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"grandness" poems
The slits of glass give way to light, Which cuts through the air and sun leeched curtains. It falls weightless on warming skin, Breathing life into stillness. A gentle caress, a sultry glance; Statuesque, they cast shadows on the wall. Shadows that illuminate and contour, Express and entrance. Longing rapture in eyes, incandescent and iridescent; Loveless yet sensuous silken skin that tells of life well lived. Your broken heart rests on shoulders, colored and vivid; A world is painted in timeless elegance. What horrors has she seen? Said the looker so enthused. What grandness has passed her eye? Says another just as true. Oh the colors so earthen tell of pleasures and sorrows, yet whisper of frailty. They speak in tongues that can never be trusted, only pondered. The intricate oil work from a badger’s fair coat, Show delicate and smooth, All the features of her roistering frame; Passions of the heart now told by passions of the brush. The life is still, but forever infinite.
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 9:40 PM UTC
Musings from an Art Gallery: The Still Life
Teasing the beast Looking for a feast Hounds barking at our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Compartmentalizing symptom after symptom To hide the great systematic sickness Labeling the suffering, outcome from desire We, wholeheartedly accepting being Appropriated, labeled, discarded As construing our own oppression and sadness Enduring the **** of our minds Being castrated of our consciousness Before we reap the products Of its bold liberation and grandness Its the belly of the beast And its hungry Insatiable, amoral entrails Hoping to salvage a feast From the casualties of d(e)moc(ratic) wars Hoping we feed our monstrous fear Thirsting for the greed Dripping off of accumulating wealths Impatiently waiting, we keep parceling out grudges Disfiguring our minds, our souls, and our bodies Its misanthropic nature lashes out without conscience Knowing we'll never realize we are masses Disappearing the individuals who realize their suffering Ensuring there's no collective opposition or action Trying to reassure we are weak Knowing at some point or another We all act mute, deaf, and blind when anyone experiences: Oppression Pain Silencing **** Hunger Fear Violence Repression Retaliation Discrimination Torture Negation Alienation All forms of mental, psychological, physical, and spiritual mutilation Fearing death more than fighting for necessary abolishment Preferring to live out our veiled miseries Endorsing their continuance Instead of risking our lives for everyone's liberation Always ensuring the feast of the beast By its very efforts trying to decree our very human nature Ingraining greed, fear, animosity, and weakness as if inherent of us All parts of its most damaging weapon: the seed of discord Its implantation, a socialized deep desire for self-preservation Sheep bleating painfully toward our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Signifying the impending recapturing Of our true transformative desires
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May 4, 2013
May 4, 2013 at 11:30 PM UTC
Rescuing Our True Transformative Desires
Teasing the beast Looking for a feast Hounds barking at our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Compartmentalizing symptom after symptom To hide the great systematic sickness Labeling the suffering, outcome from desire We, wholeheartedly accepting being Appropriated, labeled, discarded As construing our own oppression and sadness Enduring the **** of our minds Being castrated of our consciousness Before we reap the products Of its bold liberation and grandness Its the belly of the beast And its hungry Insatiable, amoral entrails Hoping to salvage a feast From the casualties of d(e)moc(ratic) wars Hoping we feed our monstrous fear Thirsting for the greed Dripping off of accumulating wealths Impatiently waiting, we keep parceling out grudges Disfiguring our minds, our souls, and our bodies Its misanthropic nature lashes out without conscience Knowing we'll never realize we are masses Disappearing the individuals who realize their suffering Ensuring there's no collective opposition or action Trying to reassure we are weak Knowing at some point or another We all act mute, deaf, and blind when anyone experiences: Oppression Pain Silencing **** Hunger Fear Violence Repression Retaliation Discrimination Torture Negation Alienation All forms of mental, psychological, physical, and spiritual mutilation Fearing death more than fighting for necessary abolishment Preferring to live out our veiled miseries Endorsing their continuance Instead of risking our lives for everyone's liberation Always ensuring the feast of the beast By its very efforts trying to decree our very human nature Ingraining greed, fear, animosity, and weakness as if inherent of us All parts of its most damaging weapon: the seed of discord Its implantation, a socialized deep desire for self-preservation Sheep bleating painfully toward our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Signifying the impending recapturing Of our true transformative desires
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Your infinite greatness makes you greater than all Your infinite knowledge means you know all that is all Your infinite power means you are as strong as can be Your infinite love means you love everyone equally You infinite wisdom makes you infinitely wise Your infinite grandness makes me ponder why? How could a being so infinite exist? A being so great with knowledge above all A being with power and wisdom that has no faults   A being who loves and appreciates me Is it just me or does this sound absurd? Would this being still exist if we didn't have hope? We hope for his love and acceptance at death Yet how do we know if he actually cares? Thus how do we know if he’s actually real? Maybe he's real or maybe he isn’t Maybe he cares or maybe he doesn’t When worst comes to worst When I lose control I hope for his attributes that make him above all
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 10:22 AM UTC
Is God Real?
