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A Friday night of imbued strangers Streets full of all walks of people Mostly staggered and tipsy Haggered and narrow minded As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of rejection and temptation I couldn't give my cash to enter a joint Thoroughly rejecting a norm construct Unhumbled and judgmental As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of inspiration and joy Where I saw a mirror of myself on the streets Vagabound souls sat begging for a today Justice and truth prevails As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of me sat on the ground At the entrance of a busy closed shop Begging for the homeless soul as people sneer The abuse and hate ejected As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of broken promises When all they do is try to have ****** People set traps of unfriendly gesture The rotten and pompous society As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of me wooing the drunk Melodious symphony of "change please" Negativity beakers but we made money baibe A reflection of minimalism As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of concluded perception Their souls touched me, they can go back a time They try but have no strength within Sour love was the wound that brought them hassle As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins It's not a Friday night anymore, the dawn smiles I have a warm home and access to facilities They have no options and crack is their hope Police huddles and societal direct abuse As they sing a song for strangers to listen For your smile and talk can be the only hope they got
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Jun 25, 2016
Jun 25, 2016 at 5:22 AM UTC
Friday Night Walking in Homeless Shoes
A Friday night of imbued strangers Streets full of all walks of people Mostly staggered and tipsy Haggered and narrow minded As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of rejection and temptation I couldn't give my cash to enter a joint Thoroughly rejecting a norm construct Unhumbled and judgmental As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of inspiration and joy Where I saw a mirror of myself on the streets Vagabound souls sat begging for a today Justice and truth prevails As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of me sat on the ground At the entrance of a busy closed shop Begging for the homeless soul as people sneer The abuse and hate ejected As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of broken promises When all they do is try to have ****** People set traps of unfriendly gesture The rotten and pompous society As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of me wooing the drunk Melodious symphony of "change please" Negativity beakers but we made money baibe A reflection of minimalism As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins A Friday night of concluded perception Their souls touched me, they can go back a time They try but have no strength within Sour love was the wound that brought them hassle As they sing the only one anthem of pumping  alcohol inside their veins It's not a Friday night anymore, the dawn smiles I have a warm home and access to facilities They have no options and crack is their hope Police huddles and societal direct abuse As they sing a song for strangers to listen For your smile and talk can be the only hope they got
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My neighbour is heartbroken. She had her heart torn into pieces by a poet,a writer, a painter and a singer. Her silent cries are thought to be hidden through her thick walls. But I hear them. She spends her nights screaming and rummaging the pain silently away. But loud enough for me. I hear her sharp razor tickle through her skin creating a flawless crisscross pattern. I see the blood explode from her vein running down her no longer smooth skin dripping on the tiles forming a puddle. I hear the loud crack from her throat that shows me the tears that desperately escapes from her eyes,running down her cheeks searching for a way out. She covers her mouth,closes her eyes and huddles, hoping she's tricking her heart to believe she's being cuddled, But her mind and I know what's real. Her blood's escaping vigorously, Her hearts beating ferociously, Her mind is wandering off into darkness tremendously. My neighbour is heartbroken and I don't know what to do. I cannot save her. She believes that I am like him. Because I am a poet.
