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Tool of desperate confrontation Object of pride for a grateful nation In Baton Rouge on the mighty river Kidd rests proudly 376' length overall,  Fletcher Class destroyer Like every ship, of oil she does smell When I boarded her, she had something to tell I was with a scoutmaster, my son and the boys Concerned with their fun, and the making of noise But late in the night, as quiet set in Kidd started whispering, to my within She spoke of the men who gave up their lives Their children, their girls, the tears of their wives Thirty-eight men, in fiery fuel Hell's agony touched, a death so cruel Fifty-five more, burned badly that day Defending our country, our homage we pay Visiting sailors will stand at attention … and for a young Kamikaze, scarcely a mention The big war was over, Kidd passed her test Now to San Diego, for a permanent rest But as men will prescribe, it didn’t last long Kidd went back into action, near Korea’s Kaesong When in Baton Rouge, you can visit the Kidd If you’re bold, listen carefully, just as I did You'll get half of the story, the rest we don't know The men who have fallen, to Kidd's mighty blow Let's set a new tone and have us some fun The Kidd's crew were pirates but they didn't run *** Those flat-tops were fancy, their flyers elite In the galley was ice-cream, their reward and their treat When a pilot was downed, Kidd quickly steamed Then radioed the skipper, "your man for  ice-cream"
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Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018 at 5:46 PM UTC
A Poignant Night On The USS KIDD
The Ashes of a million souls drift down to the Baranco Wall and Moorland. Seventeen thousand feet is All Deep and dead is the cap on Kilimanjaro. If a tree falls in the Forrest. you will hear it on Kilimanjaro. Haunting stones on Easter Island whisper in the dead of night and speak to Kilimanjaro. Pitcairn Island far and lost. Fletcher Christians mournful ghost wails and screams as the Bounty burned a light seen from The Kilimanjaro. Supai City Arizona in the bowels of the gaping gorge looks out to Kilimanjaro. Oymyakon Siberia. Minus 93 degrees. chatter and freeze akin to The Kilimanjaro World ends in the stratosphere Fight for breath face you fears. Where minutes pass like plodding years in grasp of Kilimanjaro.
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 3:01 AM UTC
Snowfall On Kilimanjaro
things that fall: petals teardrops snowflakes rain stars time shadows leaves the sun and me for you
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 4:26 PM UTC
for ashton fletcher irwin
Keith W Fletcher July 28 2016 In spirit I'm  the Dark Horse Fading into shadows of doubts Optimism rides upon my back Yet it's not enough to turn me From those obscure routes Where I too often find my solace In the echoes of my silent world As I run from my own hoofbeats That I have been chasing   None hears  the distant thud From far below those lofty heights Where I so often find Myself  being hurled In absence I'm an empty space Where once a possibility had existed Like those gentle summer winds That moves along  unnoticed Until dust or debris swirls around Acknowledging the air That in my passing through... ... has just been twisted In memory I am a faded color Where no reference of what was... .....allows comparison So no photograph Or artistic rendering Can ever capture the true identity... ....Of a shadow lost in shadow Once the fading out has begun In legacy I left a trail Well worn and beaten wide As I never took The straight and narrow I've always  preferred... ... to move from side to side So  please...do not illuminate The beloved shadows zones Along the trail For  these are the places to take more time Feeling the presence of all the ghosts Those reminders of my dead dreams I've left along there To haunt me Reminders of those times I fail But that cliff edge Where I  so often  hurled myself To crash below In muted And too often painful Solitaire Evolutions That step off spot Where my tracks end That is mine and mine alone Just as is ... That Hallowed Ground... ... where  I land And where I lay... until I stand To dust myself off.. or weep So should I choose to curse my soul I want no one else around
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Oct 8, 2016
Oct 8, 2016 at 4:48 AM UTC
The Echos of my silent world
Keith W Fletcher July 28 2016 In spirit I'm  the Dark Horse Fading into shadows of doubts Optimism rides upon my back Yet it's not enough to turn me From those obscure routes Where I too often find my solace In the echoes of my silent world As I run from my own hoofbeats That I have been chasing   None hears  the distant thud From far below those lofty heights Where I so often find Myself  being hurled In absence I'm an empty space Where once a possibility had existed Like those gentle summer winds That moves along  unnoticed Until dust or debris swirls around Acknowledging the air That in my passing through... ... has just been twisted In memory I am a faded color Where no reference of what was... .....allows comparison So no photograph Or artistic rendering Can ever capture the true identity... ....Of a shadow lost in shadow Once the fading out has begun In legacy I left a trail Well worn and beaten wide As I never took The straight and narrow I've always  preferred... ... to move from side to side So  please...do not illuminate The beloved shadows zones Along the trail For  these are the places to take more time Feeling the presence of all the ghosts Those reminders of my dead dreams I've left along there To haunt me Reminders of those times I fail But that cliff edge Where I  so often  hurled myself To crash below In muted And too often painful Solitaire Evolutions That step off spot Where my tracks end That is mine and mine alone Just as is ... That Hallowed Ground... ... where  I land And where I lay... until I stand To dust myself off.. or weep So should I choose to curse my soul I want no one else around
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Keith W Fletcher Jul 1 2016 Be still my thumping heart Before you burst straight through flesh  and bone Upon hearing  words your life you never expected to ever hear Bringing life back to a heart once solid as a Stone Allowing blood to flow through your now coursing veins That had all but ceased to circulate through In this cold and barren atmosphere where I've always had a fear  Living was just wasted on those like me who have never had a clue What love was like beyond This barren land in which we've lived Should living be any way to describe That which we have been doing Encased in a cocoon of solid misery Intent upon the dead reckoning course  so long  in pursuing So caution please when intending to send any hope To those who have all but died inside while waiting for Redemption Are often shriveled husks of once proud but misunderstood beings Who have lost any and all True image of themselves Loveless  lives lost In animated suspension So carefull now as you have started Life Coursing through my frame No memory of what I should be That I have never had -Fear reaches out to grab the arm setting off the silent alarm That screams a warning to self preserve Or you will go Stark raving mad STARK     RAVING     MAD!!! But death  cannot be far removed from this' non - life refrain So if my heart should burst this day to be shattered into dust I should take the chance Letting circumstance Guide my weary steps Taking the hand of you Who is now reaching out I give my all.....all that I possess... .... I give you my trust
