Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
"floundering" poems
Then out of nowhere and at once, the voice stopped. No lingering feeling of self hate The questions The pondering It all came to a halt A thing that’s been with me all these years Came to an abrupt end Not bitter Not sweet Just end An ending i’ve been hoping, but not waiting on I didn’t know that there was such a thing As an end to it A blabbering, mumbling sorrow of self pity Or just a mere convenience of a lexicon with words to degrade myself A daily reminder of how worthless I was So I would’ve never forgotten my reason A reason never explained Never cared for With a reach of a sovereign hand I touch the notes Floundering through the air Playing a floating piano “A river flows in you” Caring for unprotected skin I was waiting for a different ending An abrupt ending, not like this one Fingernails not bitten off bleeding A curious feeling of relentlessness Not used to the feeling of not being alone It all came to a halt A voice that’s been with me for years A sadness of emptiness is nowhere to be found A clue to a healthy mind Maybe a fear of what could’ve been if not the voice left A sort of trembling worry of who to now complain when I do wrong An understatement of falling leaves from my tree I know my family will be glad Even though I haven’t ever told them bout the pain I contain Who to be worthy shall never pass Through my gates of hell No one is worthy of that pain Maybe not even me? I think this was and end worth waiting for
0
Dec 9, 2022
Dec 9, 2022 at 6:27 PM UTC
An ending worth waiting for
Nostradamus and sleeping prophet's One lost image of the singular Eye Re(ad(d): No worry To, Love Our Sun :). Signs like Gemini is to air Sagittarius is to fire a pair in this crossing with Pisces to water is Virgo for earth too We are the mutable ones!! Sunny is however we coin the calling spiraling too EYE of the One generation transmutable souls of soil ARE to earth; 'hues EYED like a butterfly, here to sample many flowers connected within a Great Spirit invoked as in wilds if peopled or things'!!! We do feel it within or without the actual considerations of the ultimate doings; 'letting go and taking the risk of trusting and depending on another'!!! One by one!!! :) EYE of humus hued in spirit and love fused to the stone's twirling and of the ruse's tolling So many of paths we traverse here as on earth the singular EYE knows out on the HORIZON The great Eye is too glued on Sunny Sun's ever evolving viewing's as hued spirits cross          EYE'S Our blinded one eye's longing to Lyra's lyre, great musician Orpheus winging, whose           W music tamed wild beasts, caused rivers to stop flowing and enchanted even gates                    S to the Lord of the Dead Hades, the softly lit fire singing inside linking heaven                            A               to earth viewed from outsider's hues waxing and waning of sleep wakened                              I N so ode to the moon in the darkness of night gives but who takes her softer                               F USED delight when One day halves by sun setting all ebbs in flowing as tides                                       B I            to Great oceans moved like hearts breathe air to presence's emoting                                              STAR'S   from magic to tragic we long of ecliptic traces cryptically erasing                                                      W the blindness of memory and sight' majestic beast's floundering                                                            I a forever crisscrossed from the One Eye here now to Knight's                                                                N dear lost forbidden inner retreats from the East to God's lost                                                                     'S children cast out to the land from blood pooling in spoils                                                                        O as easily uncovered as readily as new western lands had                                 ~/ E \~                               N   claim maddened ravaged savagely eagerly discovered                                 ~(:YES :)~                          G fear still rocks this boat with hope still sailing onward                                (:FORGIVEN:).                       'S
0
Oct 8, 2012
Oct 8, 2012 at 7:52 PM UTC
Columbus's Crossing
Nostradamus and sleeping prophet's One lost image of the singular Eye Re(ad(d): No worry To, Love Our Sun :). Signs like Gemini is to air Sagittarius is to fire a pair in this crossing with Pisces to water is Virgo for earth too We are the mutable ones!! Sunny is however we coin the calling spiraling too EYE of the One generation transmutable souls of soil ARE to earth; 'hues EYED like a butterfly, here to sample many flowers connected within a Great Spirit invoked as in wilds if peopled or things'!!! We do feel it within or without the actual considerations of the ultimate doings; 'letting go and taking the risk of trusting and depending on another'!!! One by one!!! :) EYE of humus hued in spirit and love fused to the stone's twirling and of the ruse's tolling So many of paths we traverse here as on earth the singular EYE knows out on the HORIZON The great Eye is too glued on Sunny Sun's ever evolving viewing's as hued spirits cross          EYE'S Our blinded one eye's longing to Lyra's lyre, great musician Orpheus winging, whose           W music tamed wild beasts, caused rivers to stop flowing and enchanted even gates                    S to the Lord of the Dead Hades, the softly lit fire singing inside linking heaven                            A               to earth viewed from outsider's hues waxing and waning of sleep wakened                              I N so ode to the moon in the darkness of night gives but who takes her softer                               F USED delight when One day halves by sun setting all ebbs in flowing as tides                                       B I            to Great oceans moved like hearts breathe air to presence's emoting                                              STAR'S   from magic to tragic we long of ecliptic traces cryptically erasing                                                      W the blindness of memory and sight' majestic beast's floundering                                                            I a forever crisscrossed from the One Eye here now to Knight's                                                                N dear lost forbidden inner retreats from the East to God's lost                                                                     'S children cast out to the land from blood pooling in spoils                                                                        O as easily uncovered as readily as new western lands had                                 ~/ E \~                               N   claim maddened ravaged savagely eagerly discovered                                 ~(:YES :)~                          G fear still rocks this boat with hope still sailing onward                                (:FORGIVEN:).                       'S
Continue reading...
