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"inkwells" poems
Enrique, Emilio, Lorenzo, the three of them frozen: Enrique by the world of beds; Emilio by the world of eyes and wounded hands; Lorenzo by the world of roofless universities. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three of them burned: Lorenzo by the world of leaves and billiard ***** Emilio by the world of blood and white pins; Enrique by the world of the dead and abandoned newspapers. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three of them buried: Lorenzo in one of Flora's ******* Emilio in the dead gin forgotten in the glass; Enrique in the ant, the sea, and the empty eyes of birds. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three in my hands were three Chinese mountains, three shadows of a horse, three landscapes of snow and a cabin of white lilies by the pigeon coops where the moon lies flat under the rooster. One and one and one, the three of them mummified, with the flies of winter, with the inkwells the dog ****** and the thistle despises, with the breeze that freezes theh eart of all the mothers, by the white ruins of Jupiter where drunks snack on death. Three and two and one, I saw them disappear, crying and singing into a hen's egg, into the night that showed its skeleton of tobacco, into my sorrow full of faces and piercing bone splinters of moon, into my happiness of whips and notched wheels, into my breast troubled by pigeons, into my deserted death with one mistaken wanderer. I had killed the fifth moon and the fans and the applause drank water from the fountains. Hidden away, the warm milk of newborn girls, shook the roses with a long white sorrow. Enrique, Emilio, Lorenzo, Diana is hard, but somtimes she has ******* of clouds. The white stone can beat in the blood of a deer and the deer can dream through the eyes of a horse. When the pure forms sank under the cri cri of daisies I understood they had murdered me. They searched the cafés and the graveyards and churches, they opened the wine casks and wardrobes, they destroyed three skeletons to pull out their gold teeth. Still they couldn't fine me. They couldn't? No. They couldn't. But they learned the sixth moon fled against the torrent, and the sea remembered, suddenly, the names of all her drowned.
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Fable and Round of the Three Friends
Enrique, Emilio, Lorenzo, the three of them frozen: Enrique by the world of beds; Emilio by the world of eyes and wounded hands; Lorenzo by the world of roofless universities. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three of them burned: Lorenzo by the world of leaves and billiard ***** Emilio by the world of blood and white pins; Enrique by the world of the dead and abandoned newspapers. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three of them buried: Lorenzo in one of Flora's ******* Emilio in the dead gin forgotten in the glass; Enrique in the ant, the sea, and the empty eyes of birds. Lorenzo, Emilio, Enrique, the three in my hands were three Chinese mountains, three shadows of a horse, three landscapes of snow and a cabin of white lilies by the pigeon coops where the moon lies flat under the rooster. One and one and one, the three of them mummified, with the flies of winter, with the inkwells the dog ****** and the thistle despises, with the breeze that freezes theh eart of all the mothers, by the white ruins of Jupiter where drunks snack on death. Three and two and one, I saw them disappear, crying and singing into a hen's egg, into the night that showed its skeleton of tobacco, into my sorrow full of faces and piercing bone splinters of moon, into my happiness of whips and notched wheels, into my breast troubled by pigeons, into my deserted death with one mistaken wanderer. I had killed the fifth moon and the fans and the applause drank water from the fountains. Hidden away, the warm milk of newborn girls, shook the roses with a long white sorrow. Enrique, Emilio, Lorenzo, Diana is hard, but somtimes she has ******* of clouds. The white stone can beat in the blood of a deer and the deer can dream through the eyes of a horse. When the pure forms sank under the cri cri of daisies I understood they had murdered me. They searched the cafés and the graveyards and churches, they opened the wine casks and wardrobes, they destroyed three skeletons to pull out their gold teeth. Still they couldn't fine me. They couldn't? No. They couldn't. But they learned the sixth moon fled against the torrent, and the sea remembered, suddenly, the names of all her drowned.
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I forced my razor knife down into an anniversary coffee cup crammed with pens, pencils, two pairs of scissors, and one roll of color film I'm afraid to develop. I jammed it in blade- up so I'd have to deal with the hard part first like a blank page before an accidental tongue slip drips ink and makes the page pretty. Some tree I've never met and some pink dye died for me to cover this pressed pulp in illegible squiggles; and I'll be damned if I let it down. 'cause I'm drawn to things without opinions. Sketchbooks, inkwells, rubber band bracelets, a mixed-nut dragonfly rested on my trampoline net. // Cut it free // cut it loose. Find a brick behind the shed and smash it dead,—preteen me— young Wordsworth me. I pulled the sepia tape from Queen cassettes and finished the glossy plastic off with a vise grip in Dad's truck. Old Brucey had mustard pinstripes down the driver's side, all the way down to the Germania General Store. He was a blur to me before I could buy my own Dreamsicles. Passing the chicken feed and the resident, caged dachshund couple, I saw his face for the first time. Seventeen-years- old, staring at my grandpa through picture and plate glass panes. The angels he swore were real—the ones he payed, praised, and prayed for every Sunday and everyday the sun shined and everyday it didn't— were now less deserving of heaven.
