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"florida" poems
3153 miles away I lay with a mind that's clouded with thoughts. Past Scenarios playing out differently. Over analyzing the present. Anticipating the emotion that I will feel in the future. If ever I was consumed it has never been like this. Regret comes and fades. optimism shares that same cycle. Happiness And sadness come in doses like sedatives. The voice of jealousy tells me that hope makes me weak. Anger fuels my fire and logic keeps it burning. Yet voices, Medication, and the embers fade. The constant variables are only wondering and anxiety. Peace comes in sleep and yet its hardly enjoyed.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 2:51 PM UTC
Florida
Rolling down St. John's Heritage Highway after Sean, my grandson's birthday party I belt out my pioneer song with vigor echoing across the vast beauty, wide open, sacred spaces pristine vistas Norman Rockwell cows grazing in bygone pastures happily moo along Driving past the yellow deer crossing sign Florida woodlands giddyap near the edge of the road long brown antlers prancing to a timeless rhythm I hope and pray that I can somehow kindle a spark of appreciation in my niece and grandsons so that they may behold the baffling greatness and mystery that is our universe These young'uns are mighty attached to the virtual reality, world and landscape of computer technology A sprinkling of cowboy stars flash an omnipresent wink Sunset bonfire explodes across the frontier horizon Turning the corner onto Emerson Drive smoldering scarlet orange embers reflecting lights shoot fireworks, launch rockets through an ever expanding field of vision
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Sep 2, 2018
Sep 2, 2018 at 1:21 PM UTC
O Heritage Highway
her happier eyes brilliant even in the sun but she has a rough feel to her soul she walks along the hot sidewalk with a dozen bags in arm looks like it would tire an army of horses but she says shes fine "don't bug me with that 'good guy shit' know your good, just not right now... cause id rather be mad" three thirty in the pool of a streetlight we both swim in reasons we both have battleships on fire and its really only the hot humid air that keeps the blow by blow going by dawn we are curled up in a park miles from home making love cause there aint much left to say shes still mad but shes ready to cry i tell her i'm wrong but we both know that don't matter we both are just confused by the her that aint here we are just confused by what should be her happier eyes brilliant like twin starlight trains keep speeding over me and i keep kissing her hand cause it s the nice guy thing to do two hopeless romantics lost in the south florida rainforest
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 7:19 PM UTC
the south florida rainforest
We wear this city on our feet Planting our roots with each step Our shadows cast shapes of ancient oak trees stretching out over old squares at daybreak We grow here with the spirit of buildings past, present and rising like a staircase to heaven in the distance, the plumes of white smoke from their rooftops as burnt offerings for incense, spires for steeples, the bundled masses of people moving beneath as the calloused soles of our feet pounding the pavement, Our congregation seated in reverant silence on the R-Line hissing to a stop Their hushed prayers filing out from within to bring the reclaimed sidewalks of Fayetville Street back to life to join this pilgramage They march downtown toward Capitol holding signs for disarmament They bar-hop through Glenwood toasting to deliverance They move in a blur of faces that become us, Rush at all hours through our veins Cross our hearts and keep us breathing, Moving wearing the city on our minds like the greyest pieces of their winter sky and the way it caps the peaks of Mount PNC, BB&T and Wells Fargo like hoodies over our heads We assume monk-like appearances in robes color-coded by season- from blue collar sweaters to cold hard sweat We'll wear their city until we're worn out and wet, We'll wear their dreams at night like streetlamps flickering on beneath wired telephone poles carrying conversations about each one as far south as Florida, fears unspoken, made visible on iron park benches too cold to sit on at this hour We'll keep walking and wear this city like backpacks over our shoulders under the watch of their heavens, the skyline a glowing testament of every step taken toward someplace higher.
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Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 7:27 PM UTC
Becoming Raleigh
We wear this city on our feet Planting our roots with each step Our shadows cast shapes of ancient oak trees stretching out over old squares at daybreak We grow here with the spirit of buildings past, present and rising like a staircase to heaven in the distance, the plumes of white smoke from their rooftops as burnt offerings for incense, spires for steeples, the bundled masses of people moving beneath as the calloused soles of our feet pounding the pavement, Our congregation seated in reverant silence on the R-Line hissing to a stop Their hushed prayers filing out from within to bring the reclaimed sidewalks of Fayetville Street back to life to join this pilgramage They march downtown toward Capitol holding signs for disarmament They bar-hop through Glenwood toasting to deliverance They move in a blur of faces that become us, Rush at all hours through our veins Cross our hearts and keep us breathing, Moving wearing the city on our minds like the greyest pieces of their winter sky and the way it caps the peaks of Mount PNC, BB&T and Wells Fargo like hoodies over our heads We assume monk-like appearances in robes color-coded by season- from blue collar sweaters to cold hard sweat We'll wear their city until we're worn out and wet, We'll wear their dreams at night like streetlamps flickering on beneath wired telephone poles carrying conversations about each one as far south as Florida, fears unspoken, made visible on iron park benches too cold to sit on at this hour We'll keep walking and wear this city like backpacks over our shoulders under the watch of their heavens, the skyline a glowing testament of every step taken toward someplace higher.