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 11:01 AM UTC
The Heartbroken neighbour
A SOCIETY WRITTEN IN FLAMES; SHROUDED IN DARKNESS *The tears flows in an endless way Bemoaning the days of yore Watching with eyes that sparks red, Sunken and beaten from the tragedies of yore Helpless and wishing for a relentless call As tragedy hits her most sensitive part, Bemoaning the tides, All her days of glory, Now a shadowy story* *She had been ***** by her very own, The children she yearned and bled for, The men she fed and trained, Where her rain fell full and vast, to soothe their hearts Where she gave it all, and smiled, hoping that someday, they will realize her sacrifices and sleepless nights, Her nights of terror and horrors Where she stood in the midst of the stormy eerie night, shrouded in darkness* *It was her ******* they ****** and clunged to, It was her arms that shielded them from the shadows of the dark, But when they grew and flew, She waited still Praying and wishing they would remember the days of yore* *Then the dark hour rolled away, And when morning came, it was harrowing. It was harrowing how she waited abandoned and dejected, As her sons and daughters peaked at the sky, Trampling her down, Relegating and belittling her Painful it were, as she cried from the agonies of the days of yore, Where she laid all her virtues down, Giving it all to see her children smile,* *It is this dejection that has brought her to tears, It is this wickedness of a child to a mother, that has made her weep endlessly It is this tragedy that have swallowed her glory, As her children keeps flying above huddles, in peace and harmony, Forgetting her, It is this callousness, that pushed them to sapping her virtues and enriching themselves with it thereon* *What is worse than a child abandoning his mother? It is this penchant, that drives them It is the love of greed, It is the seed of corruption, It is not an inherited trait, It is a despicable decision Like a monstrous shadow, Twirling the back of the night. It is the fire that burns within their heart, The fire to **** steal and destroy To take what she can never give again To live, To live big at the expenses of others sorrow and agony It is this evil that has perused Nigeria and has rendered her a roaming wretch And now tragedy looms, It booms and blooms,* A society written in flames Who will save MOTHER NIGERIA? Ovi Odiete© 2016, Oct. 31 All rights reserved Note Children here signifies the evil politicians and men that has sapped our country dry with their evil penchant
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Oct 31, 2016
Oct 31, 2016 at 7:03 AM UTC
"~~Nigeria-Written in Flames~~"
A SOCIETY WRITTEN IN FLAMES; SHROUDED IN DARKNESS *The tears flows in an endless way Bemoaning the days of yore Watching with eyes that sparks red, Sunken and beaten from the tragedies of yore Helpless and wishing for a relentless call As tragedy hits her most sensitive part, Bemoaning the tides, All her days of glory, Now a shadowy story* *She had been ***** by her very own, The children she yearned and bled for, The men she fed and trained, Where her rain fell full and vast, to soothe their hearts Where she gave it all, and smiled, hoping that someday, they will realize her sacrifices and sleepless nights, Her nights of terror and horrors Where she stood in the midst of the stormy eerie night, shrouded in darkness* *It was her ******* they ****** and clunged to, It was her arms that shielded them from the shadows of the dark, But when they grew and flew, She waited still Praying and wishing they would remember the days of yore* *Then the dark hour rolled away, And when morning came, it was harrowing. It was harrowing how she waited abandoned and dejected, As her sons and daughters peaked at the sky, Trampling her down, Relegating and belittling her Painful it were, as she cried from the agonies of the days of yore, Where she laid all her virtues down, Giving it all to see her children smile,* *It is this dejection that has brought her to tears, It is this wickedness of a child to a mother, that has made her weep endlessly It is this tragedy that have swallowed her glory, As her children keeps flying above huddles, in peace and harmony, Forgetting her, It is this callousness, that pushed them to sapping her virtues and enriching themselves with it thereon* *What is worse than a child abandoning his mother? It is this penchant, that drives them It is the love of greed, It is the seed of corruption, It is not an inherited trait, It is a despicable decision Like a monstrous shadow, Twirling the back of the night. It is the fire that burns within their heart, The fire to **** steal and destroy To take what she can never give again To live, To live big at the expenses of others sorrow and agony It is this evil that has perused Nigeria and has rendered her a roaming wretch And now tragedy looms, It booms and blooms,* A society written in flames Who will save MOTHER NIGERIA? Ovi Odiete© 2016, Oct. 31 All rights reserved Note Children here signifies the evil politicians and men that has sapped our country dry with their evil penchant