32
A man is only half of what he is; always leaning towards the dim Lacking a flouted need which whorls in the mute within him A man bigots an ideal and will lark it away at the hold of his routed pith A smile is not worthwhile if the smile does not have anything to receive or to give A man is skyless; bound to his back with his dreams fixed on a rapture He gorges upon tasteless feasts gasping for that sup he hungers to recapture He does not know nor recall the times that did once befall Of the lossless suffers and how they ever meant anything at all He will become the most that he can ever endeavour Be the creature he needs to be and whichever Way it may engross him and how it moulds or claims him It will be still him but leaning not so far in the dim He would be a whole man who would give himself wholly Who would be more and only more to her and her solely His full heart would be tendered for it would not be his own If it was still partial of the heart that had since budded and grown A man would be raised and the sky would be without border A bliss amid clouds where the undiscerning muddle finds order There would be a sense to the road an approach to the wander A reason for all a kiss a need to ponder no longer There would be such rise in his depth and a contest behind bit teeth To fight for the purposed kiss to hold her and keep her from grief To offer her all embrace not too tense and not too slack For her to breathe is to breathe; now half new he would never give it back To be back upon his back with eyes busy to the sky His bones broken as her feet glide indifferently by Over his stare among cloud where she impelled his descent He’d lay fallen and broken beaten and bent If Half a man became whole does a whole man not become naught? If he fights for a dearest never afore dreamt dream then what is left to be fought? Was it his minds misgivings that would lead to such a trite giving reliving to doubt? That surfaced more than he knew; the intended whisper instead a floundering shout? Would it have been his heart that threw him from his felicity? Could his relish overwhelm and mutate into potent toxicity? Could it be fact that without thought nor without tact he impelled her? Either overthought or over loved he would have fallen the hardest and he would not rise No he would not rise anymore If there ever was such a man and ever such a she He would have her for as long as that may be Her greatest gift is after saying all this to you Is that after knowing all that you could you would feel the same way too.
0
Nov 7, 2012
Nov 7, 2012 at 3:21 PM UTC
A useless Man
A man is only half of what he is; always leaning towards the dim Lacking a flouted need which whorls in the mute within him A man bigots an ideal and will lark it away at the hold of his routed pith A smile is not worthwhile if the smile does not have anything to receive or to give A man is skyless; bound to his back with his dreams fixed on a rapture He gorges upon tasteless feasts gasping for that sup he hungers to recapture He does not know nor recall the times that did once befall Of the lossless suffers and how they ever meant anything at all He will become the most that he can ever endeavour Be the creature he needs to be and whichever Way it may engross him and how it moulds or claims him It will be still him but leaning not so far in the dim He would be a whole man who would give himself wholly Who would be more and only more to her and her solely His full heart would be tendered for it would not be his own If it was still partial of the heart that had since budded and grown A man would be raised and the sky would be without border A bliss amid clouds where the undiscerning muddle finds order There would be a sense to the road an approach to the wander A reason for all a kiss a need to ponder no longer There would be such rise in his depth and a contest behind bit teeth To fight for the purposed kiss to hold her and keep her from grief To offer her all embrace not too tense and not too slack For her to breathe is to breathe; now half new he would never give it back To be back upon his back with eyes busy to the sky His bones broken as her feet glide indifferently by Over his stare among cloud where she impelled his descent He’d lay fallen and broken beaten and bent If Half a man became whole does a whole man not become naught? If he fights for a dearest never afore dreamt dream then what is left to be fought? Was it his minds misgivings that would lead to such a trite giving reliving to doubt? That surfaced more than he knew; the intended whisper instead a floundering shout? Would it have been his heart that threw him from his felicity? Could his relish overwhelm and mutate into potent toxicity? Could it be fact that without thought nor without tact he impelled her? Either overthought or over loved he would have fallen the hardest and he would not rise No he would not rise anymore If there ever was such a man and ever such a she He would have her for as long as that may be Her greatest gift is after saying all this to you Is that after knowing all that you could you would feel the same way too.
