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"dissipating" poems
The belated summer sky is alive with a  D r a g o n f l y ballet Beneath,.. the rain parched sod lay sullied, cracked open by an unsated thirstiness awaiting the painted autumn days and the cleansing rain's renewal A lace-winged hatch rises skyward — meandering  airborne — drifting upwards like a burst of dust dissipating in an invisible cloud of eventide's silent breath Darting shadows hover above a seeker's curiosity     just this side the   softening sunset backdrop A synthesis of fluid motion   – darting kinesis –     swift agile fliers steal away over the thirsty pond; their mesmerizing beauty enchants as the dimming dusk falls silent —- embellishing the unrelenting ending    another summer's  imminent curtain call; reminding how inexorable-time is only a contrived human notion, a recurring extrapolation   of passing  seasons Heightening awareness: how we too are only passing through these unholdable moments    coming to know     we cannot stop    how life unfolds The raindrops will quench the pond's aching thirst again one fall someday...   — hereafter — there will be another beauty of dragonflies some other eyes will see preying on another burgeoning gossamer-winged hatch           and another beckoning autumn when the dragonflies hover below the gazing totems      in the treetops Jesse Stillwater ... September 2018                                                 .
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Sep 19, 2018
Sep 19, 2018 at 12:52 PM UTC
Ballerinas in the Waning Summer Sky
The belated summer sky is alive with a  D r a g o n f l y ballet Beneath,.. the rain parched sod lay sullied, cracked open by an unsated thirstiness awaiting the painted autumn days and the cleansing rain's renewal A lace-winged hatch rises skyward — meandering  airborne — drifting upwards like a burst of dust dissipating in an invisible cloud of eventide's silent breath Darting shadows hover above a seeker's curiosity     just this side the   softening sunset backdrop A synthesis of fluid motion   – darting kinesis –     swift agile fliers steal away over the thirsty pond; their mesmerizing beauty enchants as the dimming dusk falls silent —- embellishing the unrelenting ending    another summer's  imminent curtain call; reminding how inexorable-time is only a contrived human notion, a recurring extrapolation   of passing  seasons Heightening awareness: how we too are only passing through these unholdable moments    coming to know     we cannot stop    how life unfolds The raindrops will quench the pond's aching thirst again one fall someday...   — hereafter — there will be another beauty of dragonflies some other eyes will see preying on another burgeoning gossamer-winged hatch           and another beckoning autumn when the dragonflies hover below the gazing totems      in the treetops Jesse Stillwater ... September 2018                                                 .
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"I can’t figure it out.” She said. “I like cigars, and pretty dresses and crossing my legs.” She paused, then continued, “And I like smoking cigars in pretty dresses while crossing my legs.” She uncrossed them, then crossed them again. One smooth limb over the other. Just like that. “But I never seem to have a lighter on hand. Could you— sir, please light my cigar?” “You see, I have no pockets to hold such things and my purse… Well, You’ve confiscated that, haven’t you?” “Thanks.” She breathed, and inhaled, and exhaled; Sluggish wisps of smoke dissipating into the air. Just. like .that. “I didn’t know L'homme was into women who smoke cigars in pretty dresses while crossing their legs", She said. “I mean, how was I to know? I only noticed him noticing me. It was probably the way my hair was tousled like so, Or how my lipstick shone a deep, dangerous rogue, Or the way I sipped at my champagne… That made him walk over.” “But I never asked him to light my cigar Or comment on my dress… Or stroke my legs. So when I whacked him up top over the head with my glass, I bet he never expected it to shatter and split his skull like so. He dropped so sudden, sir. I…” Another ringlet of smoke, a sigh, an uncrossing and crossing of legs again. “I had no clue, what else to do, But to sit still in my pretty dress, with my legs crossed, smoking my cigar trying to figure out... Just how I'd committed ******
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Nov 12, 2018
Nov 12, 2018 at 5:10 PM UTC
"She Loved her Cigars, a Pretty Dress, and Crossing her Legs". A tribute to a Femme Fatale.