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 1:00 AM UTC
Young Wordsworth Me
. Oh! Fragile martyr man-- your word play is so electric. Therapy pulses magnetic power to your malignant deformities. Death becomes your golden ticket to enchantment. The freedom revolution evolves from a badly broken, bleeding humanity. Certain faces simply whisper power which question the spilled-- blood of thousands on a daily basis- Another cliche war is refilling the inkwells of the blank page, starving artist.   Delicate tragic fairy tales remembered-- Layers of rust encrust the tick and the tock all throughout the grinding gears of the clock. Paintings of the Thinker sit thinking in the keenest calculable clarity. The dreamers of darkness bathe in the cold, blinding sparks of falling starlight. .
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Jan 30, 2010
Jan 30, 2010 at 9:51 PM UTC
~Oh! Fragile Martyr Man ♥
She bowed before her porcelain throne Queen of twisted sickness Deceit prisms cradling between her clavicles Her marigold eyes swimming in it flood Her honeycomb heart dripping With sweet tasting diamonds Floating in the middle of her ocean belly A moon growing within She played with the cadence of her pulsing blood Her liquid skin melting inside lava worlds Her Italian tongue dipped in silver language Her life divided into minerals Spilling inside the Sky's water Lady Light with her body Embroidered into golden and turquoise thread Stitched inside glowing stars Mornings stuck to her lips Like sunset lipstick While shadows braid sunshine into her hair "There are spirals in my throat as I bend myself from out of my pupils into this life." She whispers to the shadows. Her words melting inside the sandy wall. "Reality hurts as much as it heals You have to unfold yourself from the inkwells of your spine Listen to the desert wind as it will lead you to its streams." Replied the shadows Their patterns dancing above the candlelight Lady Light sighed Her thoughts rhythmic against her mind "There is a trail I need to follow I want to capture peace and love Like dreams in a dream-catcher I want to have the treasures from off the edge of the sunrise Oh how I wish to have the colors of the sky and sun." The shadows became still amidst the tilting light Their form advancing; detaching from the walls chains "You have to unwound the darkness From your heart and stitch in its place sea pearls replace the scales of your memory with forgiveness jewels When others began to see the painting of your life Let the grays lighten into color Let it become an inspiration leading others toward good ground." The shadows voices turned into psalms A whisper of a smile shone on Lady Light's lips She turned to thank the misty figures But they no longer were graffiti on the wall They stood before her; wings outstretched Seven Angels Unchained Free Only because Lady Light finally grew wings From within her heart
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 1:24 AM UTC
When Shadows Become Angels
She bowed before her porcelain throne Queen of twisted sickness Deceit prisms cradling between her clavicles Her marigold eyes swimming in it flood Her honeycomb heart dripping With sweet tasting diamonds Floating in the middle of her ocean belly A moon growing within She played with the cadence of her pulsing blood Her liquid skin melting inside lava worlds Her Italian tongue dipped in silver language Her life divided into minerals Spilling inside the Sky's water Lady Light with her body Embroidered into golden and turquoise thread Stitched inside glowing stars Mornings stuck to her lips Like sunset lipstick While shadows braid sunshine into her hair "There are spirals in my throat as I bend myself from out of my pupils into this life." She whispers to the shadows. Her words melting inside the sandy wall. "Reality hurts as much as it heals You have to unfold yourself from the inkwells of your spine Listen to the desert wind as it will lead you to its streams." Replied the shadows Their patterns dancing above the candlelight Lady Light sighed Her thoughts rhythmic against her mind "There is a trail I need to follow I want to capture peace and love Like dreams in a dream-catcher I want to have the treasures from off the edge of the sunrise Oh how I wish to have the colors of the sky and sun." The shadows became still amidst the tilting light Their form advancing; detaching from the walls chains "You have to unwound the darkness From your heart and stitch in its place sea pearls replace the scales of your memory with forgiveness jewels When others began to see the painting of your life Let the grays lighten into color Let it become an inspiration leading others toward good ground." The shadows voices turned into psalms A whisper of a smile shone on Lady Light's lips She turned to thank the misty figures But they no longer were graffiti on the wall They stood before her; wings outstretched Seven Angels Unchained Free Only because Lady Light finally grew wings From within her heart
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Though through the valley Ran she oft (The others caused it so) On occasion They would be The staff that for her glows His father neither Spoke unkindly To a soul nor ear Yet he was needed Someplace further Far away from here And raindrops fell Through cloudless skies Until the moon arose And glist'ning inkwells Fell to paper Falling into prose And we emerged into a life of vivid yellow rose.