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It's like this, and then there was total recall. Fast like a safety plan made wrong and then bouncing in and out all the way down the hall. Up through cable cars, Korean fast food market, wet fish, soupy street, concrete cracks filled with crab meat and **** heads. Just a square, a five block, two street, sideways quadrangle, beat of the Tenderloin, hour of the dove. Every one's dead on these loose ends. Hills of the back of her backside, skin of the back of her neck. Rapture is the grave of the sunset, memory is that thing that I said. No one cans in carnivores, no one runs moves like a shepherd. Sunday, daft as candy, luck in the ways of the prophet. Canon of the blaze of every woman that died today. The sleep setting, the motorcycle bending the hollow, the ravines noisy interlude, up through the rough and the tangles, huddles in a six pack, three or four walking up the block to meet the rest of them. The skin doesn't fit right, it wears wrong, the shoulders stiff, the masseuse excuses himself. Buckets of flowers hang from the ceiling like stripped cat christmas decorations in suburban mastermind serial killer resort town. Everyone is quiet because they gotta. They move their feet like they were hurrying death into a red volcano, like they were the errand of red from the top bell to the bottom of the town. I sit on a roof top, baking in the noon day sun. Stripping sticks and stems off the side to sideways, just roasting away, laying, low in the afternoon light. I see a girl with her hands on her skirt, wobbling, scooting a priest card on a periwinkle terra-cotta. I move my head, turn it upside round to take a better look. No one counts to ten when they see me. The gangster that woke up isn't the gangster that went to sleep last night. My wickedness ended my words mean your bright decay. So I ride the pavement exhausted, burying my coughs in an L-shaped arm
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 12:32 PM UTC
Sunday Morning
It's like this, and then there was total recall. Fast like a safety plan made wrong and then bouncing in and out all the way down the hall. Up through cable cars, Korean fast food market, wet fish, soupy street, concrete cracks filled with crab meat and **** heads. Just a square, a five block, two street, sideways quadrangle, beat of the Tenderloin, hour of the dove. Every one's dead on these loose ends. Hills of the back of her backside, skin of the back of her neck. Rapture is the grave of the sunset, memory is that thing that I said. No one cans in carnivores, no one runs moves like a shepherd. Sunday, daft as candy, luck in the ways of the prophet. Canon of the blaze of every woman that died today. The sleep setting, the motorcycle bending the hollow, the ravines noisy interlude, up through the rough and the tangles, huddles in a six pack, three or four walking up the block to meet the rest of them. The skin doesn't fit right, it wears wrong, the shoulders stiff, the masseuse excuses himself. Buckets of flowers hang from the ceiling like stripped cat christmas decorations in suburban mastermind serial killer resort town. Everyone is quiet because they gotta. They move their feet like they were hurrying death into a red volcano, like they were the errand of red from the top bell to the bottom of the town. I sit on a roof top, baking in the noon day sun. Stripping sticks and stems off the side to sideways, just roasting away, laying, low in the afternoon light. I see a girl with her hands on her skirt, wobbling, scooting a priest card on a periwinkle terra-cotta. I move my head, turn it upside round to take a better look. No one counts to ten when they see me. The gangster that woke up isn't the gangster that went to sleep last night. My wickedness ended my words mean your bright decay. So I ride the pavement exhausted, burying my coughs in an L-shaped arm
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Her life was run on the oil of synchronicity planted in the seduction of abstract hypotheses. The moons and ebbs of tides Swoop in like thunderclaps on wing'ed lightning bolts, Capturing synergy Wiping out energy Till she huddles in a pile of her own failure Tucking up her toes to avoid the floods Admiring and condemning The rain soaked Howling at her gate.
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 9:58 PM UTC
Oil of Synchronicity
Space and dread and the dark-- Over a livid stretch of sky Cloud-monsters crawling, like a funeral train Of huge, primeval presences Stooping beneath the weight Of some enormous, rudimentary grief; While in the haunting loneliness The far sea waits and wanders with a sound As of the trailing skirts of Destiny, Passing unseen To some immitigable end With her grey henchman, Death. What larve, what spectre is this Thrilling the wilderness to life As with the ****** shape of Fear? What but a desperate sense, A strong foreboding of those dim Interminable continents, forlorn And many-silenced, in a dusk Inviolable utterly, and dead As the poor dead it huddles and swarms and styes In hugger-mugger through eternity? Life--life--let there be life! Better a thousand times the roaring hours When wave and wind, Like the Arch-Murderer in flight From the Avenger at his heel, Storm through the desolate fastnesses And wild waste places of the world! Life--give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream.
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Space And Dread And The Dark
she huddles in tormented pose working like a fiend on her oeuvre’s final piece the anatomical agony of horizontal necks the three shades the souls of the ****** abandon all hope ye who enter this mind the words run in the shadow of her face years and years the pyre’s ash tormented her features until her skin turned grey like the sky abandon all hope ye who enter she lost her mind somewhere in the fire abandon all hope on that day she cried for the sun abandon she huddles in her loose skin the oils of her flesh embodying the paints staining the woman she once was
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Mar 11, 2016
Mar 11, 2016 at 9:27 AM UTC
the manic-depressive/the gates of hell
Oh to think... just 66 years and 358 days ago I was born. Just a kid destined to have grand experiences good and bad. Oh to think... Soon I shall embark on year 67. Mystery and miracles do wait at my doorstep. Oh to think... more huddles to jump and gold metals to get. More tears to cry. and hugs to collect. More wisdom to gather. and gratitude to shout. More friendships to make, as I move about. More dances to take as miracles soar my souls journey blossoms in peace thats for sure.