Continue reading...
41
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
0
Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 11:25 PM UTC
Awesome Alliterations
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
Continue reading...
20
I had the funniest dream the other night I was doing something with paintings in the dream I was picking them up and looking at them I was in a public place, there was other people around In the corner of my eye I could make out this girl She was sitting on a table talking to another girl who was sitting down She was a Goth girl, a real life Goth girl She had these big laced boots and the fishnet stockings She had necklaces and jewellery and the black dress on She had the black eyeliner and  very pronounced lipstick And she had her hair done in a funny way that I didn't particularly like But I can't remember now to describe (maybe it was short or shaven a bit) Now I wasn't staring at her, I was only regarding her clandestinely out of the corner of my eye It's like I was saying "Wow! There's a real Goth girl I'd never met or spoken to a Goth girl before Suddenly it's like... it's like she notices me for the first time And she starts watching me... she's looking right at me Now I'm a bit chuffed by this...flattered I'm wondering why she'd be interested in an old geezer like me Anyway just then I decide to glance at her pretending I've only just seen her for the first time For a moment our eyes they meet And y'know, she slips me the sweetest smile I've ever seen in my whole life It's so warm and endearing/welcoming, open and innocent.. so cute It's like she's saying "Hello there you, I'd love to get to know you" Me! I don't know what to do, I'm blown away, Gulp! I'm all at sea and I'm floundering But I got to do something... so I kinda smile back at her and give her a little wink Then I quickly look back at my paintings The next time I dare to look over she's right there, right in front of me, this fabulous creature...in all her wonderful terribleness LoL It's obvious she wants to make herself known to me It all proves too much though... I chicken out I pull out of the dream I guess... I'm only a Shy Boy really.
0
Nov 2, 2023
Nov 2, 2023 at 1:33 PM UTC
I'm just a Shy Boy really (Goth girl)
I had the funniest dream the other night I was doing something with paintings in the dream I was picking them up and looking at them I was in a public place, there was other people around In the corner of my eye I could make out this girl She was sitting on a table talking to another girl who was sitting down She was a Goth girl, a real life Goth girl She had these big laced boots and the fishnet stockings She had necklaces and jewellery and the black dress on She had the black eyeliner and  very pronounced lipstick And she had her hair done in a funny way that I didn't particularly like But I can't remember now to describe (maybe it was short or shaven a bit) Now I wasn't staring at her, I was only regarding her clandestinely out of the corner of my eye It's like I was saying "Wow! There's a real Goth girl I'd never met or spoken to a Goth girl before Suddenly it's like... it's like she notices me for the first time And she starts watching me... she's looking right at me Now I'm a bit chuffed by this...flattered I'm wondering why she'd be interested in an old geezer like me Anyway just then I decide to glance at her pretending I've only just seen her for the first time For a moment our eyes they meet And y'know, she slips me the sweetest smile I've ever seen in my whole life It's so warm and endearing/welcoming, open and innocent.. so cute It's like she's saying "Hello there you, I'd love to get to know you" Me! I don't know what to do, I'm blown away, Gulp! I'm all at sea and I'm floundering But I got to do something... so I kinda smile back at her and give her a little wink Then I quickly look back at my paintings The next time I dare to look over she's right there, right in front of me, this fabulous creature...in all her wonderful terribleness LoL It's obvious she wants to make herself known to me It all proves too much though... I chicken out I pull out of the dream I guess... I'm only a Shy Boy really.
Continue reading...
