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“Being a farmer is like being a priest; you take a vow of poverty and make a pact with the Lord that no typhoon will come and destroy your crops.” In the rise of sedentary human civilization, The nation’s agriculture Became the key expansion. Its history dates back thousands of years, With its development, Has been driven and defined – By different climates, cultures, and technologies. The Filipino farmers: Are they now a dying breed? Numbers of small farms has dwindled, With workers opting for city life. But this trend could exacerbate food insecurity! Yes, in an import-dependent country – Already struggling to meet current food demand. In the face of growing losses, And from volatile weather, To new-fangled farming tech, Limited education makes them less receptive. What took such toll on the agricultural sector? Maybe the farmer themselves, The investors, the buyers – maybe. Now, it’s due to the government policies, Our programs are good, yet so weak. There’s excessive reliance on agricultural imports, And corruption on the upper level. Compounding the problem Is a younger generation – Largely, leaving rural areas nationwide, And depleting the pool of potential agricultural workers. They say it’s too late to do something; But the mind-set of the younger generation Still we can change And make farming appealing once again. (9/8/13 @xirlleelang)
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 10:02 PM UTC
A Dying Filipino Breed
Static, memories Emanating, separating   The postcard- perfect Still life speaks From its storied past. Invisible, to drift Among   The florid aphorisms, Ending in Deleterious debris, Aftermath of The inevitable. Empty room, echo hollow Tabula rasa - Carpet clean, quite candid in it's Return to callow. Consciousness athirst, Absorbing phenomena Effervesce, inquisitive Ideas foment, Sealed inside a question. The what - Against the narrow Scarcity, And fatigue of should. A tender malleable Youth, Betrayed, under An assumed decorum - Residue of truth, Flattened emotion Privations of a self Unheard; Misplaced affirmation, Buried pathologies   In architecture Fear manifests symbolic. Harboring apathy The lunacy of pious Pedigree, Import contagion, Fetters of benignity Doubt and indecision   Into ****** Cognizance, Fallow spirits Seep fumes of decay, Credulity bleeds a human stain. Social edifice, inoculated   Heirs of neurosis; Palpable, sensual pain And transience, though Tacit - remain, Our haunted history, The blind hyperbole, Maudlin Forbearance, this haven, A portrait Of immaculate condition, Nurtured with precision Under sterling pretense. Provincial domicile - House beautiful, Savage irony - Unseen treasure Innocence unabridged, Faces, tiny creations; Compliant vessels Wounded,   While modernism murmurs   Its promise. Brave New World, In a late model sedan, Domestic ranch on a Corner lot, Suburban natives, Silence means security. The misunderstood Speak louder - Consumerism beneath     Unvarnished ambition, Never could Repair the brokenness within... © 2011 & 2018 W. S. Warner
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Oct 20, 2011
Oct 20, 2011 at 5:38 PM UTC
Hollow
Static, memories Emanating, separating   The postcard- perfect Still life speaks From its storied past. Invisible, to drift Among   The florid aphorisms, Ending in Deleterious debris, Aftermath of The inevitable. Empty room, echo hollow Tabula rasa - Carpet clean, quite candid in it's Return to callow. Consciousness athirst, Absorbing phenomena Effervesce, inquisitive Ideas foment, Sealed inside a question. The what - Against the narrow Scarcity, And fatigue of should. A tender malleable Youth, Betrayed, under An assumed decorum - Residue of truth, Flattened emotion Privations of a self Unheard; Misplaced affirmation, Buried pathologies   In architecture Fear manifests symbolic. Harboring apathy The lunacy of pious Pedigree, Import contagion, Fetters of benignity Doubt and indecision   Into ****** Cognizance, Fallow spirits Seep fumes of decay, Credulity bleeds a human stain. Social edifice, inoculated   Heirs of neurosis; Palpable, sensual pain And transience, though Tacit - remain, Our haunted history, The blind hyperbole, Maudlin Forbearance, this haven, A portrait Of immaculate condition, Nurtured with precision Under sterling pretense. Provincial domicile - House beautiful, Savage irony - Unseen treasure Innocence unabridged, Faces, tiny creations; Compliant vessels Wounded,   While modernism murmurs   Its promise. Brave New World, In a late model sedan, Domestic ranch on a Corner lot, Suburban natives, Silence means security. The misunderstood Speak louder - Consumerism beneath     Unvarnished ambition, Never could Repair the brokenness within... © 2011 & 2018 W. S. Warner
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mov•ie \ ˈmü-vē \ noun 1.a story represented in motion pictures/motion : noun : mo·tion : \ ˈmō-shən \ : an act, process, or instance of changing place/forward, backward, up, down, pacing, running, crawling/how we flee from our lives, our problems, our responsibilities/instead of focusing on motion we look to pictures/picture : noun : pic·ture :  \ ˈpik-chər \ : a design or representation made by various means/click, zoom, import, export/our lives are on a flash drive, on a snapchat, on an instagram, on a memory card/everywhere but on our own memories/we don’t like pictures either/they show moments never to be regained from our past/our solution?/combine them into something better/movie : verb : mov·ie :  \ ˈmü-vē \ : an escape from reality/we use movies to deflect the pain of our lives/we think that we watch because we are bored/no/we watch to escape/escape : verb :  es·cape : /əˈskāp/ : a recording of moving images that tells a story and that people watch on a screen or television.
