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"flittered" poems
One brisk spring afternoon, a boy found himself adventuring down a local forested path. The sun beamed down through the trees, creating golden stips of light that fought their way through the newly grown greenery. The crunch of the earth beneath his feet could be heard from a distance as unimportant thoughts drifted through his mind. He paused and set himself down on a large rock by a bubbling stream. The water created an ambiance that made a rush of calm flow over his mind. His eyes drifted around a bit, taking in his surroundings when suddenly a butterfly flittered down and flew around his face. A smile spread wide across his features as he lifted up his hand to try to catch it. The butterfly grazed his hand, but then flew away as fast as it could, as it was afraid of the boy. He frowned in disappointment, wanting nothing more than the butterfly itself to flutter down onto his hand so he could admire it once more; But he was left in despair. Two more butterflies of the same pattern found themselves drifting along the face of the boy, and he tried to catch them as well, for maybe they would fill in the gap that the first had left. He caught them both, but only briefly, as all butterflies were beautiful, but fleeting. The boy tilted his head in disappointment, and sat there alone for some time, an array of butterflies coming and going, none of them filling the void left by the first. Suddenly, a pure white moth came into view. The boy scowled, unsure of what to make of the moth as it was nothing like the other butterflies that he had encountered before. The moth flittered around his face, and he raised his hands slightly, prepared to swipe the creature away. The moth found itself landing softly on the nose of the boy, its fuzzy little wings tickling his skin upon contact. He couldn’t help but smile, but felt a little uneasy, as he was only used to butterflies. The boy lifted the moth gently from his nose, and perched it on a nearby branch. It’s little wings lifted its body from the perch, and tried to fly back toward the boy, but he gently shood the creature away. Finally, it gave up and landed itself back onto the branch in which the boy had placed it. There the moth stayed, watching the boy chase butterflies endlessly until he could chase no more.
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Apr 4, 2017
Apr 4, 2017 at 10:08 PM UTC
A Moth Among Butterflies
One brisk spring afternoon, a boy found himself adventuring down a local forested path. The sun beamed down through the trees, creating golden stips of light that fought their way through the newly grown greenery. The crunch of the earth beneath his feet could be heard from a distance as unimportant thoughts drifted through his mind. He paused and set himself down on a large rock by a bubbling stream. The water created an ambiance that made a rush of calm flow over his mind. His eyes drifted around a bit, taking in his surroundings when suddenly a butterfly flittered down and flew around his face. A smile spread wide across his features as he lifted up his hand to try to catch it. The butterfly grazed his hand, but then flew away as fast as it could, as it was afraid of the boy. He frowned in disappointment, wanting nothing more than the butterfly itself to flutter down onto his hand so he could admire it once more; But he was left in despair. Two more butterflies of the same pattern found themselves drifting along the face of the boy, and he tried to catch them as well, for maybe they would fill in the gap that the first had left. He caught them both, but only briefly, as all butterflies were beautiful, but fleeting. The boy tilted his head in disappointment, and sat there alone for some time, an array of butterflies coming and going, none of them filling the void left by the first. Suddenly, a pure white moth came into view. The boy scowled, unsure of what to make of the moth as it was nothing like the other butterflies that he had encountered before. The moth flittered around his face, and he raised his hands slightly, prepared to swipe the creature away. The moth found itself landing softly on the nose of the boy, its fuzzy little wings tickling his skin upon contact. He couldn’t help but smile, but felt a little uneasy, as he was only used to butterflies. The boy lifted the moth gently from his nose, and perched it on a nearby branch. It’s little wings lifted its body from the perch, and tried to fly back toward the boy, but he gently shood the creature away. Finally, it gave up and landed itself back onto the branch in which the boy had placed it. There the moth stayed, watching the boy chase butterflies endlessly until he could chase no more.
