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Feminism is not a bad word It is more than four words If you are a woman if you are a man If you believe that gender equality Is important, if you stand by your mother When she shouts, “I am equal!” Then you are a feminist. And I’m tired, I’m tired and I’m frustrated That the patriarchal society we live in Would rather demonize equality Rather than let it stand tall as the statue It deserves to be. All it means Is you believe that women and men are equal That they deserve to be treated both fairly and just And I trust- That the only image of a feminist in your mind Is one that hates men, that burns bras, that simply get in the way. And sure there might be a few of those, yes But I would like to ask you Since when did one represent the whole? Since when were all white Christian men Devalued, dehumanized because of Jeffery Dahmer? If I were to follow your logic If we were all to follow your logic We’d have to lock up every single one of you All because a few of your fellow men Perverted an ideal that at the heart of it was good And please be good To your feminists please know that it is not a movement To strip people of rights but to grant rights to those who have been denied Feminism isn’t a bad word It’s a word that holds an ideal That genetics that genitalia do not dictate Whether or not a human being is held to the American standard of equality.
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 11:51 PM UTC
Feminism.
Some voted for freedom from that rusty EU shackle. Discussed immigration issues they were unable to tackle. An establishmentarian North, South divide. When poverty strikes there's nowhere to hide. Deep trenched anger rising from the disenfranchised vote. The pound devalued as the right wing gloat. Uncertain times causes a global ripple. Bank of England acts to avoid economic ******* But what of our neighbours? Our brothers in arms? Democratic victors, do they know who this harms? Young against old, divisions laid bare. Political wrangling, do they really care? The Prime Minister resigns and a new chapter to be written. Democracy wins in a diverse, Great Britain.
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Jun 29, 2016
Jun 29, 2016 at 4:00 AM UTC
Brexit
when i was younger, this boy used to tease me about my skin color; how much it resembles coal, and how it makes me look like an Aeta, and how they can't see me in the dark, but even before that i was insecure. because when people bothered to look at me, they'd only see ebony and to them it was synonymous with ugly and ***** but i don't blame them. they're just caught in the current of colonialism when we measured one’s status through the hue of their skin and we followed. we followed their discrimination of the ones whose skin didn't look like the exact duplicate of ivory and marshmallow. we followed their system of supremacy of putting the lighter ones up in the stars to match whiteness with brightness. we followed their standards of beauty which just happened to be the exact ******* opposite of our majority. now our country is driven mad by the idea of whitening your skin until your heritage is nowhere to be seen; it has been scrubbed off by papaya soap, masked by glutathione and devalued by insults. but hey, who cares about heritage if you look like that European actress? who cares about culture when you could pass off as an American? who cares about natural brown when synthetic white wears the crown?
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Mar 5, 2017
Mar 5, 2017 at 9:06 AM UTC
Eastern Ebony Pearls
Mind, stabbing at trauma, so digusting. But escape, recognise the trauma of the earth. Given such devalued matter to feed on its whole existence, yet it always makes something beautiful. Blooming flowers, lofty trees, stormy mountains, seven seas. All the beauty in the world created by unappreciated benefactors. Maybe the repulsing brutes that taunt me so will grow into something beautiful.
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Aug 30, 2012
Aug 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM UTC
Creation
Hashtag:weirddreams In a dream I looked upon a world like this; The future was here. It was today. It was now and the wings on birds had malted, and the atmosphere was spent. Spent, because currency had proven worthless.   Hashtag:firstworldprobs (piles on top of piles of    washingtonsjeffersonsandgrants    now sat                                             stagnant,    Hashtag:getmoney             devalued over time by the American glutton who had paved our roads with imported plastic, cheap polymers to build empires quickly, since we were so young with so little history so little culture and so little ritual. Hashtag:omgsoboring. We played catch-up by simply investing very little effort, and paying very little respect, With expectations of getting really ******* Big).  Hashtag:sorrynotsorry Which didn’t end up working. Hashtag:whoops And so then we just burned up all that money, quite literally, ignited by the last few drops of oil we could manage to squeeze from Earth’s stones. And its smoke, smelling faintly of our forefathers’ intentions, turned the turbines for our televisions and deep fryers while we sat and felt ourselves getting smaller and smaller. Then I woke up, and realized it was only a dream.   Hashtag:
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Dec 2, 2012
Dec 2, 2012 at 12:13 PM UTC
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Words expressed to the one I love Selectively picked just for you To show I am here Now Tomorrow For all time Placed together and presented to you With an understanding of your past pain To give comfort Belief Healing For love Letting you know,  no matter what To the extent you determine At the parameters you define I am yours At your command No limits These were not just words to me I thought you knew that I thought you could see My heart In your hands No protection But to my shock and dismay No sooner did I give the words to you Did you turn and give them away Wow **** How can this be You say there was a different context And I just don't understand When you said the words to her They didn't mean the same Really Huh For real "In Any Capacity"....hmmmm The meaning seems quite plain If there is another definition I wish you would explain In Any Capacity Regardless what the reason This is what I assume You had to give the words away Because you hurt too much to consume Them What they meant That they were for you If you knew that you were worthy If you knew what their meaning could bestow You wouldn't have thrown away these words For someone you barely know Devalued Defiled That which you feared © Tina Thompson
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Feb 21, 2012
Feb 21, 2012 at 12:33 AM UTC
**In Any Capacity**
It seems to me that those who are most passionately opposed     to the currents of power     are those who are actually the most optimistic     about humanity.     For it is those who believe     that we deserve better.     It is those who believe that we are actually     better than we treat ourselves.     It is those who believe that we have the power     to empower ourselves and     the self-control     to be in control of our selves.     When we live in a society where the deeply optimistic     are targeted as terrorists     and their souls are devalued     with bullets and their bodies cut up     by tabloids pretending to be churches,     we can not be drugged into nihilism.     Instead we must drag ourselves out of this trench     and feel the slugs pierce our skin     and go through and through us     and exit into our dreams, leaving a hole for our dreams to bleed     into this world.     And when we run out of blood we can rot     into our own imagination.     And we will dissolve and our bodies     will become the Earth.     And the Earth will become balanced.     And the Earth will spiral back around     into a bionetic noosphere.     Because, honestly, I think the Earth is sick of having a split personality     and we are here to bring you sanity.