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Oct 23, 2018
Oct 23, 2018 at 8:55 AM UTC
dictionary I
When I was younger it was plain to me I must make something of myself. Older now I walk back streets admiring the houses of the very poor: roof out of line with sides the yards cluttered with old chicken wire, ashes, furniture gone wrong; the fences and outhouses built of barrel staves and parts of boxes, all, if I am fortunate, smeared a bluish green that properly weathered pleases me best of all colors. No one will believe this of vast import to the nation.
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Pastoral (II)
Looking back, memories distort. Replace damaged nodes with something similar Perhaps reconstructed From previous set-up before X and Y parameters Report Step One: Check patient notes to self Re-calculate from de-constructed Inject imagination Respect self-defence mechanism or immediate virus node termination (a response attack organism) Re-calibrate instruments awareness Strip upgrade Love version 4.1 Reboot only in emergency Refer to install options Error: Temporal Lobe Anomaly Virus detected Internal nodes infected Import Rejection version 3.2 and couple with Lets Be Friends upgrade 1 (Advanced program) Monitor assimilation Danger! Overheated components - Re-inject Memory Node Objective Hindsight applet. Refer to Step One It is now safe to shut down Should you wish to.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 8:09 AM UTC
Love 2.0 compliant
Perhaps, We have a worldview, that has turned a bit myopic. Perhaps, We need a checkup from a doctor for Our optics, Perhaps, We need for them to write Us out a new prescription, then Perhaps, We'd see the truth in life that's written in inscription, Perhaps, the Earth is weeping somberly, but We don't care to listen, Perhaps, it warns us of Our doom when global profits are our mission Perhaps, the World is run by men, whose only drive is for themselves Perhaps, the few will **** the many, just for monetary wealth, Perhaps, We're all too blind to understand the implications, Perhaps, a future fraught with poverty and war is what We're facing Perhaps, a different train of thought, is faintly running by adjacent, Perhaps, it's one that wrests its life from the stagnation of complacence Perhaps, We're living forms of life that have been cast inside a mold Perhaps, estrangement from each other causes Our Hearts to grow cold Perhaps, all concentrated power's an illusion, We behold, Perhaps, We all could take it back, if We'd stop doing what We're told Perhaps, Our Being is unique, and isn't something predefined, Perhaps, Our priorities in life should they themselves be redefined, Perhaps, Our voices are of import, and should not be undermined, Perhaps, We all should organize, and build a world of new design Perhaps, it is the Media that keeps Us all divided, Perhaps, We should act neighborly and strive to be united, Perhaps, in living as a People, We would find Ourselves delighted, and Perhaps, We'd change the status quo, if We would only try to fight it.
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May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 5:01 AM UTC
Perhaps
Perhaps, We have a worldview, that has turned a bit myopic. Perhaps, We need a checkup from a doctor for Our optics, Perhaps, We need for them to write Us out a new prescription, then Perhaps, We'd see the truth in life that's written in inscription, Perhaps, the Earth is weeping somberly, but We don't care to listen, Perhaps, it warns us of Our doom when global profits are our mission Perhaps, the World is run by men, whose only drive is for themselves Perhaps, the few will **** the many, just for monetary wealth, Perhaps, We're all too blind to understand the implications, Perhaps, a future fraught with poverty and war is what We're facing Perhaps, a different train of thought, is faintly running by adjacent, Perhaps, it's one that wrests its life from the stagnation of complacence Perhaps, We're living forms of life that have been cast inside a mold Perhaps, estrangement from each other causes Our Hearts to grow cold Perhaps, all concentrated power's an illusion, We behold, Perhaps, We all could take it back, if We'd stop doing what We're told Perhaps, Our Being is unique, and isn't something predefined, Perhaps, Our priorities in life should they themselves be redefined, Perhaps, Our voices are of import, and should not be undermined, Perhaps, We all should organize, and build a world of new design Perhaps, it is the Media that keeps Us all divided, Perhaps, We should act neighborly and strive to be united, Perhaps, in living as a People, We would find Ourselves delighted, and Perhaps, We'd change the status quo, if We would only try to fight it.