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Raised in this floating world, forever deep. You can’t drain the ocean Decidedly from down south of here You can’t un-trace the roots. You can’t lie and say, “This isn’t where I grew up” You can’t deny the fruits of what was planted two generations ago when your grandpatents arrived from the Philippines, seeds in tow soil for the taking You can’t confiscate what they claimed when they planted their flags into the moon-white sand of a beach in Florida on a far side of the planet their forefarthers have never seen You can’t say those flags weren’t there when wind came You can't ***** out that pride of country, cut off its native tongue and its acquired taste, or pass up the plate of fried lumpia and rice passed down from the kitchen of your Daddylol feeding seven kids day in and out with tomatoes he planted, chickens he raised, Malonggay leaves he grew with thumbs so green they wrote in the papers about it He was a farmer Your grandmother, a nurse And i was writer And this is our story You can’t erase the letters of your name, your lineage written all over it like a map of everywhere we been You can’t take back the words in Tagalog and Chavacano your Lola Shirley must have sang your mother to sleep with You can’t take their dreams You can't just wake up one day and undo the ripple effects their moves created across waters 10,000 miles east of here, the rolling waves they curled into or the faraway shores they washed up upon Bottled messages in hand Our legends held within You can’t say centuries from now that they won’t feel it when their feet hit the sand of their own frontier beside the waves we stayed making a history written in deep water for those who come after you to sail above and beyond.
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Nov 24, 2018
Nov 24, 2018 at 6:51 PM UTC
Going North
Raised in this floating world, forever deep. You can’t drain the ocean Decidedly from down south of here You can’t un-trace the roots. You can’t lie and say, “This isn’t where I grew up” You can’t deny the fruits of what was planted two generations ago when your grandpatents arrived from the Philippines, seeds in tow soil for the taking You can’t confiscate what they claimed when they planted their flags into the moon-white sand of a beach in Florida on a far side of the planet their forefarthers have never seen You can’t say those flags weren’t there when wind came You can't ***** out that pride of country, cut off its native tongue and its acquired taste, or pass up the plate of fried lumpia and rice passed down from the kitchen of your Daddylol feeding seven kids day in and out with tomatoes he planted, chickens he raised, Malonggay leaves he grew with thumbs so green they wrote in the papers about it He was a farmer Your grandmother, a nurse And i was writer And this is our story You can’t erase the letters of your name, your lineage written all over it like a map of everywhere we been You can’t take back the words in Tagalog and Chavacano your Lola Shirley must have sang your mother to sleep with You can’t take their dreams You can't just wake up one day and undo the ripple effects their moves created across waters 10,000 miles east of here, the rolling waves they curled into or the faraway shores they washed up upon Bottled messages in hand Our legends held within You can’t say centuries from now that they won’t feel it when their feet hit the sand of their own frontier beside the waves we stayed making a history written in deep water for those who come after you to sail above and beyond.
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son spreads knee blood into ******* &/or sidewalk chalk. mixes reds to pinks with head cracking asphalt. of god & country. of soggy bread in a lunch-bag; snackpack readied. he skates. the concussed ****** of booming youth. omega he: to the wolf pack outers. breathing love of summer, he is the son drunk on hi-c & burping. watching teenaged supersoakers yodel on a bridge. florida. son sneaks out late to rationalize the city’s features under strange light & love of nightly people. boy sculpts body out of beast, turned dark corners. arrives swollen. his father erects a roofed flattop in the backyard slab with flood light electronics taught to worship the shred. mother rattles the blender on the kitchen outskirts, ***** breathed & nearing with hugs. blister-itched. glossed folds of scar tissue. those days on summer-beyond when the neighborhood pulsates. with satellite dishes tuneforking high-frequency vibrations from outerspace & pigeons explode. son’s ears bleed, & the television goes unwatched. he snaps plank & ankle protein, refurbishing his legs into iron-rods or wands of summer anthem. cold war. he empties sugar-sweat & toxins into the storm-drain. essence of wet heat, skin pinched, & friend of ghosts. a three legged dog lay in the shade leisurely watching the boy skate on endless.