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Oh, sweet calico You flittered and you fluttered Before the cruel men Pinned your wings, and held you Under Examining, every colour And stripe, on your surface Comparing, every pattern You made To a control they deemed Ordinary Their tongues were as rough As their calloused hands Yet their minds were like sharp knives Or scalpels Dissecting your Entirety Three green dots You were marked with, before they placed you Into a four by four Box And promptly Forgotten about
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May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013 at 10:24 PM UTC
calico
Your Primrose blossomed in the Spring frothy petals in the light flared a brilliant hue your season to groom I stitched a garland to pair my green blades with your orbit, blushing from your radiant glare a satellite garnishing stray beams My doting shadow, enfiladed by the waxy glow of your stems, entrenched around your lurid stalk Vassal bands nestled below as the sultry air bore your fragrance to the tips of each driveling strand Growing in your rendered space light years from your radiant estate milk weeds fawned at your feet, but my encroaching shadow and twining sickles could not seal your comely face In just a few days, the light from your bright candle flittered its last beam your silky cheeks folded, not from winter's cold stare or the wind's shaking reins Unencumbered by my embrace, without flair or aplomb, you cast your gilded parasol to its shallow, un-dug grave A decaying, still life brand now shrouded my sodded feet
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 8:18 PM UTC
Flittering Primrose: A Season of Unrequited Love
4/12/2016 "*Rappelez-vous l'objet que nous vîmes, mon âme, Ce beau matin d'été si doux: Au détour d'un sentier une charogne infâme Sur un lit semé de cailloux?" "My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path, a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed?*" Charles Baudelaire I sat on the mossy footstool that lied by the brook- I had to really open my ears to hear the soft regurgitation coming from the clear muddy water, gliding over the slate, piled up the road, the one I drove on that one day we snuck out, was placed gently beside it, uptop a little cliff, I felt this a beatific metaphor. The air felt amorphous, held a quality I couldn't quite put my finger on. and then I saw a tree, a crooked one who had seemed to grow on the bank of the creek because life, it seems, imitates art. Its trunk dipped until it ever so slightly grazed the water its elm fingers almost almost. I smiled when I saw this, for it gave me hope. I likened myself to the horseflies and new tadpoles that flittered, seraphic in quality, borne with the quality of new life- the innocent quality the one that just made me feel tainted, the more I surrounded myself with it. The Friday afternoons on the avenue, with its port wine air and this bubbling black slate brook are the only places that innocence lives- if I had realized how quiet the soft gargling of the cherub water was I'd have stopped the car and baptized ourselves In it.
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Apr 18, 2016
Apr 18, 2016 at 3:31 PM UTC
Rock Brook
I keep falling in love with ghosts They flitter in and fade away Three little spirits slipped wetly into my hands ****** and beautiful; we called each other family The foundation cracked and poison filled the gaps They used to laugh and call me daddy Now…silence and estrangement That name is reserved for another Everything in my life was thrown into a heap Misunderstanding and pain collided to spark the flame I walk through this new reality, ash covering my feet Yes, bartender, I’ll have another And another /// A wraith tall and handsome extended his hand in kindness I reached with my entire being Poured my heart into his chest For a moment he washed me clean We laid bodies entwined as poetry spilled from his lips A summer zephyr under my wings I was a phoenix Balladry devolved to insult He removes the dagger and ashes spill out My brokenness is scattered everywhere Yes, bartender, I’ll have another And another /// Splintered, scaly hands attempt to rebuild A heavy mind sits in an empty room Passing by houses filled with the ones I love Never fingers to grace cheek again I’ve become the stranger that can’t find a home Saliva stretches as lips part  Lungs evacuate and heartbroken cries disappear into the sky This hollowness haunts me like an apparition Love…the ultimate curse It’s previous forms have burned me to ash Yes, bartender, I’ll have another And another . . . I’m in love with ghosts They flittered in and faded away
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Aug 23, 2022
Aug 23, 2022 at 12:38 AM UTC
Apparitions
I used to follow butterflies In days of green and blue I’d totter in their lazy wake As if for nothing better's sake And listen to the cricket’s quake To find out what they knew I used to follow butterflies Along their merry way Their cooling wings were flittered dry The colours seemed to amplify I held my breath to see if I Could make out what they say I used to follow butterflies Through nooks of tepid shade To dance upon a patch of light Upon a bloom, they paused their flight To satisfy their appetite Before the day should fade I used to follow butterflies So carefree as they flew And every day I’d wish that I Could follow them about the sky I used to follow butterflies And often, I still do **
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Aug 18, 2016
Aug 18, 2016 at 10:19 AM UTC
Butterfly Paths
In no way will I move just to make my ends meet One thousand of my finest have flittered to those with the filthy gift of serendipity Perhaps I should give it all up my happiness and well-being to be replaced by hard graft.