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Oct 8, 2016
Oct 8, 2016 at 9:57 AM UTC
I am but flesh and bone
Keith W Fletcher Jul 1 2016 Be still my thumping heart Before you burst straight through flesh  and bone Upon hearing  words your life you never expected to ever hear Bringing life back to a heart once solid as a Stone Allowing blood to flow through your now coursing veins That had all but ceased to circulate through In this cold and barren atmosphere where I've always had a fear  Living was just wasted on those like me who have never had a clue What love was like beyond This barren land in which we've lived Should living be any way to describe That which we have been doing Encased in a cocoon of solid misery Intent upon the dead reckoning course  so long  in pursuing So caution please when intending to send any hope To those who have all but died inside while waiting for Redemption Are often shriveled husks of once proud but misunderstood beings Who have lost any and all True image of themselves Loveless  lives lost In animated suspension So carefull now as you have started Life Coursing through my frame No memory of what I should be That I have never had -Fear reaches out to grab the arm setting off the silent alarm That screams a warning to self preserve Or you will go Stark raving mad STARK     RAVING     MAD!!! But death  cannot be far removed from this' non - life refrain So if my heart should burst this day to be shattered into dust I should take the chance Letting circumstance Guide my weary steps Taking the hand of you Who is now reaching out I give my all.....all that I possess... .... I give you my trust
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Come on down to your Fletcher’s Store It has all your needs to complete your chore Marshal has it all you see? Be it tools or p.p.e. Obtaining kit is not that hard If you have your induction card But without your little piece of plastic The treatment you get could well be drastic Other than that, a cost code will do That will prevent any further ado If Marshal is otherwise indisposed Help is near, it has been disclosed His faithful helper Spiderman Will always help you where he can On the PC he also goes Logged on as Marshal, I suppose But back to the master of the store He knows what’s behind every closed door What stock he has, he knows off hand spanners, raincoats , every little gland a special order or a request You can be sure, he’ll do his best He is a man of his word At toolboxes you may have heard Laying down the law, giving you grief Hoping to catch the lowly thief Spending time with him, I have found He is a rock, steadfast, morally sound And if at times you may need a friend Someone to listen, maybe an ear to bend Someone there, sound and steady You can count on Marshal Geddie. Ernest 28 July 2011 (VPT)
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Jul 28, 2011
Jul 28, 2011 at 10:49 PM UTC
Marshal G
Righteous anger is justifiable. When it is called a pillage by those who do not understand, or those being enacted upon, it's context seems savage. When in fact, this anger is in its complete right. A reasonable length of time to be angry is as long as the injustice prevails. Where are we, if not in a place where justice is considered the norm? We are here. Standing upon our own bones in a burial ground we built ourselves, By unceasingly digging graves for all of our problems and hoping the earth would provide wealth to our homeless. Sometimes burying a problem only feeds it. Instead of hiding it, we bury it in a shallow grave. We allow it's toxicity to seep into our gardens, into our watering holes. And it poisons us, it feeds us with inhuman practices guarded by a Cerberus built of lies. Lies so poor in foundation we wind up burying our dead right along shallow graves. Graves having constantly more and more dirt thrown upon them, failing to understand that a deeper hole couldn't even fix what handfuls of dirt sprinkled atop shallow graves are believed to. So, Perhaps the time has come. For the dead to rise, because it's the dead who suffer. Poisoned while resting in supposed peace. Perhaps it's time the dead find their expired hour glasses and empty them. Refill them with gunpowder and make due for lost time. Maybe these overgrown infants deserve the lesson, the one they fail to realize. That shallow graves are swept aside by heavy rains. That the dead don't rise on command, and that they lie in stillness by their own accord. The streets need to ride the rising tides and open the empty plots. To begin writing the eulogies and engraving the tombstones. To commemorate the last of a dying breed. And bury them in the cemetery behind the Heroes of Failed Revolutions. Bury them in the graveyard that lies in the back of The Fletcher Memorial Home For Incurable Tyrants and Kings.
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Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 8:56 PM UTC
The Fletcher Memorial Home For Incurable Tyrants and Kings
Righteous anger is justifiable. When it is called a pillage by those who do not understand, or those being enacted upon, it's context seems savage. When in fact, this anger is in its complete right. A reasonable length of time to be angry is as long as the injustice prevails. Where are we, if not in a place where justice is considered the norm? We are here. Standing upon our own bones in a burial ground we built ourselves, By unceasingly digging graves for all of our problems and hoping the earth would provide wealth to our homeless. Sometimes burying a problem only feeds it. Instead of hiding it, we bury it in a shallow grave. We allow it's toxicity to seep into our gardens, into our watering holes. And it poisons us, it feeds us with inhuman practices guarded by a Cerberus built of lies. Lies so poor in foundation we wind up burying our dead right along shallow graves. Graves having constantly more and more dirt thrown upon them, failing to understand that a deeper hole couldn't even fix what handfuls of dirt sprinkled atop shallow graves are believed to. So, Perhaps the time has come. For the dead to rise, because it's the dead who suffer. Poisoned while resting in supposed peace. Perhaps it's time the dead find their expired hour glasses and empty them. Refill them with gunpowder and make due for lost time. Maybe these overgrown infants deserve the lesson, the one they fail to realize. That shallow graves are swept aside by heavy rains. That the dead don't rise on command, and that they lie in stillness by their own accord. The streets need to ride the rising tides and open the empty plots. To begin writing the eulogies and engraving the tombstones. To commemorate the last of a dying breed. And bury them in the cemetery behind the Heroes of Failed Revolutions. Bury them in the graveyard that lies in the back of The Fletcher Memorial Home For Incurable Tyrants and Kings.
