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"italicized" poems
I don't think tunnels can go this deep: The way the oceans part-- Starfish foam, bubbling for air. I saw the moon bleeding, So many hidden cries. She shouted: "No fair, no fair...No fair..." And now the polished skeleton Bones glisten in the sun. Taken from the dusty closet, One by one by one. Alongside a black journal, No embellishments, No lock to conceal shame. Pages of her history, Like collected pages of The suffrage, and at the Very last page, her dream's name. Italicized like lies fresh oyster pearls shine. Glistening in the frost of the night, The soothing heat of her mind's height. Tunnels can touch Earth's spine.
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 8:58 AM UTC
Earth's Spine - From: Dragonfly Island by J.L. Harlow
Wussup, professional Latina? Diversity been good 2 U? Water warm enough 4 U? Shaking down enuf rich gringos to fund your Non-Profit? (*speak against capitalismo here*) Got time for la Revolución after your pedicure today? (mention the border here) still watching Oprah, Abuela? heard from your third ex-husband recently? Wussup consummate professional. (*turn on NPR here*) Got nail polish? Got car waxed? Got investments? (take a networking business lunch here) Have you streaked your hair enuf? (mention indigenismo here) I hope you are caring well for all the nietos and still have time to be a tiburona (insert italicized Spanish word here) How are all your gente ? (*mention mujeres fuertes here*) Hey Latina - when did you move out of the barrio ? (*mention La Raza here*) Mujer Latina—wussup. how is Gringolandia workin' out 4 U ? (turn off Univision here) 'cause if the oppression gets too bad you could always move back to Venezuela or Chihuahua or San Juan,  or... (*mention Trump here*) ...Miami?
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Apr 22, 2017
Apr 22, 2017 at 7:01 PM UTC
Latina en la tina
I am an italicized remark, your spicy punctuation; I am your steamy satisfaction, your permanent vacation. A unique innuendo, a read between the lines; I am a story like no other as I lick between your thighs. from Cosmo, The New Yorker; A romantic gentleman lover. A sweet wine you taste-test and lick around my lips, I am a kiss you can't resist- a naked sweat, a seductive bliss. I am the palm that stings the skin, a ***** spank than burns within. I am a moaning, seeping ****** that rumbles with percussion. I am your emphasized description although no adjective does justice.
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Jul 21, 2010
Jul 21, 2010 at 8:08 AM UTC
A Read Between The Lines
1100 The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying—this to Us Made Nature different We noticed smallest things— Things overlooked before By this great light upon our Minds Italicized—as ’twere. As We went out and in Between Her final Room And Rooms where Those to be alive Tomorrow were, a Blame That Others could exist While She must finish quite A Jealousy for Her arose So nearly infinite— We waited while She passed— It was a narrow time— Too jostled were Our Souls to speak At length the notice came. She mentioned, and forgot— Then lightly as a Reed Bent to the Water, struggled scarce— Consented, and was dead— And We—We placed the Hair— And drew the Head ***** And then an awful leisure was Belief to regulate—
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The last Night that She lived
I made a list of all our kisses, starting with just ‘kiss’ Which in the heat of passion was italicized like this: kiss, then emphasized in variations Kiss! and KISS and KISS Which even though ethereal somehow added to our bliss. And later in IM we found that we could really KISS! I mean in theory still, of course, for physically we missed The real touch of real lips and autres choses on that list. And there were funny graphics, I can’t reproduce them here, But you know the ones we used a lot, they all meant kisses there The hearton built with < and 3, which always made you smile And the asterisks and emoticons we used once in a while And let’s not forget those x’s which a net of crosses wove *** and xxxx, our ****** book of love. Soon added to our kisses came words like longingly, And tenderly, and lingeringly and gentle morningly Sometimes we gave it lots of tongue, but loving nibbles too Whenever I’d le pout or tears your lashes would bedew. These are the ones I can recall, probably there are more I’m sure you’re itching to remind me from your memory’s vast store And you can tell me all about them in some poetry well versed But my love, before you write it, you’ll just have to kiss me first.