How beautiful is the life With all its vibrant colours The colours which define its creativity Life is colour,colour is life Shades of translucent rainbow Casting his grace on embellished life The allured tints of the moring sun Captivating the vivacity in people's life How abhorent the nature be Enchained,restricted without the colours Blemishing the ornamentation garnished from heaven But suddenly the grandness breathed for its life As colours started to play an illusive vibe Awakening the sluggishness in one's life Unfolding the colours honesty with ecstasy.
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Mar 13, 2015
Mar 13, 2015 at 5:07 AM UTC
Colours
tickity-clickity whirr went my father to set the little merry-go-round musicbox by my bed with its adorbsable mini-suction cups lining purple porcelain tentacles winding round and round lulling gently with that nostalgic ice-cream truck tune reminding me of sweet tang juicy mango slush on a hot afternoon where the posh-painted ponies fly by with the tide rising up and down in a seaside villa of some spanish town in all the grandness of their primary colors so carefully chosen to brush at the command of a fairy princess with her crown gold-gilded she's twirling whirling, a mechanical ballerina on springs gracefully petite her frame, so small the sash on her shoulder that slips in the breeze to catch the eye of a little soldier in his regimentals properly fitted, buttoned in brass a lass like me lovingly adoring bunnies in top hats and bow ties spats on their feet to tap dance for me in my dreams the never ending spin of a teacup party the catch of a hook where the lullaby loses flight but I'm already asleep with a kiss goodnight
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Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014 at 5:28 PM UTC
Steampunk Lullaby (to be read out loud)
An effusive elaborate scheme the colors advance to bright spellbinding allure then they achieve Depth of quality by cutting back to softer hues and then the natural dark green is the bold Touch that succeeds with total symmetry showcased in a view perfected by glass the prism Most fitting not only to see but to be captivated by perfected expression it is a metaphor for life The master designer chooses his subjects well one infuses another then by degree others Foreshadow and glorify it blends tangible and intangible into intelligent coherent order tasteful And sublime the hint and the elusive wonder all is needed is the wind to bow and ****** it into A profusion a veritable concert that stirs with appeal life is in motion the players advance and Retreat each speaking lines unique to themselves what sensations speak tendrils on a garden Trellis held and fixed a gesture that plays and portrays intricate details the mystery that plays so Well the stealing of morning frost then the blaze and then restful dying rays that spell comfort The field rolls and contorts this brandishes excitement exuberance veers and plunders life Become exploration trails hidden thickets hide and hold expression that is pent up ready to Explode what vesture we wear it grips our friend’s astonishment is read on their faces but it is Like a house of many mirrors because their lives are having the same effect on you some days Are uneventful others are storm tossed with grandness the riches of an all contained realm Spasms convulse like waves of the sea we stand forth to puzzle and dream what does it all Mean the sanctity reveals plumes that are invisible that are far reaching and they have given us This course of endurance that belies longing we grow soft and an inner glowing surpasses the Stringent the misfit that moans against conforming we are treasure that exceeds all expectation Life is rich we are its brightest colors and light night is for brooding the day is for shinning and Divulging the secrets found in the brooding time we accost others we signify to them not only Our own worth but there’s also fetching is the spray that magnifies the sky we are the bursting We are the aliveness that is found each day in our lives that is the dooryard of discovery --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Feb 1, 2013
Feb 1, 2013 at 1:28 AM UTC
Bursting Colors
An effusive elaborate scheme the colors advance to bright spellbinding allure then they achieve Depth of quality by cutting back to softer hues and then the natural dark green is the bold Touch that succeeds with total symmetry showcased in a view perfected by glass the prism Most fitting not only to see but to be captivated by perfected expression it is a metaphor for life The master designer chooses his subjects well one infuses another then by degree others Foreshadow and glorify it blends tangible and intangible into intelligent coherent order tasteful And sublime the hint and the elusive wonder all is needed is the wind to bow and ****** it into A profusion a veritable concert that stirs with appeal life is in motion the players advance and Retreat each speaking lines unique to themselves what sensations speak tendrils on a garden Trellis held and fixed a gesture that plays and portrays intricate details the mystery that plays so Well the stealing of morning frost then the blaze and then restful dying rays that spell comfort The field rolls and contorts this brandishes excitement exuberance veers and plunders life Become exploration trails hidden thickets hide and hold expression that is pent up ready to Explode what vesture we wear it grips our friend’s astonishment is read on their faces but it is Like a house of many mirrors because their lives are having the same effect on you some days Are uneventful others are storm tossed with grandness the riches of an all contained realm Spasms convulse like waves of the sea we stand forth to puzzle and dream what does it all Mean the sanctity reveals plumes that are invisible that are far reaching and they have given us This course of endurance that belies longing we grow soft and an inner glowing surpasses the Stringent the misfit that moans against conforming we are treasure that exceeds all expectation Life is rich we are its brightest colors and light night is for brooding the day is for shinning and Divulging the secrets found in the brooding time we accost others we signify to them not only Our own worth but there’s also fetching is the spray that magnifies the sky we are the bursting We are the aliveness that is found each day in our lives that is the dooryard of discovery --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Sorry your flowers are late I purchased them each one and the color was representing the