33
This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye. At noon I scaled along the house-side as far as The coal-house door. Once I looked up - Through the brunt wind that dented the ***** of my eyes The tent of the hills drummed and strained its guyrope, The fields quivering, the skyline a grimace, At any second to bang and vanish with a flap; The wind flung a magpie away and a black- Back gull bent like an iron bar slowly. The house Rang like some fine green goblet in the note That any second would shatter it. Now deep In chairs, in front of the great fire, we grip Our hearts and cannot entertain book, thought, Or each other. We watch the fire blazing, And feel the roots of the house move, but sit on, Seeing the window tremble to come in, Hearing the stones cry out under the horizons.
0
3.8k
Wind
Blue is not sure where to find the propeller. The motor boat sent to scotch the shimmer. The waves break inside a jar, and the little pieces are swept up by the wind and made into mist. The Jar is shaken, the titanic sinks, and the seagulls peck at our eyes. Covered in barnacles, the new-found fish men wander onto the sand and get coated, as in cornmeal, ready to fry. Infatuated and floundering they wander to water again. Drinking death hand over fist, they ring themselves out with simply a twist. The fish flap their fins so forcefully; trying to be flying to a sea called the sky. With a crumbled-ed crust they say, “motherboat or bust”, but the navigation of aviation is a compilation of great frustration for fishes whose function is on boats, wrapped up in those silly greatcoats. Yet they made it, or so they claim, and with only one flounder or flunder who had made a blunder to blame. If only old skipper had been a bit quicker, he wouldn't have had such a queer story to claim.
0
Oct 25, 2014
Oct 25, 2014 at 2:10 PM UTC
Odd, eh? Sea...
Extra! Extra! Read All About It !! Recent Icelandic Sledding accident. A mountain of Vanilla pudding was mistaken for the Olympic Sledding Hill. Professional sledders lined up, leaped on their sleds, and found themselves floundering in pudding. The mayhem was only multiplied by swarms of wild parrots, squawking at sledders as they thrashed about attempting to dislodge themselves from the pit of pudding swallowing them whole.   Survivors were taken to Pud'N'Pie Clinic, for treatment of acute pudding suffocation, and treated with chocolate syrup and whip cream.
0
Jan 11, 2011
Jan 11, 2011 at 6:28 PM UTC
Extra!
Caged in a prison, high on a hill, actions ensued but didn’t quite fit the bill Words of not-always transformed promises to forever, Side by side, naught to hide, despite the cloudy weather A friend, a rock, a ship almost wrecked was looking to dock Alone in the harbour, under the moonlight, Ashamed, The half-wreck shone bright for what it was famed. Tough stains were covered, remains left undiscovered to be smothered by another Heart still full of what was before, keen, loveful pursuers already knocking at the door Cabin wide open: “Ahoy mateys! Ahoy!” She soon set sail with the innocent boy. Tides were rolling on peacefully by, some of them were low tides but mainly they were high, When in need there was a shoulder upon which to cry And the girl thought the boy would help her get by. Way out at sea on a tropical isle the boy showed the girl daemons not seen in a while Opened her up and dove right in, illustrated the flaws of reacting to whims Open Broken Alone at sea, the boy turned his back as she fell to her knees Floundering, drowning, thrashing in the waves The girl succumbed to what her daemon craves Underwater tears remain unobserved A not-so-sly Fox spoke of acts undeserved An unsure girl, curled up, abashed Covered up the act and watched her daemon be tamed A ship in the darkness, a ship under the stars Saved the girl and craved the girl and hoped she knew right And Oh! How she flourished in this dependable new light “Love and peace, me mateys!”: a new reason to fight The boy on his island, soon to return, Will see that the shipwreck upon which they met, though not yet quite perfect Trawls the coast to find an isle of its own And though different to first-envisaged, Bristol shall be its home.
0
Feb 20, 2013
Feb 20, 2013 at 11:27 AM UTC
The Shipwreck
Caged in a prison, high on a hill, actions ensued but didn’t quite fit the bill Words of not-always transformed promises to forever, Side by side, naught to hide, despite the cloudy weather A friend, a rock, a ship almost wrecked was looking to dock Alone in the harbour, under the moonlight, Ashamed, The half-wreck shone bright for what it was famed. Tough stains were covered, remains left undiscovered to be smothered by another Heart still full of what was before, keen, loveful pursuers already knocking at the door Cabin wide open: “Ahoy mateys! Ahoy!” She soon set sail with the innocent boy. Tides were rolling on peacefully by, some of them were low tides but mainly they were high, When in need there was a shoulder upon which to cry And the girl thought the boy would help her get by. Way out at sea on a tropical isle the boy showed the girl daemons not seen in a while Opened her up and dove right in, illustrated the flaws of reacting to whims Open Broken Alone at sea, the boy turned his back as she fell to her knees Floundering, drowning, thrashing in the waves The girl succumbed to what her daemon craves Underwater tears remain unobserved A not-so-sly Fox spoke of acts undeserved An unsure girl, curled up, abashed Covered up the act and watched her daemon be tamed A ship in the darkness, a ship under the stars Saved the girl and craved the girl and hoped she knew right And Oh! How she flourished in this dependable new light “Love and peace, me mateys!”: a new reason to fight The boy on his island, soon to return, Will see that the shipwreck upon which they met, though not yet quite perfect Trawls the coast to find an isle of its own And though different to first-envisaged, Bristol shall be its home.
