard triangle model to the man in question, it is important to compare the negative reflection, for it applies to the entirety of this investigation. We used to be lovers, he and I. We shared my giant pillow-top that I bought on the black market for a meager two-hundred fifty. -- A mere steal at that rate. We occasionally exchanged ideas, mainly about ethical concerns related to globalization and the environment. I attempted to give him a cooking lesson once, but that failed, indefinitely. The bust was not my doing, but simply, a great disinterest on his part; or better yet an inability of not being better than me at something. Everything has gotten so crowded.
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I apologize for my thoughts and my actions But you must understand that I am what they call a man. And no matter how perfect any woman thinks iam, I might as well be nonexistent. For women are the most alluring, sinful ,angelic animals on earth. I am simply bewitched by your existence. I can not resist directing an ****** daydream, Every seven minuets. The being of your facts, Makes me want to fall to my death beneath your feet Something about those hills That makes my teeth want to sink into my lips. That voice makes me want to do one thing: Hear it moaning. No matter how hard I attempt to be an angel, My devil enduringly conquers. We refuse to admit that a woman is stronger than a man. We could easily succeed in having a human being develop Inside of us and painfully ****** it out of a diminutive hole Nine physically and emotionally draining months later. “We could probably do it better than you can.” We just act ignorant and Heedlessly assume what is logical; However, in the reaction center, that every man denies, lives the manifest verity that: Women. Are. Stronger. To be born into a stormy emotional spectrum With color and darkness Alone shelters the truth for you. Fact: A man does use his small head much more often then His actual head, simply, because men don’t know how to use it. How convenient it is to be born with two heads. let its roots anchor into your minds and consume your conscious. -Arizona
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Jan 12, 2013
Jan 12, 2013 at 8:42 AM UTC
Sarcastic Sexist Subliminal Offensive Mockery
The sun breathing deep,penetrating my lovely clouds ,his horses Running high and with pride taking joy at my wanning mood My skin denies the clothes over it Rejecting the sweltering walls Adding me with more sweat Was there any worse day? Inside my temporal erupts atomic volcanoes fueled with solar fission My legs hang over walls of ponds How lucky are the frogs under mud With involuntary scratches on my hair I look around for my baby clouds The only drops that gather is my own As I patiently wait for wind to drop some leaves Patience might be the only virtue against the dry spell of the sun in the middle of monsoon That seem to burst prior clouds Trees hang their branches patiently Crows crowing, now tired of thirst Not a single ant comes on my way The ever growling dog sits irritated but quietly against the fly I can tell of every thoughts around But who is there to answer Will this day come to end or shall the world end for it
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Jul 10, 2014
Jul 10, 2014 at 7:43 AM UTC
Monsoon Madness
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling place. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!
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She Walks In Beauty
Briskly walking with his head ***** Money and treasure, he aims to get He is in a stampede, chasing wealth Acute shortage of ‘humility and gratitude’ Compels him to slaughter a multitude The desire for more than enough It has crystallized and made his heart tough Oblivious about ‘humility and gratitude’ Man agrees to squash the destitute Unaware, that he may face the same fate Even then he piles up his plate When would he be humble and grateful? For the things which make his life blissful… Even while swallowing all that is unlawful He persistently denies being shameful His conscience reminds him of ‘humility and gratitude’ But he refuses to change his haughty attitude Let me remind you that life is temporary Nothing in this world remains stationary Just like dust your stay is transitory These two traits, ‘humility and gratitude’ Can help you to acquire beatitude Don’t forget your final abode Where good deeds won’t be sold Remember, the fables of the brave and the bold All of them possessed ‘humility and gratitude’ From all this, you may conclude It is the purity of our intentions What Creator expects from his creation Everything else is mere illusion Being a human, demands ‘humility and gratitude’
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Oct 24, 2010
Oct 24, 2010 at 7:27 AM UTC
Humility and Gratitude
A Man who believes In word of affirmation, To love and cherish a woman Entice with his natural charms To court a real woman,never Mistreat her with his immature Mistakes A Real Man,A nor womanizer Who impregnates bunch of girls To use his babies,as a trophy For the glory as of a stolen Diamond to his gang. A Lad who spread legs Of a Lady for dump victory To find gold. But,He who takes responsibilities When they occurs and never denies,is a man. Who share a burden of his brokenheart Angel and embrace, Is whom who wakes up early, Say a prayer and hustle to care For his family,and never backs down. Vanquish life with vasted hopes. A Man who knows Man's presence To a Woman's heart... ...He is The True Essence Of A Real Man
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 6:55 AM UTC
The True Essence Of A Real Man
Laid here counting roof tiles... two at a time my eyes heavy but my lids in denial of sleep she whispers in my ear are you awake then adds good with a grin WHY NOT abandon one basic need for another why not rest upon anothers flesh soft and warm scented with the promise of dreams insomnia so cruely denies Pillow pressed beneath her back giving support so sorely needed amid the punctuated night time prayers God called upon in blasphemous tongues praised and cussed in unison of mouths wet and open Sheets that offer no warmth soon cast off replaced by heat of breath and perspiration sweet and salty to the lips kissing nibbling biting nails find no fault inscribing thank yous in reddened ink Falling back exhausted yet wide awake as by my side cuddled in she sleeps smiling and I close my eyes and think myself blessed for every night the first for we two have yet to sleep together.