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 1:11 AM UTC
skateboard gothic
"The Connection" (separating each song I'm talking about) "Shades of Blue by Nick Lachey" All the music I have listen to lately I form this connection from the pain inside the pain I hide when you and me try to decide if you will come back to me but until then I sit in my shades of blue waiting for you "What Left Of Me by Nick Lachey" I fill when you left me you took apart of me I have the pain from that piece me that is missing from inside I wish you would just take the rest of me because the pain just drives me crazy I'm going off of my mind please come back and take what's left of me "On Your Own by Nick Lachey" You are a good distance away from but if your world ever falls apart around you you know I will do anything for you because I can't forget that only girl that I ever loved I will carry you back home "Bring Me To Life by Evanescence" Without you I feel like I'm dead inside I'm not myself anymore I just need you to wake me up inside to bring me back to life "Stay by Florida Georgia Line" I wish I could have stop you from leaving but I couldn't help it but I didn't say anything to you when you told me you where leaving but baby what if I told you I loved would it have made you want to stay? "Headphones by Florida Georgia Line" I can't stop thinking about you everyday I work on my music but in my headphones I hear you I can't get you off of my head your here stuck in my head going back in forward "Take It Out On Me by Florida Georgia Line" You said your going to try and move on but you know you always got me to take it out on you don't have to call just come on in Let me make his wrong a right "Trying Not To Love You by Nickelback" I have been trying not to love you but I can't get you out my head man I wish there was a pill to make me forget because with the memories inside me my love will never end for you that special someone that I care for without a thought
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 10:39 PM UTC
The Connection
"The Connection" (separating each song I'm talking about) "Shades of Blue by Nick Lachey" All the music I have listen to lately I form this connection from the pain inside the pain I hide when you and me try to decide if you will come back to me but until then I sit in my shades of blue waiting for you "What Left Of Me by Nick Lachey" I fill when you left me you took apart of me I have the pain from that piece me that is missing from inside I wish you would just take the rest of me because the pain just drives me crazy I'm going off of my mind please come back and take what's left of me "On Your Own by Nick Lachey" You are a good distance away from but if your world ever falls apart around you you know I will do anything for you because I can't forget that only girl that I ever loved I will carry you back home "Bring Me To Life by Evanescence" Without you I feel like I'm dead inside I'm not myself anymore I just need you to wake me up inside to bring me back to life "Stay by Florida Georgia Line" I wish I could have stop you from leaving but I couldn't help it but I didn't say anything to you when you told me you where leaving but baby what if I told you I loved would it have made you want to stay? "Headphones by Florida Georgia Line" I can't stop thinking about you everyday I work on my music but in my headphones I hear you I can't get you off of my head your here stuck in my head going back in forward "Take It Out On Me by Florida Georgia Line" You said your going to try and move on but you know you always got me to take it out on you don't have to call just come on in Let me make his wrong a right "Trying Not To Love You by Nickelback" I have been trying not to love you but I can't get you out my head man I wish there was a pill to make me forget because with the memories inside me my love will never end for you that special someone that I care for without a thought
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In Florida sometimes it rains so hard that you believe that it can't possibly stop, that it will just rain and rain forever. Sometimes I'd wake to a storm late at night, and I'd sit out on the porch. You could smell the lightning, and the coolness of the storm would make your hair stand; I'd feel so alive. Some nights I'd go out, and my father would be sitting on the porch already. Lost in the storm or maybe called to it. We wouldn't talk, but we'd be lost together in the rain and thunder. Sometimes I wonder what of him is left in me. I am not sure if I am more afraid of there being very little or of there being a great deal, but when it rains I think about him on that porch;
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Mar 15, 2016
Mar 15, 2016 at 11:20 AM UTC
And Rain Forever
I had as lief be embraced by the portier of the hotel As to get no more from the moonlight Than your moist hand. Be the voice of the night and Florida in my ear. Use dasky words and dusky images. Darken your speech. Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking, But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts, Conceiving words, As the night conceives the sea-sound in silence, And out of the droning sibilants makes A serenade. Say, puerile, that the buzzards crouch on the ridge-pole and sleep with one eye watching the stars fall Beyond Key West. Say that the palms are clear in the total blue. Are clear and are obscure; that it is night; That the moon shines.