Continue reading...
39
Wondering what I should write and floundering in my own confusion I thought – why not write about poems that set me thinking what poems are A poem could be anything.......! at best, distilled thoughts put into rhyme or a moment caught in time a window glimpse into the world an engrossing passion’s ardent curl a snap shot of scenes from Nature- wild or a slice of life, birth or death        sometimes it could be a yearning   or an image long hung on a pole a thought turned inside out or the emptying of a mind about to spill it could be the liberation of a fancy, for long held in thralldom a gnawing pain, long suppressed or a secret, never divulged        As I pondered over the subjects’ enormity and a poem’s vast scope, I asked myself- ‘Why hesitate?’ soon I felt a stir inside, my thoughts broke loose a terrible block lifted off my head my silence became audible I embroidered these thoughts into the pattern of a poem Here it is before you, have a look at it Will it annoy you or will you enjoy!
0
May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017 at 8:20 AM UTC
A Poem
**My life is foretold in every crevice of this universe, in serene seas, and swaying sands, in scorching degrees and holding hands, with a lover in my longing arms, fires raging, and yet i am sheltered from harm. and throughout my journeys, it is my deepest desire, to ignite and set my ambitions on fire, in the midst of euphoric dreaming, with my lover on this late summer's evening. and i shall be at one with the stars, and my doors in life shall forever remain ajar.** *Walk into this space it is endless sublime congruence with the heavens open is the third eye looking directly at abyss i feel a divine hint on my skin as if it were a celestial kiss there is no need to travel in doubt it is written across the evening canvas open the gates of exotic awareness* **It is writhing, it is gifting, entrusting me, and quaking, yet I, within mine, remain still. Fore be it told, and beneath footless form, it's subversive, yet, I dance a sure tango, uphill. I must be sure, so sure not to mind lone notches and disparity, as crevices, you see, they arch to transverse. Fearing but forging the depths of what is migration, we say, from this hallowed tangle be my rise, my verse. I’m floundering, I grant, when I think I hold discovery, so, I tug at the rein of imprint and plan. It is here my beloved reliance, my precious doubtless tread is afforded the fair crossing of Pan. So, although it contests and chides and outreaches, I am in love and as love, an apprentice. A conquest won, no never, but here, a concession, a regard- I am, with no poet’s journey, amiss.** Lilting ebulliently in ineffable fields of ecstasy. Mellifluous waves, in life's voyage, inure us to pulchritude paths, refined by old age. Multifarious, nascent jubilant days, swaying in paint, array the way as we sail away.
0
Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 7:27 AM UTC
A Poet's Journey ( collab by 4 Amazing Poets)
**My life is foretold in every crevice of this universe, in serene seas, and swaying sands, in scorching degrees and holding hands, with a lover in my longing arms, fires raging, and yet i am sheltered from harm. and throughout my journeys, it is my deepest desire, to ignite and set my ambitions on fire, in the midst of euphoric dreaming, with my lover on this late summer's evening. and i shall be at one with the stars, and my doors in life shall forever remain ajar.** *Walk into this space it is endless sublime congruence with the heavens open is the third eye looking directly at abyss i feel a divine hint on my skin as if it were a celestial kiss there is no need to travel in doubt it is written across the evening canvas open the gates of exotic awareness* **It is writhing, it is gifting, entrusting me, and quaking, yet I, within mine, remain still. Fore be it told, and beneath footless form, it's subversive, yet, I dance a sure tango, uphill. I must be sure, so sure not to mind lone notches and disparity, as crevices, you see, they arch to transverse. Fearing but forging the depths of what is migration, we say, from this hallowed tangle be my rise, my verse. I’m floundering, I grant, when I think I hold discovery, so, I tug at the rein of imprint and plan. It is here my beloved reliance, my precious doubtless tread is afforded the fair crossing of Pan. So, although it contests and chides and outreaches, I am in love and as love, an apprentice. A conquest won, no never, but here, a concession, a regard- I am, with no poet’s journey, amiss.** Lilting ebulliently in ineffable fields of ecstasy. Mellifluous waves, in life's voyage, inure us to pulchritude paths, refined by old age. Multifarious, nascent jubilant days, swaying in paint, array the way as we sail away.