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Mar 9, 2010
Mar 9, 2010 at 11:28 AM UTC
The Gambler
Little girl burned by desires Go go in her head she loves a man She is young and stupid Naive, innocent and adventurous Sneaking in the night she reaches the fone calls a lover that lay in bed elsewhere with a another woman The deceit of her beauty drives her astray To risk her future in blindness to fall for moments How can i lert a proud heart majestic in high life to spend at all times the sweat of men as she never minded she was cementing her tomorrow. I dont care she said...i can leave home...who cares i can abort. But then who cares you can also die, she sees from near and focuses not afar. Early in the morning the mother folds her back and hits the garden searching for surviving fighting for her daughter. No she is flittered and gone her coaching books with her body I pause and tear..... Such a generation She says to all dont tell me what to do i have my chances to live, like a cat she believes in nine lives. Her smooking temper alerts well wisher of help Her clothes torn to many so she moves naked in their eyes only clothed to the unknown The universe you ought to have will now have you Will they be bygones or will it regrets
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Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016 at 6:29 AM UTC
Hooked Girl
right now, I sit curled up on my couch, under a warm blanket shared with my swear heart we listen to the soft roar of the crackling fire feel its heat radiating from across the room the reflection of an old christmas movie on our happy faces black and white couples flashing across the screen a girl with a present a man with a cigar a child looking at the toys through the window it all looks so nice on our flat screen the steam from our hot cocoa starts to fog up the screen the acting wasn't that great anyway, might as well turn it off "you wanna listen to She and Him, I have their new christmas album on vinyl." I laugh at his hipster-ness "of coarse" "rockin' round the christmas tree" he knew I loved Zooey's voice "care to dance?" his voice like butter and who can resist butter?? we glide across the carpet, almost stepping on the pets everything was so perfect in his eyes as they were inches closer and starting to close I guess I should be doing that too CONTACT it was sweat like candy canes at first then salty like a ritz ******* but still good we stumble over back to the couch, Little Saint Nick playing the blanket is long gone now I can feel his burning hands messing with my bra his mouth caressing my collar bone its off, along with every other piece of our clothing now the tv screen is covered with a different steam the cocoa spilled on over my legs his hand on my head pushing me downward hes too strong just as I was about to give him something he would never forget we hear something from the fire place it startled us both after the black dust flittered down we saw two little black boots and then heard the grunting of a man, much different than mine or my boyfriend's could it... no thats impossible! is it? before I could question what was going on he was there, in the room with us santa his face soon turning red after realized what he had stumble in on he didn't say anything though, just walking over to the tree and put some small packages down then left as he rode away we could hear him shout "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!" well this is awkward
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Nov 16, 2012
Nov 16, 2012 at 1:02 AM UTC
christmas eve
right now, I sit curled up on my couch, under a warm blanket shared with my swear heart we listen to the soft roar of the crackling fire feel its heat radiating from across the room the reflection of an old christmas movie on our happy faces black and white couples flashing across the screen a girl with a present a man with a cigar a child looking at the toys through the window it all looks so nice on our flat screen the steam from our hot cocoa starts to fog up the screen the acting wasn't that great anyway, might as well turn it off "you wanna listen to She and Him, I have their new christmas album on vinyl." I laugh at his hipster-ness "of coarse" "rockin' round the christmas tree" he knew I loved Zooey's voice "care to dance?" his voice like butter and who can resist butter?? we glide across the carpet, almost stepping on the pets everything was so perfect in his eyes as they were inches closer and starting to close I guess I should be doing that too CONTACT it was sweat like candy canes at first then salty like a ritz ******* but still good we stumble over back to the couch, Little Saint Nick playing the blanket is long gone now I can feel his burning hands messing with my bra his mouth caressing my collar bone its off, along with every other piece of our clothing now the tv screen is covered with a different steam the cocoa spilled on over my legs his hand on my head pushing me downward hes too strong just as I was about to give him something he would never forget we hear something from the fire place it startled us both after the black dust flittered down we saw two little black boots and then heard the grunting of a man, much different than mine or my boyfriend's could it... no thats impossible! is it? before I could question what was going on he was there, in the room with us santa his face soon turning red after realized what he had stumble in on he didn't say anything though, just walking over to the tree and put some small packages down then left as he rode away we could hear him shout "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!" well this is awkward
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His words ripped through the remnants of her shattered mind, Winding through jagged edges of time. They found old wounds, still gaping and wet. They dove through her anger, loss and regret. They flittered through tears and flinched through her pain, And stumbled through roadblocks of distrust and disdain. She felt herself wince in nostalgic regret, These words that she remembered to always forget. She opened her mouth but nothing came out. She stuttered and paused but still verbal drought. For a moment a tear tried to fight it's way through, But couldn't escape her practical view. Had she remembered too much or forgotten too few? With a forced sense of pride, she prayed for reprieve, A sigh, a laugh, for the tension to ease. He stared at her, longing, his heart on his sleeve, To know that his words she surely believed. But silent she stood, her eyes drifting in doubt, Knowing the words just wouldn't come out. No matter the way she traveled at last, It wasn't to him that her path was attached. The regret in her voice was heavy and thick, As she parted her lips to deliver it quick. "My dear, my heart was never true...and sadly I can't say I Iove you too."