Escape pods Ferried fears   Gaping heart    Falling tears     Dishevelled mind      Emotional unrest     Watered ground     Familiar guest    Questioned answers   Unanswered questions   Glassy eyes    Increased tension     Dissipating hope      Chewed confidence     Broken spirit    Unwelcomed sentence   Failing health Unstable mind Choked fingers Flying blind  Pathetic plea   Stretched thin     Battered insides      Uncomfortable skin       Eventual stop        Frightful frights         Perceived freedom          Within sight         Bruised being      Absent gods     Relying upon    Escape pods
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Oct 16, 2014
Oct 16, 2014 at 9:06 PM UTC
Escape Pods
And like incense our scent takes to the air. Ascending before we fall. Her and I. We burst into fire. Our eyes a gaseous mixture.  Ignited by the touch of skin. Kindling the many thoughts we keep of each other. A crackle blown out. Accented in desire, Our yearning ignites. We hold ourselves unselfish, Keeping warm. Separate stems bonded as one.  Our inner voice visible.  Bypassing worry, our doubt. A piece of us both, dissipating in a slow burning. To give more than we've taken in unspoken communication. We fell in ash. Our scent a prayer sent to heaven.  To always remain this way.  Even after our extinguishing. May we linger. Forever more. Falling fast asleep in each other's arms. Leading each other to a place we call love. Until the last ash drops
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Apr 23, 2018
Apr 23, 2018 at 9:42 AM UTC
Last Ash
Packed like sardines inside a jeepney— Too full, with a jeepney strike going on. Rushing, mother and child ride along. Greasy, ***** malnourished… The woman holds a can— a makeshift drum. Little boy hands out envelopes, he looks like he's 3 years old, he's most likely 6. Woman beats her drum, nobody listens chatter drowning out the rhythm… Invisible ears to go with invisible envelopes His head touches my legs, dissipating heat— an indicator of how long he's been under the sun and smog The thought chills me… He stares at my sister's shopping bags with searing eyes… Windows that I can’t bear to look into, afraid to see my reflection of clouded guilt and frustration I shake my head, no food to share but my hands reach out to his, to give him some money. My sister remembers a bottle of iced tea, and hands it to him. He has a hard time opening it, and asks for help from the school girls… Invisible again. I reach out and get the bottle from him Temporary refreshment for a body that is parched, for a soul who is thirsty for so much more. I cannot help but gulp in guilty air. He sits on the aisle, savoring the tea as his mother thumps on the can. The little boy retrieves envelopes, all empty— as hollow as the sound of the beating drum. What do you do, what can you do? The jeepney stops. They alight from it... The mother looks back and says, "Salamat." It goes straight to my heart. Her eyes move me most— one eye is cloudy, grayed out, perhaps a manifestation of the storms in her life? That single word seared through me, and I felt how much she meant it… Her thank you made me want to give so much more, to call out to her and give whatever I had at the moment but they are gone... Lost in a crowd of faceless people, and I myself want to get lost, hide my face in shame… What can you do?
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Jan 25, 2012
Jan 25, 2012 at 1:06 AM UTC
Jeepney Ride
Packed like sardines inside a jeepney— Too full, with a jeepney strike going on. Rushing, mother and child ride along. Greasy, ***** malnourished… The woman holds a can— a makeshift drum. Little boy hands out envelopes, he looks like he's 3 years old, he's most likely 6. Woman beats her drum, nobody listens chatter drowning out the rhythm… Invisible ears to go with invisible envelopes His head touches my legs, dissipating heat— an indicator of how long he's been under the sun and smog The thought chills me… He stares at my sister's shopping bags with searing eyes… Windows that I can’t bear to look into, afraid to see my reflection of clouded guilt and frustration I shake my head, no food to share but my hands reach out to his, to give him some money. My sister remembers a bottle of iced tea, and hands it to him. He has a hard time opening it, and asks for help from the school girls… Invisible again. I reach out and get the bottle from him Temporary refreshment for a body that is parched, for a soul who is thirsty for so much more. I cannot help but gulp in guilty air. He sits on the aisle, savoring the tea as his mother thumps on the can. The little boy retrieves envelopes, all empty— as hollow as the sound of the beating drum. What do you do, what can you do? The jeepney stops. They alight from it... The mother looks back and says, "Salamat." It goes straight to my heart. Her eyes move me most— one eye is cloudy, grayed out, perhaps a manifestation of the storms in her life? That single word seared through me, and I felt how much she meant it… Her thank you made me want to give so much more, to call out to her and give whatever I had at the moment but they are gone... Lost in a crowd of faceless people, and I myself want to get lost, hide my face in shame… What can you do?