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Bless me Uncle! God's given Naked Head For finding a Mentor these Comms restore And import a Friend brought Laughter instead With a Learning Interest revived once more For all our doubts, grateful Confidence brew This shrill Vernacular you opt to Reach Whilst you divulge Traded Secrets a-new Shrieked the Blue Eagle; Sately-Done you Teach That Part we will Miss! Surely Independ When we of Soft Skills this Task inherit What Pictures remain of Trust comprehend We give back in Kind to Service, debit. Difficult it is to Forget you by As you climb the Stairs, we sing: "MABUHAY!"
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 2:54 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE: JONATHAN "JONO" BRADY
psychologism, i.e. neo-racism, neo- due to it being without any collective ethnic collectivisation, best insinuated by marijuana users, grouping alcoholics with ****** sharp shooters; they think they have the moral high ground, but they talk jack sh-: medicinal marijuana is synthetic marijuana / ore without casual-use effects, it's not the sh- you put in your **** have a *** change and tell me about children suffering from cancer while you're at it: because those starving children of africa adverts... are really really working... knowing that the man in control of such charities earns over half a million a year - post-colonialism only really works while you have former colonial indigenous peoples nearby, then you can milk that ***** cow from the locals... make sure you think the nairobi international airport has a dirt runway and you'll feel all ******* fuzzy giving money to these companies... post-colonialism only works like that... import some former colonials to milk the former colonial whites into coughing up money & guilt... then watch the irish get leery with sarcasm at almost anything... and the scots gear up pride and become politically malignant... the good friday agreement? tony blair did as much as / avoiding-tax cigarettes smuggled from eastern europe west of the ural mountains exchanged in belfast... but geographic borders were never used in rhetoric in politics... because ireland was always further west than iceland: as oaths go... it was a neighbour of liberty iseland... with the true statue of liberty in a moulin rouge cancan attire, skirt up, flame extinguished - although ***** as hell: and in koranic reality, requiring a harem for her three holes.
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Dec 25, 2015
Dec 25, 2015 at 10:22 PM UTC
marijuana optional
psychologism, i.e. neo-racism, neo- due to it being without any collective ethnic collectivisation, best insinuated by marijuana users, grouping alcoholics with ****** sharp shooters; they think they have the moral high ground, but they talk jack sh-: medicinal marijuana is synthetic marijuana / ore without casual-use effects, it's not the sh- you put in your **** have a *** change and tell me about children suffering from cancer while you're at it: because those starving children of africa adverts... are really really working... knowing that the man in control of such charities earns over half a million a year - post-colonialism only really works while you have former colonial indigenous peoples nearby, then you can milk that ***** cow from the locals... make sure you think the nairobi international airport has a dirt runway and you'll feel all ******* fuzzy giving money to these companies... post-colonialism only works like that... import some former colonials to milk the former colonial whites into coughing up money & guilt... then watch the irish get leery with sarcasm at almost anything... and the scots gear up pride and become politically malignant... the good friday agreement? tony blair did as much as / avoiding-tax cigarettes smuggled from eastern europe west of the ural mountains exchanged in belfast... but geographic borders were never used in rhetoric in politics... because ireland was always further west than iceland: as oaths go... it was a neighbour of liberty iseland... with the true statue of liberty in a moulin rouge cancan attire, skirt up, flame extinguished - although ***** as hell: and in koranic reality, requiring a harem for her three holes.
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There was once a family of slugs That lived in a cabbage patch town They went out everynite to eat Found a cabbage and began to munch down All through the night they could reduce A cabbage to a stalk in the ground All night they would munch and munch But you would never hear then , nary a sound But Mrs. H was becoming fed up Her patch was the proudest around With malace , blood red , she schemed She vowed to eliminate all those clowns She purchased the best poison they had She tried every trick she had read But the slugs just kept on coming Every night, long after it was bed Then a local wino for he said Out of the garden he could take These inconsiderate gluttonous Stylommatophora Pulmonates So he began by opening a beer Placing some into a sphere Putting them by each cabbage head , he said "This will make those slugs disappear" But by morning the cabbage was gone Worse yet so was the beer and If you looked even more closely tiny signs saying , "Next time make it import you here !"
