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The blue Arabian sea, the towering Western Ghats This then is Kerala the most beautiful Indian state Lush green hill stations, lowland paddy fields All are in Kerala between the mountains and the sea Fourty four rivers flow so water here for all Exotic plants in abundance beside the waterfalls Enchanting emerald back waters put here for your delight The days are never long enough to view each wonderous site Kerala is called gods own country, the reasons very clear Wildlife abounds, exotic birds and sika deer Here you will live longer than in any other state Fresh food in abundance and low mortality rate Why don't you come and visit this paradise on earth And take away the memories that you will always cherish
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Feb 20, 2014
Feb 20, 2014 at 3:22 PM UTC
KERALA
sext: wrap me in the blanket that's in the back seat of your car, call her while I'm staring into space, tell her you love her out of no where sext: uuuuuuuuhhhhh......I don't want to move in with you sext: I love you but I'm moving a thousand miles away sext: I love you so I'm moving a thousand miles away sext: I'm moving a thousand miles away BECAUSE I love you sext: I want to bite off your tongue sext: really bad sext: you shouldn't have told her you love her when I was already off the ledge sext: I'll bite your lip, it'll bleed, red will pour down your mouth and your clothes and your horns will poke through and BOOM! satan sext: baby baby BABY you turn me on sext: especially when your actions completely correlate with what I was always told not to do sext: I was told not to do you, but, well....ok we were supposed to hangout at a park like this is a ******* indie movie but this cop told me that park was closed? I didn't know parks ******* close? so we met in a parking lot and you mentioned how your roommate wasn't home and la la la la LAAAAA, we ended up on your living room floor and the carpet was covered in my black lace sext: I'm wearing high heels, tall ones. I'm 5' 11 1/2", you're, ummm...something. someone. oh yeah, I'm in love with you. well, I dunno about that anymore what's love? I defined it and it said "sext: an intense feeling of deep attachment". ah, ok, got it. I now understand you, love. this was supposed to be **** ya no, like me running down the back your legs in my red high heels, sending chills through your veins and breaking all of your bones. ****** **** right? **** I ruined it when I brought up love   sext: uh, it's been 3 days since we've talked. I know you said like 3 months ago that we needed to "draw new lines for each other" and "figure out how to have self control and not pounce the other when we're alone and I play smashing pumpkins" but we've ****** like what, 40 times since? and you told me you loved me and begged me not to leave soooooooo....? those lines need to be erased buddy boy sext: uhg. you don't get it. I'm tired.  got so drunk I could barely stand last night. slept for fourty minutes. then worked a thirteen hour shift. I'm sorry. give me a kiss. no? but this is supposed to be a sext? sext: nothing you say is equivalent to a sext these days sext: take your clothes off sext: take your clothes off sext: then take mine off sext: then take mine off sext: you wear mine, I wear yours sext: jk babe the clothes are off we're ******* ******
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 3:44 AM UTC
sext: and BOOM! satan
sext: wrap me in the blanket that's in the back seat of your car, call her while I'm staring into space, tell her you love her out of no where sext: uuuuuuuuhhhhh......I don't want to move in with you sext: I love you but I'm moving a thousand miles away sext: I love you so I'm moving a thousand miles away sext: I'm moving a thousand miles away BECAUSE I love you sext: I want to bite off your tongue sext: really bad sext: you shouldn't have told her you love her when I was already off the ledge sext: I'll bite your lip, it'll bleed, red will pour down your mouth and your clothes and your horns will poke through and BOOM! satan sext: baby baby BABY you turn me on sext: especially when your actions completely correlate with what I was always told not to do sext: I was told not to do you, but, well....ok we were supposed to hangout at a park like this is a ******* indie movie but this cop told me that park was closed? I didn't know parks ******* close? so we met in a parking lot and you mentioned how your roommate wasn't home and la la la la LAAAAA, we ended up on your living room floor and the carpet was covered in my black lace sext: I'm wearing high heels, tall ones. I'm 5' 11 1/2", you're, ummm...something. someone. oh yeah, I'm in love with you. well, I dunno about that anymore what's love? I defined it and it said "sext: an intense feeling of deep attachment". ah, ok, got it. I now understand you, love. this was supposed to be **** ya no, like me running down the back your legs in my red high heels, sending chills through your veins and breaking all of your bones. ****** **** right? **** I ruined it when I brought up love   sext: uh, it's been 3 days since we've talked. I know you said like 3 months ago that we needed to "draw new lines for each other" and "figure out how to have self control and not pounce the other when we're alone and I play smashing pumpkins" but we've ****** like what, 40 times since? and you told me you loved me and begged me not to leave soooooooo....? those lines need to be erased buddy boy sext: uhg. you don't get it. I'm tired.  