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for the students lost in World War II 1. Kids. Could they have understood this "sacrifice"? 2. Kids, on the edge of living, about to dip into life. 3. Kids: epitaphs, Sunday daydreams, skeletons wrapped in flags. 4. Kids whose lives are packed into one plaque near Hardy Tower, tucked behind bushes by the biology labs. 5. Kids stop every so often, linger a moment over the names, mouthing one or two before scooting off to class.
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 9:22 PM UTC
The Fletcher Chimes at San Diego State
**** i was just thinking about porridge... no... not Fletcher, Ronnie Barker... **** what was i thinking of? Quaker Oats? it's not even funny... what was it? ah... black Hollywood taking over... Denzel doing his Zen and D-end **** Black Panther... Black Panther?! ha ha... is that some sort of Pink Panther spoof?! the Prodigy did a song for a movie... one man army... oh... right... you've forgotten its existence... now we're getting all the activism revival revamp? Black Panther is like Pink Panther.... a ******* joke.... does anyone even begin to comprehend... Spawn?! Spawn is the reason why Batman became Lego... honest to god, scouts' honor... wait wait... so Spawn is bleak? you know, that Lethal Weapon II South Africa exchange... but but.. you're bleak! or whatever the best coordinate association is... with the mister-race... who the **** wants to be the Black Panther?! all the crumpets / chiseled retrograde crackers... guess it's good i'm not slang for milk0boy... ****** lactose intolerant? too bad... how about i **** off your ma ma? Black Panther is ******** who wants to be Black Panther? probably some educated counter to a Kanye West commentator... Spawn... all d-way... v-way... but you know... we figured: difference are so that we get a chance to matter... minstrel does the shuffle... Black Panther my *** compared to Spawn? looks like... the KKK embarked on an appeasement treaty.... compared to Spawn, Black Panther, it makes Dave Chappelle look like, ******* michael mcintyre... which is funny... funny... only when eating chips and being attacked by a flock of seagulls... oi... watch this... Black Panther propagandists... who've never seen a minute's worth of the film Spawn, which could make any white boy say... **** Batman, i wanna be Spawn. wankers. there's no culture war to be spoken of... given that the said victories and losses are so banal... the, "war" hasn't even started... and said people are claiming either victories or losses... we haven't even started!
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Oct 20, 2018
Oct 20, 2018 at 10:59 PM UTC
late wakers
**** i was just thinking about porridge... no... not Fletcher, Ronnie Barker... **** what was i thinking of? Quaker Oats? it's not even funny... what was it? ah... black Hollywood taking over... Denzel doing his Zen and D-end **** Black Panther... Black Panther?! ha ha... is that some sort of Pink Panther spoof?! the Prodigy did a song for a movie... one man army... oh... right... you've forgotten its existence... now we're getting all the activism revival revamp? Black Panther is like Pink Panther.... a ******* joke.... does anyone even begin to comprehend... Spawn?! Spawn is the reason why Batman became Lego... honest to god, scouts' honor... wait wait... so Spawn is bleak? you know, that Lethal Weapon II South Africa exchange... but but.. you're bleak! or whatever the best coordinate association is... with the mister-race... who the **** wants to be the Black Panther?! all the crumpets / chiseled retrograde crackers... guess it's good i'm not slang for milk0boy... ****** lactose intolerant? too bad... how about i **** off your ma ma? Black Panther is ******** who wants to be Black Panther? probably some educated counter to a Kanye West commentator... Spawn... all d-way... v-way... but you know... we figured: difference are so that we get a chance to matter... minstrel does the shuffle... Black Panther my *** compared to Spawn? looks like... the KKK embarked on an appeasement treaty.... compared to Spawn, Black Panther, it makes Dave Chappelle look like, ******* michael mcintyre... which is funny... funny... only when eating chips and being attacked by a flock of seagulls... oi... watch this... Black Panther propagandists... who've never seen a minute's worth of the film Spawn, which could make any white boy say... **** Batman, i wanna be Spawn. wankers. there's no culture war to be spoken of... given that the said victories and losses are so banal... the, "war" hasn't even started... and said people are claiming either victories or losses... we haven't even started!
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Before we begin let us begin with the silly name tags we've all been given I'm Hank Fletcher and you'll be Roger Malore. Ride up ride up ! Come collect your coat buckets let's dance a merry boogie under the sinking sun I'll wear purple dancing shoes so you'll spot me in the crowd and leave the silver wear at home please darling, I haven't a pocket to spare for all of your loose change or all of your first change or last change no long change either I'll take 3 fingers of radical change though and have seven chasers of rabbits down holes and wouldn't you know I don't think we'd stop even if we could we've only got goats of friendship on leopards nooses down by the ally did I mention you've got a friend in me? yes, please he can't stay any longer he's eaten up all of my pastries and done a huge mural of the french revolution in the bathroom I can't stand the sight of ****** man ***** as I try to poo god lord, would you believe he's done all the horses as well. Now, now, **** it in we'll never catch a break if you just give out frankincense every time you find a **** attractive.
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 10:19 PM UTC
Sneezed.