many individual friends a delightful blue Iris was no other than S.P. when dark shadows gather as they sometimes do she is the bluing of Beautiful contrast this rich blue spreads from point of origin to the eye engulfing all visible ranges a Small but great blue lifts the very shadows up until the sun vanquishes them by golden light then the red Hues embolden of richness many times it is spent but never squandered and its riches never diminish or Disappear in friendships ever rewarding garment he endures R.P. Violet this friend this light was Adorned in grave clothes to join her loved ones of all generations but her influence warmth and the Kindness that cannot die lingers it wafts across fields it passes through airy open window you smile Unknowingly because she is by your side and not ever more so than your birthday precious one her Initials are N.V. yellow so rich it blushes the wind this shear fabric so light it waves as pure silk you were Given this gift early in life its folds hold so much treasured moments grasses trees houses playful side Walks a stream of memories that bind you in the same vase others have beheld your combined beauty Of thought and action I.M… The green of a soldier is enjoined by the mist it drifts it has patterns truth And faith walks within this creature that has stature her face calls the night bugler all is dispensed Within her voice is the kindest authority to all duty is understood in its deepest meaning G.H.E. then we Come to multicolored piece of finest art true this grandness walks by your side and more so in your Heart vestures sown with silver in glowing gold if an ever the hair turn to silver the cold black of youth Will tower into all sunsets and grand children will always bring rays of joy and laughter happy belated birthday Roberta
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Sep 2, 2012
Sep 2, 2012 at 1:07 PM UTC
Sorry your flowers are late
Sorry your flowers are late I purchased them each one and the color was representing the many individual friends a delightful blue Iris was no other than S.P. when dark shadows gather as they sometimes do she is the bluing of Beautiful contrast this rich blue spreads from point of origin to the eye engulfing all visible ranges a Small but great blue lifts the very shadows up until the sun vanquishes them by golden light then the red Hues embolden of richness many times it is spent but never squandered and its riches never diminish or Disappear in friendships ever rewarding garment he endures R.P. Violet this friend this light was Adorned in grave clothes to join her loved ones of all generations but her influence warmth and the Kindness that cannot die lingers it wafts across fields it passes through airy open window you smile Unknowingly because she is by your side and not ever more so than your birthday precious one her Initials are N.V. yellow so rich it blushes the wind this shear fabric so light it waves as pure silk you were Given this gift early in life its folds hold so much treasured moments grasses trees houses playful side Walks a stream of memories that bind you in the same vase others have beheld your combined beauty Of thought and action I.M… The green of a soldier is enjoined by the mist it drifts it has patterns truth And faith walks within this creature that has stature her face calls the night bugler all is dispensed Within her voice is the kindest authority to all duty is understood in its deepest meaning G.H.E. then we Come to multicolored piece of finest art true this grandness walks by your side and more so in your Heart vestures sown with silver in glowing gold if an ever the hair turn to silver the cold black of youth Will tower into all sunsets and grand children will always bring rays of joy and laughter happy belated birthday Roberta
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The eyes of the sun arise Yet every heart is still unopened The ocean filled with water of lies My sight gaze upon their smile So pure, so whole, so heartfelt Yet their metamorphosis is what hinders them from the light Rivers of blood shadow the essence Blade on blade The sounding cry have reached the heavens A sleeping lotus in my hand Raindrops fall begging it to bloom Yet still its petals hide away around the grandness My peace I have sowed within the lands Only waiting is left to withstand the parasites And maybe one day they will understand I stand on the temple above With my hand close to heart Hoping every creature would again learn to love
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Feb 3, 2013
Feb 3, 2013 at 7:33 AM UTC
The Sleeping Lotus
You know for centuries politicians have been trying to push their correctness on to everyone.  It's usually the first lady that does this as part of some etiquette program or something.  Etiquette is okay, I guess.  But, when you think about it, the only ones who really NEED to be politically correct SHOULD be the politicians.  Why would anyone who is NOT a politician be required to practice political correctness.  Why would a baker need to be politically correct, or a news anchor.  (Well, maybe a news anchor.)  But, an accountant or a cashier or a bus driver or a police officer.  They would have to be cashierly correct or accountantly correct or policely correct.  Wouldn't they?  Political correctness should only have to apply to politicians.   As for me, All I really have to be is poetically correct.  Yes, there IS a thing.  You can look it up if you don't believe me.  Ya know, I was thinking about poetry the other day and I remembered poetical correctness and what it was all about.  It's been stated before by many and I'll try to explain it to you, to the best of my memory.   To be poetically correct one must never use words that are negative or profane.  One must always use soft words that flow easily.  Words that produce warm feelings of sensuality and never words of hatred.  You must be descriptive when you speak of the spotted toad with the red stripe on its head and the shine that bounces off his slime when the sun shines through the tall trees of the forest where the rock he is perched on  sits parallel to a beautiful babbling brook.  Love and nature.  That should be the two things that one should write about.  Love and nature. And the nature of love.  And one's love for nature. Or the nature of nature and the love of love. But, maybe they're not that much into nature.  Maybe they love the city and its grittiness.  Well, there you go ruininging the grandness of a city with description.  Poetical correctness.  Always think poetically and not politically and that's Poetical Correctness.