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May 6, 2019
May 6, 2019 at 8:49 AM UTC
Birthday Time/ Birthday Rhyme
--I. M. Edward John Henley (1861-1898) Where are the passions they essayed, And where the tears they made to flow? Where the wild humours they portrayed For laughing worlds to see and know? Othello's wrath and Juliet's woe? Sir Peter's whims and Timon's gall? And Millamant and Romeo? Into the night go one and all. Where are the braveries, fresh or frayed? The plumes, the armours--friend and foe? The cloth of gold, the rare brocade, The mantles glittering to and fro? The pomp, the pride, the royal show? The cries of war and festival? The youth, the grace, the charm, the glow? Into the night go one and all. The curtain falls, the play is played: The Beggar packs beside the Beau; The Monarch troops, and troops the Maid; The Thunder huddles with the Snow. Where are the revellers high and low? The clashing swords? The lover's call? The dancers gleaming row on row? Into the night go one and all. Envoy Prince, in one common overthrow The Hero tumbles with the Thrall: As dust that drives, as straws that blow, Into the night go one and all.
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Ballade Of Dead Actors
The owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echo From building and battered paving-stone. The headlight scoffs at the mist, And fixes its yellow rays in the cold slow rain; Against a pane I press my forehead And drowsily look on the walls and sidewalks. The headlight finds the way And life is gone from the wet and the welter-- Only an old woman, bloated, disheveled and bleared. Far-wandered waif of other days, Huddles for sleep in a doorway, Homeless.
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Old Woman
Abandoned admiration calloused with despair A bottomless compass that leads nowhere Impotent illusions that curse the starless storm A revengeful wind swells undersea Tracing underneath the sunlight Beyond the aches of fingers With handfuls of garden walls Fragility that huddles impatiently As the ivory magnolias flicker in the decay Stains of the stagnant obscenities As the nest of bones grieve Crawling distances daring the dark Outside the landmarks We sneak into the tunnels As a sheath of pungent amniotic poetry is found Shattering as the sorrows erode The appalling cracks stretching my skin Theatrical anorexic anchors that pierce my flesh With abandoned ******* and stinging hurt The nakedness shrieks With  an intolerable shame If I descend much deeper I will burst I'll float through the cemetery because I'm already dead The delirium has me caged
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Jul 26, 2013
Jul 26, 2013 at 10:03 PM UTC
Nest Of Bones
I dance And when I dance I dance With her I dance Across the room On the thin blade of a rapier I dance Her into walls and Over splintered tables I dance Her into the shower where She huddles fetally as she Awaits the next act I two step and waltz her Down staircases Tango with her Through doorways I dance And when I dance I dance With her Because she always Allows me to lead
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 7:24 PM UTC
DANCE
Farouche outline, melting into the stool. Slippery palms, flavoured beef and onion, now it's 5 o'clock. Hands turn. Willing a pint to be half full, not half empty. Slumped since 1978, timeless as the wallpaper. Hands turn. Mustard teeth to compliment his tongue. Paralysed from his lifting elbow down. Hands turn. Jutting cigarette from blubber lips, burnt out. Spitting in the ****** ritual, it's good luck. Hands turn. Lucky he's got time then, Read behind bloodshot eyes.   Ice in the cider, it'll last longer than him. Hands turn. An echo, I think it's a bell.   You're out, he knows. Hands turn. Cold bites at the door, he huddles out. A lighter lost, a bottle-top gained. The wind taunts the black velvet sheet of white pin ****** Hands stop. JWS
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 6:50 PM UTC
Hands.
Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 4:47 PM UTC
A Funebre In Plaridel, Bulacan
Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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I love you the way the sun rises every day, without fail. I love you like the night loves the moonlight, covering the darkness with her glow. I love you the way the universe expands into infinity. I love you for each star in existence and that ever will exist. I love you like seeing a streaking comet that comes around earth once every 80,000 years. I love you the way the soil huddles and heaves in winter. I love you for every grain of sand, and I love you the way sand becomes glass, solid and liquid, when put to heat. I love you for the lovebirds in your eyes. I love you as silkworms spin fine reflective threads. I love you past galaxies and superclusters when seen at the speed of light. I love you at the speed of love. I love you with the wild abandon of migrating butterflies being taken by summer’s wind. I love you for each tear that’s ever washed your face. I love you for every smile anyone has had the fortune of witnessing. I love you like a sunset’s last rays of the day, turning everything pink and fiery. I love you as a boulevard winds between houses with closed blinds and closed minds but the road ahead is open. I love you as words meet paper and poetry is created. I love you for every ant that ever worked to make a home in dirt mazes. I love you like the snowflake, vast in number and each unique. I love you the way bullets explode from chambers stopping at nothing but nothing. I love you like jellyfish sting, unforgettably. I love you the way a lioness defends her cubs unflinchingly. I love you the way fog slinks in, engulfing and blinding and in love with the moonlight. I love you like time heading forward and backward and all that is is now. I love you for every ‘I love you’ ever spoken, written, and thought. I love you like sage growing in a sidewalk crack. I love you as hieroglyphs carved within Egypt's tombs, for the way glyphs of people all face towards goddesses and gods. Je t’aime, je t’aime, mon petit rouge.