Azure limelight faded grey by the bewilderment I am the King of All living, we remember infested as the bunny and pine tree weeping as mothers marry off their siblings why wear white at weddings, why wish to be a innocent a bottle of gin is a grin tonic for a child to see as an aching smell of visions last saw as if Calvary was a horseman weilding a Lance A tree to Long for us, grown in the desert Already Peace flown in pure reverence Sang real The Last Great Initiate, Oh Reign, Reign, Rain, Rain, Reins, Reins Dye his skin with the empowered wish of will A well endless to stare through is warp drive A might so glorious we all must avert our eyes, a New Motion a **** gorgon, to start the serpentine on the sabbath to revolve and molt in a revolutionary vulcan grip to fly to the sky with birds writ uplift delight, delicious, appeal. zeal, feel Iesus covered in Liquid Cheeses Sweet Fleeces its Christmas Season Solar Deities yummy as Pizzas A pie in the Sky is my age divided by the week A pipe dream plumbed with gooey memories the weaken ends of my jeans faded blue from seventy charred black as the temples crystals phase out painted-glass Murals too light to be mailed, too large to be contained by an envelope too short to fit in the door way, too effulgent to weigh on the scale Pi sees Men, laughing as a woman changing clothes on a curbside speaking seventeen in one hand, zero at the bone in the other IhavebeenChanced, Iamexceed, Iamtheether, Iamsanctioned Fletcher Night: folllow your heart
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 8:09 AM UTC
Aura Aurora
Azure limelight faded grey by the bewilderment I am the King of All living, we remember infested as the bunny and pine tree weeping as mothers marry off their siblings why wear white at weddings, why wish to be a innocent a bottle of gin is a grin tonic for a child to see as an aching smell of visions last saw as if Calvary was a horseman weilding a Lance A tree to Long for us, grown in the desert Already Peace flown in pure reverence Sang real The Last Great Initiate, Oh Reign, Reign, Rain, Rain, Reins, Reins Dye his skin with the empowered wish of will A well endless to stare through is warp drive A might so glorious we all must avert our eyes, a New Motion a **** gorgon, to start the serpentine on the sabbath to revolve and molt in a revolutionary vulcan grip to fly to the sky with birds writ uplift delight, delicious, appeal. zeal, feel Iesus covered in Liquid Cheeses Sweet Fleeces its Christmas Season Solar Deities yummy as Pizzas A pie in the Sky is my age divided by the week A pipe dream plumbed with gooey memories the weaken ends of my jeans faded blue from seventy charred black as the temples crystals phase out painted-glass Murals too light to be mailed, too large to be contained by an envelope too short to fit in the door way, too effulgent to weigh on the scale Pi sees Men, laughing as a woman changing clothes on a curbside speaking seventeen in one hand, zero at the bone in the other IhavebeenChanced, Iamexceed, Iamtheether, Iamsanctioned Fletcher Night: folllow your heart
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Angela Lansbury has perished after living for nearly ninety-seven years. In 1948, she starred in "State Of The Union" and "The Three Musketeers". When she starred as a murderess in "Please ****** Me!", her co-star was Raymond Burr. She is best known for starring in ****** She Wrote" and people will always remember her. She starred in "Death On The Nile", "Lace" and "The Mirror Crack'd". Angela became famous because talent wasn't something she lacked. Many will remember her as "Jessica Fletcher" which was a role that she portrayed for many years. Angela is dead and when her friends and family attend her funeral, they will grieve and shed tears.
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Oct 14, 2022
Oct 14, 2022 at 6:50 PM UTC
Angela Lansbury
Irony often oozes the blood stain That history will use to paint An honest portrait of erstwhile deeds Or to turn some altered soul to saint Few are those that exist within the mist Who loom larger than the shadow portrays And seldom does a shadow exist undiminished By the dreariest of all darkest days So when seeking blood in passionate resolve There comes a mordant aberration of unheralded stature Rising to fly above mortal attributes into unremitted immortality By assiduous conviction born of monstrous evil of unparalleled scale Born among the Carpathian mountains From the ancient and mysterious Transylvanian forests One who seeks blood for righteous alliterations Not for glory but for the saving grace A quest to alleviate all alien allagory   alligned along the meandering memories of non-mordant minded men No imagery conjured by Bram Stoker thru Van Helsing Encompasses the unmitigated reality seen The lifelong - still beating strong - near century long shadow of the denizen of our brightest outlook The creation of circumstance as much as man ( unkind ) made Maybe unheralded by too many For such a knave am I so sorely cursed now... With shame I ...who have always strived to drape myself in the raiment of the eternal optimist Now pay overdue homage to the true and absolute optimist      BEN FERENCZ.... Is his name Seek out his story now .. .while he still lives Reach back .. Into those dark, dreary days To share what history gives and you will see what he means     when he say's      " I'm Right. "      For I truly know that he is!          Keith w. Fletcher       Humbled by the humanity exhibited.
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Apr 12, 2018
Apr 12, 2018 at 8:26 AM UTC
Transylvanian Knight
Irony often oozes the blood stain That history will use to paint An honest portrait of erstwhile deeds Or to turn some altered soul to saint Few are those that exist within the mist Who loom larger than the shadow portrays And seldom does a shadow exist undiminished By the dreariest of all darkest days So when seeking blood in passionate resolve There comes a mordant aberration of unheralded stature Rising to fly above mortal attributes into unremitted immortality By assiduous conviction born of monstrous evil of unparalleled scale Born among the Carpathian mountains From the ancient and mysterious Transylvanian forests One who seeks blood for righteous alliterations Not for glory but for the saving grace A quest to alleviate all alien allagory   alligned along the meandering memories of non-mordant minded men No imagery conjured by Bram Stoker thru Van Helsing Encompasses the unmitigated reality seen The lifelong - still beating strong - near century long shadow of the denizen of our brightest outlook The creation of circumstance as much as man ( unkind ) made Maybe unheralded by too many For such a knave am I so sorely cursed now... With shame I ...who have always strived to drape myself in the raiment of the eternal optimist Now pay overdue homage to the true and absolute optimist      BEN FERENCZ.... Is his name Seek out his story now .. .while he still lives Reach back .. Into those dark, dreary days To share what history gives and you will see what he means     when he say's      " I'm Right. "      For I truly know that he is!          Keith w. Fletcher       Humbled by the humanity exhibited.