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 1:00 AM UTC
Psychoactive Linguistics
I Aspiring to reach the solar rabbit hole eclipse --climbing up the well, the photon test tube sodden and crusted on the outside by angsty adults snorting obsession through The Manhattan Project straw. The pirate boy wanted to be named Skip--so determined Alice named him, Skippy, conqueror of blueberry mucus --he reminded her of sidewalks she found far in the misty woods --no one walked the unexpected like him. Each placement of a pore: a bat cave a depressed skull a hollow exploit a lame *** joke a mildew plop Almost certainly this cadaver matryoshka doll would be human by the time the two runaways were born again Hallelujah! The dish breaker is crowning again back to the galleons, rotting awkward candles. "Leave what is human in inhumane places." the well speaks. Skippy tears the corners of his lips to his ears. Alice turns her temple to the sharpest part of the monumental test tube and cracks her childhood back to the bottom --back to Euphoria. light poles open up faces and throw their lights to the ground. Both of the thrift store lovers continue to climb--ripping off purchases to the beggar's tin cup. II Severed hearts beat without metaphor as the empty vessels that hold them. Spines sing of freedom like centipedes facing fan blades. Pirate boys mock the smoker's language of mutiny. Devalued skin, dirty armor casted, lowered, teased, by the cadence of tumbling blood. Marking territories other brother's can smell Obediently, we see what gods are doing to them. They're paying for drawing the different suits of God on the cave wall. Hit jobs--vacuum spoils, sucker punch postage stamps --revenge from a peaceful creator forcing the two to climb/climb/climb back to a speck where dandelions grow from the revolution fetus and graphite, & tongues, & lips, & nerves, & veins & wolf spiders pour down/red matter clusterfucks.
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Mar 5, 2013
Mar 5, 2013 at 12:10 PM UTC
Cigarettes & carrots (part one)
I Aspiring to reach the solar rabbit hole eclipse --climbing up the well, the photon test tube sodden and crusted on the outside by angsty adults snorting obsession through The Manhattan Project straw. The pirate boy wanted to be named Skip--so determined Alice named him, Skippy, conqueror of blueberry mucus --he reminded her of sidewalks she found far in the misty woods --no one walked the unexpected like him. Each placement of a pore: a bat cave a depressed skull a hollow exploit a lame *** joke a mildew plop Almost certainly this cadaver matryoshka doll would be human by the time the two runaways were born again Hallelujah! The dish breaker is crowning again back to the galleons, rotting awkward candles. "Leave what is human in inhumane places." the well speaks. Skippy tears the corners of his lips to his ears. Alice turns her temple to the sharpest part of the monumental test tube and cracks her childhood back to the bottom --back to Euphoria. light poles open up faces and throw their lights to the ground. Both of the thrift store lovers continue to climb--ripping off purchases to the beggar's tin cup. II Severed hearts beat without metaphor as the empty vessels that hold them. Spines sing of freedom like centipedes facing fan blades. Pirate boys mock the smoker's language of mutiny. Devalued skin, dirty armor casted, lowered, teased, by the cadence of tumbling blood. Marking territories other brother's can smell Obediently, we see what gods are doing to them. They're paying for drawing the different suits of God on the cave wall. Hit jobs--vacuum spoils, sucker punch postage stamps --revenge from a peaceful creator forcing the two to climb/climb/climb back to a speck where dandelions grow from the revolution fetus and graphite, & tongues, & lips, & nerves, & veins & wolf spiders pour down/red matter clusterfucks.