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Two Figures In Dense Violet Night
We are, THE Ohio State Buckeyes *Those Oregon ducks look flashy With pretty feathers made for flight But The Ohio State Buckeyes We will clip their wings tonight Our Buckeye team beat Bama They were ranked at number one Now we get to go Duck hunting With Cardale and his shotgun The Ducks they did look good Lets give credit where credit's due They beat undefeated Florida State So they deserve to be there too With Ezekiel Elliott making runs And Urban Meyer making calls A quarterback known as twelve guage The Buckeyes will win it all So now we get to go duck hunting And as a team we hunt as one We are the Buckeye Nation And Duck Season has begun* **We Are THE Ohio State Buckeyes** Game score FINAL OHIO STATE 42 Oregon 20 The Ohio State Buckeyes are College Footballs First Playoff National Champions Poem by: Carl Joseph Roberts
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Jan 12, 2015
Jan 12, 2015 at 5:30 AM UTC
We Are, THE Ohio State Buckeyes
This, this song I made you, let it pierce your heart, like the silver moon earrings, I gave you. Hear my voice, close your eyes, Let me hold you on high. Let me hold you on high. Like the Kansas fields that outnumber the stars, let's walk on the wheat fields of gold, for even if I can't forgive you, my heart will freely love you. Over and over like red Georgia Peaches,  like Florida Beaches, wave after wave, rock upon rock, drips of light let's fall upon imagination, let our man run wild,    For the diamonds at dusk, are waiting for us. For like the Chicago sunrise, let the waves of it's sunrise, sing you back to life, until you and are most alive. Embrace me, hold onto me, like a California dream, pretend it's just me, like the ring on your finger, let this be, let this be, a time between you and me, like your silver moon earrings. For if you harden your heart, we can go back to one, let me be like your silver moon earrings, where I hold you on high. where I hold you on high.
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Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 2018 at 4:10 PM UTC
Chicago Sunrise
the sun sizzles on that red car wrinkled skin sits and ages as that motor howls on waiting for a go. a mercedes, maybe or perhaps, a honda. either way this is why I hate Florida
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Mar 22, 2014
Mar 22, 2014 at 6:16 PM UTC
the orange state
I moved a few years ago To the upper state of Vermont Although the place is beautiful At times it can be one great big yawn That's when we put our heads together Me and my best friend Shawn And came up with the great idea To start a Hippie Farm Our noggins were a knocking Not sure how this could be done Do Hippies come from packs of seeds Or like flowers, in a bunch And can you start them off by grafting Like they do on Apple Farms Where you get rows and rows of Hippies From just a single one That's when Shawn remembered this mail order magazine That we took out and took a look inside It came with an assortment of Hippies From Raw to Roasted to Highly Deep Fried So we sat and weighed all of our options And ordered a bushel of Hippies alive Then we set out cultivating the fields Till the day our Hippies arrived The package  arrived a few days later In an old beat up VW Bus With psychedelic smoke pouring from the windows Pretty sure they all came buzzed Of course Hippies don't come with instructions Only bell bottom jeans and old Jefferson Airplane tapes Can't tell you how many Hippies we went through Before we learned from our mistakes Like don't plant a Hippie face first in the dirt They need a bit of air to breath And they don't like to be over watered Just dust them off when you feel the need Now that the farm is up and running We seem to have come into our own We've even come up with  a way of branding Some of the Hippies that we've grown We started selling them in flavors Like Ben and Jerry's down the street From our Abbie Hoffman Radical Cherry To our Hendrix Hazy Purple Berry Treat But it's our Groovy Rainbow Roundup Hippie Whose sales have never let us down In fact I'd put that Hippie up against Anybody else's Hippie in town I've never been much of one to brag But we're known on the East coast, up and down We've had people as far away as Florida Come and buy our Hippies by the pound So next time your up in Vermont Stop in and take a tour and watch us grow Don't forget to stop by our gift shop And purchase your very own Hippie to take home
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Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 9:57 AM UTC
~Hippie Farm~
I moved a few years ago To the upper state of Vermont Although the place is beautiful At times it can be one great big yawn That's when we put our heads together Me and my best friend Shawn And came up with the great idea To start a Hippie Farm Our noggins were a knocking Not sure how this could be done Do Hippies come from packs of seeds Or like flowers, in a bunch And can you start them off by grafting Like they do on Apple Farms Where you get rows and rows of Hippies From just a single one That's when Shawn remembered this mail order magazine That we took out and took a look inside It came with an assortment of Hippies From Raw to Roasted to Highly Deep Fried So we sat and weighed all of our options And ordered a bushel of Hippies alive Then we set out cultivating the fields Till the day our Hippies arrived The package  arrived a few days later In an old beat up VW Bus With psychedelic smoke pouring from the windows Pretty sure they all came buzzed Of course Hippies don't come with instructions Only bell bottom jeans and old Jefferson Airplane tapes Can't tell you how many Hippies we went through Before we learned