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I wish I wish I liked STEM I perpetuate the stereotype, women studying English, and art, and languages My love of the arts, and the humanities, Is regressing women's history But it is my right My right to study art, and languages, and theatre Women's empowerment And fight for equality, is so I can study humanities, and Tiera Fletcher could study rocket science
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Feb 20, 2020
Feb 20, 2020 at 2:29 PM UTC
STEM or The Arts
Keith W Fletcher March 9th 2016 Watching him that first day He stepped out into sunshine Stood staring around as if lost Then took ten steps to stare at the sign Memorial Hospital was what it read And I couldn't imagine what thoughts We're transpiring inside his head I followed at a distance To see what his day would bring No thought of interacting or distracting Just along with him I would string He walked along for a mile or two Just taking in the sights And I almost started laughing out loud As he fell backwards staring at some kites Felt better when he took a  seat He  just seemed to find pleasure walking Easily he was distracted By the birds the flowers or the kites To these he was extremely attracted What goes through his mind This huge hulking man of carved stone On the third day the sat on a bench for 5 hours Staring out at the ocean seeing something.... ....something only he was shown Those  4 days ...that early June I followed him around... ... everyday 9 a.m. to Twilight's dimming Veil So Friday morning was - as usual 8:30 a.m. coffee at the Sidewalk Cafe Then I saw him... .... standing at the rail! Once I noticed him He stepped around and approached "Excuse me" he said " do I know you?" "I've noticed you've been following me But I haven't known what to do I think ....I think... I have it figured out though" Then he smiled a smile and cocked his head. "I'd be very pleased if today you would walk with me Unless you'd like to continue following along instead "Although" he softly said " I'd be grateful To share with you Each wonderful new surprise And see the joy on your face Knowing ... That I'm seeing it all... ... for the very first time. Through your father's eyes!" There are some things in life that are not to be denied for right then and there I laid my head down on my crossed arms and I cried and I cried until  I regained my ability to talk While this man stood stood quietly ...solid as stone. Then i said YES it is a lovely day and i would love to accompany you on YOUR walk ..thank you.
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Oct 22, 2016
Oct 22, 2016 at 7:35 AM UTC
Donations from the heart.
Keith W Fletcher March 9th 2016 Watching him that first day He stepped out into sunshine Stood staring around as if lost Then took ten steps to stare at the sign Memorial Hospital was what it read And I couldn't imagine what thoughts We're transpiring inside his head I followed at a distance To see what his day would bring No thought of interacting or distracting Just along with him I would string He walked along for a mile or two Just taking in the sights And I almost started laughing out loud As he fell backwards staring at some kites Felt better when he took a  seat He  just seemed to find pleasure walking Easily he was distracted By the birds the flowers or the kites To these he was extremely attracted What goes through his mind This huge hulking man of carved stone On the third day the sat on a bench for 5 hours Staring out at the ocean seeing something.... ....something only he was shown Those  4 days ...that early June I followed him around... ... everyday 9 a.m. to Twilight's dimming Veil So Friday morning was - as usual 8:30 a.m. coffee at the Sidewalk Cafe Then I saw him... .... standing at the rail! Once I noticed him He stepped around and approached "Excuse me" he said " do I know you?" "I've noticed you've been following me But I haven't known what to do I think ....I think... I have it figured out though" Then he smiled a smile and cocked his head. "I'd be very pleased if today you would walk with me Unless you'd like to continue following along instead "Although" he softly said " I'd be grateful To share with you Each wonderful new surprise And see the joy on your face Knowing ... That I'm seeing it all... ... for the very first time. Through your father's eyes!" There are some things in life that are not to be denied for right then and there I laid my head down on my crossed arms and I cried and I cried until  I regained my ability to talk While this man stood stood quietly ...solid as stone. Then i said YES it is a lovely day and i would love to accompany you on YOUR walk ..thank you.