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Primative man, pre written word had it easy, When it came to wooing a woman, It was as easy as Lugging a 150 lb log A few miles, Fending off a pack of wolves with a stick and a torch, All so your Cro-Magnon flower could have something to sit on, To keep off the cold cave floor, While she weaves baskets, and cures skins. The simple song, Or the rabbit pelt and the shiny stone Have devalued, since the arrival of currency. But a poem, Masterfully crafted, Is a currency all its own. The value of which is determined, Not by the poet... But by the reader.
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Sep 15, 2012
Sep 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM UTC
Musing #3
For a moment, let's reset our society VIctoria Secret Models are chubbier, shorter than 5ft. and don't have those golden locks with shimmering eyes nor the perfect skin nor smiles Yellow and crooked teeth are to be admired upon chapped lips and no make up is the ideal beauty McDonald's sells the most exquisite burgers while Fogo De Chao is frowned upon Harvard and those Ivy Leagues are safety schools and the community colleges have an impossible admission of 70% UNBELIEVABLE, RIGHT?? that gardeners and janitors were respected as the kings of the world and government and the congress are to be denied, devalued, and made fun of. now open your eyes and hear the cars and turn on the tv and smell everything which one would you rather prefer???
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May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 at 3:43 PM UTC
Reset
Ms. Miss Me Messes with the mess Of Me Messianic Masonic Messiah Making mountainous modules Manufactured from the make-shift Makings of my soul Which lifts me Higher than before It’s Mysterious mysticallity How you made me After you met me The misogynistic misogamist misfit Meets Ms. Perfect You misled me You knew I didn’t want to fall in love I mistreated you And now I miss seeing you Mr. Missed Her Mistakenly misunderstood Her magic For a trick My mania must mean I’m Malevolently maiming my mind Never mind me NO! Forever mind me You’re forever mine Even if only in the mind My metal moccasins Stump through The mine field On my quest to find you Again Constant explosions Milling A million M-80’s to make A metaphor Of the fire within The fireworks I mean Hopefully the fire works I destroyed your Mint commission I meant condition Your mint condition Was devalued From my mixed intentions And messages Monotonous tasks To get you back I get your back And stay forever In your past Empty M.T. Mt. Empty You built me Just to leave me Empty
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 8:23 PM UTC
M.T. (The M Theory)
Texas dairy farm killers crushed the skulls of my holy vessels in 2011. Their animals spirits descended to heaven. They bludgeoned their heads as many times as 7. My defenseless, sweet, trusting, innocent babies. Their fate of their existence shouldn't be a maybe. Wilbur & Bo Bo . Should not be Bacon at breakfast with hot cocoa. To eat what is dead is sickness unsaid. Cattle **** the serial killers "downstairs". Televise the video to be seen everywhere. So caravores will start to care. They heartlessly murdered my cows. My cows. Mine now & forever in this time. A life for a life. A precious calf's life devalued, abused, disrespected, & used. Meat has no price tag. Like a two faced old hunchback sea hag. A priceless life without tombstones or mourning. This corrupt caravore world is disturbing & my empathy for the animals is pouring. Change this mother earth in the next morning. Father sky watches their animal spirits soaring. ****** is their hobby. They butcher & dismember a creatures body. Every animal belongs to me. They have a spiritual essence I can see. All species created are mine. Their ****** is not okay or fine. The killers need to do time. I guess justice is something we have to find. Baby cow is delicate & needs respect & love. Baby piglet where is mommy spirits above? Baby Lamb I love you your a baby angel. The sinners morals are distorted & tangled. Their bodies should be undamaged & not mangled. Not on a death pile of other livestock. Their revenge should be on the farmer's **** Protect the living of these farms. To the livestock bring no harm. Sadistic butchers disarm. Stop the slaughter alarm. These creatures are precious their souls innocent. The lives priceless & mint. Meat industries & factory farms get a hint. Clueless evil attacks as their back is turned. A blow to their fragile baby head is how hamburgers are made i learned. The dairy farmers killed my cows. Unspeakable evil without a why or how. The slaughter across the lands spread like a flood. More death in the mud. They lay on the ground in a pool of blood. Their life drains from their lifeless bodies.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 11:55 PM UTC
My Baby Cow
Texas dairy farm killers crushed the skulls of my holy vessels in 2011. Their animals spirits descended to heaven. They bludgeoned their heads as many times as 7. My defenseless, sweet, trusting, innocent babies. Their fate of their existence shouldn't be a maybe. Wilbur & Bo Bo . Should not be Bacon at breakfast with hot cocoa. To eat what is dead is sickness unsaid. Cattle **** the serial killers "downstairs". Televise the video to be seen everywhere. So caravores will start to care. They heartlessly murdered my cows. My cows. Mine now & forever in this time. A life for a life. A precious calf's life devalued, abused, disrespected, & used. Meat has no price tag. Like a two faced old hunchback sea hag. A priceless life without tombstones or mourning. This corrupt caravore world is disturbing & my empathy for the animals is pouring. Change this mother earth in the next morning. Father sky watches their animal spirits soaring. ****** is their hobby. They butcher & dismember a creatures body. Every animal belongs to me. They have a spiritual essence I can see. All species created are mine. Their ****** is not okay or fine. The killers need to do time. I guess justice is something we have to find. Baby cow is delicate & needs respect & love. Baby piglet where is mommy spirits above? Baby Lamb I love you your a baby angel. The sinners morals are distorted & tangled. Their bodies should be undamaged & not mangled. Not on a death pile of other livestock. Their revenge should be on the farmer's **** Protect the living of these farms. To the livestock bring no harm. Sadistic butchers disarm. Stop the slaughter alarm. These creatures are precious their souls innocent. The lives priceless & mint. Meat industries & factory farms get a hint. Clueless evil attacks as their back is turned. A blow to their fragile baby head is how hamburgers are made i learned. The dairy farmers killed my cows. Unspeakable evil without a why or how. The slaughter across the lands spread like a flood. More death in the mud. They lay on the ground in a pool of blood. Their life drains from their lifeless bodies.