from our mistakes Like don't plant a Hippie face first in the dirt They need a bit of air to breath And they don't like to be over watered Just dust them off when you feel the need Now that the farm is up and running We seem to have come into our own We've even come up with  a way of branding Some of the Hippies that we've grown We started selling them in flavors Like Ben and Jerry's down the street From our Abbie Hoffman Radical Cherry To our Hendrix Hazy Purple Berry Treat But it's our Groovy Rainbow Roundup Hippie Whose sales have never let us down In fact I'd put that Hippie up against Anybody else's Hippie in town I've never been much of one to brag But we're known on the East coast, up and down We've had people as far away as Florida Come and buy our Hippies by the pound So next time your up in Vermont Stop in and take a tour and watch us grow Don't forget to stop by our gift shop And purchase your very own Hippie to take home
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Alarm clock kicks exhaustion into gut immediately as it sounds University student jolts into day still dark 20 years later body still too daft to recognize shrill wake-up call as prey rather than predator US kills Russians in Syria strikes How to get ready in under ten minutes—life hacks you won’t believe: leave without locking the door, forget to brush your hair, and more Five reasons breakfast is the most important meal of the day Trump wants to replace food stamps for impoverished Americans Snow in the forecast for the next three days Why is vitamin D important for our bodies? Sleep deprivation: a student epidemic I’ve had panic attacks every day for the past three years—here’s how I’ve coped Accused killer says victim hired him to do it on Craigslist Want to know how to budget as a college student? Stop buying Starbucks All she has to do to claim 560-million-dollar lotto is make her name public—she refuses Signs that your friendship is coming to an end Lions eat and **** suspected poacher Tips on how to be successful after college These are the victims of the Florida school shooting Binge-drinking on college campuses and escapism: the dangers of drinking to forget Declinism: is the world actually getting worse?
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 12:27 AM UTC
Politics in the Dark
I love Orange Juice. I am honestly addicted. Breakfast, Lunch , and Dinner I'll enjoy this yellow liquid. I 'll even drink some while cleaning the dishes, mopping the floor, open my door, carry my self out and drink some more. You ever had Orange Juice and Chocolate !? Chocolate Chip cookies, Kit Kat, Hersey , Sneakers . Chocolate Cake, Fancy Chocolate , Chocolate *** Twix ! Any of this, fits the Chocolate and Orange Juice Fix. I love the Tropicana Florida Made Orange Juice. Is that what the Tropic's like? Is that what Florida like? The air and people give you a tang that at first is strange? But in the end you'll say "I am addicted to these things" ? I, love, Orange Juice.
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Jun 6, 2015
Jun 6, 2015 at 3:42 PM UTC
Orange Juice Every Where
The sun bakes down heavily on a plastic micro planet in Orlando, Florida where crowded trams drop American bushels of tourists into an alien world. Quickly fantasy comes alive through a corporation of disguise. The workers mask themselves in a drapery of familiar life -like costumes to charm little children’s hearts. They smile wildly, carving a clear dimple line on the but of their cheeks. Walt’s Disney World must have driven every one of America’s circuses out of business. The flying trapeze is too elegant, people now want to be strapped in, buckled up and whipped around to forcibly experience the true velocity of entertainment. Even the participant’s attire is geared for this third world oblivion. Neon ***** packs rest like bloated kangaroo pouches on fat sweaty old lady’s round hips, their plump fingers holding on to leashed harnesses reined to their child’s small chest. This is vacation, strangers of people in massive conglomerations with confused expressions and burnt faces. Even the food seems wickedly unnatural, like an artificial order of burning plastic and sour dough surprise. Waiting is the enthusiast’s pastime as parades of anxious voyeurs are captivated by a trance fixation of lights and whistles. They line up like schools of lemming, plunging on rides, one by one. This is the place Where memories are made And dreams come true
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Sep 25, 2010
Sep 25, 2010 at 12:25 PM UTC
Walt Disney World, Orlando Florida
i was far from bright light bustle far from humanity pressin in on me florida's paradise night neath the summer moon came to dreamin on a pretty girl from my long ago came to dreamin on true beauty's name serenity that long ago far far away i was busted flat end of my rope didn't see how i could go on had fallen to the darkness consuming my sight when she gave me the courage to breath again with her kindest of words she saved me carried me forward to hearts truth she saved me never could stand to see any hurt in her sweet eyes never wanted to see her cry call it love...call it knowin true beauty's name and the wild winds pick up a serenity dream carry me forward to knowin hearts truth that such special woman she is to me argue no more the light and dark she gave me the courage to see she gave my life back to me no matter the miles no matter the years i will always know true beauty's name serenity
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 2:42 PM UTC
serenity sails