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Have you ever been a disappointment? Feeling the sadness crawling up your spine Dissipating like a disease Following you like a shadow A tremor in your voice arises As they try to crack you like a code Break you like glass Have you ever been a disappointment? They ask you questions About your rebellion spree You lie through your trembling teeth They don't love you, they never did All you are to them is your past. Have you ever been a disappointment? You're not size two Your smile's a little too crooked And your hair isn't straight The boys, they don't notice you And if they do, they make fun of you My middle name is rejection And it rolls off their tongues quite nicely Have you ever been a disappointment? I have
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Mar 5, 2014
Mar 5, 2014 at 10:14 PM UTC
Disappointment
Against the saturated Horizon of dawn, Loitering in the dark timbre Of emerging consciousness - Dissipating somnolence And preemptive despair, Tacitly adumbrate the Yawning abyss. Chastened by the cunning and Lubricious nihilism, Igniting fermented provocations, Silent subterfuge; death, By mirth - the inane; Lament of the mundane. Fallow paradigms, accretions of The last gasp - Evaporating empty liturgies Of suspicion; Charity and equanimity - Lost in confinement, Triumphant avarice bearing Descendants Of intransigence; Wielding imperious Schemes of orthodoxy. Pollard fragments of Silken tapestry, Miasma draped depression Abridging; Conversely, Permuted flurries of anxiety Dislodge The vestiges of meaning That abide In brazen equivocation. Tributaries of dogma reach Their confluence, Watershed moment,   Numinous effusion Streams naked epiphany, The precarious vision - A gesture of providence, Certainty and contingency; Gratuitously derivative, life Equals choice. Verdant branches of intention; And opportunity the vine, Live forward - The pen, my voice, Piquant conduit pouring, Exuberant wine. Footprints found in givenness Underline, Penumbrae of my soul; Mirrored silhouettes, Thoughts and words engender; And in verse adorn Fecund soil, Line after line, The cosmos altered, Continuum of permanence - Artist’s art articulating Essence of my imagination, I proliferate, I design Phrases unique, Participation mystique. Words creating world, The apparatus of infinity Heidegger, ontologically precise, Language - The house of Being, Ineffable, Promethean Literary devise - Envisioning possibility, And abundance to allow, I occur Inhabit Manifest Future phenomena Experienced as now. ©2008 & ©2011 W.S. Warner
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Sep 16, 2011
Sep 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM UTC
The Precarious Vision
Against the saturated Horizon of dawn, Loitering in the dark timbre Of emerging consciousness - Dissipating somnolence And preemptive despair, Tacitly adumbrate the Yawning abyss. Chastened by the cunning and Lubricious nihilism, Igniting fermented provocations, Silent subterfuge; death, By mirth - the inane; Lament of the mundane. Fallow paradigms, accretions of The last gasp - Evaporating empty liturgies Of suspicion; Charity and equanimity - Lost in confinement, Triumphant avarice bearing Descendants Of intransigence; Wielding imperious Schemes of orthodoxy. Pollard fragments of Silken tapestry, Miasma draped depression Abridging; Conversely, Permuted flurries of anxiety Dislodge The vestiges of meaning That abide In brazen equivocation. Tributaries of dogma reach Their confluence, Watershed moment,   Numinous effusion Streams naked epiphany, The precarious vision - A gesture of providence, Certainty and contingency; Gratuitously derivative, life Equals choice. Verdant branches of intention; And opportunity the vine, Live forward - The pen, my voice, Piquant conduit pouring, Exuberant wine. Footprints found in givenness Underline, Penumbrae of my soul; Mirrored silhouettes, Thoughts and words engender; And in verse adorn Fecund soil, Line after line, The cosmos altered, Continuum of permanence - Artist’s art articulating Essence of my imagination, I proliferate, I design Phrases unique, Participation mystique. Words creating world, The apparatus of infinity Heidegger, ontologically precise, Language - The house of Being, Ineffable, Promethean Literary devise - Envisioning possibility, And abundance to allow, I occur Inhabit Manifest Future phenomena Experienced as now. ©2008 & ©2011 W.S. Warner
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dissipating into the morning mist through a kaleidoscope-like view i become every part of you ©2016janetaylor
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May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016 at 6:24 AM UTC
mist
With nothing to see and nowhere to be, With no one to be and nowhere to go: Empty, like the meaning of the spring dew Dissipating, hundreds of pieces, scattered Individual voids waiting upon a cue To become what they embody, fettered. A field of unquiet quietness, occasionally interrupted by a single, awful tone. What existence is this exigence? Unknowable, unspeakable, unending: Pain is what it is. The dew knows not why it's stepped on, Ending its momentary nature Only to crop up tomorrow and be none The foot becoming again its berater. And so it goes until the summer, with the cruel months behind it. The skull becomes and beckons Back into nihil. But there's too many things to see, places to be Too much to be and too many places to go For to be one is to be many and the dew tires.