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Nov 23, 2012
Nov 23, 2012 at 10:12 PM UTC
Sleeps Over ******
the earth shook the neighbors again today but truly, i can't say that i felt it. yours is the only one that still hits me. your earthquake spirals through my veins interrupting the day, awakening me by the night i await the tremors with anxiety and need disrupting intellectual thought, curving daily motion. absence of your presence denies me everything, yes, everything. grasp ahold of me, my love, and shake me shake me from the depths of this nightmare return, return and make this right troubled mind shrouded by memories that which flow to my very core this dark red heart beats for you my courageous veins are your love's roots weaving through flesh and blood daring to grow more and more sturdy your earthquake scares me, my love for i cannot control it. your memories will not crumble with the earth shaking and trembling, i'll stand my ground holy is your image, voice, and touch hot is the molten passion, coursing through my young heart rupturing from the only place that i know your earthquake, my love, determines so much faulty is the mind and brave is the heart crazed intuition lurking from daily interruptions my love, continue to shake my world for i know you are still there my love, continue to shake my world for i know nothing else if a day pass where i cannot feel that vividness all will be forgotten. all will be dead. my love, i beg of you--- send me that earthquake today.
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Dec 12, 2011
Dec 12, 2011 at 1:10 AM UTC
your earthquake, my love
I can cry; the glorious moon cheats the dazzling sun wanes the cloudy sky smirks the pudgy earth refrains I can cry; the man in the sidewalk eats the woman in bus denies the children on the playground smell the puppy on the stairway bites I can cry; the riddles in the book defy the maze and mouse are a lie the gun for a bullet doesn’t shoot the whistle in my palm doesn’t hoot. I can cry; the thoughts in my head lead astray the senses of my body can delay the questions I answered gave away the answers I’ve forgotten are a mistake.
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Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:20 AM UTC
I can cry
Morning Rainbow Myriad prismatic crystals,      refract the morning sun-streams - painting layers of spectral arches      across the misted horizon. Eyes turned to the western skies,      we suspend our meteorological selves   acquiescing to miracles unveiled before us -      un-beckoned and scarcely earned, proffering thanks for the radiant epistle      of healing, hope and promise, artfully encoded in transfigured light. Synthetic Refractions A luminary ballet takes center stage     when synthetic refractors come to play: crystal pendants bathe our foyers       with dazzling swaths of color. Hazy coronas encircle streetlamps       discovered by headlights through the fog. A science class prism slices light rays      into pre-ordered spectral strata. If the sky denies us a rainbow,      we can always fashion one of our own and we do! Spectral Sound Before there was music,      bird songs brushed our souls and the murmur of woodland streams      held us captive by their banks. Soon we learned to sing and tint the air     With prisms of wood and wire and metal and to color soundscapes in our spirits      With songs of wonder, joy and longing. Before there was music,      bird songs brushed our souls. Robert Charles Howard, 2019
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Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019 at 1:14 PM UTC
Prisms
421 A Charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld— The Lady dare not lift her Veil For fear it be dispelled— But peers beyond her mesh— And wishes—and denies— Lest Interview—annul a want That Image—satisfies—
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A Charm invests a face
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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MY dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother Can know it as I know, Who broke my heart for her When the wild thought, That she denies And has forgot, Set all her blood astir And glittered in her eyes.