Continue reading...
41
The man was smart. The animals, watching, knew it. The shattering glass of the universe felt the opposition, and the understanding was the result of a fiendish ambition. There was a recording. It time, there was a healing record; it reached for the few left unwell. They were floundering until it was discovered to be the shape of things drawn with ink. The deception of empty hands, which refused to let them drink the clean water also offered to slay the daughter. This forced them all to worry about forensic relics and lumps of shattered trust. Love was hidden away for the sake of uninterrupted safety.
0
Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 8:12 PM UTC
Reassembling The Pieces
Caught in the clutches of the spindle my party parlays its way through, ever increasing grips of madness, fear of becoming overtaken by the darkness. Is this a metaphor? Or, is this a game? We are in a dungeon, deep, destroying lest we are kicked for floundering. The spiders spindle down from the roofs of this cavern. Slowly descending, thirsty for blood. My magic is powerless My blood is becoming the feast "Feed us your blood." The haunting thought reverberates throughout. In the cradle of shadows. Hides a man named Walks-In-Ash. His face is the last I see as all fades to darkness.
0
Oct 5, 2016
Oct 5, 2016 at 10:27 PM UTC
Spindleclutch
The rats in the walls are chewing our cable lines The channels that work on the TV are as follows 11 - where we watch the news 29 - where we sometimes watch shows on Thursdays 4 - That’s where we watch sports on Sundays when the Vikings lose again Wicked September winds are killer in the morning And all throughout the day October is relentless, She pierces like a ***** And our wooden walls can’t stand up to her. When we watched the Lusitania go down On that warm May evening Our hearts sank deeper than its hull The war was just beginning The war was just beginning And when we watched the sailors go up in flames Screaming for his mothers warm embrace Sinking with the ship and his captain Floundering in the warm bay of Ireland I knew you were dying inside When you saw the war begin And I saw it ignite in your eyes The war was just beginning The war was just beginning September mornings seem to get us still It’s cold in the rafters where the snow owl has chosen to live At least he keeps the mice away We can thank him for that later.
0
Oct 12, 2012
Oct 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM UTC
The Lusitania was sunk for no good reason
The stench of burning flesh and ***** Imbuing the air Carcasses of infant demons Putrefying in the crater Dissected impure angels hemorrhaging Repugnancy dominates Shrieking Quivering Floundering as they flutter their rotten wings A profusion of worms Falling from mouths like a cataract Smoke coming out of their halos No longer reigning In this, their hades Swollen with beasts in utero Perpetuating abominations Soon it will be their turn To liquefy in the lava
0
Jan 6, 2014
Jan 6, 2014 at 4:45 PM UTC
This, their hades.
Anatomically sound, befitting a king swaying alertly in the waves, I sing. Hearts, at sea, floundering and pounding against the cavity of my chest, astounding. V-Day arriving, and leaving without me swimming with shellfish and sharks at sea. Satisfying love’s unique quality, and breathlessly waiting for me to be we. Tortuously lying in the keel’s utter mist waves exploding above, below and amidst. contemplating all that I ever wished, remembering when, at first we last kissed. V-Day, a special enchanting display, lovingly speeding, though slightly astray. Wishing you love in a happiness way, throughout a belated Valentine’s Day.
0
Nov 5, 2010
Nov 5, 2010 at 2:05 PM UTC
V-Day, Belated
All perish whence they quest for immortality, Such foolish dreams will result in fatality. Critters struggle in nets of ersatz reality, Hormonal clashes unbalance our morality. Under the influence by budding, ravishing thyme, Oft' that sunny beam leaves me doing pantomime. Chaste clues and envy droughts left me mellowing, Such pain ipso facto I can't kiss this porcelain. My seat of notions drives me to calculate, While undead, fatigued, I falsely formulate. Floundering in viscous fluids, I am drowning... My verdant sail is half-mast: lonely, frowning. Within moon-lit meadows, shadows flow cursively, Beyond the kaleidoscope lay a rustic key. Beg you pardon the rust and blackened fissures, Pardon those slights to open eternal treasures. To crave two heart beats align in synchrony, To sluice my fingers through the strands of memory. Embracing silvery asps soaring on the breeze, My sight spies thy adieu and I shatter apiece. Un-writing errors, distantly, unstumbling, The abyss: now a star, wings unfurling. 'Tween the heavens fell meteoric golds, Sinusoidal cascades of such sublime codes. Traversed steadily upon the gilded firmaments, Was so small, blind to the unseen monuments. To be offered aristocratic absolution, From my humble plebeian resolution. I am sublime. 'Hold my dichotomous, nay, Such cantankerous introversion within, eh?