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 9:46 PM UTC
Slug City
we create worlds here on the internet connecting we those we will never see chatting over virtual back fences about children, cats, recipes we meet those who have similar views and those who don't discuss things of import show sympathy with sad faced emoticons we wish each others pets happy birthdays with cartoon characters we share our art, music and photography then there are us poets who write our hearts for others to see it is a melting *** of thought and culture of the full spectrum of ability..... it is a place of secrets or exhibitionist excess it is in many ways a wonder and many ways a curse the internet, really just like the bottom of an old ladies purse full of useless lint and used tissues, but if you ferret arond long enough you will find a dollar or a hard candy
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Apr 8, 2017
Apr 8, 2017 at 2:22 AM UTC
the world wide web......
At the confluence is situated the Dushanbe, Varzob and Kafirnigan meet in proximity. Kafirnigan flows towards from the east towards the city, The Varzob flows south to meet the bigger Kafirnigan. The people, they import English Goats for eating, Sacrificial English Goat Of Dushanbe, And that's how they eat GOD frequently!
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Dec 31, 2016
Dec 31, 2016 at 5:23 AM UTC
Sacrificial English Goat Of Dushanbe
/ *oh no no no... you don't get a jew artefact at this point, when the play of words comes between the son and the mother... no no no... you're target; she should be a **** a stripper, a ***** but when you do what this, "englishman" did? undermining the concept of personal property? ownership? his property infringes on your property, and somehow: my, yours, our's doesn't compute... i'm ******* craving to **** my neighbour... because all i have left to lose is... frothing at the mouth.* at a supermarket: within the confines of a cashier: - 'is this your typical friday night?' say it plain, chubby... **** it: more cushion for the pushin'...    sunglasses at 6am? a reply:       - 'it could be'   - 'if you were part of it'             - 'what?' i'd love to fiddle with excesses of porky...    migrant crisis?   more like a ***** cricis...     import black **** given the white boy lay low... it's not even funny, i find it funny attempting to whistle... which i can't, given that i found laughter... just don't come between me and mt "neighbour": cos i'll **** the ******* **** and "he's" watching me? sorry:      i'll **** the ******* **** fuck-face-tard! no, i will;   i can't conceive retaining the anglophone aspect of comedy within the confines of the monologue, with a cabaret....          i'll **** him... next time we exfoliates speaking to my mother, and not... looking          into my eyes...       "englishman": spew!    you! now! clean up this *********** *******       english! like you bred a people, gesticulating with a hand gesture... new yankies...     britain: home,            of the the wankies. p.s. no... private property contra private property within this ****** vogue...              i seriouslly will throw a **** into his garden, and say...                 not enough fox hunting, d'uh!
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Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 1:18 AM UTC
fly ************ fly!
/ *oh no no no... you don't get a jew artefact at this point, when the play of words comes between the son and the mother... no no no... you're target; she should be a **** a stripper, a ***** but when you do what this, "englishman" did? undermining the concept of personal property? ownership? his property infringes on your property, and somehow: my, yours, our's doesn't compute... i'm ******* craving to **** my neighbour... because all i have left to lose is... frothing at the mouth.* at a supermarket: within the confines of a cashier: - 'is this your typical friday night?' say it plain, chubby... **** it: more cushion for the pushin'...    sunglasses at 6am? a reply:       - 'it could be'   - 'if you were part of it'             - 'what?' i'd love to fiddle with excesses of porky...    migrant crisis?   more like a ***** cricis...     import black **** given the white boy lay low... it's not even funny, i find it funny attempting to whistle... which i can't, given that i found laughter... just don't come between me and mt "neighbour": cos i'll **** the ******* **** and "he's" watching me? sorry:      i'll **** the ******* **** fuck-face-tard! no, i will;   i can't conceive retaining the anglophone aspect of comedy within the confines of the monologue, with a cabaret....          i'll **** him... next time we exfoliates speaking to my mother, and not... looking          into my eyes...       "englishman": spew!    you! now! clean up this *********** *******       english! like you bred a people, gesticulating with a hand gesture... new yankies...     britain: home,            of the the wankies. p.s. no... private property contra private property within this ****** vogue...              i seriouslly will throw a **** into his garden, and say...                 not enough fox hunting, d'uh!
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all these european charities are insulting africa; i've been to kenya (yeah, talked with one bartender about the import of timber from ghana), i've seen a fat person, a fat woman to be exact: all these charities are killing pensioners by harassing them to give money... all the money invested in charity companies goes for bureaucracy, these western charities are insulting african nations... they have a civilisation you know... i'd rather **** on a ten quid banknote and eat it than give it to those vultures.