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Lets address whats evident In this room There's an Elephant. Why do you see us as being irrelevant. Just because our skin was kissed with melanin Mixed in with the protien of Keratin They slapped us with a label of being African American. Yet we are descendants from one of the 12 tribes of Israel: Juah, Ephraim, Manasseh, Naphtali, Levi, Asher, Issachar, Gad, Zebulun, Reuben, Simeon, and Benjamin We were taught to be Nurturing and feminine Because we were raised to be young ladies, due to our body producing high levels of estrogen. We are sweet like sugar but can be spicy like cinnamon. We have an Aroma of shea butter, coconut, and honey We are enlighten with wisdom, so we are far from a dummy. We cant be bought be bought with your worldly money. Even on a dark day you would think its sunny Because our souls are so divine that it's reflection from the inside will brighten the world like the The moon in the midnight's sky that shines. We are Unashamed. We can not be tamed Inside us lies a firery passionate buring flame. We have a Hebrew name. We are not the same, We are individually different and one of a kind. We have a beautiful mind. We are fruitful like ripen Grapes growing ravashingly on the branches from vine. We age like fine wine. We are not to be treated as devalued change such as quarters, pennies, nickles and dimes. Our voices are delightfullly sweet just as the peaceful sound of musical wind chimes. We tell stories through our dancing, words, paintings, songs, poems, verses, rhythms and rhymes. We dont need makeup to cover up a blemish Its just a sign that we have flaws and God's not finished. The power of Yah flows from us graciously. For Our beauty comes naturally. Our souls are birth from the heavenly. We speak Pleasantly. Some have a complexion of Maghony. But My skin tone is Vanilla bean I get high off life like caffeine I glisten like afro sheen. I am a Hebrew Queen. Thru the untrained eye my future cant be seen The Most High is listening, Shaping, and our futures he's creating. We Seek Yahwehs face for insight Going through a transformation to get our souls right. Taking a journey to new heights. We are stand out like highlights Shining in the world of darkness like flashlights. And Yeshua Hamashiach has our copyrights We say it out Loud We are Hebrew and We are proud!
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Nov 16, 2016
Nov 16, 2016 at 8:32 PM UTC
Hebrew Israelite Woman
Lets address whats evident In this room There's an Elephant. Why do you see us as being irrelevant. Just because our skin was kissed with melanin Mixed in with the protien of Keratin They slapped us with a label of being African American. Yet we are descendants from one of the 12 tribes of Israel: Juah, Ephraim, Manasseh, Naphtali, Levi, Asher, Issachar, Gad, Zebulun, Reuben, Simeon, and Benjamin We were taught to be Nurturing and feminine Because we were raised to be young ladies, due to our body producing high levels of estrogen. We are sweet like sugar but can be spicy like cinnamon. We have an Aroma of shea butter, coconut, and honey We are enlighten with wisdom, so we are far from a dummy. We cant be bought be bought with your worldly money. Even on a dark day you would think its sunny Because our souls are so divine that it's reflection from the inside will brighten the world like the The moon in the midnight's sky that shines. We are Unashamed. We can not be tamed Inside us lies a firery passionate buring flame. We have a Hebrew name. We are not the same, We are individually different and one of a kind. We have a beautiful mind. We are fruitful like ripen Grapes growing ravashingly on the branches from vine. We age like fine wine. We are not to be treated as devalued change such as quarters, pennies, nickles and dimes. Our voices are delightfullly sweet just as the peaceful sound of musical wind chimes. We tell stories through our dancing, words, paintings, songs, poems, verses, rhythms and rhymes. We dont need makeup to cover up a blemish Its just a sign that we have flaws and God's not finished. The power of Yah flows from us graciously. For Our beauty comes naturally. Our souls are birth from the heavenly. We speak Pleasantly. Some have a complexion of Maghony. But My skin tone is Vanilla bean I get high off life like caffeine I glisten like afro sheen. I am a Hebrew Queen. Thru the untrained eye my future cant be seen The Most High is listening, Shaping, and our futures he's creating. We Seek Yahwehs face for insight Going through a transformation to get our souls right. Taking a journey to new heights. We are stand out like highlights Shining in the world of darkness like flashlights. And Yeshua Hamashiach has our copyrights We say it out Loud We are Hebrew and We are proud!