0
Sep 22, 2010
Sep 22, 2010 at 3:40 PM UTC
Dichotomy of Insanity
Barricades and Floundering drift alongside the edge and what is specifically excluded? cantankerous vetch, its bitter wiles. Life rough-hewn on a cusps of Moon, whose dust return as Libertines and Rakes Born from the same lumière with moral relativism to confound and saddle such consequences.
0
Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 8:04 AM UTC
Nothing will change
It’s 30… it’s 28 degrees outside, or so says the rust-cased thermometer on the balcony. The blizzard we’ve been expecting all week is a churning grey mist in the distance— it is easy to see from the balcony if I look through pine boughs. The woods expanding below our mountainside balcony are also home to several swanky condos; evergreens and birch all down the mountain, and a dusty snow falling in the valley below. We are all familiar with the reddened barn staring at us, perfectly opposite our balcony, commanding a small field on the little mountain across the dip of the valley. But the blizzard is swallowing the neighbor mountain in its snowy march towards the balcony. And the lazy, drifting flakes above the pines are shook into a frenzied dance. A group of skiers, lost and floundering in the white near the buildings lodged in the woods below understand that cold, chaotic feeling I know as the valley blurs in whitewash.
0
Feb 1, 2010
Feb 1, 2010 at 9:20 PM UTC
The Blizzard
I voyaged through pink-bubble oceans filled my nose with peppermint-sea air spotted a sudsy blue whale I fought through shampoo-froth rapids with my trusty back-scrubber oar spotted floundering soap-bottle salmon I floated on spicy still-waters wash-cloth water-weeds tickling feet spotted a squawking rubber duck I sat in chilly bath-water scents long faded into nothing spotted an old bobbing sponge.
0
Jul 23, 2010
Jul 23, 2010 at 11:22 AM UTC
Bath-Time Adventure
the maryland girls sit with half eaten smiles speak sideways half truths casting lines out into the Chesapeake where men jump at shiny elusive things hook in lip blood in mouth worms writhing on their tongues pulled to shore uncomfortable choking on oxygen pretty eyes eclipsing sun measuring by skeptical scales a good heart for loving strong lungs for screaming her name soft hands to chase her hair from her face hook from mouth worm swimming down throat pulled to feet she kissed me [swallowed it] pressed for just a few seconds [but shes still kissing me to this very day] she whispers to go but i so desperately want to stay fish out of sea she'll agree that i taste nice but through seemingly faked sorrow she'll admit she has lost her appetite knife in chest gutted head to toe tossed back into the frozen mouth of the Chesepeake and i will be swallowed we'll all be and when i come floating down to Baltimore They wont find much of me like the Tomb i will be found empty but since there are no places in heaven for fish i simply will cease to exist maryland girls sit with half eaten smiles waiting to devour dreaming to digest stupid floundering gullible fish.
0
Jun 12, 2010
Jun 12, 2010 at 8:57 PM UTC
The Maryland Girls Sit With Half Eaten Smiles
*Wandering the great abyss Floundering in the dark Searching the desert for an oasis, Home fire warming the hearth Floundering in the dark, The lost, the fearful younger self Home fire warming the hearth, Faded picture on the shelf The lost, the fearful younger self Once vivid in imagination Faded picture on the shelf Juxtaposed jubilation Once vivid in imagination Looking back through sands of time Juxtaposed jubilation Travels back and forth the mind Looking back through sands of time Searching the desert for an oasis Travels back and forth the mind Wandering the great abyss*
0
Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 6:44 PM UTC
Retrospective Perspective
Soft touches on the inside of my skin, sensitive to your every stroke, playing with my senses, sending sense flying to the winds. The longing to touch you, the hunger to be part of you, the heated fantasies of skin on skin and finding surcease within. Inhaling your scent as you passed by, drinking it in to satisfy parched desire, unslaked need as I yearn for thee. Gasping awake from unrequited dreams, floundering amid amative aches, cogitating on your pellucid gaze, wondering what you need.