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Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 11:41 PM UTC
Destination
Born from death, he breathed his first. Seventy-five years locked in the good night. The memories of his past life flittered past him as he clawed his way through his grave. First his hand touched the sweet air, the wind dancing between his fingers. He could feel his dusted veins flow with the blood from his now beating heart. His skin in places had rotted away and he, like the living dead walked again on the earth that he was never meant to tread upon again. He stumbled into a small chapel by the old graveyard now over grown with wild flowers and pine saplings. Walking in he saw people; for the first time in years his dried eyes, nothing but prunes in their sockets, moistened and began to fill out. His vision became clearer as he dragged himself along. What a miracle this was, he thought to himself. He was awed by the sights he saw around him. The play of the sun as it filtered through the stained glass windows touched his heart so that in that moment he thought he would collapse into himself. Was this truly real, or was it simply another trick played upon his imagination as it often times did during his eternal sleep. But it couldn’t be, could it? Was this fantastical phenomenon happening to him or was it simply that he, Andrew Taylor had in fact defied the laws of nautre. Again he took another step and felt no qualms or aches of soul while the people shied away from him thinking him to probably have leprosy! The very idea made him laugh, the crackling sound that voiced from his hole ridden lungs surprised him and terrified them.
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Jun 27, 2013
Jun 27, 2013 at 7:22 AM UTC
Upon Waking
Born from death, he breathed his first. Seventy-five years locked in the good night. The memories of his past life flittered past him as he clawed his way through his grave. First his hand touched the sweet air, the wind dancing between his fingers. He could feel his dusted veins flow with the blood from his now beating heart. His skin in places had rotted away and he, like the living dead walked again on the earth that he was never meant to tread upon again. He stumbled into a small chapel by the old graveyard now over grown with wild flowers and pine saplings. Walking in he saw people; for the first time in years his dried eyes, nothing but prunes in their sockets, moistened and began to fill out. His vision became clearer as he dragged himself along. What a miracle this was, he thought to himself. He was awed by the sights he saw around him. The play of the sun as it filtered through the stained glass windows touched his heart so that in that moment he thought he would collapse into himself. Was this truly real, or was it simply another trick played upon his imagination as it often times did during his eternal sleep. But it couldn’t be, could it? Was this fantastical phenomenon happening to him or was it simply that he, Andrew Taylor had in fact defied the laws of nautre. Again he took another step and felt no qualms or aches of soul while the people shied away from him thinking him to probably have leprosy! The very idea made him laugh, the crackling sound that voiced from his hole ridden lungs surprised him and terrified them.
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That’s a Small Skipper Jane said And that’s a Clouded yellow as two butterflies flittered overhead as you both lay in the tall grass on the side of the Downs and you followed her finger as it indicated the butterflies’ flight and then they were gone and she gazed at you and said What? How do you know the names of things? I’m a country girl not a townie like you she replied her lips moulding the words like a potter moulds clay and you caught a whiff of her perfume carried on the calm breeze over your heads and you looked at her there in the grass her head turned back to the sky her eyes reflecting the summer blue and her left leg bent upwards so that her knee stood naked beneath the sun and her right hand lay next to yours the white blouse open at the neck and she said I often used to lay here alone listening to the overhead birds and the winds’ moan watching tractors in the fields below and mother wondering where I was And now? you asked Does she wonder where you are now? she turned her head and gazed at you No not now she knows I’m with you and that I’m showing you the store of nature and the panoramic view And she trusts you? you asked sensing her hand touch yours the flesh warm and soft She trusts you Jane said and another butterfly fluttered by like a ballerina overhead.