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Wish I could get a little undrunk So I could uncall you At 5 in the morning, I would unfuck you Honestly, this party's over Everyone here should've gone home But I'm afraid of being sober 'Cause the first thing I do when I'm alone I start touching myself to the photos That you used to send me I should've deleted, but kept it a secret Is that crazy to do? So I squeeze out the lime on the ice of My drink And the juice hits the cuts on my fingers It still doesn't burn as much as the thought of you Wish I could get a little undrunk so I could uncall you At 5 in the morning, I would unfuck you But some things you can't undo I wish I could unkiss the room full of strangers So I could unspite you, unlose my temper But somethings you can't undo And one of them's you I'm afraid to turn the lights on I don't want to face this rebound Is it weird if I come over? I want to, but I know that she's around So I'm touching myself to the photos That you used to send me I should have deleted, but kept it a secret Is that crazy to do? Oh, I'm hungry and wasted and my hands are shaking I shouldn't be cooking but spilling hot water It still doesn't burn as much as the thought of you Wish I could get a little undrunk so I could uncall you At 5 in the morning, I would unfuck you But some things you can't undo I wish I could unkiss the room full of strangers So I could unspite you, unlose my temper But somethings you can't undo And one of them's you Got through every emotion Right now I'm sad, I'm broken But the bottles in the floor I'm to buzzed to clean them up Wish I could get a little undrunk So I could, I could unlove you Wish I could get a little undrunk so I could uncall you At 5 in the morning, I would unfuck you But some things you can't undo I wish I could unkiss the room full of strangers So I could unspite you, unlose my temper But somethings you can't undo And one of them's You You, you Wish I could unlove you You, you, you Wish I could uncall you You, you, you Wish I could unfuck you You Wish I could unlove you
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Mar 14, 2019
Mar 14, 2019 at 12:13 PM UTC
Undrunk (by Fletcher)
Wish I could get a little undrunk So I could uncall you At 5 in the morning, I would unfuck you Honestly, this party's over Everyone here should've gone home But I'm afraid of being sober 'Cause the first thing I do when I'm alone I start touching myself to the photos That you used to send me I should've deleted, but kept it a secret Is that crazy to do? So I squeeze out the lime on the ice of My drink And the juice hits the cuts on my fingers It still doesn't burn as much as the thought of you Wish I could get a little undrunk so I could uncall you At 5 in the morning, I would unfuck you But some things you can't undo I wish I could unkiss the room full of strangers So I could unspite you, unlose my temper But somethings you can't undo And one of them's you I'm afraid to turn the lights on I don't want to face this rebound Is it weird if I come over? I want to, but I know that she's around So I'm touching myself to the photos That you used to send me I should have deleted, but kept it a secret Is that crazy to do? Oh, I'm hungry and wasted and my hands are shaking I shouldn't be cooking but spilling hot water It still doesn't burn as much as the thought of you Wish I could get a little undrunk so I could uncall you At 5 in the morning, I would unfuck you But some things you can't undo I wish I could unkiss the room full of strangers So I could unspite you, unlose my temper But somethings you can't undo And one of them's you Got through every emotion Right now I'm sad, I'm broken But the bottles in the floor I'm to buzzed to clean them up Wish I could get a little undrunk So I could, I could unlove you Wish I could get a little undrunk so I could uncall you At 5 in the morning, I would unfuck you But some things you can't undo I wish I could unkiss the room full of strangers So I could unspite you, unlose my temper But somethings you can't undo And one of them's You You, you Wish I could unlove you You, you, you Wish I could uncall you You, you, you Wish I could unfuck you You Wish I could unlove you
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****** she Wrote? I only ever saw Jessica Fletcher type.
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Jan 28, 2016
Jan 28, 2016 at 7:26 AM UTC
#10word Author.
Hello, Poetry?  Keith W Fletcher   Poems     Dec 2016 Back from the edge It will soon mark 7 long silent filled years since the pain and depression that ended up inspiring this poem. During the band days of yesteryear we always had a chance to get together on this type of summer/ autumn holidays and raise hell and make noise and it was like a big family, so I repost this one here for whatever I can get out of it this time and for all that are ln need, for then (by all means) especially for you as well! As if from out of nowhere  Gnarled Twisted fingers  With jagged rusting fingernails  Reached out ... Grabbing me  Dragging me... Back  From going over the precipice   Stopping the headlong tumble  Into that deep dark echoless Abyss  At that critical moment  of complete systems failure ...When the call of the Void  Seems impossible to deny   Convinced  That falling through the darkness  Would seem as if I could fly Ive sensed  that the siren song was calling to me  As it had been all along   So ,Just as I let Go ... Leaning in  Relinquishing control  Those wrinkled withered hands With the Twisted gnarled fingers And those rusted over fingernails Pulled me back... With  Strength incomprehensible   Freeing a Sinister scream of agony  Pure pain and despair  Ripping out and splitting the air  As it rose up from the depths  Of that deep Darkness... that  Echoless void   Someone had reached out...  ... To save me  So I turned to see who... it was  That had pulled me back Wondering how it is...  ... That they knew   There was no one there  Just the last fading remnants  Of a shadow on the wall  So I smile to the Fates  As I gather paper and pen  Making a note for my future Lest I ever forget and Tumble back in   Then with withered and wrinkled hands  I Hold Steady to the notepad  With rusting fingernail adorned  Twisted and gnarled fingers  I begin A whole different flight  As I begin to write Keith W Fletcher Written by Keith W Fletcher  Oklahoma                490        naǧí, Ryn, Ami Shae, Keith Wilson, J Robert Fallon III, and 1 other Ami Shae  Ami Shae  Wow!!! This is one of the best writes I've ever read! Gives me hope! Thank you!!!   0      1 reply   Dec 2016
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Jul 4, 2019
Jul 4, 2019 at 7:24 PM UTC
Back from the edge ....a repost.