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Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 11:04 AM UTC
western charities
Plant a Woman "When a woman plants a tree, she plants herself." John Muir See the photo, on a stone walkway in a park on an island, somewhere in New York State *Years after first encountered, Returned this day, purposely, To trod this bricked-path Where a solitary brick, these special words carved. This brick, a patient lady-poem in waiting, Required a search-and-locate mission, To verify my memorized eyesight, Freed to release these words, Years in the forming, from whence first espied.* **When a woman plants a tree, she plants herself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** Much less than obvious, Import of said statement, Complex, notes, scents, questions... Perhaps this is the thus, the why, Why this po-effort, somnolent, yet disquieted, In recesses, drew lines on the wall, with one line Slashed across, for every month, It gestated, unborn, but not offering to die, It did not come effortlessly. I am seed of man, Planted within woman. I am a tree of  iLife , My seed planted within You, iReader. I am as much woman as man, Perhaps more so... Wrote you, told you, I Speak Woman^ Perhaps more so... Even better than man. No shame, I rise with the dawn, To bake the bread, Alongside her, her secrets, she has, need learning, Her bread, raisins, cinnamon and secreted inside, Wisdom of loving kindness. She scatters seeds with recklessness, Who can know where wheat will be needed, Someday, her children exiled? Forest investor, tree planter, Futures she sees, where others see but wood, I follow her lead, for I cannot but fail to Prosper, when on paths tread, Formed, excavated by her footfalls. I give her rubies, I give her gold, When I ask where it be, She laughs and says adorning the tongues Of the hungry and in need. So I give her more. Indeed, I plant my seed inside her daily, Let her plant trees as she desires, Her forest, the refuge of my old age, So she plants trees, as I Plant a Woman. Thanks be, that her trees, Come from her ***** Now I understand Mr.Muir.
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Sep 2, 2013
Sep 2, 2013 at 3:02 PM UTC
Plant a Woman
Plant a Woman "When a woman plants a tree, she plants herself." John Muir See the photo, on a stone walkway in a park on an island, somewhere in New York State *Years after first encountered, Returned this day, purposely, To trod this bricked-path Where a solitary brick, these special words carved. This brick, a patient lady-poem in waiting, Required a search-and-locate mission, To verify my memorized eyesight, Freed to release these words, Years in the forming, from whence first espied.* **When a woman plants a tree, she plants herself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** Much less than obvious, Import of said statement, Complex, notes, scents, questions... Perhaps this is the thus, the why, Why this po-effort, somnolent, yet disquieted, In recesses, drew lines on the wall, with one line Slashed across, for every month, It gestated, unborn, but not offering to die, It did not come effortlessly. I am seed of man, Planted within woman. I am a tree of  iLife , My seed planted within You, iReader. I am as much woman as man, Perhaps more so... Wrote you, told you, I Speak Woman^ Perhaps more so... Even better than man. No shame, I rise with the dawn, To bake the bread, Alongside her, her secrets, she has, need learning, Her bread, raisins, cinnamon and secreted inside, Wisdom of loving kindness. She scatters seeds with recklessness, Who can know where wheat will be needed, Someday, her children exiled? Forest investor, tree planter, Futures she sees, where others see but wood, I follow her lead, for I cannot but fail to Prosper, when on paths tread, Formed, excavated by her footfalls. I give her rubies, I give her gold, When I ask where it be, She laughs and says adorning the tongues Of the hungry and in need. So I give her more. Indeed, I plant my seed inside her daily, Let her plant trees as she desires, Her forest, the refuge of my old age, So she plants trees, as I Plant a Woman. Thanks be, that her trees, Come from her ***** Now I understand Mr.Muir.
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They tell me to lay down and to please look at the fish. Notice how they glide in-and-out of the cool-blue water; how they don't have a care in the world -- they're fish: one out of millions; mindless; alone in packed tanks; alone, jammed in metal cans full of corpses and low-quality mustard. Putting the mask over my perfect nostrils, my straight teeth, they say Don't be afraid; listen to my humming; how it will blend with the high-pitch screech you hear, now; becoming an equilibrium of torture and fantastical strangeness, unbound by Gods, by Persons, by Loves. Inside this perfect dark, you cannot think beyond the giant broad strokes that is the world sweeping by -- and it is marvelous, the buoyant miseries floating above your head; my head of ambivalent visions; the Earth's core, a furiously violent brilliance, ablaze beneath my feet, under layers of confounded deathly masquerade; a mask much like mine: an egotistical reflection brought out by one's feeling of gigantic import- -ance, despite hanging from the vastest of ceilings; a wannabe church in the sway of jungle mind; primitive instinct. ********* You know you can wake up   at this point, or so they say. What does it all mean, to which I murmur, I don't know. It's hard to say what I know; if anything, all I have is doubts. All I can muster are regrets; I wish I could return to that perfect dark, confused and semi-philosophical; all- pretentious: a feeling of being bound by brokenness. They tell me to chill out; you use semi-colons like they're heartbeats. Focus on whether your chest holds validity.