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Mar 11, 2012
Mar 11, 2012 at 10:17 PM UTC
Internet ***
"italicized idleness illuminated by the tic toc of time; fueled fluorescent in the blue confusion of flickering bulbs & clinical corridors of filler conversation."
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Dec 30, 2015
Dec 30, 2015 at 1:32 PM UTC
empty 'inside'
I'm seeking to amass a Collection of the World's spiritual, mythic and philosophical codices. I want to collect them out of veneration for those who came before who have tried to illuminate the Paths: The following is my library of such books of yet. Entries in bold are my recommendations; entries italicized are strongly recommended. -Old Works: **Egyptian Book of the Dead Tibetan Book of the Dead The Bhagavad Gita Euclid's Elements** Tao te Ching (I have 3 translations) I Ching (2 translations and a workbook) The Qur'an The Bible -Newer Works: Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar: Philosophy explained through Jokes *Quadrivium: Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology* The Pulse of Wisdom - College Eastern Philosophy Book *Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna* The Elements of Reason - College Logic Book 1001 Perls of Buddhist Wisdom *Net of Being by Alex Grey* *Art Psalms by Alex Grey* **The Portable Nietzsche *The Red Book of Jung The Portable Jung*** The Subtle Body - Encyclopedia of chakras, auras and other personal energy systems. Who are you? - 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself -- I seek to compile this Collection not to have a nice looking bookshelf; nor do I seek to find which one is right. I seek to learn from each of these the lessons that are intrinsic in our Lives; they're all matters of perspectives. I want to compile the aspects of each philosophy with which I resonate and integrate them into my own, forging a dynamic and holistic individual philosophy. All of these books are Mystical masterpieces. All of these books provide insights to the nature of our Holy Reality. All of these books ultimately attempt to express the same ineffability. All of these books are interpreted then translated and interpreted again. The way I see it, I may as well do it for myself; draw my own conclusions: Think for myself.
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 4:13 AM UTC
Mythic, Philosophical Codices
I'm seeking to amass a Collection of the World's spiritual, mythic and philosophical codices. I want to collect them out of veneration for those who came before who have tried to illuminate the Paths: The following is my library of such books of yet. Entries in bold are my recommendations; entries italicized are strongly recommended. -Old Works: **Egyptian Book of the Dead Tibetan Book of the Dead The Bhagavad Gita Euclid's Elements** Tao te Ching (I have 3 translations) I Ching (2 translations and a workbook) The Qur'an The Bible -Newer Works: Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar: Philosophy explained through Jokes *Quadrivium: Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology* The Pulse of Wisdom - College Eastern Philosophy Book *Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna* The Elements of Reason - College Logic Book 1001 Perls of Buddhist Wisdom *Net of Being by Alex Grey* *Art Psalms by Alex Grey* **The Portable Nietzsche *The Red Book of Jung The Portable Jung*** The Subtle Body - Encyclopedia of chakras, auras and other personal energy systems. Who are you? - 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself -- I seek to compile this Collection not to have a nice looking bookshelf; nor do I seek to find which one is right. I seek to learn from each of these the lessons that are intrinsic in our Lives; they're all matters of perspectives. I want to compile the aspects of each philosophy with which I resonate and integrate them into my own, forging a dynamic and holistic individual philosophy. All of these books are Mystical masterpieces. All of these books provide insights to the nature of our Holy Reality. All of these books ultimately attempt to express the same ineffability. All of these books are interpreted then translated and interpreted again. The way I see it, I may as well do it for myself; draw my own conclusions: Think for myself.