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Jun 29, 2012
Jun 29, 2012 at 7:44 AM UTC
NAMING OF THINGS.
She asked me how she had come to me On a sunny afternoon, She couldn’t remember anything, Her memories had flown. She looked in awe at the dress she wore And the sparkles on her shoes, ‘I didn’t have any of these before, But what have I got to lose?’ I had her in mind for a Faery Queen Or maybe a party girl, I hadn’t a plot to fit right then But thought I’d give her a whirl. She had such grace and a lovely face So I thought she’d fit right in, And later, plenty of colour for My lepidoptera tin. She flittered and fluttered about the field While I got my butterfly net, She’d probably still be fluttering If I hadn’t caught her yet. But that’s how I catch my characters That I fit in every plot, I chase them round and I bring them down Whether they want, or not. The women are always butterflies, The men are usually moths, I struggle to keep the women sweet But sometimes they are Goths. As long as they play their part so well That the reader doesn’t twig, That all my casts are butterflies, The small parts and the big. For villains I use the Death’s Head Moth For his markings are so grim, But the innocent girls in chiffon are The first to let him in, He’s mean and cunning, and not so sweet As the ones he seeks to fool, But I am only the writer, so Their conflict is my gruel. I need to go where the sun is bright And they flutter in the breeze, To hold my butterfly net upright And pursue them through the trees. Then one day soon in the afternoon I shall write a plot that sings, And catch me a lepidoptera, The one with the brightest wings! David Lewis Paget
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 3:23 AM UTC
Butterflies
She asked me how she had come to me On a sunny afternoon, She couldn’t remember anything, Her memories had flown. She looked in awe at the dress she wore And the sparkles on her shoes, ‘I didn’t have any of these before, But what have I got to lose?’ I had her in mind for a Faery Queen Or maybe a party girl, I hadn’t a plot to fit right then But thought I’d give her a whirl. She had such grace and a lovely face So I thought she’d fit right in, And later, plenty of colour for My lepidoptera tin. She flittered and fluttered about the field While I got my butterfly net, She’d probably still be fluttering If I hadn’t caught her yet. But that’s how I catch my characters That I fit in every plot, I chase them round and I bring them down Whether they want, or not. The women are always butterflies, The men are usually moths, I struggle to keep the women sweet But sometimes they are Goths. As long as they play their part so well That the reader doesn’t twig, That all my casts are butterflies, The small parts and the big. For villains I use the Death’s Head Moth For his markings are so grim, But the innocent girls in chiffon are The first to let him in, He’s mean and cunning, and not so sweet As the ones he seeks to fool, But I am only the writer, so Their conflict is my gruel. I need to go where the sun is bright And they flutter in the breeze, To hold my butterfly net upright And pursue them through the trees. Then one day soon in the afternoon I shall write a plot that sings, And catch me a lepidoptera, The one with the brightest wings! David Lewis Paget
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it were the combination of monsoon deluge and gale force hurricane broke me free sent me to spinning twirled for what must’ve been a year before touchdown even this was turbulent as I rapidly descended the high mountain canyon tossed over slick black rocks drifting faster and faster when all ahead was blue clouds and birds flittered time froze unlike my previous freefall this was abusive streams pummeled my body frayed my edges left me soaked to the core I washed, after a time, upon a sandy beach barely conscious… once I had served a great Oak gathering sunlight these memories swirled like the adjacent eddy slowly, like daybreak for the farmer a realization took shape never again would I photosynthesize never again would ladybugs crawl across my face I had lost my home It was near that same moment when a new vision filled my senses upon my decomposition and death I would feed the forest my nutrients living in the soil forever –
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Aug 30, 2016
Aug 30, 2016 at 12:39 PM UTC
A Leaf Considers Eternity
Put your finger along there Jane said gently and she opened her hands to form a kind of cup and there was the butterfly yellowish with white it opened and closed its wings feel the smoothness she said I focused on her palms the skin thinking how lucky the butterfly was to land there I gently touched its wings with my finger gently so as not to make it fly off she was intense gazing at my finger the wings opening and closing my finger was a mere breath away from touching her skin the warmth of her palms I leaned in closer could smell apples or fresh air and her dark eyes turned on me and I looked back at the butterfly and stroked its wings again it flapped and flew off and I watched it go passed her dark hair her eyes following it in the air and I followed her hair the dark and straight the opened necked blouse the green skirt isn't it beautiful? she said yes very much so I said gazing at the line of her neck the area where her hair and collar didn't meet the jawline and she was looking up at the sky where the butterfly flittered amongst nearby flowers at the foot of the Downs so gentle their wings she said she imitated a butterfly with her hands the thumbs hooked together flapping her hands out and in and looked at them then at me should I stroke the wings? I said she smiled flapping her hands slowly so I did stroking slowly and gently the outer line of palm with my finger and she gazed at me then at my finger her small tongue at the corner of her mouth beyond her the butterfly flittered off the white and yellow exchanging as it went away my finger moving up and down then slowly moving like the butterfly a little bit away.