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To A Young Girl
What a misfortune, although you are made for fine and great works this unjust fate of yours always denies you encouragement and success; that base customs should block you; and pettiness and indifference. And how terrible the day when you yield (the day when you give up and yield), and you leave on foot for Susa, and you go to the monarch Artaxerxes who favorably places you in his court, and offers you satrapies and the like. And you accept them with despair these things that you do not want. Your soul seeks other things, weeps for other things; the praise of the public and the Sophists, the hard-won and inestimable Well Done; the Agora, the Theater, and the Laurels. How can Artaxerxes give you these, where will you find these in a satrapy; and what life can you live without these.
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The Satrapy
brain is lonely wanting to just burst out of its shell and show the world its potential brain is scared what if world denies brains offer because brain is so confidential brain wants peace inside its world wars never end and words are as powerful as bombs brain is now numb all the explosions dull the physical pain yet brain has forgotten how to feel calm brain is a convincing actor always knowing how to play its part in every passing situation brain does not like acting instead brain wants to be fluffy cotton ball not moist squishy thought deformation brain wants sleep to be able to shut off at appropriate times and have enough energy to even try brain is sad never getting enough of anything and sometimes brain considers to die
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Apr 10, 2015
Apr 10, 2015 at 1:00 AM UTC
brain
Winters can be tedious. Sun dips into early dusk. A dead fire refuses to ignite. There's a quick repetition of opening and closing blinds over a barred window. In need of reflection I search a familiar face in an unfamiliar landscape. I have her in my grasp, half illusion, half real, a symbolic mask denies her true face, her glittering crown divides us by its radiance. Groping in darkness, I stumble over objects of wood and stone, my unsteady tread tripping over their contours. I light a candle. Bathed in amber light, our shadows merge. A new door opens, stretching the perspective. No formal borders here, they wouldn't survive the present climate. In their place, intricately carved figureheads and totems- a vision of the past. My eye is a camera, retinas branded with imagery for the photographer's delight- coloured pebbles, carved wooden animals, tin cans, bones..... ....A Glass Sentinel (though she isn't visible) I can see right through her- a vision of smokescreens and subterfuge. Past stumps of driftwood, past the uncut grass, a few flowers... ...to the fabricated backdrop of a burning house, black smoke rising in a thin stream. At the open door - The Guardian, (I know her inside out) unmoved, (she didn't bat an eye) defiant in a new skin, a softer version- The Mother protecting her children, arms splayed, prepared for fight or flight. A russet flame Licking her spine exhales 'Get out of my way!' but she wasn't listening. Smile fixed, eyes of a phoenix, a lion, a raptor, protector. We all need feeding, but not this way! Throw me a cloth, a napkin, a man-size tissue a lifeline! She wanted this, no, wished it- this symbolism, this burning of ironic portraits, to clear the deck, make way for new. It shook the house, its fate sealed behind closed doors. I compose myself, pull her back from the perilous edge, gather her in my arms. Fragments of shattered words flutter in the ether. What is real? What is fiction? A carbon copy of thousands? A charred corner? A forgotten candle? WARNING: 'Eating fire' is a risky business but can attract a large audience.
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 11:29 AM UTC
On reading Margaret Atwood's selected poetry-'Eating Fire'
Winters can be tedious. Sun dips into early dusk. A dead fire refuses to ignite. There's a quick repetition of opening and closing blinds over a barred window. In need of reflection I search a familiar face in an unfamiliar landscape. I have her in my grasp, half illusion, half real, a symbolic mask denies her true face, her glittering crown divides us by its radiance. Groping in darkness, I stumble over objects of wood and stone, my unsteady tread tripping over their contours. I light a candle. Bathed in amber light, our shadows merge. A new door opens, stretching the perspective. No formal borders here, they wouldn't survive the present climate. In their place, intricately carved figureheads and totems- a vision of the past. My eye is a camera, retinas branded with imagery for the photographer's delight- coloured pebbles, carved wooden animals, tin cans, bones..... ....A Glass Sentinel (though she isn't visible) I can see right through her- a vision of smokescreens and subterfuge. Past stumps of driftwood, past the uncut grass, a few flowers... ...to the fabricated backdrop of a burning house, black smoke rising in a thin stream. At the open door - The Guardian, (I know her inside out) unmoved, (she didn't bat an eye) defiant in a new skin, a softer version- The Mother protecting her children, arms splayed, prepared for fight or flight. A russet flame Licking her spine exhales 'Get out of my way!' but she wasn't listening. Smile fixed, eyes of a phoenix, a lion, a raptor, protector. We all need feeding, but not this way! Throw me a cloth, a napkin, a man-size tissue a lifeline! She wanted this, no, wished it- this symbolism, this burning of ironic portraits, to clear the deck, make way for new. It shook the house, its fate sealed behind closed doors. I compose myself, pull her back from the perilous edge, gather her in my arms. Fragments of shattered words flutter in the ether. What is real? What is fiction? A carbon copy of thousands? A charred corner? A forgotten candle? WARNING: 'Eating fire' is a risky business but can attract a large audience.