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 2:27 PM UTC
Mon Petit Rouge
I love you the way the sun rises every day, without fail. I love you like the night loves the moonlight, covering the darkness with her glow. I love you the way the universe expands into infinity. I love you for each star in existence and that ever will exist. I love you like seeing a streaking comet that comes around earth once every 80,000 years. I love you the way the soil huddles and heaves in winter. I love you for every grain of sand, and I love you the way sand becomes glass, solid and liquid, when put to heat. I love you for the lovebirds in your eyes. I love you as silkworms spin fine reflective threads. I love you past galaxies and superclusters when seen at the speed of light. I love you at the speed of love. I love you with the wild abandon of migrating butterflies being taken by summer’s wind. I love you for each tear that’s ever washed your face. I love you for every smile anyone has had the fortune of witnessing. I love you like a sunset’s last rays of the day, turning everything pink and fiery. I love you as a boulevard winds between houses with closed blinds and closed minds but the road ahead is open. I love you as words meet paper and poetry is created. I love you for every ant that ever worked to make a home in dirt mazes. I love you like the snowflake, vast in number and each unique. I love you the way bullets explode from chambers stopping at nothing but nothing. I love you like jellyfish sting, unforgettably. I love you the way a lioness defends her cubs unflinchingly. I love you the way fog slinks in, engulfing and blinding and in love with the moonlight. I love you like time heading forward and backward and all that is is now. I love you for every ‘I love you’ ever spoken, written, and thought. I love you like sage growing in a sidewalk crack. I love you as hieroglyphs carved within Egypt's tombs, for the way glyphs of people all face towards goddesses and gods. Je t’aime, je t’aime, mon petit rouge.
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Icy dock bump and knock one gull huddles on a cold black rock frozen feet driving sleet tethered by the weather like the landed fleet gull spreads wings north wind sings rumble and a mumble as the pub door swings step inside drink is tried filling up and spilling like the storm-surge tide howl and din locks you in ice goes slicing through your winter skin knock them down drink and drown bleezin empty season in a seaside town
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Jan 20, 2016
Jan 20, 2016 at 5:28 AM UTC
Winter in a Seaside Town
The Calm(before the Storm) "It's not often these days that I get to relax, see the Sandman I'm usually draggin an axe, with my ex's new fella's head stuck on the spike, cause it was cut the **** off like I was wielding a pike. but today I'm very level,no need for medication, turn the interwebs off,no need for ************ Just me and my clan(the Irish version not the stupid one), everyone is rollin one smokin one or lightin one, flip the top off a bottle and contemplate a rattle, with the lady of the hour all's fair in love and battle. And this is nice....I like it when people don't flinch, hear the singin of a Finch as I pinch another inch, off the the J Jay handed me,a gentleman,a scholar, lean to me left to pass it on to Mal another, of the scientific,dapper rapper witty individuals, that make up the collective that I'm part of,see our principles, are the one thing that brought us all together, completely different birds yet all of one feather- as we feather the nest I smooth the hairs on me chest and...relax... cause its the eye of the storm, time to take stock,huddle up and keep warm, maybe huddles turn to cuddles as the music moves your feelings, cause its a warm fuzzy feeling,underneath the same ceiling, with me mates and me lover,I think I'll have another beer... Of course I'll have another, cause we're...safe now,for the moment at least, from the big bad wolf hulk,the Sandman sleeps, and while the cats away I can kick up my heels enjoy the solitude that Skitz rarely feels, cause the forecast's bleak,those clouds look like thunderstorms, but just for five minutes I'm relaxed ahhhh...,its the calm before the storm."