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Apr 17, 2021
Apr 17, 2021 at 3:57 PM UTC
[untitled]
The grass flickers, as the Wind pushes it down, in A gentle but determined Motion, sweeping upwards to Swirl the blue-grey clouds Around the radio tower, before Dissipating into the milky Sky, which at this moment Is the lightest shade of Blue, an open innocent shade Of blue, like an angelic birthday Cake, the pinker clouds, whose Graceful tendrils embrace the Air, and dancing twirl across the Peaceful summer skyscape Down below them, the Emerald stalks of corn stand, Silent sentinels, awaiting the Coming of the dawn, they too Feel the pushing of the wind, but Brush it off, over their shoulders, And continue their silent watching On the sloping sides of the hill, the Growling pines, resplendent in their Glimmering needles, reflect the fading Light, off the clouds, as the sun sinks, Beneath the horizon, and I watch them Silently on my bike, the only thing I can hear, is the swish of the wind, And the hum and whirring of the Pedals, as my bike and I, we glide up The hill, and down the hill, and Around the posts that are meant To keep the cars from disturbing, this Peaceful walking path A while later, we crest a hill, now Having past the town, I see the work Of the persistent wind, the clouds Now whipped into a curling wave, Of pink and blue-black, spilling Over the horizon, behind the red-roofed Country houses, which are strangely Reminiscent of those old, red, barns Which would sit abandoned in Fields of perpetual wheat, and, Through the turning of the seasons, Would rot away into timbers, with No one left to remember, what They were, or why they remain Now we have ridden in a loop, my Bike clicks as I change gears, to Crest a hill and coast down, at high Speed, between the guard rails and The road, with the wind kicking Up behind me and whisking an Upcoming tree in to a fluttery Flurry of leaves and branches, while Below a stream cuts a field, and, Skirting a pen, passes by a pinto Pony, I think it was, that was just Standing there, as we rode past, Onto the cobblestones and around A bend, the group splits, some going A different route, but I want to come Back the way I came, and I ride Beside the highway, listening to The chirp of the crickets and the Hum of the wheels against the Cold, pavement, while up the hill The verdant pines bob their bows, Up and down, waving, waving, The crashing blue-black wave has Rolled, on past the tower now, it Is crashing down over the silent Sentinels, and I watch quietly as The wind rolls down the hill, and Whirls some leaves, making the Grass flicker in the setting sun.
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Mar 1, 2012
Mar 1, 2012 at 2:35 PM UTC
A Bike Ride Through the Countryside
The grass flickers, as the Wind pushes it down, in A gentle but determined Motion, sweeping upwards to Swirl the blue-grey clouds Around the radio tower, before Dissipating into the milky Sky, which at this moment Is the lightest shade of Blue, an open innocent shade Of blue, like an angelic birthday Cake, the pinker clouds, whose Graceful tendrils embrace the Air, and dancing twirl across the Peaceful summer skyscape Down below them, the Emerald stalks of corn stand, Silent sentinels, awaiting the Coming of the dawn, they too Feel the pushing of the wind, but Brush it off, over their shoulders, And continue their silent watching On the sloping sides of the hill, the Growling pines, resplendent in their Glimmering needles, reflect the fading Light, off the clouds, as the sun sinks, Beneath the horizon, and I watch them Silently on my bike, the only thing I can hear, is the swish of the wind, And the hum and whirring of the Pedals, as my bike and I, we glide up The hill, and down the hill, and Around the posts that are meant To keep the cars from disturbing, this Peaceful walking path A while later, we crest a hill, now Having past the town, I see the work Of the persistent wind, the clouds Now whipped into a curling wave, Of pink and blue-black, spilling Over the horizon, behind the red-roofed Country houses, which are strangely Reminiscent of those old, red, barns Which would sit abandoned in Fields of perpetual wheat, and, Through the turning of the seasons, Would rot away into timbers, with No one left to remember, what They were, or why they remain Now we have ridden in a loop, my Bike clicks as I change gears, to Crest a hill and coast down, at high Speed, between the guard rails and The road, with the wind kicking Up behind me and whisking an Upcoming tree in to a fluttery Flurry of leaves and branches, while Below a stream cuts a field, and, Skirting a pen, passes by a pinto Pony, I think it was, that was just Standing there, as we rode past, Onto the cobblestones and around A bend, the group splits, some going A different route, but I want to come Back the way I came, and I ride Beside the highway, listening to The chirp of the crickets and the Hum of the wheels against the Cold, pavement, while up the hill The verdant pines bob their bows, Up and down, waving, waving, The crashing blue-black wave has Rolled, on past the tower now, it Is crashing down over the silent Sentinels, and I watch quietly as The wind rolls down the hill, and Whirls some leaves, making the Grass flicker in the setting sun.
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Swooping through the city streets, the alleys, the corners, every crevice and crack. Education and language never to be seen, dissipating with the past. Ingrained in the brain, the common normality, placed on the famous track. Morality has diminished, human beings are finished. No curative for this disease, a disgusting devious deceit   Two dozen selfies left behind,   just you, old and decrepit all your doing, your design,   a silly lie.   A ***** disguise. Alone with a wasted life.
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Aug 10, 2014
Aug 10, 2014 at 11:01 PM UTC
The Plague Of Narcissism
Sleep is timed to the minute, my breaths let out lazy smoke icicles make goose bumps into paragraphs books written on my arms through yellow mist bare feet in the morning on my rooftops counting international planes in the sky. My migrant bones take to the sky, each moderate minute that passes by on my rooftops, increases the rawness of smoke like lung-fulls of lemon mist spewing a nebula of paragraphs. In the murk of paragraphs red papery ashes explode into the sky leaving a cloud of syllable mist. The last fragile minute reduces my shivers to smoke, a winter shell of shoulders on rooftops. Double exposed film across rooftops turn silhouettes into paragraphs, a congregation of vapours and smoke speaking soliloquies into the sky. I am minute, dissipating into canary mist. Billows of ocean mist make my fingers melancholy on rooftops where a tidal minute freezes salty foam paragraphs a vacation from the sky, my mossy perch and violet smoke. Heliotropic smoke spirals against dense mist; fine rain blinding the sky soaking lemonade rooftops. My bed of paragraphs curls into an illegible minute. The lilac smoke in my eyes is almost minute. A mustard mist wrinkles the paragraphs, like the purple sky dropping over the rooftops.