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~~~ *"But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’"* Bob Dylan "A Hard Rain A-Gonna Fall" ~~~ thought this poem down years ago, while hiking in a nature preserve, never wrote it up, never knew why I'm a top-of-lungs shower singer, a hiking poet, dripping italicized words from the four corners of mine eyes my voice, ***** my song, a work in progress, my brain, says, challenge, asking how dare you sing words, you know that I know, don't know your song well, well enough, to start singin'? the flowers and the fauna, sea grass, lagoon, deep forest cover, beach, butterflies hiding in bamboo stalks, the deer, the fox, the chipmunks all start laughing at me *"look upon us, a single preserve is our shelter, a thousand years in the making, our song has hardly begun we are a forever work-in-progress, just like you so sing of us, sing of you, learn the chords as you go along, finger the word notes, try out variations, realize this unfixed change, is all of us preserving that friend is indeed, your song you know it well enough, that's why you have never stopped tryin' and never stopped singin'* ~~~ July 2012 ~ 2015 Mashomack Preserve|The Nature Conservancy, Shelter Island, N.Y.      ~~~ http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/hard-rains-gonna-fall#ixzz3gFdhKEW1
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Jul 18, 2015
Jul 18, 2015 at 10:37 AM UTC
But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’
A storm blew through early, left frost etched, lit, glistening, on a window's waking surface. I sit framed by that translucence, my daughter aligns, orders mirroring matroyshka doll members. I reflect on an essay*, how poems are a symbol of  will, concluding a pact, perhaps achieved in diction, image metaphor, adherence to structure, rhyme, form. Might these devolve to decoration? Or, trace the transmission of "will to commitments," expressing “intent”, "weakly lost or strongly spent?” Frost etchings fissure, shift, glint, slide on their emergent effluence, configure in gusts of cognition.   I sense a covenant in these lines. my daughter adjusts her doll's placements, the promise of one revealed in the other. Copyright © 2004 Gary Brocks —————————————— Attribution: Stanzas 3, 4, and 5 are greatly influenced by my reading the Robert Frost essay titled *THE CONSTANT SYMBOL. The short phrases in italicized quotes are direct quotes from that essay.
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 11:18 PM UTC
INSPIRED BY FROST
the woman disregards what's best for me, ( See http://hellopoetry.com/poem/bus-poems-victuals-victim/ ) gives me with kind regard, what's best for me, for this is the kindness that hallmarks the long lasting kind bring before your childlike tap tap attention wains, a treatise on leftover chicken wings and other such nonsensical finger food additions, purposed to inspire, to find innovation, in expressing, reclaiming and newly exclaiming that miscreant four letter word that appears in the other 99% of les ecrivants (See the notes) in some poem writ recent, pontificated that the most overused three words, yes, those abused three, degraded by overuse, losing their poetic juice thru constant repetition, being nearly boringly indecent, even when boldly italicized, the impact upon the reader is in the realm of "oh yeah, that's nice for you" Better to be best in show, deduce how, to demonstrate rather than insistently remonstrate, new ways every day to say chicken wings means.. you know what... Some get tea and oranges, others get cherished when our repast is twice recast, when she feeds me leftover chicken wings, both kinds, spiced and honey just like l....e should be do you know why Silly has two L's? Correct. for the run lies therein, kissing knuckles when unexpected, ********** the exhausted, tucking them in, going out for ice cream in the midst of a polar vortex, recording the game to watch later, so her downtown abbey guys, she can be watching at the proper English place and time, and celebrating life the next day with leftover chicken wings and other heartfelt, but unheart healthy food additions that folks, is how you writ a poem in deed, that will be returned to you sevenfold in reads, when you want to explain how, you can, truly, sigh, you know, love another... with sinful, leftover chicken wings
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Feb 5, 2014
Feb 5, 2014 at 12:01 AM UTC
leftover chicken wings and other love nonsense
the woman disregards what's best for me, ( See http://hellopoetry.com/poem/bus-poems-victuals-victim/ ) gives me with kind regard, what's best for me, for this is the kindness that hallmarks the long lasting kind bring before your childlike tap tap attention wains, a treatise on leftover chicken wings and other such nonsensical finger food additions, purposed to inspire, to find innovation, in expressing, reclaiming and newly exclaiming that miscreant four letter word that appears in the other 99% of les ecrivants (See the notes) in some poem writ recent, pontificated that the most overused three words, yes, those abused three, degraded by overuse, losing their poetic juice thru constant repetition, being nearly boringly indecent, even when boldly italicized, the impact upon the reader is in the realm of "oh yeah, that's nice for you" Better to be best in