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Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 10:40 AM UTC
On Poetical Correctness.
You know for centuries politicians have been trying to push their correctness on to everyone.  It's usually the first lady that does this as part of some etiquette program or something.  Etiquette is okay, I guess.  But, when you think about it, the only ones who really NEED to be politically correct SHOULD be the politicians.  Why would anyone who is NOT a politician be required to practice political correctness.  Why would a baker need to be politically correct, or a news anchor.  (Well, maybe a news anchor.)  But, an accountant or a cashier or a bus driver or a police officer.  They would have to be cashierly correct or accountantly correct or policely correct.  Wouldn't they?  Political correctness should only have to apply to politicians.   As for me, All I really have to be is poetically correct.  Yes, there IS a thing.  You can look it up if you don't believe me.  Ya know, I was thinking about poetry the other day and I remembered poetical correctness and what it was all about.  It's been stated before by many and I'll try to explain it to you, to the best of my memory.   To be poetically correct one must never use words that are negative or profane.  One must always use soft words that flow easily.  Words that produce warm feelings of sensuality and never words of hatred.  You must be descriptive when you speak of the spotted toad with the red stripe on its head and the shine that bounces off his slime when the sun shines through the tall trees of the forest where the rock he is perched on  sits parallel to a beautiful babbling brook.  Love and nature.  That should be the two things that one should write about.  Love and nature. And the nature of love.  And one's love for nature. Or the nature of nature and the love of love. But, maybe they're not that much into nature.  Maybe they love the city and its grittiness.  Well, there you go ruininging the grandness of a city with description.  Poetical correctness.  Always think poetically and not politically and that's Poetical Correctness.
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It's like my heart can't contain you. It's like I've let go of what was needed to let go of to let you in. And it's beyond my expectations like slipping my feet into the beach and finding my toes underneath soft, warm sand warmed by the sun. And for so long I've denied myself happiness. And for so long I've forced this picture that what I want is better than what I truly need. And I'm trying to understand why I had to give up one failed romantic relationship in order to find another that is a hundred times better. I realized that I had fallen in love with my own poetry I'd fallen in love with myself again and again and again never truly allowing myself to fall in love with anyone in reality because my fantasies were so much better. And then I met you the beach, the sand, the cold lip of water lapping against my ankles the submersion of water, salt, seaweed, and foam your warm hand in my own fingers latching the beautiful sunrise softly, strongly touching a horizon stretching so many miles away but in one swift look I saw balance. I saw joy. I saw the colors I've always loved and hoped to see one day. It's like my heart can't contain you. And the ocean is calling me home. That giant expanse of glistening water reflecting the sun's willful welcome as a new day begins so daunting so beautiful so overwhelming in its stark grandness so familiar this feeling. It's like I've known you for a very long time. It's like I've found myself smiling with the waves now pressing against my gut white sea foam dissolving quickly tickling my torso making me laugh loud belly laughs mouth stretched wide and daring teeth showing eyes crinkling body shaking legs trembling The ocean of your love is calling me home. Am I ready to dive deeper? Am I ready to submerge not just my torso but my head as well? What if I can't breathe underwater? What if I can't open my eyelids? It's like my heart can't contain you. But then I touch my neck and find gills. But then I touch my eyes and find goggles. And then I know that I'm ready to dive.
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Mar 18, 2017
Mar 18, 2017 at 1:25 PM UTC
Paramour to Paradise
It's like my heart can't contain you. It's like I've let go of what was needed to let go of to let you in. And it's beyond my expectations like slipping my feet into the beach and finding my toes underneath soft, warm sand warmed by the sun. And for so long I've denied myself happiness. And for so long I've forced this picture that what I want is better than what I truly need. And I'm trying to understand why I had to give up one failed romantic relationship in order to find another that is a hundred times better. I realized that I had fallen in love with my own poetry I'd fallen in love with myself again and again and again never truly allowing myself to fall in love with anyone in reality because my fantasies were so much better. And then I met you the beach, the sand, the cold lip of water lapping against my ankles the submersion of water, salt, seaweed, and foam your warm hand in my own fingers latching the beautiful sunrise softly, strongly touching a horizon stretching so many miles away but in one swift look I saw balance. I saw joy. I saw the colors I've always loved and hoped to see one day. It's like my heart can't contain you. And the ocean is calling me home. That giant expanse of glistening water reflecting the sun's willful welcome as a new day begins so daunting so beautiful so overwhelming in its stark grandness so familiar this feeling. It's like I've known you for a very long time. It's like I've found myself smiling with the waves now pressing against my gut white sea foam dissolving quickly tickling my torso making me laugh loud belly laughs mouth stretched wide and daring teeth showing eyes crinkling body shaking legs trembling The ocean of your love is calling me home. Am I ready to dive deeper? Am I ready to submerge not just my torso but my head as well? What if I can't breathe underwater? What if I can't open my eyelids? It's like my heart can't contain you. But then I touch my neck and find gills. But then I touch my eyes and find goggles. And then I know that I'm ready to dive.