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Feb 16, 2014
Feb 16, 2014 at 11:46 PM UTC
Sestina 2 - Mouths
sword-shaped wild iris leaves pierce the meadow sod, reaching outwards from cold reclusive shelter beneath native strawberry carpeted  repose juxtaposed  ―  smoke rises to  the  sun like the basal verdures of fleeting winter's escape; crawling up an invisible spiral staircase seeking the azure heavens r e n a s c e n c e a  nexus ― stormy winter’s windfall and,   irony of a wooden match, gathered winter tinder inflamed,   sacrificed to the heraldic spring skies of the begetter; just  like the  wistful  soul beheld a simple  man that impatiently rests on the threshold    of a dream,.. unnoticed by the billowing silence of evanescent winter exile: daydreaming a peaceful ascendance; dissipating puffs of smoke drifting  away unto the ether, weightless as light harlon rivers ... spring 1st, 2018
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Mar 18, 2018
Mar 18, 2018 at 1:07 PM UTC
wild iris
Smoke as elegant as a woman Dancing around you so gracefully, But not for long The blink of an eye and she's gone Dissipating into the dark gloom But like all of them, there will be more, All the same Dancing around you But not for long -AJT
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Nov 12, 2017
Nov 12, 2017 at 10:24 PM UTC
Not For Long
The hollow wind funneled the voice of the distant night-train crossings, awakening  a  familiar  silence hanging from the vast wilderness sky A restless heart hearkening the echoes, imagining  a  runaway  Pullman flew away off the rails,    airborne on the winged wind headed north Winter  pausing  for a moment in  the  shadows  of  familiarity, as if parsing the unspoken breathings in an  echoless  surrendered sigh; uncertain if tacit words set free could ever allow a heart broken         to feel whole again There  is  no  absolving  voice that whispers in a solemner tone :         Death  has  no  mercy  ―   love remains marooned in the wake ,.. and it feels like the world’s gone mad letting time be the arbiter of perpetuity The fading dream of a motherless child; a wish to be held maternally fell to the ground with a thud,         breaking the silence, dissipating formless as the shape of water Muted cold lips so full of questions morphing into fugitive sighs come the unsettled night; when shadows disappear like frail memories that  passed  too  soon  to  grasp, thickly palpable as the warm breath a winter bird alone on frosty branch There’s no fear in braving the darkness in the  winter wilderness of life borne alone There’s no way of knowing what you’ll find down that long empty road back home Life just flashes by silently before your eyes         through the windshield     of countless miles and miles And there’s nothing you can do about it ― It’s like hearing the moment of truth in a lie when all I was looking for was  how I got here in this now,.. yesterday only finding a hopeless poet scribbling  slightly stained pages, spilling  a  bitter  sweet  dream ...         harlon rivers ... February 2018 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018 at 10:31 AM UTC
Awakening a Familiar Silence ...
The hollow wind funneled the voice of the distant night-train crossings, awakening  a  familiar  silence hanging from the vast wilderness sky A restless heart hearkening the echoes, imagining  a  runaway  Pullman flew away off the rails,    airborne on the winged wind headed north Winter  pausing  for a moment in  the  shadows  of  familiarity, as if parsing the unspoken breathings in an  echoless  surrendered sigh; uncertain if tacit words set free could ever allow a heart broken         to feel whole again There  is  no  absolving  voice that whispers in a solemner tone :         Death  has  no  mercy  ―   love remains marooned in the wake ,.. and it feels like the world’s gone mad letting time be the arbiter of perpetuity The fading dream of a motherless child; a wish to be held maternally fell to the ground with a thud,         breaking the silence, dissipating formless as the shape of water Muted cold lips so full of questions morphing into fugitive sighs come the unsettled night; when shadows disappear like frail memories that  passed  too  soon  to  grasp, thickly palpable as the warm breath a winter bird alone on frosty branch There’s no fear in braving the darkness in the  winter wilderness of life borne alone There’s no way of knowing what you’ll find down that long empty road back home Life just flashes by silently before your eyes         through the windshield     of countless miles and miles And there’s nothing you can do about it ― It’s like hearing the moment of truth in a lie when all I was looking for was  how I got here in this now,.. yesterday only finding a hopeless poet scribbling  slightly stained pages, spilling  a  bitter  sweet  dream ...         harlon rivers ... February 2018 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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To the freshman sitting alone on the bus Counting the scars on your wrists like train tracks Creating a laundry list of the socially acceptable ways To **** yourself. Wondering if you'll jump off a bridge this year Or bleed out in your bathtub next summer, They'll be watching you. You wish you could tell them they're wrong You're different than all the depressed emo kids in the bad movies Plastered to the television set like gum on the bottoms of desks You're popular But you're not pretty Or happy. To the freshman can I just tell you In four years, you'll be happy. To the freshman can I just tell you You are pretty, you are beautiful, they all love you. To the freshman can I just tell you That the amount of likes you have on your profile picture Equates to dust dissipating in the distance To the freshman can I just tell you The earth's curved wall will keep you grounded as you go through Hell To the freshman can I just tell you You don't know what *** feels like right now But it is both amazing, like birthday balloons racing through your stomach And overrated. To the freshman can I just tell you That a friend's overdose, two grandfathers' deaths, and one suicide later You're still here. To the freshman can I just tell you Losing friends is the only way you know you can rely on yourself It hurts like crazy, but the bleeding heals And you find your own skin was the agent. To the freshman can I just tell you You'll go through horrific fashion trends (Though none worse than the skeletons of middle school) And still come out looking **** To the freshman can I just tell you Graduation is not far away. To the freshman can I just tell you You're going to be ******* fantastic. To the freshman can I just tell you How ******* fantastic it is To grow up to be me.