got so drunk I could barely stand last night. slept for fourty minutes. then worked a thirteen hour shift. I'm sorry. give me a kiss. no? but this is supposed to be a sext? sext: nothing you say is equivalent to a sext these days sext: take your clothes off sext: take your clothes off sext: then take mine off sext: then take mine off sext: you wear mine, I wear yours sext: jk babe the clothes are off we're ******* ******
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I admit the Pressures you Three must pass Your own Barometres took quite a toll From Stubborn Demands your ****** Peers had Compel you to Shrink and keep on a Roll But there are VALUES; Those Trusted Elders In Humble Present their Words will sure Guide All you need is some Time for yourselves, Brothers Such that its Petals will unwrap for your Sight Kind and apt Admiral! May your Shoes fill Set their Braces to walk they know can Trust So even if Hooties make Milk-Thoughts spill A Shielding Light to soap their Dunged Shells, must. This is just an Advice. Again from a Friend Whose busy Torrents tries to Help does rend.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 2:57 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY-THREE - TOM DALEY
What begs a Sonnet if not to Express But Expression alone Good Fame depends If Maps such as these confuses the Rest Then Life's Published Theme will begin to End These Girls do not just a Heart label so Pressing the Rewind back to Robin's Day But Issues pressed onto Paper, and go Feed the Bird's Stem and regulate their Say Someone like me must care about these Things And Mark at how their Chemistry reacts Prudence, the Ingredient I must now bring To set my Items from Falsehoods to Facts. It would be Easier if you just Spoke Perhaps my Attitude made me go Broke.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 3:08 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY-SIX - TOM DALEY
some greedy little bitter man has put together a picture-perfect person and out of pure laziness and malignant attempts at control he pays off a psychopath to make it happen but we’re just a little body, flesh and bones come between them and their paychecks so why not make it easier? they made a factory out of our garden and nothing grows in factories it’s manufactured, easy as one two three four five six, we’re all sitting on an assembly line waiting for some alcoholic man to shout at some pimply-faced twenty-something “FASTER! FASTER!” so it begins! press of a button, we’re created, step one: your parents were given the baby books, kids! infants, they’re all the same anyways. they’re not individuals yet, they haven’t been encoded so relax, parents. want them turn out like you? sure, do what your parents did, worked out well, eh? been occupying this factory your whole life, then? well anyways, step two: they spend less time with you because you’ve been in this world for three years so it’s time you get out on your own…. step three: they gotta YELL and scream and children aren’t supposed to touch things or say things or scrape their knees because that’s more work for the adults, and they work all day, just like they were programmed for, good little machines 'cause they forgot what it’s like to be a baby or an animal or a plant or a God but also the resentment, a child wants to live but how ridiculous? there’s no life in industry… all about the money baby step four: you buy your education because it builds your character because money says power but when did meaningless power equal respect? I don't know but they force you into reading the same old instruction pamphlets left in the break room at the plant for the past century or so and five: your turn to work for fourty years in this polluted place because it’s hard to break free from twenty-three years of moulding into a cookie cutter you never did fit, that’s why it hurts so much when they try to push you through, your muffin-top is sliced right off and you’re contorted to fit the view of perfect sugary sweetness but just to make sure you're ready they coat you with vanilla icing to cover up your imperfections, perfect, now step six, and this one is the doozy, and because you’re **** broke: go back to mom and dad’s and grab those baby books and again and again and again the cycle repeats and repeats and repeats….