show, deduce how, to demonstrate rather than insistently remonstrate, new ways every day to say chicken wings means.. you know what... Some get tea and oranges, others get cherished when our repast is twice recast, when she feeds me leftover chicken wings, both kinds, spiced and honey just like l....e should be do you know why Silly has two L's? Correct. for the run lies therein, kissing knuckles when unexpected, ********** the exhausted, tucking them in, going out for ice cream in the midst of a polar vortex, recording the game to watch later, so her downtown abbey guys, she can be watching at the proper English place and time, and celebrating life the next day with leftover chicken wings and other heartfelt, but unheart healthy food additions that folks, is how you writ a poem in deed, that will be returned to you sevenfold in reads, when you want to explain how, you can, truly, sigh, you know, love another... with sinful, leftover chicken wings
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So it's us against ourselves. The mind is the adversary. And what is that? A mere dream within a dream. What does forever mean? Some hazy lines... A blur of self, A little talk, Between you and me? A heart lost in translation is in me, while forever is to be free of wonder. Humans hungry for home and hopeful for hunger. Life is one long plunder For the lost ones of Silent thunder. Are these lost ones so lost? Or will these sons of thunder Flash like lightning? How far do you have to go Before no one understands at all? As far as the fog found clouding the light that sits quiet in the souls of the stormborn. The light that breaks the beaten barriers of sound and gives life to the lifeless. That distant light called Hope by some; A hope that may only protract disharmony. A skillful prolongation To the battered. It is said that hurt is proof of love, But what's left to prove When the uncalmed storm Engulfs us? By light I live, but by love I die. Pray to every god that we are left in the eye. The only proof we need is meaning, something bold to live by. But we crave happiness, and there can only be one, So what could anyone do but try and cry? First of many, I'll have Joseph title it since I don't feel like I have a place in doing so... My words are italicized #love   #life   #question   #storm   #existence   #meaning   #paris   #collaboration   #joseph
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Dec 29, 2015
Dec 29, 2015 at 9:02 AM UTC
Souls in a Storm, A Collaboration Between AJ and Joseph Paris
Being a parody of Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt (See glossary below for translation of italicized words) By Yossel Zweben (1929- ) Moishe Ben Shlomo (may his nostrils drip!) Awoke as they approached the landing strip And saw within the cabin (business class) A stewardess with an exciting *** The badge pinned to her ***** said Lorraine. A life of chutzpah had made Ben Shlomo vain And to the well-endowed hostess he said “I bet that I could land us on my head!” The crew who had endured his endless yack, Found this the straw that broke the camel’s back, And to this trumped-up braggart they declared “Our magazine contains a questionnaire To test your aptitude to fly this plane.” “What a metsieh,” thought Moish, wracking his brain And mentally the crew echoed his thought As, finally, they got the peace they sought. When El Al published names that had been blessed. Oy veh! Ben Shlomo’s name had failed the test.
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Mar 3, 2015
Mar 3, 2015 at 12:47 PM UTC
MOISHE BEN SHLOMO
The Wildest Conclusion Who are you To tell me My thoughts Aren't worth being heard I deserve And demand my rights I might Shout amendments First, Then commence To irregular common sense My stability Is retained By the imbalance In my brain You see, I can't enable These "Cain and Able" angels That rest on your shoulders Because I ain't able Fables Fly out the mouth Of an astounding author His sound Is profound His prowess authorized By his copy written Signature Which is his style Italicized and laid back Now, Crack open Another pack of pens And draw out The wildest conclusions In deep thought Then listen... .The world disapproves. The extent Of my intentions Were wilder than I could imagine So I didn't know I would take it this far The words written Were forbidden In the foulest belief system I wouldn't have wrote them If my outrageous mind Wasn't dying From boredom Boarding off the monsters That alter ideas From beneath the bed They reach my head And toy with my Emotions Tantalize and Taint my tender mind Then morph it To be the tainter! To picture death You'll need help From this Morbid painter Why do I Write so wickedly Then spread like pandemics It's Pandemonium momentarily Shared with you With whatsoever You should do With Evil knowledge Is truth Look in your hands I say "Vice is right" Can I persuade? Like a gun used to ****** a murderer Some executions Are executed At the exact moment Of redemption How tempting Is it for A wholesome man To make A half-hearted attempt At prosperity Sparingly Laying in Evil's bed But never staying When he awakes Will he use the tools Because he learned the trade Or teach others To not It's hard to reach others When all they believe Is a happy ending I conclude But The true ending You can't imagine Because it's too wild For you.