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I see the beauty flowers show; imagine in the wild— My oversight before July had been a blindness mild. The beetle brought her grandness by erupting sight untold—
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Jan 29, 2023
Jan 29, 2023 at 4:39 PM UTC
Flowers
I see no clouds by my eyes, no air be stills these powder blue skies. Smoke curls through the sun scattered trees, a whisper of bliss, a touch of green. A monumental grandness disparages naivety of a summer breeze.
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Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014 at 8:54 AM UTC
Sacre-Coeur
there’s something uplifting about looking up at my window. no matter the time of day, as long as the slats are open, if you look up and out, you will see the tops of trees and open sky. in the early evening, it reminds me of you. the blue is fading to a duskier shade, like that of your eyes, and the leaves of the trees shine a yellow-brown as the sun hits them; they sway in the breeze, just as your hair does. the light is warm and gentle and brushes against the white of the open panels and glances off the wall to the right, painting my room in aureate hues. I remember having all the time in the world to watch you during these hours, having all the time in the world as you slept or fiddled around in my bed. sometimes we would lay entwined and my fingers would brush over your stubble as your hands grazed through my hair and up and down my side. your lips would brush against my skin as the leaves brushed against each other outside. no noise, no chaos. just our breathing and the dimming light the sun provided. the early evening is the calm before the night and the madness it brings. gold and glory and grandness and grace, a warm haze of gradual darkness descends as the haven melts away like the hours we spent. the sun lights up the sky in vivid pinks and oranges, leaving bruised purples and navys in its wake. you left as it set. your mood reflected the bruises the sun left in its abrupt departure and I longed to paint you in pinks and oranges and the blazing, brilliant red it became before it disappeared beneath the horizon, just as you did when the car door shut behind you.
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Jun 7, 2013
Jun 7, 2013 at 10:57 PM UTC
of white slats and golden light
there’s something uplifting about looking up at my window. no matter the time of day, as long as the slats are open, if you look up and out, you will see the tops of trees and open sky. in the early evening, it reminds me of you. the blue is fading to a duskier shade, like that of your eyes, and the leaves of the trees shine a yellow-brown as the sun hits them; they sway in the breeze, just as your hair does. the light is warm and gentle and brushes against the white of the open panels and glances off the wall to the right, painting my room in aureate hues. I remember having all the time in the world to watch you during these hours, having all the time in the world as you slept or fiddled around in my bed. sometimes we would lay entwined and my fingers would brush over your stubble as your hands grazed through my hair and up and down my side. your lips would brush against my skin as the leaves brushed against each other outside. no noise, no chaos. just our breathing and the dimming light the sun provided. the early evening is the calm before the night and the madness it brings. gold and glory and grandness and grace, a warm haze of gradual darkness descends as the haven melts away like the hours we spent. the sun lights up the sky in vivid pinks and oranges, leaving bruised purples and navys in its wake. you left as it set. your mood reflected the bruises the sun left in its abrupt departure and I longed to paint you in pinks and oranges and the blazing, brilliant red it became before it disappeared beneath the horizon, just as you did when the car door shut behind you.
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Mistakes become badges You wear on your sleeve Preaching "humility!" "kindness!" Things you have learned the hard way We stumble, and fall To only sometimes get up And walk away from the rubble That is the monument to the past We must remember that waves Are just parts of the largeness Of the grandness Of the ocean And that all things Are caused by other happenings That are caused by other instances That weren't out to get you We are all the same In that we are all different In that we are all struggling Towards a mountain's peak What I wish I was taught Years and years ago (Or maybe it's just something I wished I listened to in the first place) Is that there is no mountain peak That what really brings all of the everythings of wishes Is recognizing the wind that rustles a leaf On a struggling plant on the bottom of a forest That the insignificance is the importance That the smallness is really overwhelming In meaning and truth When we notice the path we are taking, we find the answer to ourselves: Always mistakenly thinking it lead to a mountain of happiness, But realizing it's really a road of joy we've been on the whole time.