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Dec 12, 2011
Dec 12, 2011 at 9:03 PM UTC
pessimistic perspectives of a poor, poor place
some greedy little bitter man has put together a picture-perfect person and out of pure laziness and malignant attempts at control he pays off a psychopath to make it happen but we’re just a little body, flesh and bones come between them and their paychecks so why not make it easier? they made a factory out of our garden and nothing grows in factories it’s manufactured, easy as one two three four five six, we’re all sitting on an assembly line waiting for some alcoholic man to shout at some pimply-faced twenty-something “FASTER! FASTER!” so it begins! press of a button, we’re created, step one: your parents were given the baby books, kids! infants, they’re all the same anyways. they’re not individuals yet, they haven’t been encoded so relax, parents. want them turn out like you? sure, do what your parents did, worked out well, eh? been occupying this factory your whole life, then? well anyways, step two: they spend less time with you because you’ve been in this world for three years so it’s time you get out on your own…. step three: they gotta YELL and scream and children aren’t supposed to touch things or say things or scrape their knees because that’s more work for the adults, and they work all day, just like they were programmed for, good little machines 'cause they forgot what it’s like to be a baby or an animal or a plant or a God but also the resentment, a child wants to live but how ridiculous? there’s no life in industry… all about the money baby step four: you buy your education because it builds your character because money says power but when did meaningless power equal respect? I don't know but they force you into reading the same old instruction pamphlets left in the break room at the plant for the past century or so and five: your turn to work for fourty years in this polluted place because it’s hard to break free from twenty-three years of moulding into a cookie cutter you never did fit, that’s why it hurts so much when they try to push you through, your muffin-top is sliced right off and you’re contorted to fit the view of perfect sugary sweetness but just to make sure you're ready they coat you with vanilla icing to cover up your imperfections, perfect, now step six, and this one is the doozy, and because you’re **** broke: go back to mom and dad’s and grab those baby books and again and again and again the cycle repeats and repeats and repeats….
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What is the Secret of your Great Tan Skin? This be bashful on a Blind Afternoon With you on Sail, and Tongues burning within High on a Jetty, the Girls see you soon Frankly, you the Millennium's Next Best Ken, Picking Barbie after Barbie on Hors The other Males sour; Then prune once again Thinking them robbed from the Best Picks before See, how your Rome enamourates the World And letting this pour like an Endless Fall Splashing on Flesh, to Cologne turning swirl Eau et de la Belle, who boasts you and all. Seeing this Promo, this Six-Pack so thin Still did not respond to your Great Tan Skin.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 3:48 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY-NINE - TOM DALEY
Which of your Favourites you take to Trust And hoping One of them will fill your Void So Alone, though in Many you Adjust Though their trifle pertinence you carry Those Nerds ahead just consider you Strange Yet Groupies counteract with their own Praise Now who is Correct? They sit at the Lounge Then settle to offer your own Fresh Space That around your College are Ideals formed When Some in Prayer may publish their Book Took you as a Model; And Critics scorned See their Used Lives in a Better Outlook. You just have to Smile; And Happy you did Fan their Frustrations of that Love you hid.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 2:51 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY-ONE - TOM DALEY
Let the Dealer take to his Gambles spend Such that his Boots would limit to arcade Which two-fold bets cast odds on top descend And his Service strikes without much delay I meant the Italian you happened to wear And strip for Happy Golgotha delight You wanted Admirers in Cheerful bear Then their Smiles came true for their ****** Sight After all, Talk Show's a Norm-for-the-Woos Which indeed supplements the Popular Which you desired; And asked you turn loose To be one of those Studs Spectacular. Happy for you. Since your own Flesh at stake As you are now Ripe; Your Best Rind you make.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 3:01 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY-FOUR - TOM DALEY
Sweet Tea wrote 3 months after I turned 15, 2018 Before you, I was a girl devastated by things I couldn’t change Trapped in an endless bitter reality from which there was no escape Sinking into a dark, spiraling well, from which I reached my hands and found a pool of light You were my light, a haloed sunshine angel, who graced me with his presence for what seemed so long and ended so abruptly The sound of your voice seemed to be honey, so sweet, attracting the bees, attracting me My sunshine sweetheart, angel lover You’ve done your time so now you can leave Why would you want to stay with me? I’m only a cement brick that will bring you down A loose thread that will tear you down, a yammering parakeet who will wear you down One time you told me that I thought too highly of you How couldn’t I? With someone who made me feel so confident with my body, somebody who praised me, someone who thought I was worth their time at least for the time being In a way it’s better that you left, you’ll never be forced to see what I had to see looking in the mirror hating every inch of myself, hating the way I acted, and the way I interacted with everyone and hating the way no one seemed to like me But you liked me, but it’s better this way because I’m a letdown It’s Like when you thought you had bought sweet tea But it’s actually unsweetened The new version Sweet Tea wrote 1 month before my 18 birthday, 2021 Before you, I was a girl alone Being molested every day by the people who said they would take care of me I was a fourteen-year-old girl who was taught at a young age to get yourself a man to save you So I tried everything to keep you because talking to you distracted me from the fact my fourty-year-old stepdad was touching me But what I definitely didn’t need was a twenty-year-old man messaging me Telling me all the things he wanted to do to me When the law would finally unclaim me and allow me to give someone a part of me he doesn’t deserve You made me feel so much more alone Somebody who told me he’d touch me But instead of giving me what I’ll need he’ll leave “Lick me up like an ice cream cone” huh Luke? yes I thought highly of you Because you made it seem like you’d never hurt me You were the biggest disappointment You always will be