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I cannot stand it, it weakens my core, it stifles my breath The thought of him, forcing himself inside you Making you whimper, unutterable sounds Your unconditional complicity a gift, a given Your abandon knowing no bounds My manhood shriven While I have dropped off the edge of your world Your shapely limbs around him furled And he, firmer, faster, harder, smarter, younger Scoops up your jewels and riches with ardent hands And hungry tongues, to burst your lungs And all you can eats from your smouldering smorgasbord And I don’t know him, nor where he lives But I know he lives And dies, and dies again in your scented garden….
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 12:56 AM UTC
Love-bombed, devalued, discarded
Fight and scrape For ever miserable Devalued dollar That is the globalists plan for me You know they are having a family dinner I left because I'm not a success I guess I don't have a good job I don't feel welcome there I guess So now I'm at the Starbucks
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May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015 at 11:26 PM UTC
Starbucks Guy (I'm The One Sitting By Himself, Of Course)
You don't even know you failed your spiritual test? Treated me like one of your side projects –  left unfinished You were surprised to find my self worth undiminished You only devalued yourself and now your charade is finished So take off on some other vision quest You'll never even see how much you were blessed Given so much more than you deserve You could've had it all if you'd found the nerve To keep the true course instead of swerve Break promises and pretend you've done your best Tore open my eyes and showed me you're no better than the rest Just another coward claiming to be strong And you proved to me that my heart was wrong For my fire in your cold world cannot belong You're not the hero I deserve and I won't settle for less!
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Feb 27, 2017
Feb 27, 2017 at 7:01 PM UTC
#DestinyFAIL
Horror It is the moment When one culture Decides It is superior To another It is the moment When life Is devalued To the point That extermination Can be done Without feeling But instead With moral certainty The certainty That the God Of the dominant culture Approves And When the screams Cannot be heard Because They are not real To you And even if they were It wouldn’t matter Because Insanity Does not recognize Itself And because Fear Justifies anything And because The reality that has been constructed In your mind Is that you are normal And they are not So they must die And you must live No matter The symptom Of the disease You have been taught To love
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Feb 16, 2012
Feb 16, 2012 at 1:11 PM UTC
Horror
People walk. they drive, talk is cheap                                                   like some Red Wine by the gallon my dad bought, often                  he was not a nice man to most, what they could not change, they overlooked. Overnight when the sun rises things,                                                           will have changed as much as they stay the, same,             it will rain somewhere, and as many tear drops will fall from eyes of those with             broken hearts, and those eyes if you looked in them, you would never forget, ever. Ever sit there on the dewy grass at night or in some Adirondack,                                      chair, actually in the Adirondacks, and just want to shrink and be small                                      enough to disappear and travel at the speed of light, with out getting                                      tangled, under the stars, in string theory.    Totally impossible you think and that may be where all of our problems start, we dwell on the                             impossible when the possible is one small step away from you until you get so                                    close, the impossible becomes I'm possible, I'm possible, repeat and repeat. Riches, little can be so varied, there are some common ones, money, jewelry, stock portfolio,                          there are so many tangible and all most intangible, love, joy, goodness, kindness,                          gratitude, notice no mention of war, violence, death enough of that out there, they                          are devalued right now, yes, yes they are yes.     You are the best advocate of change I ever met, start with a small, stay close to your heart and close to home, write poetry, take care of yourself and when you find the ONE, take care of each other, there is power in right relationships, now if you have found the ONE, teach your children too, end your day with a laugh and smile, but be alone as little as you need to, teach peace.
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 1:05 AM UTC
Hello - Six letters (not sure about this)
People walk. they drive, talk is cheap                                                   like some Red Wine by the gallon my dad bought, often                  he was not a nice man to most, what they could not change, they overlooked. Overnight when the sun rises things,                                                           will have changed as much as they stay the, same,             it will rain somewhere, and as many tear drops will fall from eyes of those with             broken hearts, and those eyes if you looked in them, you would never forget, ever. Ever sit there on the dewy grass at night or in some Adirondack,                                      chair, actually in the Adirondacks, and just want to shrink and be small                                      enough to disappear and travel at the speed of light, with out getting                                      tangled, under the stars, in string theory.    Totally impossible you think and that may be where all of our problems start, we dwell on the                             impossible when the possible is one small step away from you until you get so                                    close, the impossible becomes I'm possible, I'm possible, repeat and repeat. Riches, little can be so varied, there are some common ones, money, jewelry, stock portfolio,                          there are so many tangible and all most intangible, love, joy, goodness, kindness,                          gratitude, notice no mention of war, violence, death enough of that out there, they                          are devalued right now, yes, yes they are yes.     You are the best advocate of change I ever met, start with a small, stay close to your heart and close to home, write poetry, take care of yourself and when you find the ONE, take care of each other, there is power in right relationships, now if you have found the ONE, teach your children too, end your day with a laugh and smile, but be alone as little as you need to, teach peace.