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Apr 1, 2016
Apr 1, 2016 at 1:37 PM UTC
The Calm.
The Calm(before the Storm) "It's not often these days that I get to relax, see the Sandman I'm usually draggin an axe, with my ex's new fella's head stuck on the spike, cause it was cut the **** off like I was wielding a pike. but today I'm very level,no need for medication, turn the interwebs off,no need for ************ Just me and my clan(the Irish version not the stupid one), everyone is rollin one smokin one or lightin one, flip the top off a bottle and contemplate a rattle, with the lady of the hour all's fair in love and battle. And this is nice....I like it when people don't flinch, hear the singin of a Finch as I pinch another inch, off the the J Jay handed me,a gentleman,a scholar, lean to me left to pass it on to Mal another, of the scientific,dapper rapper witty individuals, that make up the collective that I'm part of,see our principles, are the one thing that brought us all together, completely different birds yet all of one feather- as we feather the nest I smooth the hairs on me chest and...relax... cause its the eye of the storm, time to take stock,huddle up and keep warm, maybe huddles turn to cuddles as the music moves your feelings, cause its a warm fuzzy feeling,underneath the same ceiling, with me mates and me lover,I think I'll have another beer... Of course I'll have another, cause we're...safe now,for the moment at least, from the big bad wolf hulk,the Sandman sleeps, and while the cats away I can kick up my heels enjoy the solitude that Skitz rarely feels, cause the forecast's bleak,those clouds look like thunderstorms, but just for five minutes I'm relaxed ahhhh...,its the calm before the storm."
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Wind blows. Snow falls. The great clock in its tower Ticks with reverberant coil and tolls the hour: At the deep sudden stroke the pigeons fly . . . The fine snow flutes the cracks between the flagstones. We close our coats, and hurry, and search the sky. We are like music, each voice of it pursuing A golden separate dream, remote, persistent, Climbing to fire, receding to hoarse despair. What do you whisper, brother? What do you tell me? . . . We pass each other, are lost, and do not care. One mounts up to beauty, serenely singing, Forgetful of the steps that cry behind him; One drifts slowly down from a waking dream. One, foreseeing, lingers forever unmoving . . . Upward and downward, past him there, we stream. One has death in his eyes: and walks more slowly. Death, among jonquils, told him a freezing secret. A cloud blows over his eyes, he ponders earth. He sees in the world a forest of sunlit jonquils: A slow black poison huddles beneath that mirth. Death, from street to alley, from door to window, Cries out his news,--of unplumbed worlds approaching, Of a cloud of darkness soon to destroy the tower. But why comes death,--he asks,--in a world so perfect? Or why the minute's grey in the golden hour? Music, a sudden glissando, sinister, troubled, A drift of wind-torn petals, before him passes Down jangled streets, and dies. The bodies of old and young, of maimed and lovely, Are slowly borne to earth, with a dirge of cries. Down cobbled streets they come; down huddled stairways; Through silent halls; through carven golden doorways; From freezing rooms as bare as rock. The curtains are closed across deserted windows. Earth streams out of the shovel; the pebbles knock. Mary, whose hands rejoiced to move in sunlight; Silent Elaine; grave Anne, who sang so clearly; Fugitive Helen, who loved and walked alone; Miriam too soon dead, darkly remembered; Childless Ruth, who sorrowed, but could not atone; Jean, whose laughter flashed over depths of terror, And Eloise, who desired to love but dared not; Doris, who turned alone to the dark and cried,-- They are blown away like windflung chords of music, They drift away; the sudden music has died. And one, with death in his eyes, comes walking slowly And sees the shadow of death in many faces, And thinks the world is strange. He desires immortal music and spring forever, And beauty that knows no change.