0
Jun 3, 2010
Jun 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM UTC
Unfinished Dreams
* After walking in a desert Under the burning sun With scorching heat That peels the skin As if one finds An oasis in desert As if one finds coolness Of a GRAND Banyan TREE As if one finds peace Under a Bodh-Gaya Tree *Such is the happiness & bliss I feel inside my heart & being The day I realized your LOVE-SOUL-connect That's the time... I completely surrendered Myself in/to your LOVE...* ~~~~~~~ My mind had so many questions My life was just An aimless wander-lust I was not getting anywhere... I was seeking an anchor of LOVE As if a canoe is fighting A ravaging battle with Surging oceanic waves and Unable to sail to a shore As if some sparkling-stars In the dark-sky Showed the direction To the floundering boat Towards a safe seacoast *Such is the happiness & bliss I feel inside my heart & being The day I realized your LOVE-SOUL-connect That's the time... I completely surrendered Myself in/to your LOVE...* ~~~~~~~ As the pitch dark nights becomes Illuminated by your full-moon-shine As if a thirst of desert Since a millennium years Receives dew drop messages of Upcoming downpour of thunderstorm *Such is the happiness & bliss I feel inside my heart & being The day I realized your LOVE-SOUL-connect And when I completely surrendered Myself to your LOVE...* ~~~~~~ I only walk on the path That is leading me to YOUR SOUL At all times.... In seasons of springs, When flowers blossoms In walks across thorns During autumn leaves In summers or winters Over fires, over valleys Without faltering or straying From your LOVE course-call To the one who was thirsty For a single drop of water As if Destiny gave Divine nectar To one's heart's content To live & survive for Eternity *Such is the happiness & bliss I feel inside my heart & being The day I realized your LOVE-SOUL-connect And when I completely surrendered Myself to your LOVE...* ~~~~~~~ *
0
Nov 16, 2018
Nov 16, 2018 at 12:34 AM UTC
Such Is The Blessing Of Your LOVE
* After walking in a desert Under the burning sun With scorching heat That peels the skin As if one finds An oasis in desert As if one finds coolness Of a GRAND Banyan TREE As if one finds peace Under a Bodh-Gaya Tree *Such is the happiness & bliss I feel inside my heart & being The day I realized your LOVE-SOUL-connect That's the time... I completely surrendered Myself in/to your LOVE...* ~~~~~~~ My mind had so many questions My life was just An aimless wander-lust I was not getting anywhere... I was seeking an anchor of LOVE As if a canoe is fighting A ravaging battle with Surging oceanic waves and Unable to sail to a shore As if some sparkling-stars In the dark-sky Showed the direction To the floundering boat Towards a safe seacoast *Such is the happiness & bliss I feel inside my heart & being The day I realized your LOVE-SOUL-connect That's the time... I completely surrendered Myself in/to your LOVE...* ~~~~~~~ As the pitch dark nights becomes Illuminated by your full-moon-shine As if a thirst of desert Since a millennium years Receives dew drop messages of Upcoming downpour of thunderstorm *Such is the happiness & bliss I feel inside my heart & being The day I realized your LOVE-SOUL-connect And when I completely surrendered Myself to your LOVE...* ~~~~~~ I only walk on the path That is leading me to YOUR SOUL At all times.... In seasons of springs, When flowers blossoms In walks across thorns During autumn leaves In summers or winters Over fires, over valleys Without faltering or straying From your LOVE course-call To the one who was thirsty For a single drop of water As if Destiny gave Divine nectar To one's heart's content To live & survive for Eternity *Such is the happiness & bliss I feel inside my heart & being The day I realized your LOVE-SOUL-connect And when I completely surrendered Myself to your LOVE...* ~~~~~~~ *
Continue reading...
81
We sat aloft a dune    peering over the ocean, waves mesmerizing   our inner turmoil, grainy surf dimensions     cut into psyche, voices turned hazy midst broiling sun   washed back with    salt water tears, there was no lighthouse   to guide the way   nor save disparate crests   no words reverberated the sound,     just the floundering of       gritty restless emotions that once were blissed horizons    before moon lost its balance      to relentless torrential currents       of neglectful destruction,    drowning in ambiguous undertows
0
Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 7:33 AM UTC
Moon lost its balance