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 10:50 AM UTC
A Life. To Live; Fulfill. No More
The rejection episode was brutal; the broken ceiling fan screaming in horrible sounds, stretching in hardened syllables, red-rusted consonants crashing off course, double-spaced nouns and pronouns dull, drifting in shallow chambers as I sat in the rocking chair in the living room watching the flaming clouds converge into each other. Sunken equations outdated and bladed, slated songs unfolding in the blackened sky, inhaling the smoky atmosphere, unclear gerunds lining the foggy mountains – my chests crumbling in inner inkwells, slouched arms disproportioned, wandering in unknown lands. And as I studied the barren landscape, my heart sinking a little, meaningless phonetics whirling in the air, voiceless rhetoric straining, twisting, freezing in crumpled positions, my soul was dividing in useless square roots. And as I thought about the one I loved, how I could feel his beautiful existence on my skin, his smooth cheeks pressed on my lips, dreamy eyes staring at mine, my inner chamber was shutting down, drowned, lingering within his stunning soul system. I was in love with him, but he was shifting on the other side of various spectrums, separate vowels half-dead, scattered across the horizon. He knew I was falling for his world, the lustrous stars shining like bright love songs within his crowned light, shimmery saxophones jamming in his thighs, boundless drums rattling in his glistening abs – the core so crisp to the touch, hypnotizing my creation, brightening serene Jupiter inside my bloodstream. I wanted to travel through his grassland, feel sweet harmonies circle the air, embracing exuberant tunes, thrilling dreams, dazzling scenery surrounding his wonderland wave. But his palace of passion was diverging from my universe, sleek perimeters splitting apart, confused, bruised, centimeters charred, scarred, pulsating meters exploded, yelling yards exposed, shattered, swarming in shapeless seas. And as I attempted to breathe in his scintillating nation, the balcony of his luminous bridges, the vivid angles running through his muscles, brilliant veins reaching out to me in the midnight, his soul calling me overseas, I could see his shadowed surface pulling away from me in the steel gray cityscape, every part of me searching for a missing love.
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Aug 23, 2019
Aug 23, 2019 at 10:00 AM UTC
Missing Love
The rejection episode was brutal; the broken ceiling fan screaming in horrible sounds, stretching in hardened syllables, red-rusted consonants crashing off course, double-spaced nouns and pronouns dull, drifting in shallow chambers as I sat in the rocking chair in the living room watching the flaming clouds converge into each other. Sunken equations outdated and bladed, slated songs unfolding in the blackened sky, inhaling the smoky atmosphere, unclear gerunds lining the foggy mountains – my chests crumbling in inner inkwells, slouched arms disproportioned, wandering in unknown lands. And as I studied the barren landscape, my heart sinking a little, meaningless phonetics whirling in the air, voiceless rhetoric straining, twisting, freezing in crumpled positions, my soul was dividing in useless square roots. And as I thought about the one I loved, how I could feel his beautiful existence on my skin, his smooth cheeks pressed on my lips, dreamy eyes staring at mine, my inner chamber was shutting down, drowned, lingering within his stunning soul system. I was in love with him, but he was shifting on the other side of various spectrums, separate vowels half-dead, scattered across the horizon. He knew I was falling for his world, the lustrous stars shining like bright love songs within his crowned light, shimmery saxophones jamming in his thighs, boundless drums rattling in his glistening abs – the core so crisp to the touch, hypnotizing my creation, brightening serene Jupiter inside my bloodstream. I wanted to travel through his grassland, feel sweet harmonies circle the air, embracing exuberant tunes, thrilling dreams, dazzling scenery surrounding his wonderland wave. But his palace of passion was diverging from my universe, sleek perimeters splitting apart, confused, bruised, centimeters charred, scarred, pulsating meters exploded, yelling yards exposed, shattered, swarming in shapeless seas. And as I attempted to breathe in his scintillating nation, the balcony of his luminous bridges, the vivid angles running through his muscles, brilliant veins reaching out to me in the midnight, his soul calling me overseas, I could see his shadowed surface pulling away from me in the steel gray cityscape, every part of me searching for a missing love.