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Jan 12, 2021
Jan 12, 2021 at 2:36 PM UTC
Sweet Tea then and now trigger warning
Sweet Tea wrote 3 months after I turned 15, 2018 Before you, I was a girl devastated by things I couldn’t change Trapped in an endless bitter reality from which there was no escape Sinking into a dark, spiraling well, from which I reached my hands and found a pool of light You were my light, a haloed sunshine angel, who graced me with his presence for what seemed so long and ended so abruptly The sound of your voice seemed to be honey, so sweet, attracting the bees, attracting me My sunshine sweetheart, angel lover You’ve done your time so now you can leave Why would you want to stay with me? I’m only a cement brick that will bring you down A loose thread that will tear you down, a yammering parakeet who will wear you down One time you told me that I thought too highly of you How couldn’t I? With someone who made me feel so confident with my body, somebody who praised me, someone who thought I was worth their time at least for the time being In a way it’s better that you left, you’ll never be forced to see what I had to see looking in the mirror hating every inch of myself, hating the way I acted, and the way I interacted with everyone and hating the way no one seemed to like me But you liked me, but it’s better this way because I’m a letdown It’s Like when you thought you had bought sweet tea But it’s actually unsweetened The new version Sweet Tea wrote 1 month before my 18 birthday, 2021 Before you, I was a girl alone Being molested every day by the people who said they would take care of me I was a fourteen-year-old girl who was taught at a young age to get yourself a man to save you So I tried everything to keep you because talking to you distracted me from the fact my fourty-year-old stepdad was touching me But what I definitely didn’t need was a twenty-year-old man messaging me Telling me all the things he wanted to do to me When the law would finally unclaim me and allow me to give someone a part of me he doesn’t deserve You made me feel so much more alone Somebody who told me he’d touch me But instead of giving me what I’ll need he’ll leave “Lick me up like an ice cream cone” huh Luke? yes I thought highly of you Because you made it seem like you’d never hurt me You were the biggest disappointment You always will be
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Why pucker the Doll which does not puck back Was what they told me through the Window Pane A-thinks they see Clear, keen on what they Lack The Gauntlet needed to smash such Glass again That dare you cut your Friend's supposed Line Just because he saw the Animals play They are only Plastic; And Air inside A Harmless Chapter your Youth needs today Do you think I will Sing? And rend your Shame, Whose Salary you know I won't enjoy Good Lord, Man! Why must you label my Name Like those Land Sharks who bite you out of Joy? What do you need to tie the Ribbon Blue That is your Colour; That should have been you.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 3:45 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY-EIGHT - TOM DALEY
I only know how to love you in ways that hurt, that feel like scraped knees and dropp i n g skittles on the floor, stubbed toes, ****** nose, chest x-ray came back negative because I gave everything that was in there to you so they had nothing to see in the doctor's office. My heart was never really mine to have, anyway.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 10:37 PM UTC
fourty-five fridays later
Mum, was the Messenger real when I heard He agreed to Deal after the Event His Five-Rings Birthday made Flesh of the Word Jab Stings to his Leather; A Totem forms then? Which, in Real Cosmetic, itself no harm If rely on his Throne responsible He has a Deaf History; A Long-Since Charm And every Girl he knew is Commendable This is your SON. Your Mirror's Primal Truth And no way my Purchase must interfere Dad did his Job to keep Tradition's Youth So the Choice lies on the Good that is here. Thus the Paper was signed, out goes the call Enter Twenty Years. His Mark shows it all.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 3:03 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY-FIVE - TOM DALEY
What used to be a rewarding escape is now fourty eight tedious hours filled with self-hatred and regret. Saturday nights spent isolated, wide awake wishing we had never met. Reminiscing about challenging weeks gone by followed by feelings of failure, thoughts of insignificance while I begin to silently cry
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Nov 23, 2013
Nov 23, 2013 at 7:58 PM UTC
Weekends
So, after reading this Programme with her And felt the Blood up-river past your brain She was Smiling. And thus I beg-confirm How to abdicate this Throneful Pain Do Tears from your Fans ever sensate you Even when their Pillars support your Fare Bitter Notes will tweet; And Pretty Souls too Just how you Falter these Dictions beware She was Brave enough to post the Same Event At Risk to debit their Frustrated Fears Brother and Sister: Most live Excuse meant A Funny Welcome to whom they Revere. Please. This isn't the first Turtle Reflex Of Four-Digits-Two minus Year-of-Six.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 3:41 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY-SEVEN - TOM DALEY
I live in this fantasy world, you see. An imaginary time of lent, in my total control. One where instead of giving up sugar, and sweets, I am able to give up my emotions, all of them. I need to forget what it was like to be happy. I need to learn how to be angry with you, not yearnful. I need to psyche myself into believing... this feelings ends. If only for fourty days and fourty nights, I'd give my love for you up in a heartbeat. If only you were like my appendix, then I could tear you out and somehow live. But I'm left with you as a literal piece of my heart, I bleed slowly everyday we aren't together.