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Jun 9, 2015
Jun 9, 2015 at 11:30 PM UTC
To the Freshman
To the freshman sitting alone on the bus Counting the scars on your wrists like train tracks Creating a laundry list of the socially acceptable ways To **** yourself. Wondering if you'll jump off a bridge this year Or bleed out in your bathtub next summer, They'll be watching you. You wish you could tell them they're wrong You're different than all the depressed emo kids in the bad movies Plastered to the television set like gum on the bottoms of desks You're popular But you're not pretty Or happy. To the freshman can I just tell you In four years, you'll be happy. To the freshman can I just tell you You are pretty, you are beautiful, they all love you. To the freshman can I just tell you That the amount of likes you have on your profile picture Equates to dust dissipating in the distance To the freshman can I just tell you The earth's curved wall will keep you grounded as you go through Hell To the freshman can I just tell you You don't know what *** feels like right now But it is both amazing, like birthday balloons racing through your stomach And overrated. To the freshman can I just tell you That a friend's overdose, two grandfathers' deaths, and one suicide later You're still here. To the freshman can I just tell you Losing friends is the only way you know you can rely on yourself It hurts like crazy, but the bleeding heals And you find your own skin was the agent. To the freshman can I just tell you You'll go through horrific fashion trends (Though none worse than the skeletons of middle school) And still come out looking **** To the freshman can I just tell you Graduation is not far away. To the freshman can I just tell you You're going to be ******* fantastic. To the freshman can I just tell you How ******* fantastic it is To grow up to be me.
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I can hear my heart beating So loud And so fast Whenever you're around I hear the deafening sound Of the voices in my head Telling me to give up But then I hear your voice Saying good night Even if you just texted that The voices in my head Are slowly dissipating To the sound of your heart Beating So loudly I can hear it And it's music to my ears
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Feb 23, 2014
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:33 PM UTC
i can hear you
Three thousand miles navigating a storm without drop of bad weather Abacus odometer clicks rotating forward ―   spinning with the world go round Circling back down a long and winding road;   where unforgotten memories were once searchingly explored,   untrodden pathways coursing way up north of alone on the low highway    Now an aging shepherd wonders without a compass ; a vagabond deprived of light from an ever blurring north star Heart empty as a gas tank with a broke down gauge, running on fumes of hope for unpromised tomorrows Running from loneliness just to be on the run The gales of silence bellow No feelings I can see ― lay me low Wild-eyed daydreams of Full sails billow out through the windshield, only hearing the unspoken moments sigh restlessly ―     The dull droning road rumble re-sighs renunciatively, a tired monotone voice mimicking the loathe silent echo wallowing in an omnipresent hollow void deriding unspoken chaos between the passing centerlines ― A frost heave pothole erupts, with a leaf-spring rattling thud, as a fleeting cloud of dust arises, set adrift with the draught headed off the east side of the Alcan highway: blown way outside the lines,   towards the Alberta prairie White knuckled steering wheel held sway,  rolling down a beckoning wilderness           reincarnation;  default reset button paused ―  stuck in a moment ― until another jaw rattling frost-heave pothole in the highway,             jars it free Leaving it all behind like a sigh breathed in a silence a heart has outgrown; just a fleeting cloud of dissipating dust,..          a paling whisper the past seems to send forth   like a fading last breath Letting it all unfold to become what it is      harlon rivers ... May 2018        ... travelogue 2 of some
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May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018 at 11:34 AM UTC
Finding lost rivers ― ( a travelogue )