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Oct 4, 2011
Oct 4, 2011 at 4:03 PM UTC
The Wildest Conclusion
The Wildest Conclusion Who are you To tell me My thoughts Aren't worth being heard I deserve And demand my rights I might Shout amendments First, Then commence To irregular common sense My stability Is retained By the imbalance In my brain You see, I can't enable These "Cain and Able" angels That rest on your shoulders Because I ain't able Fables Fly out the mouth Of an astounding author His sound Is profound His prowess authorized By his copy written Signature Which is his style Italicized and laid back Now, Crack open Another pack of pens And draw out The wildest conclusions In deep thought Then listen... .The world disapproves. The extent Of my intentions Were wilder than I could imagine So I didn't know I would take it this far The words written Were forbidden In the foulest belief system I wouldn't have wrote them If my outrageous mind Wasn't dying From boredom Boarding off the monsters That alter ideas From beneath the bed They reach my head And toy with my Emotions Tantalize and Taint my tender mind Then morph it To be the tainter! To picture death You'll need help From this Morbid painter Why do I Write so wickedly Then spread like pandemics It's Pandemonium momentarily Shared with you With whatsoever You should do With Evil knowledge Is truth Look in your hands I say "Vice is right" Can I persuade? Like a gun used to ****** a murderer Some executions Are executed At the exact moment Of redemption How tempting Is it for A wholesome man To make A half-hearted attempt At prosperity Sparingly Laying in Evil's bed But never staying When he awakes Will he use the tools Because he learned the trade Or teach others To not It's hard to reach others When all they believe Is a happy ending I conclude But The true ending You can't imagine Because it's too wild For you.
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I never knew how to write poetry correctly. It's not like it comes with an instruction manual that reads in italicized letters "dig so deep into your head that if a brain aneurism were to spontaneously combust, you'd be the first to know about it" No one told me that my emotions would corkscrew like falling meteorites every time I picked up a pen. No one told me that the thoughts would sometimes dry up and leave me searching like a dog who buried a bone and then developed a rare type of amnesia. No one told me that sometimes it would be hard to get the words onto the page without tears falling like a liquid avalanche. There was no instruction manual or italicized letters. There was only me, and a lot of lessons to learn.
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Dec 28, 2015
Dec 28, 2015 at 12:16 PM UTC
Brain Aneurisms
of the wind that speaks multitudes abounding creation that decries its mournful existence fluidity of a falling leaf dwelling of inhabited space posterity of the pompous calming blues describing the waters of high noon reflecting on perspective qualms of my imagination nightingale flush internal beauty of the highest decree flaunting tact simple pleasures of breathing caress my hand, i’ll touch your hair the blue of mine eyes shines unseen in the night erstwhile noticed of syllabic manifestations furtive felicity, comely for the homely murmurs of softness love is in the air i spy, with my little eye, a pond, rotting with life. a sea, devoid of meaning, as seas are triangular pencils scratching away out-dated calendars that hang on a peg papers that bind us to our word word that is bound to the papers thought that is trapped in letters letters formed into words assembled into phrases spoken from the mouth bingo is the lingo burning brightness of blithering baboons, begone. smiling is more than showing teeth gone are the days of yesterday, tomorrow is near, and yet, never here. the present of what is that now was but is again oh, do you ever wonder about the life of an italicized comma?
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Dec 12, 2011
Dec 12, 2011 at 11:11 PM UTC
falling ever so vivaciously
You stole my breath but needed only ask. Gave love freely and demanded the same back. You took no **** so never gave one. You showed me the way - my eyes followed you - to feel no regret. You were bold and brazen, I was empathetically italicized, leaning on you in times of duress. You gave and gave and gave and gave and gave two-bit trinkets half-assed like alimony. I took and took and took until I was overburdened and rooted in place. You walked away like an action hero and never looked back. You showed me the way - my eyes followed you - straight out the window. Yesterday you gave      me a call. Said      you were fine. I didn't ask      if you felt my eyes      searching you out      in dreams, digging deeper through memories to us, together. You teaching me to love      selfishly, showing me the way you did. My eyes followed you,   followed yours      following her, and you showed me the way you felt no regrets. Perhaps sometime I can show you how I find my way straight out the window and let your eyes follow me down.