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The House Of Dust: Part 03: 08: Coffins: Interlude
Wind blows. Snow falls. The great clock in its tower Ticks with reverberant coil and tolls the hour: At the deep sudden stroke the pigeons fly . . . The fine snow flutes the cracks between the flagstones. We close our coats, and hurry, and search the sky. We are like music, each voice of it pursuing A golden separate dream, remote, persistent, Climbing to fire, receding to hoarse despair. What do you whisper, brother? What do you tell me? . . . We pass each other, are lost, and do not care. One mounts up to beauty, serenely singing, Forgetful of the steps that cry behind him; One drifts slowly down from a waking dream. One, foreseeing, lingers forever unmoving . . . Upward and downward, past him there, we stream. One has death in his eyes: and walks more slowly. Death, among jonquils, told him a freezing secret. A cloud blows over his eyes, he ponders earth. He sees in the world a forest of sunlit jonquils: A slow black poison huddles beneath that mirth. Death, from street to alley, from door to window, Cries out his news,--of unplumbed worlds approaching, Of a cloud of darkness soon to destroy the tower. But why comes death,--he asks,--in a world so perfect? Or why the minute's grey in the golden hour? Music, a sudden glissando, sinister, troubled, A drift of wind-torn petals, before him passes Down jangled streets, and dies. The bodies of old and young, of maimed and lovely, Are slowly borne to earth, with a dirge of cries. Down cobbled streets they come; down huddled stairways; Through silent halls; through carven golden doorways; From freezing rooms as bare as rock. The curtains are closed across deserted windows. Earth streams out of the shovel; the pebbles knock. Mary, whose hands rejoiced to move in sunlight; Silent Elaine; grave Anne, who sang so clearly; Fugitive Helen, who loved and walked alone; Miriam too soon dead, darkly remembered; Childless Ruth, who sorrowed, but could not atone; Jean, whose laughter flashed over depths of terror, And Eloise, who desired to love but dared not; Doris, who turned alone to the dark and cried,-- They are blown away like windflung chords of music, They drift away; the sudden music has died. And one, with death in his eyes, comes walking slowly And sees the shadow of death in many faces, And thinks the world is strange. He desires immortal music and spring forever, And beauty that knows no change.
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Gentle cricket of yonder chirp Rhythmic in you solitary cry Edging my humble forgotten thorp Where dreams peter out and die A village slipping with the vale Tis mine, and alone for me Ragged breath struggling I fail No rectitude in this misery The huddles empty with molded thatch Walking down valley to meet dell The cricket  summons a parting glass Sweet regards friend, farewell
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Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018 at 2:08 PM UTC
Gentle cricket of.....
I like water Swimming, floating… Drowning Its all quite peaceful, if you ask me I like the way my body makes ripples as the water huddles around me Waves I gasp for air I need more air I have all the air I need, now The water is almost calm Just ripples from what almost happened I spin and turn, trying to catch my breath I can’t do it It’s almost too late It’s not too late Calming down; that’s what is happening now The water is calming down, yet again I drift further into the waves Into the ripples Until all that is left of me is what almost was
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May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 at 9:55 AM UTC
Water
Down a dank and ***** street Where hopelessness and pain they meet There huddles a child so all alone Between the tears he calls it home Each day a fight Each dawn to night Just to stay alive A fight to find a scrap of bread A quite place to lay his head To dream of more does not come by Between the tears he stops to sigh Each day a fight Each dawn to night Just to stay alive To feed the soul is needed more ‘Tis that not what life is really for A crust of bread, a loaf so sweet Two arms that care, a smile to greet Each day a fight Each dawn to night One cares you stay alive Down a bright and lovely street Where wealth and riches brightly meet There huddles a child so all alone Between the tears he calls it home Each day a fight Each dawn to night Just to stay alive He wakes to find rich loaves of bread From the loveless place he lay his head To dream of more does not come by Between the tears he stops to sigh Each day a fight Each dawn to night Just to stay alive To feed the soul is needed more ‘Tis that not what life is really for A crust of bread, a loaf so sweet Two arms that care, a smile to greet Each day a fight Each dawn to night Someone cares you stay alive
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Aug 1, 2012
Aug 1, 2012 at 11:14 AM UTC
Dawn to Night
It is a sky of ice scattered on velvet, spreading its soft, dense blanket up and to the edges of the universe. Moon - a mirror for the gods to peer into, reflecting slices of light that shine. Treetop fingers write shadowy messages across the silence of night. Still as breath held in anticipation, the night huddles and hovers over all. Soft winds sing a lullaby to the ears of all who are awake to hear its tune. Earth sighs deeply in pleasure and spins on its stick with rhythm. Such beauty as this night, wasted for the lack of eyes to appreciate.
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Jul 25, 2015
Jul 25, 2015 at 9:35 AM UTC
Night
The bond cow was strutting in the night the wind, the bond movies' audio. The bond cow alone, with a blue hue around the bones that shaped the flesh in between, in the orange of streetlights The bond cow unlike the lazy cows huddles on sideroads and mid roads, mud roads, clean roads, pot-holed roads, what the hell were you doing up at that time.