Hello, Poetry?  Keith W Fletcher   Poems     Dec 2016 Back from the edge It will soon mark 7 long silent filled years since the pain and depression that ended up inspiring this poem. During the band days of yesteryear we always had a chance to get together on this type of summer/ autumn holidays and raise hell and make noise and it was like a big family, so I repost this one here for whatever I can get out of it this time and for all that are ln need, for then (by all means) especially for you as well! As if from out of nowhere  Gnarled Twisted fingers  With jagged rusting fingernails  Reached out ... Grabbing me  Dragging me... Back  From going over the precipice   Stopping the headlong tumble  Into that deep dark echoless Abyss  At that critical moment  of complete systems failure ...When the call of the Void  Seems impossible to deny   Convinced  That falling through the darkness  Would seem as if I could fly Ive sensed  that the siren song was calling to me  As it had been all along   So ,Just as I let Go ... Leaning in  Relinquishing control  Those wrinkled withered hands With the Twisted gnarled fingers And those rusted over fingernails Pulled me back... With  Strength incomprehensible   Freeing a Sinister scream of agony  Pure pain and despair  Ripping out and splitting the air  As it rose up from the depths  Of that deep Darkness... that  Echoless void   Someone had reached out...  ... To save me  So I turned to see who... it was  That had pulled me back Wondering how it is...  ... That they knew   There was no one there  Just the last fading remnants  Of a shadow on the wall  So I smile to the Fates  As I gather paper and pen  Making a note for my future Lest I ever forget and Tumble back in   Then with withered and wrinkled hands  I Hold Steady to the notepad  With rusting fingernail adorned  Twisted and gnarled fingers  I begin A whole different flight  As I begin to write Keith W Fletcher Written by Keith W Fletcher  Oklahoma                490        naǧí, Ryn, Ami Shae, Keith Wilson, J Robert Fallon III, and 1 other Ami Shae  Ami Shae  Wow!!! This is one of the best writes I've ever read! Gives me hope! Thank you!!!   0      1 reply   Dec 2016
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Keith W Fletcher Nov 27, 2015 Deny that you try to be Something that you're really not And you will find That the downward spiral....is infectious With no cure for it And no serum To protect us The spiral will go viral Spreading like wildfire Across ...the dry-parched Landscape Slapping you down Trapping you with the sound Of Your own voice Crying out from the wilderness Do you really want to obsess ... ....on something...that you don't really need to possess Is is really so important That you'll give up on yourself To become a mannequin Dressed up and standing in.. ...the window As People go walking by Glancing at you as they go Do you think they really know? Do you think they really care? About all the things...you.... .....decided ..to sacrifice In order to get yourself here Nobody has to be the perfection of A false identity Unless There is nothing else That they can see Is... as ...important as The fantasy That they keep building up In.the wilderness Where they hear their own voice Calling out.....come to me.... Come to me --come to me And I will show you who it is.... That you are ....supposed to be And I will.give you everything THAT.....YOU......DESIRE If you can grab it ---you can have it Then you can stand In the window As people keep on walking by Believing that You are Someone to admire But the dry parched landscape And the downward spiral Of all your false dreams Is always being wiped clean By the spreading wildfire While the people ..just keep on Walking by.....going places LIVING REAL LIVES While the mannequin in the window Keeps watching From the same spot Still denying That they're trying To be --something that... They're really not Something that they're really not.
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Oct 8, 2016
Oct 8, 2016 at 9:39 AM UTC
Going Viral
Keith W Fletcher Nov 27, 2015 Deny that you try to be Something that you're really not And you will find That the downward spiral....is infectious With no cure for it And no serum To protect us The spiral will go viral Spreading like wildfire Across ...the dry-parched Landscape Slapping you down Trapping you with the sound Of Your own voice Crying out from the wilderness Do you really want to obsess ... ....on something...that you don't really need to possess Is is really so important That you'll give up on yourself To become a mannequin Dressed up and standing in.. ...the window As People go walking by Glancing at you as they go Do you think they really know? Do you think they really care? About all the things...you.... .....decided ..to sacrifice In order to get yourself here Nobody has to be the perfection of A false identity Unless There is nothing else That they can see Is... as ...important as The fantasy That they keep building up In.the wilderness Where they hear their own voice Calling out.....come to me.... Come to me --come to me And I will show you who it is.... That you are ....supposed to be And I will.give you everything THAT.....YOU......DESIRE If you can grab it ---you can have it Then you can stand In the window As people keep on walking by Believing that You are Someone to admire But the dry parched landscape And the downward spiral Of all your false dreams Is always being wiped clean By the spreading wildfire While the people ..just keep on Walking by.....going places LIVING REAL LIVES While the mannequin in the window Keeps watching From the same spot Still denying That they're trying To be --something that... They're really not Something that they're really not.
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The photos lay in a pile of dust They’d gathered under the bed, They’d not seen the light of day for years Were neglected there, instead, The wife found them with the first spring clean And she dumped them in my lap, ‘Who is the girl on the Honda Dream, And the guy in the leather cap?’ I must have shot her a funny look As we guys are wont to do, ‘A girl I must have been going with About twenty before you.’ She picked the photo out of the pile And she brushed it on her skirt, I thought, ‘Oh, here we go again,’ Her face said she was hurt. ‘How come I’ve never seen her before,’ She was getting close to tears, I snatched the photo out of her hand, ‘It must be fifty years! I can’t recall the time or the place And I can’t recall her name.’ She punched me once on the shoulder, said: ‘You ought to be ashamed!’ That photo sat on the mantelpiece And it stared at me for weeks, A bonny girl with a pouting lip And the wife gave me no peace. It was, ‘Just what did you talk about? What did she used to say?’ I said, ‘I can’t for the life of me Remember a single day.’ She served the hot-pot up stone cold And the gravy didn’t move, I think she mixed it with concrete just To show she didn’t approve. I said, ‘I was only twenty then, That snap was way back when, We’ve been together for forty years, Why drag her up again?’ ‘You’ve kept her a secret all these years, That photo, under the bed, How do I know you’re not in touch?’ I said, ‘She’s probably dead!’ I racked my brains for a memory But all I could see were thighs, Pert young ******* and a petticoat And a twinkle in her eyes. But still I couldn’t recall her name Or a single word she’d said, Only the scent of her sweet young breath As we rolled in her parents bed, She’d clung to me on the pillion seat As her skirt flared out, and streamed, Down at the back of Fletcher’s Wood On the back of the Honda Dream. ‘I want to know what you did with her, Though it doesn’t matter now.’ (I’d fallen for one of those tricks before, The wife’s a devious cow!) I thought of the day the fun had gone When we lay, looked up at the sky, ‘Ah, now I remember what she said, One word, just one… Goodbye!’ David Lewis Paget