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May 14, 2017
May 14, 2017 at 3:00 PM UTC
28. Giant; Degenerates
They tell me to lay down and to please look at the fish. Notice how they glide in-and-out of the cool-blue water; how they don't have a care in the world -- they're fish: one out of millions; mindless; alone in packed tanks; alone, jammed in metal cans full of corpses and low-quality mustard. Putting the mask over my perfect nostrils, my straight teeth, they say Don't be afraid; listen to my humming; how it will blend with the high-pitch screech you hear, now; becoming an equilibrium of torture and fantastical strangeness, unbound by Gods, by Persons, by Loves. Inside this perfect dark, you cannot think beyond the giant broad strokes that is the world sweeping by -- and it is marvelous, the buoyant miseries floating above your head; my head of ambivalent visions; the Earth's core, a furiously violent brilliance, ablaze beneath my feet, under layers of confounded deathly masquerade; a mask much like mine: an egotistical reflection brought out by one's feeling of gigantic import- -ance, despite hanging from the vastest of ceilings; a wannabe church in the sway of jungle mind; primitive instinct. ********* You know you can wake up   at this point, or so they say. What does it all mean, to which I murmur, I don't know. It's hard to say what I know; if anything, all I have is doubts. All I can muster are regrets; I wish I could return to that perfect dark, confused and semi-philosophical; all- pretentious: a feeling of being bound by brokenness. They tell me to chill out; you use semi-colons like they're heartbeats. Focus on whether your chest holds validity.
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To sleep, my mind impounded, My heartbeats, bass, lowly-sounded, Each beat, a note upon mine ticking meter. An unfamiliar feminine voice, not hers, poses, Questioning noises, issued from a blackened figure. This human-shaped metronome, A singular inquisitor, In rhythm, but not in rhyme, Gravely announces repeatedly, T'is your time, t'is your time, Each pronouncement, Spoken n'spiked distinctly: *"Your prose now ended, last-gentled sweetly."* Wondering still, is it just sleep or truly death, This forlorn eve, to go, to meet and greet, Without having said my finale prayer. Unprepared, thus with unaccustomed flair, "Unfair" doth me protest, a newly-minted naysayer, My book incomplete, black-brother frere! If death indeed you be, my fellow cloaked-rider, Then make me a one-last-time composer. Let me whisper once more inside her, A last poem of the greatest brevity, But of the greatest import, laden heavy! Good bye, my love, goodbye.... This closing writ, my finest ever...
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Oct 6, 2013
Oct 6, 2013 at 5:21 AM UTC
A last poem of the greatest brevity
Men of few words are the best men Shakespeare's Henry V (Act 3 Scene 2. Line 41) yet men still pleasure themselves oft, the music of their voices soothes their conscience, even as it irritates those unchosen few who must deign to listen to the ration of their excuses. I fare not well in this endeavor, for as poet and recorder of all that be known as human folly, more is always best or at least, better! for no man knows the limits of his import, his web of self-deception cast far and wide, for it must perforce hold him aloft, on all the tissued lies he hath convinced himself to be the absolute truth, and nothing but... so let us ascribe to those fools who call themselves mistakenly, men a smokey, fleeting honour, for many words they do employ to plead their case, proving well in a fashion most contrary and contradictory that their worth is worst, when they speak long and eloquent of their vainglorious heroics and medals, watch their words ascend, and like smoke, forever disappear. that is why, young reader, heed the lesson of the American cowboys who say little, but walk tall, and sit straight in the saddle, and sing consoling songs of lonesome love around the dying fire.
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 2:14 AM UTC
Men of few words are the best men
There never was a face as fair as yours, A heart as true, a love as pure and keen. These things endure, if anything endures. But, in this jungle, what high heaven immures Us in its silence, the supreme serene Crowning the dagoba, what destined die Rings on the table, what resistless dart Strike me I love you; can you satisfy The hunger of my heart! Nay; not in love, or faith, or hope is hidden The drug that heals my life; I know too well How all things lawful, and all things forbidden Alike disclose no pearl upon the midden, Offer no key to unlock the gate of Hell. There is no escape from the eternal round, No hope in love, or victory, or art. There is no plumb-line long enough to sound The abysses of my heart! There no dawn breaks; no sunlight penetrates Its blackness; no moon shines, nor any star. For its own horror of itself creates Malignant fate from all benignant fates, Of its own spite drives its own angel afar. Nay; this is the great import of the curse That the whole world is sick, and not a part. Conterminous with its own universe the horror of my heart!