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Apr 13, 2017
Apr 13, 2017 at 11:52 PM UTC
The Bond Cow
They crawl along the streets like zombies: Heads cowed over Androids and iPhones. Busily pressing buttons, Risking life and limb As they cross the road. It reminds me of “Star Trek Next Generation” When young Wesley and the rest Were hypnotised By some alien “game”. Sometimes they sit in huddles, Messaging one another Or playing, yes, An addictive game. All lost in a dream world On Facebook or Twitter-Chat Whatever. Soon we will no longer “fall out” with anyone: We will “Unfriend” or “Unfollow” them. I still prefer my laptop. But how long before I too Succumb to this addiction? How long before my “Facebook Morning Splurge” Becomes a day-long trawl? Before I know it I will be like the others: Lost in panic – Frantic Because I forgot to bring My mobile. Paul Butters © PB 25\12\2017.
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Dec 28, 2017
Dec 28, 2017 at 6:06 AM UTC
Addiction
in the part of the cool hill's soft thighs trembles the callous shaft of dawn penetrating the ephemeral violence of the stabbing rods of arbor scent damply the night mare goes galloping whinny little sins of star caresses but none are so shy and sly as the eye clasped hollow in the stench of (and also the slender flowers smirk at the blossoms young flesh broken by the light song) Morpheus' guileless laughter as shattered the disheveled clubs swing ransoms of heart lips between the twain of the enchanted leaves there rests a silver bit of girl so blisteringly beautiful blushes all the world for holding this trembling aperture of onyx plait holding femininity so electric is the artifice of her glimmering chastity, swore the sun it would never shine on any other thing so savagely its shivering skin of golden pleasure as this her (but just so the moon loved her too as passionate as any other lover ever imagined or material. spitting delicate strands of shimmer upon the golden-brown skein of her shoulders) she woke startled by the amorous dome crinkling on the perfection of her lithe sensual frame. stupidly the ideal birds sang, trying to match the elegance of her narrow waist; but failed hideously drowning the silence in virulent soundless noise. then brimmed every god to the lip of everything to peer upon this unbearable visage and dither in the perfection of its curves. suddenly the Rose blistered from the soil and came wetly a residue of crimson from its supple petals mounting the vision of her absolute eyes. splaying the gentle hips of sight to receive the splendor of its thorned stem into her hand and ***** the silk of her hands slowly releasing a jewel of life all this witnessed by the cloistered huddles of gossamer children. hideously perfect men wantonly begging for the grace of her sensual pond. beckon they, to them, her but she refuseth and make for the realm of Hades. quietly, in death, waiting for some heat to unfreeze the skin of her blue heart frozen still darkness.
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Jun 27, 2010
Jun 27, 2010 at 6:51 PM UTC
XIII
in the part of the cool hill's soft thighs trembles the callous shaft of dawn penetrating the ephemeral violence of the stabbing rods of arbor scent damply the night mare goes galloping whinny little sins of star caresses but none are so shy and sly as the eye clasped hollow in the stench of (and also the slender flowers smirk at the blossoms young flesh broken by the light song) Morpheus' guileless laughter as shattered the disheveled clubs swing ransoms of heart lips between the twain of the enchanted leaves there rests a silver bit of girl so blisteringly beautiful blushes all the world for holding this trembling aperture of onyx plait holding femininity so electric is the artifice of her glimmering chastity, swore the sun it would never shine on any other thing so savagely its shivering skin of golden pleasure as this her (but just so the moon loved her too as passionate as any other lover ever imagined or material. spitting delicate strands of shimmer upon the golden-brown skein of her shoulders) she woke startled by the amorous dome crinkling on the perfection of her lithe sensual frame. stupidly the ideal birds sang, trying to match the elegance of her narrow waist; but failed hideously drowning the silence in virulent soundless noise. then brimmed every god to the lip of everything to peer upon this unbearable visage and dither in the perfection of its curves. suddenly the Rose blistered from the soil and came wetly a residue of crimson from its supple petals mounting the vision of her absolute eyes. splaying the gentle hips of sight to receive the splendor of its thorned stem into her hand and ***** the silk of her hands slowly releasing a jewel of life all this witnessed by the cloistered huddles of gossamer children. hideously perfect men wantonly begging for the grace of her sensual pond. beckon they, to them, her but she refuseth and make for the realm of Hades. quietly, in death, waiting for some heat to unfreeze the skin of her blue heart frozen still darkness.
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