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Shall I cover you with gold and bow down to worship you? When all you are is temporal? Shall I prostrate myself before you and beg you not to leave me? Although you have betrayed and devalued me? Shall I cover you with gold and bow down to worship you? No! For you are an idol to me no longer! I run to the One who is Faithful and True. Who loves me far, far more than you. At last, Lord Jesus, You have won my heart. And from Your arms I will never depart. You alone are the Lover of my Soul. And when You have tried me. I shall come forth as gold. (Job 23:10)
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Jul 10, 2016
Jul 10, 2016 at 11:43 PM UTC
As Gold Refined
I want to destroy myself. To fall into a pit of elated destruction Watch me woo myself into the blackness. . . I want to raise all hell Dance with strange, strange mutants, Imbibe some dreaded poison So I can sleep the nights away in a daze. I want to use the spell of drugs, And watch it wrap around my throat and heart, Just to feel something. Dead no more, no more. I want to let evil coil, Bring in absinthe and ***** Make me immune to its toxicity Make me spin, make me spin. Maybe a good dose of lust too, For the final concoction, And let this bomb brew in the form of a witch's stew Then let me **** you. I want to destroy myself, I only feel alive when I'm burning. I want to sink into the cruel skin I was meant to don. I saved myself, I wanted to be your Good girl, Thinking you'd value me higher. Instead I feel devalued and cheap anyway Might as well let the white ******* come off. Stupid, filthy girl, Let me drink down this **** with a bottle of ***
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 5:25 PM UTC
Bottle of ***
Standing, waiting, my face blank, uncaring and staring at the garish colors of their cheap and ill-fitting clothes. Cramming in, fingers all greasy, raucously laughing, jabbering ******** braying useless information, loudly. Swarming, idly in hot  little dark holes of rooms, making a suffocating stench from ragged mouth-breathing.   Obnoxious. ******* disgusting, everyone. Don't ******* touch me. This is overwhelming. "There's too many people in here." You sidle up to me, saying what we're both thinking, and then we leave. Both of us glaring at the ********* shuffling slowly,  in the way, unable to meet our height or eyes, they remain glued to the tiny screens in their sweaty and hot little hands, as their annoying children are screaming and running. You. You, with your shit-brown eyes. Silent and stoic, with a hard-edged jaw. Are you ******** me? Like not making eye contact with me is going to shame me, stripping me of something that you never even bestowed? You think I'm obscene? Mister, look at you. I am tired, but, I am okay. I am fine. I don't care what you otherwise say. Alive and sober, awake and dying. I am improving, actively evolving. I am not devalued or retrograding. **** you.** Don't not look at me, as though I were a freak. Don't sneer and scoff, and judge me, as meat. **** you.** You think you know me better than me? You think you could even convince me differently?                 am I right, or am I right? Go ahead, lock your jaw, frown and furrow your brow, you magnanimous hypocrite. We're both autonomous, and rich, in Ameri-fucking-ca, with freedom out the *******   You're free to judge me. I'm free to say **** you. We both bleed red blood. We both will do as we will, loving, ******** fighting, drinking, ******* coping, hiding, hurting, smelling, crying, begging, hating, breathing, needing, eating, sleeping, living, and dying under the great majesty of                                                                        A *******                                                                      INDIFFERENT                                                                         UNIVERSE where we both need to stop thinking differently.
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May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 at 10:01 PM UTC
don't trivialize what it means when I say, "I'm okay"
Standing, waiting, my face blank, uncaring and staring at the garish colors of their cheap and ill-fitting clothes. Cramming in, fingers all greasy, raucously laughing, jabbering ******** braying useless information, loudly. Swarming, idly in hot  little dark holes of rooms, making a suffocating stench from ragged mouth-breathing.   Obnoxious. ******* disgusting, everyone. Don't ******* touch me. This is overwhelming. "There's too many people in here." You sidle up to me, saying what we're both thinking, and then we leave. Both of us glaring at the ********* shuffling slowly,  in the way, unable to meet our height or eyes, they remain glued to the tiny screens in their sweaty and hot little hands, as their annoying children are screaming and running. You. You, with your shit-brown eyes. Silent and stoic, with a hard-edged jaw. Are you ******** me? Like not making eye contact with me is going to shame me, stripping me of something that you never even bestowed? You think I'm obscene? Mister, look at you. I am tired, but, I am okay. I am fine. I don't care what you otherwise say. Alive and sober, awake and dying. I am improving, actively evolving. I am not devalued or retrograding. **** you.** Don't not look at me, as though I were a freak. Don't sneer and scoff, and judge me, as meat. **** you.** You think you know me better than me? You think you could even convince me differently?                 am I right, or am I right? Go ahead, lock your jaw, frown and furrow your brow, you magnanimous hypocrite. We're both autonomous, and rich, in Ameri-fucking-ca, with freedom out the *******   You're free to judge me. I'm free to say **** you. We both bleed red blood. We both will do as we will, loving, ******** fighting, drinking, ******* coping, hiding, hurting, smelling, crying, begging, hating, breathing, needing, eating, sleeping, living, and dying under the great majesty of                                                                        A *******                                                                      INDIFFERENT                                                                         UNIVERSE where we both need to stop thinking differently.