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Oct 23, 2014
Oct 23, 2014 at 2:04 AM UTC
The Buried Past
The photos lay in a pile of dust They’d gathered under the bed, They’d not seen the light of day for years Were neglected there, instead, The wife found them with the first spring clean And she dumped them in my lap, ‘Who is the girl on the Honda Dream, And the guy in the leather cap?’ I must have shot her a funny look As we guys are wont to do, ‘A girl I must have been going with About twenty before you.’ She picked the photo out of the pile And she brushed it on her skirt, I thought, ‘Oh, here we go again,’ Her face said she was hurt. ‘How come I’ve never seen her before,’ She was getting close to tears, I snatched the photo out of her hand, ‘It must be fifty years! I can’t recall the time or the place And I can’t recall her name.’ She punched me once on the shoulder, said: ‘You ought to be ashamed!’ That photo sat on the mantelpiece And it stared at me for weeks, A bonny girl with a pouting lip And the wife gave me no peace. It was, ‘Just what did you talk about? What did she used to say?’ I said, ‘I can’t for the life of me Remember a single day.’ She served the hot-pot up stone cold And the gravy didn’t move, I think she mixed it with concrete just To show she didn’t approve. I said, ‘I was only twenty then, That snap was way back when, We’ve been together for forty years, Why drag her up again?’ ‘You’ve kept her a secret all these years, That photo, under the bed, How do I know you’re not in touch?’ I said, ‘She’s probably dead!’ I racked my brains for a memory But all I could see were thighs, Pert young ******* and a petticoat And a twinkle in her eyes. But still I couldn’t recall her name Or a single word she’d said, Only the scent of her sweet young breath As we rolled in her parents bed, She’d clung to me on the pillion seat As her skirt flared out, and streamed, Down at the back of Fletcher’s Wood On the back of the Honda Dream. ‘I want to know what you did with her, Though it doesn’t matter now.’ (I’d fallen for one of those tricks before, The wife’s a devious cow!) I thought of the day the fun had gone When we lay, looked up at the sky, ‘Ah, now I remember what she said, One word, just one… Goodbye!’ David Lewis Paget
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Keith W Fletcher Dec 2015 Twas the flight before christmas Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Not a creature was stirring Not even a computer mouse All of the people and pets Were nestled in bed Waiting for a fat man In a flying -reindeer sled Just as I ventured To slip off to sleep A noise -- maybe a clatter Was heard from the street I ran to get me a view Opening the window I put my head through Down on the corner Across from the jail A fat drunken bearded man Was singing off key Merry Christmas to all you boys I hope ya all make it out without fail The kettle had just enough money To make my own flippin bail I was annoyed so I yelled down Go home you soppin santa --you stinkin clown GO HOME- So the real Santa might actually appear F* off you a hole he yelled back As he popped open a beer I am the real santa you * head Then he sorta suggested My reindeer flew off when I was arrested Mrs. Clause is so cold Them elves is lucky they don't get molested But if you're worried ya won't get your gift Then get your dumba down here And give me a lift Hastily dressing I wondered If anyone else might have heard But the way they were snoring Obviously they heard not a word Grabbing a jacket I picked up my keys Went out to take this crazy drunk home So that he won't freeze When I finally found him It way back behind the dumpster Where he was tossing his cookies Being eyeballs by two coppers Who looked like a pair of rookies "COME ON " I pleaded " lets get you home" He peered at his wristwatch"sh* he exclaimed I'm supposed to be delivering gifts in Maine He clumped into my new Volvo --stinking of ***** "A Volvo" he sneered why couldn't you drive a Ford ..comet Then he mumbled some words below his stale breath And my car floated up in the air -- scaring me to death He yelled out commands as my car shot forward "Rides pretty nice" he muttttered" but not as nice as a Ford" "On Volvo .. On Volvo .. On ..oh heck .. Just hook a left No nonono I mean right Then he yelled out the window MERRY(buuurp) CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD EFFEN NIGHT. HO ** Cough cough Hoooo!!
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Dec 24, 2019
Dec 24, 2019 at 11:10 PM UTC
The night Before...
Keith W Fletcher Dec 2015 Twas the flight before christmas Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Not a creature was stirring Not even a computer mouse All of the people and pets Were nestled in bed Waiting for a fat man In a flying -reindeer sled Just as I ventured To slip off to sleep A noise -- maybe a clatter Was heard from the street I ran to get me a view Opening the window I put my head through Down on the corner Across from the jail A fat drunken bearded man Was singing off key Merry Christmas to all you boys I hope ya all make it out without fail The kettle had just enough money To make my own flippin bail I was annoyed so I yelled down Go home you soppin santa --you stinkin clown GO HOME- So the real Santa might actually appear F* off you a hole he yelled back As he popped open a beer I am the real santa you * head Then he sorta suggested My reindeer flew off when I was arrested Mrs. Clause is so cold Them elves is lucky they don't get molested But if you're worried ya won't get your gift Then get your dumba down here And give me a lift Hastily dressing I wondered If anyone else might have heard But the way they were snoring Obviously they heard not a word Grabbing a jacket I picked up my keys Went out to take this crazy drunk home So that he won't freeze When I finally found him It way back behind the dumpster Where he was tossing his cookies Being eyeballs by two coppers Who looked like a pair of rookies "COME ON " I pleaded " lets get you home" He peered at his wristwatch"sh* he exclaimed I'm supposed to be delivering gifts in Maine He clumped into my new Volvo --stinking of ***** "A Volvo" he sneered why couldn't you drive a Ford ..comet Then he mumbled some words below his stale breath And my car floated up in the air -- scaring me to death He yelled out commands as my car shot forward "Rides pretty nice" he muttttered" but not as nice as a Ford" "On Volvo .. On Volvo .. On ..oh heck .. Just hook a left No nonono I mean right Then he yelled out the window MERRY(buuurp) CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD EFFEN NIGHT. HO ** Cough cough Hoooo!!
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