full circle I'm laying here with the window open listening to the rain for secrets or something or waiting for you to tell me what you haven't been telling me like maybe there really is a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair and her eyes are the kind of blue that is never mistaken for grey she touches your chin before she kisses you, real softly or maybe she traces the spot above your lip where we all know angels rested their fingers before we were sent down here to rot or thrive maybe you talk about gardens with her, how you'd never ever own an orchid cause that ***** ex of yours demanded one every hospital visit how flowers aren't for boys but you'll pretend to watch football while you're really watching her bend down to touch the dirt like she used to smooth her baby brothers hair out of his little eyes before their parents decided that it was more convenient to buy them a little apartment and keep money in the safe while they spent their pensions in Florida watching alligators and Dolphins and toucan ******* Sam but never at the same time you see, I don't drink earl grey cause it tastes like fruit loops and I don't eat fruit loops cause it tastes like the childhood I erased from my memory by forcing myself to dissociate maybe this, is something else altogether maybe this... is not true, another delusion, maybe your hands are busy counting change out for cardboard signs maybe your feet move a little bit faster, not because you're in a rush to see someone who isn't me but because you're so scared of ending up back where you started
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 7:00 PM UTC
tell me a secret
full circle I'm laying here with the window open listening to the rain for secrets or something or waiting for you to tell me what you haven't been telling me like maybe there really is a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair and her eyes are the kind of blue that is never mistaken for grey she touches your chin before she kisses you, real softly or maybe she traces the spot above your lip where we all know angels rested their fingers before we were sent down here to rot or thrive maybe you talk about gardens with her, how you'd never ever own an orchid cause that ***** ex of yours demanded one every hospital visit how flowers aren't for boys but you'll pretend to watch football while you're really watching her bend down to touch the dirt like she used to smooth her baby brothers hair out of his little eyes before their parents decided that it was more convenient to buy them a little apartment and keep money in the safe while they spent their pensions in Florida watching alligators and Dolphins and toucan ******* Sam but never at the same time you see, I don't drink earl grey cause it tastes like fruit loops and I don't eat fruit loops cause it tastes like the childhood I erased from my memory by forcing myself to dissociate maybe this, is something else altogether maybe this... is not true, another delusion, maybe your hands are busy counting change out for cardboard signs maybe your feet move a little bit faster, not because you're in a rush to see someone who isn't me but because you're so scared of ending up back where you started
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First Kiss (Manchester to Miami) Rachel was a 19 year old student who attended the Royal Northern College of Music, located in Manchester UK. Manchester was considered the arts, media, higher education and commerce mecca of north central England. Bordered by the Cheshire plain to the south, and the Pennines mountain range to the north and east. The famous River Mersey ran along the southern side of Manchester. Rachel was packing for winter holiday with some of her classmates, to the warm beaches of Miami Florida, for a week long stay in the sun, far from the often dreary weather that settled over the UK this time of year. Not only was Rachel looking forward to the warm weather and sunny skies but she was looking forward to meeting up with Daniel. Daniel was a 40 something musician, beach bartender, handyman, who lived just outside of Miami. They had met on a poetry website seven months prior, and had established a warm friendship. They communicated almost daily threw emails, chat sites and through poetry exchanges. Their friendship had become more romantic in the last month or so, talking that silly love talk that new lovers used, and Rachel finished off every meeting with the initials AKTY at the end. AKTY stood for angel kisses to you, as Daniel liked to refer to her as his angel. they both were very excited about the chance to see each other, face to face. Rachel knew that the majority of Daniels poetry was slanted toward the romance side, and she knew from their conversations that he seemed to be educated, gentle and romantic. She was, they were, both looking forward to spending an evening together, holding hands,caressing each other, looking into each others eyes, and..... that first kiss. Kiss kiss kiss kiss hard rock guitars, lights and smoke Kiss, that first kiss, this is what, loves all about kiss, your sweet kiss, makes me go crazy, scream and shout your kiss, that angel kiss, can't live with out it, you drive me mad one kiss, just one kiss, from your sweet lips, blows my mind real bad don't know how I got by before you never want to try it no never again my darlin angel I adore you, since I met you you know i've been crazy, I've gone crazy, just can't get enuff, of you sweet baby dreaming, got me dreaming, every night baby, I don't mean maybe every kiss, like your first kiss, sets me ablaze, you know it takes me higher another kiss, I want another kiss, turn the flames up like a funeral pyre don't wanna try to get along without you never want to try it no never again my darlin angel I adore you, since I met you been waiting for that first kiss Gomer LePoet
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Apr 12, 2010
Apr 12, 2010 at 8:58 PM UTC
First Kiss (Act I -Manchester to Miami) A Rock Opera