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 2:05 AM UTC
IMITATION BUTTERFLY.
Put your finger along there Jane said gently and she opened her hands to form a kind of cup and there was the butterfly yellowish with white it opened and closed its wings feel the smoothness she said I focused on her palms the skin thinking how lucky the butterfly was to land there I gently touched its wings with my finger gently so as not to make it fly off she was intense gazing at my finger the wings opening and closing my finger was a mere breath away from touching her skin the warmth of her palms I leaned in closer could smell apples or fresh air and her dark eyes turned on me and I looked back at the butterfly and stroked its wings again it flapped and flew off and I watched it go passed her dark hair her eyes following it in the air and I followed her hair the dark and straight the opened necked blouse the green skirt isn't it beautiful? she said yes very much so I said gazing at the line of her neck the area where her hair and collar didn't meet the jawline and she was looking up at the sky where the butterfly flittered amongst nearby flowers at the foot of the Downs so gentle their wings she said she imitated a butterfly with her hands the thumbs hooked together flapping her hands out and in and looked at them then at me should I stroke the wings? I said she smiled flapping her hands slowly so I did stroking slowly and gently the outer line of palm with my finger and she gazed at me then at my finger her small tongue at the corner of her mouth beyond her the butterfly flittered off the white and yellow exchanging as it went away my finger moving up and down then slowly moving like the butterfly a little bit away.
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The flame from the candle Flickers frantically in fear Of the howling winds That sounds frighteningly near I clutched my teddy bear tight And tried to rein in my fright But the howling continues To roar with all it's might Then suddenly I remembered Something my mother used to say When your frightened or lonely Let your happy thoughts come out to play So I closed my eyes And remembered a time Of dancing in the willows And finding apple trees to climb Of picking pink and yellow flowers to braid into my long hair And chasing colorful butterflies As they flittered in the air Outside, the howling winds quieted and I know now and then When I am scared or lonely, Happy memories will rescue me again
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Apr 17, 2011
Apr 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM UTC
Happy Thoughts
I never realized How many birds There really are They seem to melt Into the landscape As they hop To and fro In the manicured Suburban shrubs And pepper the sky Floating in place Against some unfelt Wind current While walking I locked gazes with A slate colored dove And we stared I don't know how He felt about me Or what he felt About me I thought he was Elegant Even though he was The color of fresh tar While it bakes In the Pennsylvania sun In some hazy culdesac In the corner of some Replaceable Reproducible Childhood He hopped off his perch A rusty sign post That had been bifurcated By some unknown Bolt or hand And skittered behind some Sickly looking ferns In a dirt patch of an Unknown neighbors yard A gang of Robins Flittered over my head Landing down the street Passing a pinecone Between them Pecking and tearing at it I looked behind The sickly ferns And found the Unknown neighbors cat Doing the same thing To my slate colored dove I shooed it away It dropped the dove Hastily In the loose dirt And retreated I looked down at the dove And it laid there Its breast heaving Silent One eye cast into the dirt The other looking up Watching the same Robins Fly back to where They had come from And the slate slowly Turned sanguine As its down became Saturated with the Run off from the Puncture wounds The cat sat off A few yards away Flicking its tail Calico and smug And I stood by The dove as The heaving slowly Stopped Ground to a Halt really And then the eyes Weren't looking At the sky or the dirt I finally felt That unseen Wind And continued On my way
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Jul 11, 2016
Jul 11, 2016 at 9:38 PM UTC
Birds
I never realized How many birds There really are They seem to melt Into the landscape As they hop To and fro In the manicured Suburban shrubs And pepper the sky Floating in place Against some unfelt Wind current While walking I locked gazes with A slate colored dove And we stared I don't know how He felt about me Or what he felt About me I thought he was Elegant Even though he was The color of fresh tar While it bakes In the Pennsylvania sun In some hazy culdesac In the corner of some Replaceable Reproducible Childhood He hopped off his perch A rusty sign post That had been bifurcated By some unknown Bolt or hand And skittered behind some Sickly looking ferns In a dirt patch of an Unknown neighbors yard A gang of Robins Flittered over my head Landing down the street Passing a pinecone Between them Pecking and tearing at it I looked behind The sickly ferns And found the Unknown neighbors cat Doing the same thing To my slate colored dove I shooed it away It dropped the dove Hastily In the loose dirt And retreated I looked down at the dove And it laid there Its breast heaving Silent One eye cast into the dirt The other looking up Watching the same Robins Fly back to where They had come from And the slate slowly Turned sanguine As its down became Saturated with the Run off from the Puncture wounds The cat sat off A few yards away Flicking its tail Calico and smug And I stood by The dove as The heaving slowly Stopped Ground to a Halt really And then the eyes Weren't looking At the sky or the dirt I finally felt That unseen Wind And continued On my way