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There Is But One Law (The Dancer's Coda) There is but one set of laws, One that need be obeyed, One that brooks no heresy, One that gives no absolution. One that needs no priests, no canons, One that that refuses disobedience. We all bend knee at altar invisible, Though feasance never requested. The Laws of Physics. A body at rest, a body in motion. Laws immutable, unconditional, Equations, proofs, demonstrable, Inequalities inexcusable, banished. Dancer says: I am heretic, even these laws I refuse. My body denies limitations, My mind believes I will make do What it could not, but yesterday. Defiance from wire to wire is the Fuel in my veins, fear but a detail, Leaping from from ten meters more, My Declaration of Independence. My body plastic, my mind ethereal, Some mock, call it trickery, Some hail, call me hero. There are forces greater than mine, Forces irrevocable, mathematically superior. Each day my force grows as well, Visions imagined supersede the Tedium of definitions, of boundary lines. Bend the law, conquer the null, fill the void. Each day sketch, devise, organize a New rebellion, follow only one command, Honor but a single battle cry. Leap, then fall! That dancer, your only law, That heretic, thine only coda. Action is freedom. For you are dancer, Whisper as you leap: The Fifth Freedom I possess, The Freedom to Fall. May 17th, 2013
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May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013 at 4:12 PM UTC
There Is But One Law (The Dancer's Coda)
This morning, I walked with god and man, and animal I've come to believe, no other possibility, He denies me sleep as His insurance policy some One wants to be sure, someone sees His sunrise poem, He selected this ancien regi-man to be His admiring audience, with deer, squirrels, rabbits, a red fox, an osprey always complaining, why do they get the cheap seats so up at five, no jive, gotta get there early, for a good seat, on the dock by his name watch the color blue transgender from feminine elegy elegant pale to peacock royal male, the water, a contributing editor, phases in with a steely grin, with ermine whitecap hints and an orange marmalade sky homage, I cannot try to describe and here is where man comes in... as the tableau reveals a still life come to be, a painting enlivened, come to me free, bursting with effervescence and animal life tribunes, paying on... strange... my Pandora app back to back, plays for me Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, hard upon it comes Saint-Saëns's The Carnival of the Animals and I enfeebled amateur, needy for a word titan Titian, can think only this trite thought: *I know not who is the instrument and who is the artist, but virtuous us, We, all, now-capital-buddies, now, all, well-color-capitalized, god and man and animal, crooning a chorus of appreciation let this "accidental" miracle, this collaboration, enthuse me, to live happily with anticipation for just one more day...* June 2014
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 6:56 AM UTC
This morning I walked with god and man
When did my feelings get so deep Why did they take that big long leap Going from friend to crush What a rush And I don't think she knows Since when did her smile make me go weak Since when did her tears make mine start to leak Why does this happen when I'm always so strong When people called me Superman I guess they were wrong And I don't think she knows When she talks I cant help but watch her lips To notice their shape and curves when they dip Wait, why am I looking? I don't even know And I cant help but wonder if she even knows Her beautiful eyes are nothing like ours They're so deep and bright you'd believe they were stars They pour forth emotions in raging rivers They could make even me believe that Santa always delivers And still she has no idea Her body is perfection though she denies it It makes my head spin with every glance I give She could put any man under her spell But she doesn't know how I feel and I don't think I'll tell I love how she looks and who she is And how she makes me feel like this I love how she's beautiful and smart with a heart so strong And how she lives every day like nothing could go wrong Still she hasn't got a clue Now school is at an end on the 11th at noon I wonder if she cares that I'm moving soon We're parting that day after schools many months I just wish I could have kissed her just once Now that I've said it with my poetic skill I don't think she knew, and now she never will
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Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 7:54 PM UTC
She Doesn't Know I love Her
I can no longer disguise Contempt in my eyes The lows and the highs It is you I despise Heart no longer complies While your heart denies It’s me you chastise Deceitful demise There’s no compromise I agonize While you apologize But my love I surmise It’s fossilized And I've normalized What you’ve minimized Gone are my cries I’m numb from your lies Like this I will die
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Sep 18, 2025
Sep 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM UTC
Lies