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As I stare into thoughts unknown, Perchance for Millennia have these thoughts been hidden. How many lives have been sacrificed for these lines that have been penned, Wrought forth from the hands of women and men? I ask myself as I stare deeper, Will I open my soul & truly experience what is written inside? Questions, answers, propositions, mathematical formulae, Stamped on pages in prose, poetry and the notation of symphony, When bound together between two covers, they are given life, As they stand tall & proud upon spines of twine and glue. So what are these books, where are they from, what do they do? They are treasure troves of information, Some may well be useless yet some do indeed cause perturbation, due to their profundity, symmetry or, dare I say it? Their deep ringing harmony, nay symphony with the truth of creation. For deep within the belly of our souls writhes a beast with a limitless craving, & her name is desire. Silence her cries and take only that which you require, Place the crown of creation into a state of physical and spiritual prostration, Search out the knowledge so that you may acquire, The epiphany of wisdom and the freedom from desire, For in the end, Despite what we might covet and admire, Knowledge is rootless without sincerity, And sincerity is fruitless without guidance.
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Jun 15, 2016
Jun 15, 2016 at 8:55 PM UTC
Of Inkwells and Pens
In the inbetween space Of what I am told to believe and the immense possibilities of this lying life I converse with the devil and the god who are all the same And the room is orange with inkwells in my mind As the birds who do not only challenge me but may not exist How do I know if a room is there when I am not in it What is life but a divine lie While death is a white void How do I know what is real and what is made When the skin boils like meat When humans are indestructible Are we living
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May 17, 2014
May 17, 2014 at 2:26 PM UTC
E X I S T I N G
Deep under ground Through these channels Communication of a life Longing led Bleeding out this medication Permutation of the rain Water ever flowing Through eroded cisterns Joy and pain Ever dimmer And the nowhere this is going Through the ground i did arise Only to find the blackest night And through the clouds i did escape Only to find the void of space Back at the start Plans demolished Polishing my motive Over drawers Filled with empty inkwells And words on paper jotted This nightmare slowly rises Feeling uninspired Quiet, new horizons Bleed out into an open sky This earth feels far away This is all I have to say Simplicity, this final right Long awaiting, this endless night
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Aug 17, 2017
Aug 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM UTC
Substream
praxinoscope-théatres and chatelaines vinaigrettes and salt sets strawberry grabbers and victorian dress lifters inkwells and i how foolish of of us to believe we would have a purpose how foolish of us to believe that we would ever be of use again
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Mar 1, 2019
Mar 1, 2019 at 9:32 PM UTC
Idle
some days i feel that despite the weight of legends that behold our names in the light of golden inkwells and the pull of the tide that had ****** us together with the inevitability of a crashing wave that we are not so much like the sun and the moon for the eclipse is a collision of epic proportions for the eclipse is a parting of a thousand red seas the eclipse, explosively desperate, and as rare as can be no, i find myself something much closer to earth deep in the ground and deep in the dirt for you meet me like a blue sky meets the planet below and you kiss me at the horizon line all-enveloping, steady, constant, sweet sometimes in the dancing hues of some celestial body but most days, yes, most days you are the photo in the locket that my soul has always carried and you are the peace in always arriving home though you may follow me to the ocean and its raging waters, to be held by you is to be held by the shore
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Dec 4, 2019
Dec 4, 2019 at 3:24 AM UTC
[horizon line]
today it is love that i have redrafted today it is a feeling that i have re-envisioned and let myself for the first time to feel and fill today it is slowly filling inkwells, going backwards somehow to refill, to have voice once more today it is being enveloped, today it is being postmarked today it is being posted and let so gently go
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Nov 4, 2017
Nov 4, 2017 at 1:48 PM UTC
today it is not in the scratched up paper in the waste basket
The problem with writer's block Is that it isn't some mystical thing, Some boogeyman hiding in our inkwells And under our notepads. It is simply one term Encompassing a number of ailments. Writer's block is being incapable of settling on a topic. It is incessant song stuck in our head, Preventing us from thinking up our own verse. It is the checklist of errands and responsibilities We may have forgotten that day. Writer's block is remembering we forgot to turn off the oven, Or the TV Or the lights in the kitchen, Just as we sat down with a pen. It is the ominous cloud of self-doubt That chases away an semblance of a first line Or a second Or a conclusion. It is the sticky, complacent boredom, Or the absence of motivation. And sometimes it is the lack of desire, Like a fire dying down No flames here, but the embers still hot with potential We wait for new wood to burn. It is the fear of criticism, The self-loathing that we discredit ourselves with, And it manifests is all forms Or just one. It is a gift, The mark of a writer, Like the calluses from our pens And it is also our curse. Literature's hazing technique, Weeding out those that would give up on her At first signs of resistance. Persist, And call yourself a true writer at heart.