First Kiss (Manchester to Miami) Rachel was a 19 year old student who attended the Royal Northern College of Music, located in Manchester UK. Manchester was considered the arts, media, higher education and commerce mecca of north central England. Bordered by the Cheshire plain to the south, and the Pennines mountain range to the north and east. The famous River Mersey ran along the southern side of Manchester. Rachel was packing for winter holiday with some of her classmates, to the warm beaches of Miami Florida, for a week long stay in the sun, far from the often dreary weather that settled over the UK this time of year. Not only was Rachel looking forward to the warm weather and sunny skies but she was looking forward to meeting up with Daniel. Daniel was a 40 something musician, beach bartender, handyman, who lived just outside of Miami. They had met on a poetry website seven months prior, and had established a warm friendship. They communicated almost daily threw emails, chat sites and through poetry exchanges. Their friendship had become more romantic in the last month or so, talking that silly love talk that new lovers used, and Rachel finished off every meeting with the initials AKTY at the end. AKTY stood for angel kisses to you, as Daniel liked to refer to her as his angel. they both were very excited about the chance to see each other, face to face. Rachel knew that the majority of Daniels poetry was slanted toward the romance side, and she knew from their conversations that he seemed to be educated, gentle and romantic. She was, they were, both looking forward to spending an evening together, holding hands,caressing each other, looking into each others eyes, and..... that first kiss. Kiss kiss kiss kiss hard rock guitars, lights and smoke Kiss, that first kiss, this is what, loves all about kiss, your sweet kiss, makes me go crazy, scream and shout your kiss, that angel kiss, can't live with out it, you drive me mad one kiss, just one kiss, from your sweet lips, blows my mind real bad don't know how I got by before you never want to try it no never again my darlin angel I adore you, since I met you you know i've been crazy, I've gone crazy, just can't get enuff, of you sweet baby dreaming, got me dreaming, every night baby, I don't mean maybe every kiss, like your first kiss, sets me ablaze, you know it takes me higher another kiss, I want another kiss, turn the flames up like a funeral pyre don't wanna try to get along without you never want to try it no never again my darlin angel I adore you, since I met you been waiting for that first kiss Gomer LePoet
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My body burns to rove far from man-made buildings, prisons for the modern soul. I need to traverse the frontiers white man stole from those who made it their home. I've been down to the Everglades of Florida. Fan boats flew through the estuary lines with roots of mangroves. I've been to the Hoh Rain Forest of Washington where fog descended on the shoreline and married the sulfur smell rising from hot springs. I must experience America's coast to coast beauty. Every spare seconds I spend luxuriating in the sun, thinking of all the places untouched. My list of desires grows as the glaciers of Glacier recede in Montana, beckoning me to the Rocky Mountain Peaks. Old Faithful gushes, surrounded by wolves and grizzlies. Someday I'll cross Yellowstone's expansive mountain ranges. from Idaho to Montana to Wyoming. On the arches of Utah I'll face my fear of heights and find solace at the tops of time-layered sandstone towers. Descending the Grand Canyon I'll study beautiful colors exposed by years of erosion. In winter Death Valley will be braved. The lowest and direst point will exhilarate me with scaled creatures as sand dunes whisper my name with every hot breath. The Badlands of South Dakota will hope I come backpacking through prairies to watch precious bison roam. California Redwood trees and I will stand side by side as friends. Yosemite will call me to her cliffs and I will chase waterfalls and sequoia groves until I've seen it all. I ache to explore the terrain that bears my name, the country I call home.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 1:09 PM UTC
Ansel Adams
My body burns to rove far from man-made buildings, prisons for the modern soul. I need to traverse the frontiers white man stole from those who made it their home. I've been down to the Everglades of Florida. Fan boats flew through the estuary lines with roots of mangroves. I've been to the Hoh Rain Forest of Washington where fog descended on the shoreline and married the sulfur smell rising from hot springs. I must experience America's coast to coast beauty. Every spare seconds I spend luxuriating in the sun, thinking of all the places untouched. My list of desires grows as the glaciers of Glacier recede in Montana, beckoning me to the Rocky Mountain Peaks. Old Faithful gushes, surrounded by wolves and grizzlies. Someday I'll cross Yellowstone's expansive mountain ranges. from Idaho to Montana to Wyoming. On the arches of Utah I'll face my fear of heights and find solace at the tops of time-layered sandstone towers. Descending the Grand Canyon I'll study beautiful colors exposed by years of erosion. In winter Death Valley will be braved. The lowest and direst point will exhilarate me with scaled creatures as sand dunes whisper my name with every hot breath. The Badlands of South Dakota will hope I come backpacking through prairies to watch precious bison roam. California Redwood trees and I will stand side by side as friends. Yosemite will call me to her cliffs and I will chase waterfalls and sequoia groves until I've seen it all. I ache to explore the terrain that bears my name, the country I call home.