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Jul 14, 2014
Jul 14, 2014 at 9:35 PM UTC
Trite; Contrite
Deep in these moments of silent reveries memories are all that remain. It was snowing so hard the wind looked like italicized apologies on a break-up note. Luckily, the hot air is blasting, chipping your expensive no make-up make up. There at a stop sign on the street perhaps waiting for the bus, two girls laugh, they are hanging on to each other for support as they laugh, their laughter creating billows of steamy joy. I thought I'd crack under their warm and comfortable togetherness, instead I let go of the breaks and lurched forward. There was this faint tug persistent that back there was a life reminder: it's not those who have everything but who make the best of everything.
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Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014 at 10:41 AM UTC
nouns
This is a Deep poem. The sound of it resonates in your Soul. You can tell it's deep for a couple of reasons: random words are Capitalized and they shouldn't be and it's weird. I use words like cacophony and Endless. I talk about things like Conformity and Pain and Myself. Can't figure out why that word is italicized?  I can't either. I look at the problems of Society and say "I am going to talk about you so hard right now." The title of it is confusing and you are trying to figure out "Why?  That literally has nothing to do with anything in the poem." And I laugh.  Marvel at the deepness. Some stanzas are             weirdly                                                         shaped but it's all just part of the                        poem's meaning. In the moment of silence after reading think about this poem and how RAW how REAL how EMOTIONAL it is.   Everything necessary for a deep poem is in here. This is a deep Poem.  Just trust me.
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Jan 9, 2012
Jan 9, 2012 at 12:31 PM UTC
Orange Velvet Sunset Feelings
I am italicized *We sing and we simmer Our cosmic tumble tune Hardly yet wholly A place without room Stardust dancing along side our gate Black hole chancing just beyond our escape* If that gate can be an escape An entrance to the unknown world Fistful of stardust Blow it to the wind Let the wind be our guide Beyond the canvas of our life Our imagination captured beyond the horizon *Sunset washes the day clean Brilliant peach orange blaze Still left wondering what this all means I am connected to you As I am to this tree Whole and in pieces Full picture you see The circle comes round We dance to it's beat Evolving masterpieces Rarely repleat Fingertips touching Secrets yielded to soft sigh Hoping with sore hearts You'll always feel this high* In the circle of eternity The known rhythm is back In concentric circles Frenzied steps Spark that kindles two hearts Blazing through the night sky Touch of freedom Paints the encircled world Hearts healed with magic potion Trust emboldens the souls To soar higher and higher It’s an eternity Now, the saga shall continue
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 11:08 AM UTC
Radiant (Collaboration with the brilliant Amitav Radiance)
I AM A ******* ADULT. At the very least, the status is implied by the Jenga-tower of (mostly unopened) envelopes on top my refrigerator (which is full of ingredients now, occasionally, instead of scraps or dead-end, quick-fix options) My wine comes in bottles, now; $6 bottles, on average, but still. (though I maintain my unconditional support of the undeniable economical benefits and efficiency offered by pumping it into/out of a box) Why is the measure of maturity exhaustion? Two years ago, I bought a file cabinet, for no other reason than it seemed like the 'adult' thing to do at the time. Inside lies reams of papers instinct tells me to save. Some with impressive time-sensitive, stamped, sealed, italicized importance. Times New Roman. PAY ATTENTION. My plates don't match, and technically until less than four months ago I only had one bowl, but i have a decent can opener and measuring cups of various degrees. -No ladle. - (But how often does one really need a ******* ladle?) Why is the measure of maturity exhaustion? A queen-sized mattress minimizes the volume of my minimally-spaced apartment. A point of pride last year after the 24 it took to shake the twin-sized option. Sheets with a thread count low enough for my cat to count to but I could get some throw pillows, or a dust ruffle. (do people still have dust ruffles?!) I am a ******* adult. What a shock to discover from where I sleep on this red denim couch. (Did I forget to mention, that I only sleep in my bed like once a month?) But I can see the file cabinet from here. Doesn't that count for something? Why is the measure of maturity exhaustion?