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Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 1:41 AM UTC
More on writer's block
our nature is not inkwells our tongues are pens our will's to live
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Mar 4, 2021
Mar 4, 2021 at 1:13 PM UTC
the ink
Outwitting, out-writing the days defeats. Snatching victory from the inkwells of the mind. Spelling out half-truths and lies in equal measure. The eye of the beholder is blind. Every other word is a treasure. Not gold or silver, but thoughts fraught with flailing, failings, soaring in spite of broken wings. Sailing past lonely hearts and thoughts of loved ones left behind. Smeared pen strokes, notebooks, spines bent full of sins or loves confessed obsessed, depressed. We are, all of us, roses, between pages pressed. *** -JBClaywell © P&ZPublications
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Nov 22, 2017
Nov 22, 2017 at 5:22 PM UTC
Pressed
I think it’s gold– your feeling surrounding, warming– Like comfort dipped in inkwells of truth and I-was-thinking-of-you– washed and dotted and brushed gently. I feel the texture of your care, breathe the hues of your worry– greens of calm, blues for fingertips, like tiny droplets creating impossible waves in this vast ocean we call Us. And then– gold. Gold for you and gold for me beneath skies ablaze with cosmic bearings. Maybe I was caste in iron, but you gilded me in starlight– give me reason to paint my world in colors of your love.
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Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 at 12:51 PM UTC
Understatement
There’s a pipe from one ear to the other It hides behind a smile It is made of lead Poisoning thoughtful waters Killing the wisdom and love I have heard In one end out the other Empty handed and barren Only an echo. “Unlovable” That is all my deaf ears can hear **** the constant ringing The message is lost in knowledge What a miracle Proven o’er and o’er A poet with disregard for his own self Yet writing about his inner struggle My verses flow from inkwells That give what even I have not received I’m naked in my birth from ashes To the dust I shall return Alone, but left with room enough to write a few more words
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 11:28 AM UTC
Tortured Artist. Eye-Roll
Sabers cross and steel rattles into the heat of battle we go. Back and forth we ****** and withdraw. Dodging sideways and ducking thusly as cannon fire erupts around us. From side to side we see our ally and foe. Causing havoc and destruction we gouge each other with poison and place all that is dear in peril. Slashing at each other, we draw indefensible lines, back and forth we go. While the war is an illusion, the causalities are real as we duel with tongue and pen. Our war of words inflicts damage and creates division. How can such a war end, when our hearts and inkwells supply our ammunition and what we can contrive is unlimited, from the heart of the human soul.
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Nov 4, 2015
Nov 4, 2015 at 11:24 PM UTC
War Fare
I never imagined that falling in love could shatter your heart, brick rusted dreams scraped and dragging, slashed metaphors scattered and scanning the skyline in search of serenity, the heavy momentum shifting in unbroken worlds, the spinning weight of various kingdoms converging towards one another, the filthy snippets stomping inside my brain repeatedly, nasty rhythms gray and grinning, a soiled heartbreak bruised and bladed, as I stared at the blackened glass ceiling inside my living room, the way its shadowed existence hovered in ****** directions, raged, maddened, a stabbed hall of bleeding diction upturned in chaos. The grief was drifting me away from outer Saturn, more like snarling Mars, hissing and cussing, shuffling and twisting, an empty bitchless nation slamming shut in loud beats, as my dull dry eyes swelled in inkwells, slippery dungeons, rusted brown shells, split cheeks suffering syntax, whitewashed shoulders beneath a sludge of helpless seas, compounded muscles, crumbled earlobes, every smashed bone fast falling in splintering tunnels.
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Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018 at 12:32 PM UTC
Love Hurts
Inkwells were filled by Janice; she was the ink monitor for the week. I was never chosen for the task, much to my relief, but there were those who raised their hands enthusiastically for the job, but I kept mine firmly out of sight beneath the desk. Janice did the job with dedication and a serious mien; her fair hair tied back by ribbons; her slim fingers engaged at the task of filling the inkwells, her tongue poking out the side of her mouth in deep concentration. Last week Fred Pratt did the job; I didnt watch him at all.
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Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 5:51 PM UTC
Inkwells.