Three thousand miles navigating a storm without drop of bad weather Abacus odometer clicks rotating forward ―   spinning with the world go round Circling back down a long and winding road;   where unforgotten memories were once searchingly explored,   untrodden pathways coursing way up north of alone on the low highway    Now an aging shepherd wonders without a compass ; a vagabond deprived of light from an ever blurring north star Heart empty as a gas tank with a broke down gauge, running on fumes of hope for unpromised tomorrows Running from loneliness just to be on the run The gales of silence bellow No feelings I can see ― lay me low Wild-eyed daydreams of Full sails billow out through the windshield, only hearing the unspoken moments sigh restlessly ―     The dull droning road rumble re-sighs renunciatively, a tired monotone voice mimicking the loathe silent echo wallowing in an omnipresent hollow void deriding unspoken chaos between the passing centerlines ― A frost heave pothole erupts, with a leaf-spring rattling thud, as a fleeting cloud of dust arises, set adrift with the draught headed off the east side of the Alcan highway: blown way outside the lines,   towards the Alberta prairie White knuckled steering wheel held sway,  rolling down a beckoning wilderness           reincarnation;  default reset button paused ―  stuck in a moment ― until another jaw rattling frost-heave pothole in the highway,             jars it free Leaving it all behind like a sigh breathed in a silence a heart has outgrown; just a fleeting cloud of dissipating dust,..          a paling whisper the past seems to send forth   like a fading last breath Letting it all unfold to become what it is      harlon rivers ... May 2018        ... travelogue 2 of some
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Humanity. Humans talk, communicate. Been doing so since the first grunts. For millennia human sounds have filled the airways. Dissipating in the wind. Humanity expanded, communication expanded. Spoken words, written words, flying furiously around the globe. Communications, thoughts, information, most lost to time. Some stuck in the minds of man and moved forward. Engrams tweaked, thinking altered. More people more words. Endless conversations endless thoughts. Ideas, thoughts flying around the globe at light speed. Computers, Internet, social media. Communication increasing   exponentially. Most dissipates some sticks gets passed forward. Such is the way civilization is constructed.
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Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 8:25 AM UTC
Communication
Golden Magnificent Emboldening Transcending Emerging and engaging Merging and integrating I see my Africa Rising as the sun Ascending After a seemingly endless night Propelled by the rising sun I glimpse the eclipse in the horizon Compelled by the morning songs of the African birds I spread my wings ready to fly like an eagle Dark clouds dissipating giving way to light Just as I was anticipating it’s time to fly To freely fly in the blue sky Without treacherous clouds threatening my graceful flight Hovering in the heavens Visualizing all inhabitants Working towards one goal As I play my spirit given role Happy and at peace I sing the African song You have blessed the sun Now in light, I swim You have reduced the darkness Now my light prevails Development is imminent Upon the African Continent
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May 18, 2017
May 18, 2017 at 9:27 AM UTC
African Dawn
alien abductions and cabinets filled with shelved memories of the skeletons on the dark side of the moon radioactive cover ups buried deep beneath chernobyl manholes and short conversations with mutant ghosts dissipating in the morning rain what if a psychopath alien with delusions of grandeur chasing dreams of immortality met a genie who granted him his wish and became the catalyst for the world religions?
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Apr 12, 2014
Apr 12, 2014 at 7:57 PM UTC
Dark Side Thoughts
The bracing raindrops dripping onto the wooden trellis then hitting the stone table i happened to have just woke up when dusk is brewing quietly outside the windowpanes vestigial sleepiness dissipating just as gradually the fluorescent light that's turned on stings my sense of taste for a second and i hear the sounds of a busy kitchen the summer heat is gone for now i kept myself occupied all afternoon checking and reading on my phone if time could stand still I'd actually like it to stay like this people are in a smooth peaceful mood it seems like they were years ago it also seems perhaps it will happen again like years from now.