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The Buddhist
645 Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen— A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs—between— For Stranger—Strangers do not mourn— There be Immortal friends Whom Death see first—’tis news of this That paralyze Ourselves— Who, vital only to Our Thought— Such Presence bear away In dying—’tis as if Our Souls Absconded—suddenly—
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Bereavement in their death to feel
I venture outward Past those devoured Through endless hours This adventure tower Holds uncensored power In higher spires And liars' desires Ending when I perspire In a fire retire I must live When lust gives A chance at love I glance above A dusty cloud Through a crusty crowd To see love must be found In transcendence And dependence So I must trust And ignore rust To import thrusts Of night's passion Despite fashion Time vortex More or less As time runs out I must decide what it's about Others help with that decision They help by making incisions And letting time bleed My emotions they read For their corporal greed I tried to plant a seed But their environment is frigid Despite my attempts to bridge it I become detached From my potential catch By days and years And waves of tears That stave off peers Until I'm an old man Feet buried in cold sand I'll say that I tried Once I'm used to the lies
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Dec 16, 2017
Dec 16, 2017 at 6:47 AM UTC
Vortex
The morning world in mist dissolves and under, Towed to heaven, we, a plod below the death Of clouds, sing mute, where they trumpet-glide Flashing into peace.  Three-toed slabs, parched Of orange, web the stars over the wine Dark seas and chalk the churn and twining earth Into gloaming.  In rapt stillness they, Are import and income, parables, Echoes of the innocent song sung to a spire, Gilded hutches, to those who heap on brightness Swans are brighter even more with blackest Eyes, they pierce the silent shroud all starry. I wish that we were like two swans my love, Neck of nape, embracing without touch.
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Jul 12, 2012
Jul 12, 2012 at 5:53 PM UTC
Two Swans
*A peace permeates my heart lights gleam in my eyes when I feed the little birds feel all darkness soon dies. Disappear chunks of my woes a smile breaks on my lips as I hold them warm n close my fingers kiss their beaks. A bliss they give without price that dissolve my aches n pains when I look deep in their eyes touch there a divine innocence. In rough tides my solace rescuer from life’s quicksand they import me a happiness while pecking from my joyous hand.*
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 7:58 AM UTC
When I feed the birds
I can't hear the choir from my couch It becomes a funeral pyre in a pouch Like the unnatural fire in my slouch That is where I retire To superficially admire A world I'll never see Placing trust in the screen I'm as lonely as can be Until couches set me free From a life worrying about others The couch becomes my banal brother That is where I concoct my cowardly plan To avoid my fellow meddlesome man Living a life in silence The couch creates pylons Determining where I can go Determining what I can know This Ottoman Empire Lights the world on fire With cushions that fuel Flames and drool I attempt to stand But life seems bland With feeling constant comfort So my personality I import From the images on TV And my brain it impedes When I can't think for myself I put my life on the shelf And flee into furniture The couch my burning cure
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Sep 14, 2017
Sep 14, 2017 at 7:05 AM UTC
Couch
Were there no stalkers or high school shooters in the 50s? Or are social web sites just more influential than our parents think? Did texts and tweets raise the *** drives and black out drinking? Or is the thinning atmosphere contributing to mass judgement impairment? It's strange that we have a cure for small pox, can remove cancerous cells but can't convince some to drive home sober. It's fitting, in a way, that Mother Nature has figured out a system to keep the human population relatively in check: we have the technology to survive diabetes and malaria but access to delicious saturated fats is slowing down and stopping hearts from properly earning a living. Progress has ended many terrible ailments and has expanded understanding and brains but has also given more creative ways to be lazy and irresponsible. A double edged sword, with most likely more benefits than setbacks, we have all become hypocrites under advancement. We learn of the monstrocities in far away places we will never see, yet still do the very things that contribute to its existence. Sweatshops? I'll buy an anti-slavery t-shirt! (made my children. in sweatshops.) Pesticides?! I'll go organic! (and perpetuate pollution with the fuel used to import the goods. and continue terrible working conditions) It's impossible to resist the inevitables, like death and setbacks and corruption so sometimes it's best not to fight but to just do what you want, even if it's stupid or lethal or involves making an *** of yourself. We're all stupid at sometime and susceptible to faulty thinking, and sometimes advanced thinking leads to inventions that create crutches for living or coping, but the fields level out and global common sense always balances individuals who lack the ability to be actively responsible.