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Jan 11, 2013
Jan 11, 2013 at 7:20 AM UTC
Mountains and Molehills
It was your name I fell for first. An instant name crush when I saw it – two names I’d never have considered putting together, but how beautiful, how unexpected. Of course I fell for you name first. Names are so much easier to fall for: all the possibility in Florence, its softness, its grandness, all the temptation in the way Delilah slips off the tongue; the potential for a story about a girl named Ilaria Winter. - I fell for your style next, then your hair, then the way you introduced yourself with both names and then the way you spoke in class. I think I stared at you too often, and I’m sorry. I didn’t think I was being obvious, and I hardly thought you would notice (someone as boring as) me. But you must have, and I’m sorry. I’m sorry you talked to me for the first time at the station, when the train was fourteen minutes late, the moon looked strange in the sky and I was contemplating jumping onto the tracks. I’m so sorry you spoke to me at the train station of all places. Yes, train stations have so much potential for beginnings, but it’s far more likely they’ll be about endings, about the fleeting, the slipping, the moments of going separate ways, the longing for home and the crying into books kind of moments. - (But thank you, thank you anyway, for talking to me and knowing my name and complimenting my hair and my boots and my clothes. I wish I could have told you I loved the way the bow in your hair matched your heels but I couldn’t and I’m sorry) - How disappointing it is to open something and find nothing in it, because that’s me and I’m so sorry. Don’t judge a book by its cover, I guess, because I’ve had to be creative with my front to conceal the dreary words of my pages. (And maybe – most definitely – I’m reading too much into this anyway, but I’m boring and nothing much happens in my boring life (because I don’t let it and I’m sorry.)) - But thank for trying (and I’m sorry, so sorry). - I just wish you wrote poetry because at least then I could attempt to compliment that. (and maybe you do write poetry, but I guess I’ll never know, will I?) (I’m sorry.)
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Aug 18, 2017
Aug 18, 2017 at 1:38 PM UTC
a moment for you (not me this time)
It was your name I fell for first. An instant name crush when I saw it – two names I’d never have considered putting together, but how beautiful, how unexpected. Of course I fell for you name first. Names are so much easier to fall for: all the possibility in Florence, its softness, its grandness, all the temptation in the way Delilah slips off the tongue; the potential for a story about a girl named Ilaria Winter. - I fell for your style next, then your hair, then the way you introduced yourself with both names and then the way you spoke in class. I think I stared at you too often, and I’m sorry. I didn’t think I was being obvious, and I hardly thought you would notice (someone as boring as) me. But you must have, and I’m sorry. I’m sorry you talked to me for the first time at the station, when the train was fourteen minutes late, the moon looked strange in the sky and I was contemplating jumping onto the tracks. I’m so sorry you spoke to me at the train station of all places. Yes, train stations have so much potential for beginnings, but it’s far more likely they’ll be about endings, about the fleeting, the slipping, the moments of going separate ways, the longing for home and the crying into books kind of moments. - (But thank you, thank you anyway, for talking to me and knowing my name and complimenting my hair and my boots and my clothes. I wish I could have told you I loved the way the bow in your hair matched your heels but I couldn’t and I’m sorry) - How disappointing it is to open something and find nothing in it, because that’s me and I’m so sorry. Don’t judge a book by its cover, I guess, because I’ve had to be creative with my front to conceal the dreary words of my pages. (And maybe – most definitely – I’m reading too much into this anyway, but I’m boring and nothing much happens in my boring life (because I don’t let it and I’m sorry.)) - But thank for trying (and I’m sorry, so sorry). - I just wish you wrote poetry because at least then I could attempt to compliment that. (and maybe you do write poetry, but I guess I’ll never know, will I?) (I’m sorry.)
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Here it rests, Splayed over lawn Like a drunk old man Finally lost legs and fallen. Held fast through tempests Long before I was born, Sworn timeless - Grandness embracing our sky, Now crumpled, helpless Across fence, on grass. Numberless the seasons birds' Nests were welcomed - Summers alive with tapping As woodpeckers hammered Their homes in its branches, Leaving as young were Done with its shelter. In Autumn, I once watched A squirrel scamper a limb, Disappearing, somehow, within. Their secret's now obvious As I can see the trunk was Eaten hollow and empty. The poor dumb giant Spoke only when breezes Animated leaves in evening, Never given voice of its own To decry those insults, Feeding sweet fruit, instead, To those creatures that ate Of the strength held within. Vibrant green life in spring Was a veneer too thin, As in living a lie Finally admitted in sighs Of the wind.