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Oct 21, 2023
Oct 21, 2023 at 8:12 AM UTC
Rain-speckled sunset
the curling smoke from warming fires rise into the slate gray sky of the Beqaa Valley sheaves of rising prayers expire in twisted plumes dissipating into the gloom of an ever looming winter overcast refugees from the Arab Spring's uncivil wars gather for warmth around waning embers, smoldering in the underbelly of the lowliest bottom of rusted steel drums, tended with scavenged debris some thought better suited to fortify the faltering hovels of last resort the fires join us in communal rings straining the tenuous links of brotherhood, the politics of men assiduously tear asunder we count ourselves among the fortunate, blessed exiles recused from the acrimony of desecrated cities, welcoming the residencies of bewailing lullabies of colic infants, the searing hunger of stunted children and the incomprehensible babble the elderly eloquently speak in tongues of a desperate exasperation our nagging impotence swaddle us in ambivalent inabilities to master circumstances profanely denigrating our humanity privation is our daily bread the bitter manna feasting on the animosity the banquet of rancor generously prepares for peace starved pilgrims in these refugee camps the cold cuts deeper hunger pangs grow sharper our blighted dignity, vanished livelihoods, and the presence of recently interred loved ones trudge through our mean encampment as fully enfranchised citizens in our distressed kingdom what was lost can never be recovered our homeland leveled yet doors still stand open silently pleading all to cross a new threshold the full restoration of our hope, the reconstitution of our flagging humanity, the spark of the holy spirit willfully uniting us in the salvation of reconciliation is nigh we are the divine children stoking the embers tending the fire that light pathways through the cold darkness of a broken world Oh come Emmanuel, dwell among us Oh come Emmanuel ransom once again the poor captives of Israel…. Selah Music Selection: L'Accorche-Choeur, Ensemble vocal Fribourg Veni Veni Emmanuel Everywhere Christmas 2013 jbm
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Dec 24, 2013
Dec 24, 2013 at 10:48 AM UTC
Emmanuel
the curling smoke from warming fires rise into the slate gray sky of the Beqaa Valley sheaves of rising prayers expire in twisted plumes dissipating into the gloom of an ever looming winter overcast refugees from the Arab Spring's uncivil wars gather for warmth around waning embers, smoldering in the underbelly of the lowliest bottom of rusted steel drums, tended with scavenged debris some thought better suited to fortify the faltering hovels of last resort the fires join us in communal rings straining the tenuous links of brotherhood, the politics of men assiduously tear asunder we count ourselves among the fortunate, blessed exiles recused from the acrimony of desecrated cities, welcoming the residencies of bewailing lullabies of colic infants, the searing hunger of stunted children and the incomprehensible babble the elderly eloquently speak in tongues of a desperate exasperation our nagging impotence swaddle us in ambivalent inabilities to master circumstances profanely denigrating our humanity privation is our daily bread the bitter manna feasting on the animosity the banquet of rancor generously prepares for peace starved pilgrims in these refugee camps the cold cuts deeper hunger pangs grow sharper our blighted dignity, vanished livelihoods, and the presence of recently interred loved ones trudge through our mean encampment as fully enfranchised citizens in our distressed kingdom what was lost can never be recovered our homeland leveled yet doors still stand open silently pleading all to cross a new threshold the full restoration of our hope, the reconstitution of our flagging humanity, the spark of the holy spirit willfully uniting us in the salvation of reconciliation is nigh we are the divine children stoking the embers tending the fire that light pathways through the cold darkness of a broken world Oh come Emmanuel, dwell among us Oh come Emmanuel ransom once again the poor captives of Israel…. Selah Music Selection: L'Accorche-Choeur, Ensemble vocal Fribourg Veni Veni Emmanuel Everywhere Christmas 2013 jbm
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Is a realm where alchemy is alive and well It resides in the aether making it difficult to envision A place of dreams but if you are imaginative There is also structure Dreams without structure are just whispers of nothingness Quickly dissipating Without structure, dreams quickly fold back into the aether Waiting for a less superfluous re-imagination To make it on the physical plane, there must be roots When dreams are infused with structure, roots can be found There is potential that those dreams can wake up When the dreams are provided with structure and Are re-animated with function Then we have a breath of life Structure and function are what allows Us To step out of dreamtime and into reality To find the roots of that architecture you must have vision Not see with your eyes vision, but a different type This framework hasn’t always existed Relations have created it That’s why it’s recognizable The framework are the laws, both natural and synthetic It’s the place where duality and non-duality collide It’s a place of transcendence A place of truth Maybe we can learn to see holistically here Anisotropica has many functions It’s art and science fused It’s poetry and song and dance And mathematics and physics and chemistry It is an expression of sacred geometry An amalgamation of binary and analog The fusion of dreams and laws Creates a space that can be mined for transcendence A place where we can extend past many current limitations It's a springboard to become who you are
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Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 4:26 PM UTC
Anisotropica
Is a realm where alchemy is alive and well It resides in the aether making it difficult to envision A place of dreams but if you are imaginative There is also structure Dreams without structure are just whispers of nothingness Quickly dissipating Without structure, dreams quickly fold back into the aether Waiting for a less superfluous re-imagination To make it on the physical plane, there must be roots When dreams are infused with structure, roots can be found There is potential that those dreams can wake up When the dreams are provided with structure and Are re-animated with function Then we have a breath of life Structure and function are what allows Us To step out of dreamtime and into reality To find the roots of that architecture you must have vision Not see with your eyes vision, but a different type This framework hasn’t always existed Relations have created it That’s why it’s recognizable The framework are the laws, both natural and synthetic It’s the place where duality and non-duality collide It’s a place of transcendence A place of truth Maybe we can learn to see holistically here Anisotropica has many functions It’s art and science fused It’s poetry and song and dance And mathematics and physics and chemistry It is an expression of sacred geometry An amalgamation of binary and analog The fusion of dreams and laws Creates a space that can be mined for transcendence A place where we can extend past many current limitations It's a springboard to become who you are
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