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Feb 12, 2016
Feb 12, 2016 at 2:57 AM UTC
Lent
I noticed the System on how we relate For every Plus a Minus you return Yet this Gnawing Event nailed to your Gate Were your Foe's Doomed Plagues; Yet left me unspurned Which made me wonder why you chose to mum Yet for this Announcer a spite you blew Why? Was it to boost your Public Aplomb And cheat your way with the people you knew? Like your First Partner. Whose Rabbit Remark Asked for Improvements whilst stuck on his phone Then came Black Letters asking for his bark When all he did was to leave you alone. Diver! Enough with your Cosmic Abuse Don't wait for the Witch to cast her Spell loose.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 2:49 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY - TOM DALEY
I’ve made my decision. I’m running away from what’s inside my head. Shutting down and getting by doesn’t seem to be enough but if I close off and just be numb, what would I become? This is something I can not overcome. So this is it, I quit.
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 6:22 PM UTC
{Fourty Three}
clicking teeth rattling breath veins too small and cramped lungs spindly ribs and spiderweb lips you wake up sunshine on your face lazy smile lazy voice eyes squinted why can't I be happy like you? you taste like ozone and i have traced the knots on your ankles and the hole in your chest for hours revising calculations compiling a chart mapping your unknown spaces to find the real distance from you to me not in the light years from your mouth to mine but thoughts memories four thousand six hundred fourty four instances without me that void is infinite your mouth is full of flies your brain is a quasar with no light on the horizon there is nothing left of you but bones and a nest of veins and arteries with your heart stuck in the center like an egg your wings are melting you've flown too close to the sun again wax tattoos you poppy red in drip drip drips how could i forget you? your parabolas your rosy cheeks and the weight of you how could i forget? you have no solution (i could help you find one)
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 9:55 PM UTC
Chest
One morning, Howard was deciding what he was going to cook for today's lunch. Howard was not the worlds best cook, he mainly enjoyed buying ready meals to eat, Fishermans Pie was his dearest. But today was to be different; a change; he would make something from scratch. He decided that Carbonara met his fancy, so he got up from his wearing sofa, and made his way to the half filled book cabinet. 'How to make Pasta', the book read. It was a result for Howard. He clinched his hands on the closed book, and bought it into the front room.Howard opened the book to the contents and turned to page 21, 'Carbonara Chicken Special'. Howard firstly read the ingrediants needed, then popped to the local convinience store to fetch the things he needed. When he eventually started the meal, he was on task and ready to go. So he prepared the sauce, and the pasta, and the chicken. Then put it in the oven, a fourty-five minute wait.Howard was knackered by this time and thought he'd have a quick lye down..."BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP"!!!!!!!!!!!!!   This incredibly loud noise was coming from the smoke alarm, startaling Howard! He rushed to the kitchen to discover masses of smoke dominating the room. Howard glanced up at the the clock to discover that he had been sleeping for over an hour. The pasta was ruined and had to be thrown away.Howard was starving though. So he went over to the freezer, grabbed a microwave fishermans pie, and heated it up. As he sat down to eat the meal, he thought to himself; ' Well I gave it a go, one step closer eh'. Then digged into his seafood.