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Mar 14, 2010
Mar 14, 2010 at 3:51 PM UTC
Lost to Sighs of the Wind
Bitter Water This is prompted by the death of TV actor Peter Breck the emotion is defiantly not nostalgic All though it can cause that strange feeling of bitter sweet sorrow no his is the images and the loveliness Of the man to catch that certain something the endowment of grace that is set apart and alone Expressions that linger like the sight and smell after a fresh rain as if you tried to hold that which is Exquisite and fragile it can only be observed and honored but never possessed it is the richest and rarest It is life’s human brevity like art’s master pieces they appear unbidden they blaze they ignite the very air Then evaporate but at times the right person is there when contact is made and they are gifted in a way That they are not only able to capture wonder and appreciate it but they are able to reproduce it in the Most extraordinary way that baffles and enthralls everyone else with shadings of colors that are alive it Parades magnificence in common paths that cause the piece to resonate the divine impetus of creation Spell binding earthmoving in the true and great idea of what art is supposed to be to see what is Forgotten and missed by most but through intensity of vision you quell chaos peace assuredly is Harnessed a new never was it viewed in this dimension and grandness of scale impart to me thy secrets And give visitation to strains that are the bleeding forth of Heavenly deigns in the mix of earthen woes Treasures are indifferent to me after this awaking I wonder seeking another glimpse and then at a great Distance the slightest glimmer a tiny spark of promise causes the eyes to brighten the pulse rate to Increase you are closing in on the mystifying impetus of creative power you begin a dance that recedes Only after fire has spent its glory through your veins such was the life Peter lived and gave to us all Thanks Peter you will be sadly missed
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Feb 12, 2012
Feb 12, 2012 at 1:01 AM UTC
Bitter Water
Bitter Water This is prompted by the death of TV actor Peter Breck the emotion is defiantly not nostalgic All though it can cause that strange feeling of bitter sweet sorrow no his is the images and the loveliness Of the man to catch that certain something the endowment of grace that is set apart and alone Expressions that linger like the sight and smell after a fresh rain as if you tried to hold that which is Exquisite and fragile it can only be observed and honored but never possessed it is the richest and rarest It is life’s human brevity like art’s master pieces they appear unbidden they blaze they ignite the very air Then evaporate but at times the right person is there when contact is made and they are gifted in a way That they are not only able to capture wonder and appreciate it but they are able to reproduce it in the Most extraordinary way that baffles and enthralls everyone else with shadings of colors that are alive it Parades magnificence in common paths that cause the piece to resonate the divine impetus of creation Spell binding earthmoving in the true and great idea of what art is supposed to be to see what is Forgotten and missed by most but through intensity of vision you quell chaos peace assuredly is Harnessed a new never was it viewed in this dimension and grandness of scale impart to me thy secrets And give visitation to strains that are the bleeding forth of Heavenly deigns in the mix of earthen woes Treasures are indifferent to me after this awaking I wonder seeking another glimpse and then at a great Distance the slightest glimmer a tiny spark of promise causes the eyes to brighten the pulse rate to Increase you are closing in on the mystifying impetus of creative power you begin a dance that recedes Only after fire has spent its glory through your veins such was the life Peter lived and gave to us all Thanks Peter you will be sadly missed
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in erectile functions or asexually the ideas that give meanings or rises or raise the honor guards rifles; complicate the pool with lust genes surprise me in profundity or praise the humble help yourself by helping another don't accept blindly what is handed out consider the futility of grandness in you and houses and material things just once let it reproduce a kinder heart in us in me in you
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Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015 at 9:40 PM UTC
replicate
awakening in the middle of the night I find myself lying there pondering 12 foot ceilings opening eyelids to the space above my head the tall windows wondering what the point of all of that space is aesthetics, historically accurate to create a sense of largeness, grandness to draw the buyer in to provoke a sense of having a better home, a better life? not very practical costs more to heat and cool difficult to clean or reach for any other reason and certainly not inviting shelves for storage. And at least a gallon more to paint the 12 foot walls. I conclude that this is simply a waste of space, of money, designed to please the eye regardless of cost, efficiency or practicality. just what the people wanted, I guess, if you can afford it.
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Nov 5, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 at 11:37 AM UTC
by design- Hi ceilings!
The struggle is futility Patient people play the part Of impartiality The wiser are restraint Castigated for their intelligence Castrated by their class A classless struggle we abide Poor children barely manage To survive and seldom thrive Not given access to the tools Of excellence But we wield the sword of obsolescence Antiquated ideas put on the same level as Modern machines and moral philosophies Broad language discarded for The disinfected nature of stupidity Our language is censored And free thought is crippled Thus to succeed we must Write to their level of understanding So they can understand it Which means we do not expect grandness From the masses That we underrate what they are capable of The papacy’s power is palatable but detrimental The Popes presence sends his parishioners In to servitude as they submit to the Sublimation of their identity Unable to identify the truth from the lie Unable to separate the flock from the I I become the villain For stating these things So I drop names like Darwin and Thomas Paine I wear the scarlet letter of poet and philosopher Of Supplicant to science, Of literate romantic I the son of Percy Bysshe Shelley The son of Twain and Poe The Son of Shakespeare and Baudelaire The son of logic and poetry The lost ******* of peace, love, and understanding I leave the eve of man’s ill behavior To see the seething corps of corpses Rise in ignorance strive for pestilence With hopeful hate in their eye To perpetuate the self-fulfilling prophecies Of all types of apocalypses But in the end it will be I that am despised Thus if I must be hated then at least Favor me with this tiny justice Like Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Copernicus I will wear chains well earned There is so much knowledge to be had So learn, live, love and then learn some more
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Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014 at 4:42 PM UTC
My Maryrdom
The struggle is futility Patient people play the part Of impartiality The wiser are restraint Castigated for their intelligence Castrated by their class A classless struggle we abide Poor children barely manage To survive and seldom thrive Not given access to the tools Of excellence But we wield the sword of obsolescence Antiquated ideas put on the same level as Modern machines and moral philosophies Broad language discarded for The disinfected nature of stupidity Our language is censored And free thought is crippled Thus to succeed we must Write to their level of understanding So they can understand it Which means we do not expect grandness From the masses That we underrate what they are capable of The papacy’s power is palatable but detrimental The Popes presence sends his parishioners In to servitude as they submit to the Sublimation of their identity Unable to identify the truth from the lie Unable to separate the flock from the I I become the villain For stating these things So I drop names like Darwin and Thomas Paine I wear the scarlet letter of poet and philosopher Of Supplicant to science, Of literate romantic I the son of Percy Bysshe Shelley The son of Twain and Poe The Son of Shakespeare and Baudelaire The son of logic and poetry The lost ******* of peace, love, and understanding I leave the eve of man’s ill behavior To see the seething corps of corpses Rise in ignorance strive for pestilence With hopeful hate in their eye To perpetuate the self-fulfilling prophecies Of all types of apocalypses But in the end it will be I that am despised Thus if I must be hated then at least Favor me with this tiny justice Like Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Copernicus I will wear chains well earned There is so much knowledge to be had So learn, live, love and then learn some more
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First March madness, next April sadness, then May gladness and Junes spectacular grandness
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 10:05 AM UTC
April showers bring May flowers but..