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I Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore, The snake has left its skin upon the floor. Key West sank downward under massive clouds And silvers and greens spread over the sea. The moon Is at the mast-head and the past is dead. Her mind will never speak to me again. I am free. High above the mast the moon Rides clear of her mind and the waves make a refrain Of this: that the snake has shed its skin upon The floor. Go on through the darkness. The waves. fly back II Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot As if I lived in ashen ground, as if The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound From my North of cold whistled in a sepulchral South, Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea, Her home, not mine, in the ever-freshened Keys, Her days, her oceanic nights, calling For music, for whisperings from the reefs. How content I shall be in the North to which I sail And to feel sure and to forget the bleaching sand ... III I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness Of waving weeds. I hated the vivid blooms Curled over the shadowless hut, the rust and bones, The trees likes bones and the leaves half sand, half sun. To stand here on the deck in the dark and say Farewell and to know that that land is forever gone And that she will not follow in any word Or look, nor ever again in thought, except That I loved her once ... Farewell. Go on, high ship. IV My North is leafless and lies in a wintry slime Both of men and clouds, a slime of men in crowds. The men are moving as the water moves, This darkened water cloven by sullen swells Against your sides, then shoving and slithering, The darkness shattered, turbulent with foam. To be free again, to return to the violent mind That is their mind, these men, and that will bind Me round, carry me, misty deck, carry me To the cold, go on, high ship, go on, plunge on.
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Farewell to Florida
I Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore, The snake has left its skin upon the floor. Key West sank downward under massive clouds And silvers and greens spread over the sea. The moon Is at the mast-head and the past is dead. Her mind will never speak to me again. I am free. High above the mast the moon Rides clear of her mind and the waves make a refrain Of this: that the snake has shed its skin upon The floor. Go on through the darkness. The waves. fly back II Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot As if I lived in ashen ground, as if The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound From my North of cold whistled in a sepulchral South, Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea, Her home, not mine, in the ever-freshened Keys, Her days, her oceanic nights, calling For music, for whisperings from the reefs. How content I shall be in the North to which I sail And to feel sure and to forget the bleaching sand ... III I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness Of waving weeds. I hated the vivid blooms Curled over the shadowless hut, the rust and bones, The trees likes bones and the leaves half sand, half sun. To stand here on the deck in the dark and say Farewell and to know that that land is forever gone And that she will not follow in any word Or look, nor ever again in thought, except That I loved her once ... Farewell. Go on, high ship. IV My North is leafless and lies in a wintry slime Both of men and clouds, a slime of men in crowds. The men are moving as the water moves, This darkened water cloven by sullen swells Against your sides, then shoving and slithering, The darkness shattered, turbulent with foam. To be free again, to return to the violent mind That is their mind, these men, and that will bind Me round, carry me, misty deck, carry me To the cold, go on, high ship, go on, plunge on.
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Upon the shores of Malachite Next to the cobalt seas Under molten silver slivers of moonbeams That shatter on the crystal icing Covering the diamonded waterfall By the golden sand . . . Gather the Unicorns Of Neptune , Uranus , and Pluto and beyond Playfully cavorting between Steel seas and emeralded mountains On the frozen sands of time unchanged For a thousand Earth's comings But it's just a dream A lunacy , a nothingness in the night All my Unicorns have taken to flight And were never there Or were they ? All the frozen seas . . . Are now warm Florida Keys Under a full August moon And all the mountains . . . Are impossible fears That have faded into prairies Swelling like seas And there are no proof prints In the sands of time Of a far away race Frozen in time
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 10:05 PM UTC
By The Shores Of Malachite