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May 22, 2012
May 22, 2012 at 10:14 PM UTC
Sweetly Sweet
Were there no stalkers or high school shooters in the 50s? Or are social web sites just more influential than our parents think? Did texts and tweets raise the *** drives and black out drinking? Or is the thinning atmosphere contributing to mass judgement impairment? It's strange that we have a cure for small pox, can remove cancerous cells but can't convince some to drive home sober. It's fitting, in a way, that Mother Nature has figured out a system to keep the human population relatively in check: we have the technology to survive diabetes and malaria but access to delicious saturated fats is slowing down and stopping hearts from properly earning a living. Progress has ended many terrible ailments and has expanded understanding and brains but has also given more creative ways to be lazy and irresponsible. A double edged sword, with most likely more benefits than setbacks, we have all become hypocrites under advancement. We learn of the monstrocities in far away places we will never see, yet still do the very things that contribute to its existence. Sweatshops? I'll buy an anti-slavery t-shirt! (made my children. in sweatshops.) Pesticides?! I'll go organic! (and perpetuate pollution with the fuel used to import the goods. and continue terrible working conditions) It's impossible to resist the inevitables, like death and setbacks and corruption so sometimes it's best not to fight but to just do what you want, even if it's stupid or lethal or involves making an *** of yourself. We're all stupid at sometime and susceptible to faulty thinking, and sometimes advanced thinking leads to inventions that create crutches for living or coping, but the fields level out and global common sense always balances individuals who lack the ability to be actively responsible.
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Transcendence and unity was always my friend I know, Something that doesn't exist yet always lingers a man in black, everywhere, always filling cups and know I'm staring into the face of that man though he no longer exists There's an undiscovered idea or concept, nobody sees it but it's here with me over my shoulder always Do you hear those voices on the mainline when the shore is out why do you see today, when not yesterday, was blind a certain sense of paranoia, uplifting Behind the lamp post on the corner there's the man in a black overcoat and on the roof, over there and in trees behind brick houses everywhere I see him How can you escape these walls when captive men's lives linger on Sighing again, it's morning, did you cry today? Those headphones passive pass no mas but moreover we're dying cerebral disconnect everything changes creativity dies when the keyboard intervenes and the blackness of one turns into itself and everything dies before being reborn again somewhere else somewhere different Erratic thoughts but these are dying words when they come each night, the terrors Is there anybody or anything anymore? Resistance to life now is dull and over. Done. heavy lungs still breathing but detached Where the ghosts of Saturday night roam in pilfered streets and numbed limbs crawling re-percussive Robitussin and gushing percussion, oh the jazz-hall bells swing la swing oh its yellow in nightlife fever fervor forever Gábor! Tell me these sweet dreams again great white flags on the shoreline as the ships arrive home and the war is done Did I import the brown in past lives? Jeer jazz man jeer! and this wild hair is the sea, swim with  me forever the guiding hand on my wrist is not my own the door slams shut in echo chamber corridors and the tension in the neck is incredible but the end is never that, it's only the beginning in disguise I am constantly haunted by my psychosis Amphetamine dreams and Sunday dawns the hazy yawns - to sleep
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 9:18 AM UTC
Disaffected Affectations of Disconnected Peoples
Transcendence and unity was always my friend I know, Something that doesn't exist yet always lingers a man in black, everywhere, always filling cups and know I'm staring into the face of that man though he no longer exists There's an undiscovered idea or concept, nobody sees it but it's here with me over my shoulder always Do you hear those voices on the mainline when the shore is out why do you see today, when not yesterday, was blind a certain sense of paranoia, uplifting Behind the lamp post on the corner there's the man in a black overcoat and on the roof, over there and in trees behind brick houses everywhere I see him How can you escape these walls when captive men's lives linger on Sighing again, it's morning, did you cry today? Those headphones passive pass no mas but moreover we're dying cerebral disconnect everything changes creativity dies when the keyboard intervenes and the blackness of one turns into itself and everything dies before being reborn again somewhere else somewhere different Erratic thoughts but these are dying words when they come each night, the terrors Is there anybody or anything anymore? Resistance to life now is dull and over. Done. heavy lungs still breathing but detached Where the ghosts of Saturday night roam in pilfered streets and numbed limbs crawling re-percussive Robitussin and gushing percussion, oh the jazz-hall bells swing la swing oh its yellow in nightlife fever fervor forever Gábor! Tell me these sweet dreams again great white flags on the shoreline as the ships arrive home and the war is done Did I import the brown in past lives? Jeer jazz man jeer! and this wild hair is the sea, swim with  me forever the guiding hand on my wrist is not my own the door slams shut in echo chamber corridors and the tension in the neck is incredible but the end is never that, it's only the beginning in disguise I am constantly haunted by my psychosis Amphetamine dreams and Sunday dawns the hazy yawns - to sleep
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