My eyes probe the mist where it clings to to mountains. The mountains who stand tall and strong Who grow darker as they rise Shadows. They're pitted against the sharp vibrant sky That surrounds them, vast, blue, mysterious. I linger over the glassy river surface That reflects the cotton clouds And the dark, haunting mountains And their huge blue groundskeeper The river winds and winds, A great thriving knot, Untanglable. That sinks and weaves And swims Level with the earth Equal in grandness Acts as home to all All who breath air All who drink and sleep. Those who gaze up at towers of green When the sun is high and summer abroad They chatter and gather and hunt They roll in beds of fuzzy moss Growing, growing, To give life to others To leave when it's time I reach, I stretch My fingers strain To go there To escape So close, so close My hands hit the glass. The **** jumps the frame.
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May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 at 11:31 PM UTC
River, Rock, and Frame
The only thing that can surpass the grandness of my intellect, is my unrelenting naivety The only wisdom I lack, is that of experience I assume all the things that I neglect, in my late latency But, lately I attest, I’m quit definitely delerious I want to build grand monuments to loved ones, but I’ve never been an engineer Pass down grand teachings to my sons Yet I’ve never been a father, in any year I wish to love a woman, like no woman has ever been loved before To tell her irrelevant stories, and only store memories in the drawer. To take her to places she hasn’t heard of before or even seen. Create! The things that she can adore and make the chaos serene I am no fool, I know what I want. I desire commitment, I long for Freedom and independence I decided her love for me; I’ll proudly flaunt But, internally keep it secret, to nurture my own dependence One day, she noticed that her love for me was gone And all the little things she loved about me, all of the quirks, and unintentional foolery Had turned into insufferable character traits, and puzzling conversations She no longer loved me, and I love her still. But, I could not love her, the way she wanted to be loved and cared for And eventually she could not love me as well She needed to be loved, but only from a distant shore Her love, in kind, I could not compel I need to say a million things to you, tell you how I feel, show you how I hurt, and imply what I desire. I wish to scream, loudly and often, let the air wash away the bitterness from my lips, and try to rekindle the fire. But, instead. I stay silent, and act benign And when asked… I say : “I’m doing fine”
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Sep 2, 2023
Sep 2, 2023 at 2:56 PM UTC
The Fool
The only thing that can surpass the grandness of my intellect, is my unrelenting naivety The only wisdom I lack, is that of experience I assume all the things that I neglect, in my late latency But, lately I attest, I’m quit definitely delerious I want to build grand monuments to loved ones, but I’ve never been an engineer Pass down grand teachings to my sons Yet I’ve never been a father, in any year I wish to love a woman, like no woman has ever been loved before To tell her irrelevant stories, and only store memories in the drawer. To take her to places she hasn’t heard of before or even seen. Create! The things that she can adore and make the chaos serene I am no fool, I know what I want. I desire commitment, I long for Freedom and independence I decided her love for me; I’ll proudly flaunt But, internally keep it secret, to nurture my own dependence One day, she noticed that her love for me was gone And all the little things she loved about me, all of the quirks, and unintentional foolery Had turned into insufferable character traits, and puzzling conversations She no longer loved me, and I love her still. But, I could not love her, the way she wanted to be loved and cared for And eventually she could not love me as well She needed to be loved, but only from a distant shore Her love, in kind, I could not compel I need to say a million things to you, tell you how I feel, show you how I hurt, and imply what I desire. I wish to scream, loudly and often, let the air wash away the bitterness from my lips, and try to rekindle the fire. But, instead. I stay silent, and act benign And when asked… I say : “I’m doing fine”
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The glimmer of the ocean Rush of the trees Grandness of a mountain above We all have our dreams Destinations and paradises in our hearts. Many of us may see a place as were they belong even though they have never been there Despite knowing it may not be for me My dream is a small cottage by a bay in Maine Silly isn't it? These little dreams are what we hold on to as motivation, something to keep us going Wether they are ever realized or not They become a part of who we are A little fantasy no one can take away
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 10:17 PM UTC
Dreaming of the future