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Hey ... Out there I'm worried about my wife Could somebody please take her a message Tell her everything will be ok Man I don't know This has just been a really weird day That much I can truly say Because I lived it Let's see... I got up as usual at 5 a.m. Like always I kissed her cheek She never knows I do it ... I've asked But I like it because she mumbles in her sleep What she says or doesn't say matters not Is the little smile that appears that I'm after I catch it in my cortex and then slowly let it seep Into every fiber of my being As I deal with my working day Sometimes it's like it's a 3D image Floating right out in front of me Usually when some wackadoo  corporate **** Is making it extra hard for me continue to be A puppet Yeah that's right Then if you don't understand it Chances are you're probably White Now I'm not lumping you all together Though I can say this much for sure You will never understand my existence And what each day I must endure This day has just been plain stupid I know of no other word to express The way a simple stop to pick up milk For my twin girls breakfast can become such a mess Put your hands above your head Get on your knees Don't move or I'll shoot you Get down on your knees For a Split Second Abbott and Costello Flittered through the Kaleidoscope behind my eyes And I think it was that little smile that that created Was what sealed my eternal fate Those cops just shot me I said So why do I not feel any pain The slow staccato echo of gunshots 23 times I counted - again and again and again Crazy man - this is just crazy So I say again to the man pushing the Gurney Just before they load me into the ambulance Just after they pull the blanket over my head Hey you out there I'm worried about my wife I don't know...what she and the girls will do now... Now that I am dead
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Oct 23, 2016
Oct 23, 2016 at 6:03 AM UTC
Black and white
Hey ... Out there I'm worried about my wife Could somebody please take her a message Tell her everything will be ok Man I don't know This has just been a really weird day That much I can truly say Because I lived it Let's see... I got up as usual at 5 a.m. Like always I kissed her cheek She never knows I do it ... I've asked But I like it because she mumbles in her sleep What she says or doesn't say matters not Is the little smile that appears that I'm after I catch it in my cortex and then slowly let it seep Into every fiber of my being As I deal with my working day Sometimes it's like it's a 3D image Floating right out in front of me Usually when some wackadoo  corporate **** Is making it extra hard for me continue to be A puppet Yeah that's right Then if you don't understand it Chances are you're probably White Now I'm not lumping you all together Though I can say this much for sure You will never understand my existence And what each day I must endure This day has just been plain stupid I know of no other word to express The way a simple stop to pick up milk For my twin girls breakfast can become such a mess Put your hands above your head Get on your knees Don't move or I'll shoot you Get down on your knees For a Split Second Abbott and Costello Flittered through the Kaleidoscope behind my eyes And I think it was that little smile that that created Was what sealed my eternal fate Those cops just shot me I said So why do I not feel any pain The slow staccato echo of gunshots 23 times I counted - again and again and again Crazy man - this is just crazy So I say again to the man pushing the Gurney Just before they load me into the ambulance Just after they pull the blanket over my head Hey you out there I'm worried about my wife I don't know...what she and the girls will do now... Now that I am dead
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I had ceral for breakfast yesterday I went drove over and put seven dollars Worth of gas in my tank That's all I can really afford Then I drove over to the golf course I was going to hit a few putts But instead I just parked in the shade With my feet out the window I drove by my house To see if they had left yet I wasn't in the mood For a family outing I parked a few block beneath My street in the shade Covered my car With the cover And made my way To the trail By the golf course I used a long branch To reach golf ball Above me On a little hill I am a golf ball collector I sat on my yoga mat Underneath the shade Of a tree I noticed a sparrow hawk Land in an oak tree I zoomed in to take a picture And it flittered away I made my way back to the car And drove home I figured I would have An hour or so before They got back From the movie I had the other half Of the double double And small chocolate milkshake I consume those items Over two days Because they are A bit unhealthy I began my walk down To the gym I wrote "America is doomed" And Jade Helm With a fruit and that green plant Jade Helm is a cover For the military takeover Of the southwestern U.S. Alex Jones has been told By hgh level military sources I stopped and sat underneath A tree on the median Small pink flowers Had bloomed And these little white Fluffy seeds were falling As I looked up I climbed the tree Look at me I'm a monkey in the tree I laid back againt the tree And put my legs up I spent quite some time up there Waving to the people as they drove by To be continued...