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I am angry. You should be angry. We should all be angry. It was breakfast in Tripoli when she burst into the Rixos hotel housing foreign journalists bleeding, bruised and burned by ropes. She went there because they would listen. She wanted to tell the world her story. Gadhafi’s forces held her against her will for 2 days being tortured and ***** by 15 different men. Her body displayed the proof. When she spoke up her government was quick to stifle her. Called her a ********** Questioned her sanity. Security suppressed her. Even her own people called her a traitor. She was drug off to a waiting car and we haven’t heard from her since. She is the very definition of courage. She stood up for herself and her people, knowing the consequences of her actions might lead to her end. She dared to stand in a crowded room, scream at the top of her lungs, and demand the world’s attention. And for so long, no one noticed. Until someone finally looked up. I feel like I should be comforted by this fact. The fact that her story was told and now we know the disturbing way Gadhafi’s government operates. But it doesn’t change anything. I’m still angry. It wasn’t just her honor that was violated. It’s every woman in Libya. In Iraq. In Sudan. In Afghanistan. In America. Every woman afraid to swim, paralyzed by the fear that they will create waves. Every woman in dangerous places seeking safety and security. Every woman who is disrespected and devalued and disregarded and dominated. Every woman who is made to believe she is inferior and that she is only worth what is in between her legs. I want to do more. I want to bring change. I want to open eyes. I want to start a revolution. I want to teach women to swim so that they won’t drown. I want them to kick and splash and cause a tsunami and knock down societies that threaten the worth of a woman. I want to march into when Eman is being held and demand for her freedom. I want her integrity cleared. I want to beat down oppression with my own two fists. But instead I sit in the dark and I cry and I pray. Watching the news, being angry and afraid. Her name was Eman al-Obeidy. She was a mighty and bold priestess. When they destroyed her temple, she stood up on the mountain and preached a message of justice and social change and necessity. And she was silenced in front of our very eyes. The memory of her face still fresh in our minds and her song resonating in our hearts saying, “TAKE ACTION.”
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May 12, 2011
May 12, 2011 at 6:04 PM UTC
Take Action
I am angry. You should be angry. We should all be angry. It was breakfast in Tripoli when she burst into the Rixos hotel housing foreign journalists bleeding, bruised and burned by ropes. She went there because they would listen. She wanted to tell the world her story. Gadhafi’s forces held her against her will for 2 days being tortured and ***** by 15 different men. Her body displayed the proof. When she spoke up her government was quick to stifle her. Called her a ********** Questioned her sanity. Security suppressed her. Even her own people called her a traitor. She was drug off to a waiting car and we haven’t heard from her since. She is the very definition of courage. She stood up for herself and her people, knowing the consequences of her actions might lead to her end. She dared to stand in a crowded room, scream at the top of her lungs, and demand the world’s attention. And for so long, no one noticed. Until someone finally looked up. I feel like I should be comforted by this fact. The fact that her story was told and now we know the disturbing way Gadhafi’s government operates. But it doesn’t change anything. I’m still angry. It wasn’t just her honor that was violated. It’s every woman in Libya. In Iraq. In Sudan. In Afghanistan. In America. Every woman afraid to swim, paralyzed by the fear that they will create waves. Every woman in dangerous places seeking safety and security. Every woman who is disrespected and devalued and disregarded and dominated. Every woman who is made to believe she is inferior and that she is only worth what is in between her legs. I want to do more. I want to bring change. I want to open eyes. I want to start a revolution. I want to teach women to swim so that they won’t drown. I want them to kick and splash and cause a tsunami and knock down societies that threaten the worth of a woman. I want to march into when Eman is being held and demand for her freedom. I want her integrity cleared. I want to beat down oppression with my own two fists. But instead I sit in the dark and I cry and I pray. Watching the news, being angry and afraid. Her name was Eman al-Obeidy. She was a mighty and bold priestess. When they destroyed her temple, she stood up on the mountain and preached a message of justice and social change and necessity. And she was silenced in front of our very eyes. The memory of her face still fresh in our minds and her song resonating in our hearts saying, “TAKE ACTION.”