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Feb 27, 2010
Feb 27, 2010 at 4:37 AM UTC
Howard and the Lunchtime Madness
One morning, Howard was deciding what he was going to cook for today's lunch. Howard was not the worlds best cook, he mainly enjoyed buying ready meals to eat, Fishermans Pie was his dearest. But today was to be different; a change; he would make something from scratch. He decided that Carbonara met his fancy, so he got up from his wearing sofa, and made his way to the half filled book cabinet. 'How to make Pasta', the book read. It was a result for Howard. He clinched his hands on the closed book, and bought it into the front room.Howard opened the book to the contents and turned to page 21, 'Carbonara Chicken Special'. Howard firstly read the ingrediants needed, then popped to the local convinience store to fetch the things he needed. When he eventually started the meal, he was on task and ready to go. So he prepared the sauce, and the pasta, and the chicken. Then put it in the oven, a fourty-five minute wait.Howard was knackered by this time and thought he'd have a quick lye down..."BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP"!!!!!!!!!!!!!   This incredibly loud noise was coming from the smoke alarm, startaling Howard! He rushed to the kitchen to discover masses of smoke dominating the room. Howard glanced up at the the clock to discover that he had been sleeping for over an hour. The pasta was ruined and had to be thrown away.Howard was starving though. So he went over to the freezer, grabbed a microwave fishermans pie, and heated it up. As he sat down to eat the meal, he thought to himself; ' Well I gave it a go, one step closer eh'. Then digged into his seafood.
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George HW Bush has left the room For the last time we salute his duty Save be it the last image of his bloom The red, white and blue  his beauty Stars and stripes live on forever In our heartbeats his wonderful space We honor his service and endeavour For preserving  our country's  better place From dedicated soldier to president His passion for his country took flight For he was always there ... a present In fighting for his country to shine bright Now his mission over leaves us blessed The fourty first link's mettle was impressed Logan Robertson 12/05/2018
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 3:30 PM UTC
George HW Bush Remembered
My dear, it was a moment to clutch for a moment so that you may believe in it and believing is the act of love, I think, even in the telling, wherever it went. In the false New England forest where the misplanted Norwegian trees refused to root, their thick synthetic roots barging out of the dirt to work on the air, we held hands and walked on our knees. Actually, there was no one there. For fourty years this experimental woodland grew, shaft by shaft in perfect rows where its stub branches held and its spokes fell. It was a place of parallel trees, their lives filed out in exile where we walked too alien to know our sameness and how our sameness survives. Outside of us the village cars followed the white line we had carefully walked two nights before toward our single beds. We lay halfway up an ugly hill and if we fell it was here in the woods where the woods were caught in their dying and you held me well. And now I must dream the forest whole and your sweet hands, not once as frozen as those stopped trees, nor ruled, nor pale, nor leaving mine. Today in my house, I see our house, its pillars a dim basement of men holding up their foreign ground for you and me. My dear, it was a time, butchered from time that we must tell of quickly before we lose the sound of our own mouths calling mine, mine, mine.
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The Expatriates
You think your parents are invincible Your father your knight and shining armor Your mother an untouchable saint Providing, protecting, and loving you all unconditionally But one chest pain brings a surreal reality And you watch your fragile father lie on the hospital bed, crying And you see your mother fighting back tears, trying to be the strong one Your invincible parents now crumbling in front of you Shaken and terror stricken, tears flood your eyes You don't ever think your dad, the one who wiped your tears when you had a bad break up Could be so fragile He is supposed to be the big tough guy who is invincible Not the one to get a heart attack at fourty three Lucky, they said, your dad is lucky he survived.
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Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 2014 at 11:17 PM UTC
Invincible
Father. Mine and Yours. Both Oil Lamps at zest Managed to hone our Characters throughout Mine the Prime Wisdom; Yours his Water's Best Both total Great Hearts we can't live without So why do we Fight? If Reason betrays And later picks our Spoils scattered by War And who gets Hurt? Those caught between the Leys Where supposed Joy must settle by far Yes I am aware you find it Funny To exploit your Gift and choose to Ignore Is that your Model? Where your Harmony Took some Chopsticks and plucked out those who bore. Remember him again. And read his Lines On Words which matter; And Self you define.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 2:54 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - FOURTY-TWO - TOM DALEY