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Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015 at 12:47 PM UTC
Saturday
I had ceral for breakfast yesterday I went drove over and put seven dollars Worth of gas in my tank That's all I can really afford Then I drove over to the golf course I was going to hit a few putts But instead I just parked in the shade With my feet out the window I drove by my house To see if they had left yet I wasn't in the mood For a family outing I parked a few block beneath My street in the shade Covered my car With the cover And made my way To the trail By the golf course I used a long branch To reach golf ball Above me On a little hill I am a golf ball collector I sat on my yoga mat Underneath the shade Of a tree I noticed a sparrow hawk Land in an oak tree I zoomed in to take a picture And it flittered away I made my way back to the car And drove home I figured I would have An hour or so before They got back From the movie I had the other half Of the double double And small chocolate milkshake I consume those items Over two days Because they are A bit unhealthy I began my walk down To the gym I wrote "America is doomed" And Jade Helm With a fruit and that green plant Jade Helm is a cover For the military takeover Of the southwestern U.S. Alex Jones has been told By hgh level military sources I stopped and sat underneath A tree on the median Small pink flowers Had bloomed And these little white Fluffy seeds were falling As I looked up I climbed the tree Look at me I'm a monkey in the tree I laid back againt the tree And put my legs up I spent quite some time up there Waving to the people as they drove by To be continued...
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The coffee shop reeked of introspection It was quiet but noisy at the same time From slight chattering that flittered the patio to cars battling in traffic She felt like she finally belonged The smell of coffee thrilled her She would romanticize each cup Just the thought of hot steam curling around her lips as they pressed against the lovely mug made her quiver She was never very patient Every sip would slightly burn her tongue But that never seemed to bother her She valued the little things Each sip, exhibited a moment of warmth, relief, and sincerity In between each sip, her mind found relief After each sip, sincerity found itself to be ironically bitter It was 82 degrees and she found her coffee to be just as warm as the sun Too busy romanticizing the view around her She burnt her tongue once again
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May 26, 2016
May 26, 2016 at 6:22 PM UTC
May 26, 2016
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Nov 23, 2015
Nov 23, 2015 at 4:43 PM UTC
philosophy of life... take 4
With hushed mouths that brushed when they talked They whispered like thieves stealing from the Garden of Eden. Little did I know He was stealing from my chest With nimble hands that flittered delicately over quieted lungs And eyes that acted like they'd seen tragedy. And she only looked at me Smug, grim, a hair-width's away from sympathy perhaps But my stomach wasn't used to handling his sweetened breath Throat constricting around a word Oh! what a word! One that brought mountains upon the heads of ogres Upon the tusks of boars and piggish men Wouldn't you have assumed I might as well be dead Because you stole my heart as if it was on it's last beat It's last wild attempt to leap from my chest Alas, my throat was tied around love, A simple word That rained hell upon the heavens and Dread upon a heavy hanging ruin
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 10:23 PM UTC
Ruin
If one man counted the Stars in the sky, until each one was named, Our Star would have flittered and faded. He has no one left to blame. JWS
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Apr 6, 2015
Apr 6, 2015 at 6:43 AM UTC
Man