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i met a mongol once in amsterdam, we exchanged a tearful stare and said a melancholic hello, as if we were to be brother in cement or sandstone of what the sun rememebred and man forgot but nonetheless carved for enshadowed suave of the shadowing hand on hand upon handed down remnant of the handless kanji... the motherless thus tongueless river of sight utilising hand and hand as sophistication of spying thanks to the hands’ shadows: thus no shadow tongue unless that shadow be thought or the abstract off thought: pre-meditation and the subsequent minded courtsey as requested of the blank page or the buddha’s slitted eyes faking intoxication by western standards of that green plant the mongols despise: and western societies fare to tax and thus exploit. and it would be easiest to withhold making talks with the slavs by compensation of the northern-most mosque being established as true progression... but then having insulated the slavs who are "primarily" plumbers and electricians to make any dent in the politics of the other monotheists... where the european excludes the european from europe there you will see war as encouraging the asian or the arab... there you will see war, should a european exclude european from europe there you will see war caucausian againts the rooster against the morn! TAR TAR! TAR TAR! TAR! TAR! (in japanese tora tora tora!) because you did not cherish our shared values thus become devalued therefore value your integral anti-economic evaluations that have no place in my land but concern of keeping brown in the noun and not in the verb of racism and sun; i've become a barabbas among you, you messiahs, you messiah selfies and messiah implants, what gave you the jews scorned has given me you as the "jews" scorned in your disorientation of the fathomed atom bomb already spoken of in the book of the apocalypse.... but a man ejecting an european from europe to fantacise a non-invoked colonialism will halve in carving this world in half for multi-cultarism! no pole ever spoke of colonialism to see you speak of post-colonial re-colonialisation of remote areas so ardently cared for: conquer... and subsequently fall: your sons the additive bullets: я и pоссия demand: the caucaucus tribes to fake unity with the danube fools of erected bohemia.
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Dec 2, 2015
Dec 2, 2015 at 11:35 PM UTC
TATAR! TATAR! TA! TAR!
i met a mongol once in amsterdam, we exchanged a tearful stare and said a melancholic hello, as if we were to be brother in cement or sandstone of what the sun rememebred and man forgot but nonetheless carved for enshadowed suave of the shadowing hand on hand upon handed down remnant of the handless kanji... the motherless thus tongueless river of sight utilising hand and hand as sophistication of spying thanks to the hands’ shadows: thus no shadow tongue unless that shadow be thought or the abstract off thought: pre-meditation and the subsequent minded courtsey as requested of the blank page or the buddha’s slitted eyes faking intoxication by western standards of that green plant the mongols despise: and western societies fare to tax and thus exploit. and it would be easiest to withhold making talks with the slavs by compensation of the northern-most mosque being established as true progression... but then having insulated the slavs who are "primarily" plumbers and electricians to make any dent in the politics of the other monotheists... where the european excludes the european from europe there you will see war as encouraging the asian or the arab... there you will see war, should a european exclude european from europe there you will see war caucausian againts the rooster against the morn! TAR TAR! TAR TAR! TAR! TAR! (in japanese tora tora tora!) because you did not cherish our shared values thus become devalued therefore value your integral anti-economic evaluations that have no place in my land but concern of keeping brown in the noun and not in the verb of racism and sun; i've become a barabbas among you, you messiahs, you messiah selfies and messiah implants, what gave you the jews scorned has given me you as the "jews" scorned in your disorientation of the fathomed atom bomb already spoken of in the book of the apocalypse.... but a man ejecting an european from europe to fantacise a non-invoked colonialism will halve in carving this world in half for multi-cultarism! no pole ever spoke of colonialism to see you speak of post-colonial re-colonialisation of remote areas so ardently cared for: conquer... and subsequently fall: your sons the additive bullets: я и pоссия demand: the caucaucus tribes to fake unity with the danube fools of erected bohemia.
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Alone, cold, Misunderstood. Fighting a battle that began before our conception. Cursed. The physical manifestation of ones fathers mistake. Emotions removed, confiscated. No longer relevant. Useless. Sympathy lost when love failed us. Patience is the only retribution. The endangered struggling black father. On the verge of self destruction. Restricted from the love of his own life force. With no direction. No support. Intense emotions personified by a series of precise phrases representing static progress and consistent negligence. Our efforts are never enough. Our words mean nothing. Our concerns, suppressed. Our worries, neglected. Our respect, vaporized. Our life. Devalued. The endangered species The struggling black father...
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Jan 22, 2021
Jan 22, 2021 at 12:49 AM UTC
Struggling Black Fathers
i. I crumble chalk on the black paint of a water holding its breath in a single fish its glass eye of evolution and the sound of god making light of his angels unfolding as they are hospital beds to guide a piloted exhaustion- flight reminds the dead. the solo moan of a bird lands on the shoulder of a widow as the twice devalued coin of looking, looks on. ii. I wish I could dream away my name, the bad mornings spent cheating on her sadness her sadness a jewel madly in the mouth of a thief some redundant angel chewing the root of its own absence.
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Jul 16, 2012
Jul 16, 2012 at 3:26 PM UTC
her a.m. curvature