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Mar 8, 2013
Mar 8, 2013 at 3:40 AM UTC
Quarter-Life
I AM A ******* ADULT. At the very least, the status is implied by the Jenga-tower of (mostly unopened) envelopes on top my refrigerator (which is full of ingredients now, occasionally, instead of scraps or dead-end, quick-fix options) My wine comes in bottles, now; $6 bottles, on average, but still. (though I maintain my unconditional support of the undeniable economical benefits and efficiency offered by pumping it into/out of a box) Why is the measure of maturity exhaustion? Two years ago, I bought a file cabinet, for no other reason than it seemed like the 'adult' thing to do at the time. Inside lies reams of papers instinct tells me to save. Some with impressive time-sensitive, stamped, sealed, italicized importance. Times New Roman. PAY ATTENTION. My plates don't match, and technically until less than four months ago I only had one bowl, but i have a decent can opener and measuring cups of various degrees. -No ladle. - (But how often does one really need a ******* ladle?) Why is the measure of maturity exhaustion? A queen-sized mattress minimizes the volume of my minimally-spaced apartment. A point of pride last year after the 24 it took to shake the twin-sized option. Sheets with a thread count low enough for my cat to count to but I could get some throw pillows, or a dust ruffle. (do people still have dust ruffles?!) I am a ******* adult. What a shock to discover from where I sleep on this red denim couch. (Did I forget to mention, that I only sleep in my bed like once a month?) But I can see the file cabinet from here. Doesn't that count for something? Why is the measure of maturity exhaustion?
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My mind is a graveyard Full of dead dreams and memories I wish I never had Half engraved epitaphs unable to finish my name while yours are written in gold italicized, bold and framed so I won't ever forget to put flowers on your grave but the weeds are growing and the paint is fading my happy ever after is now sleeping six feet under I wish I didn't have to bury you I wish I was buried there too
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Nov 7, 2014
Nov 7, 2014 at 12:10 AM UTC
5th of November
Your bedroom was small But it held big dreams of mine I should've known that first night When you kissed me all too boldly That what we had would unravel So coldly I should've known after 2 days of not hearing from you All my visions and aspirations with you Were ultimately untrue. Your bedroom was small; 4 walls, But each of them wide enough To grip me at your calling I should've known when you Didn't say hi to me at the party It wasn't me... it wasn't us, It was always you. I should've known Each I miss you wasn't an "i miss you," it was a you missed what I did for you Your bedroom was dark each time I laid in it, In literature class they don't teach you That foreshadows happens in real life, In my living room, my mother never warned me about the boy who Would hold me with no intention of Making me his wife...y I should've listened when you told me You weren't ready, I shouldn't have italicized and highlighted Your excuses as acceptable When all you wanted Was for my endless desires to be quieted Because to you a label was unacceptable. I should've known that a Second chance, Shouldn't be granted To boys who selfishly grasp At my vulnerability When it comes to romance I should've never written poems Asking myself what it was that Made you deem me unworthy I should've realized After relapse 2 and 3 and 4 That your words would always be Untrustworthy. Your bedroom is small, It can no longer hold me, Its walls thinned out. Perhaps my dreams are too wide Or perhaps I've finally Found my pride.
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May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017 at 5:02 AM UTC
Bedroom
Your bedroom was small But it held big dreams of mine I should've known that first night When you kissed me all too boldly That what we had would unravel So coldly I should've known after 2 days of not hearing from you All my visions and aspirations with you Were ultimately untrue. Your bedroom was small; 4 walls, But each of them wide enough To grip me at your calling I should've known when you Didn't say hi to me at the party It wasn't me... it wasn't us, It was always you. I should've known Each I miss you wasn't an "i miss you," it was a you missed what I did for you Your bedroom was dark each time I laid in it, In literature class they don't teach you That foreshadows happens in real life, In my living room, my mother never warned me about the boy who Would hold me with no intention of Making me his wife...y I should've listened when you told me You weren't ready, I shouldn't have italicized and highlighted Your excuses as acceptable When all you wanted Was for my endless desires to be quieted Because to you a label was unacceptable. I should've known that a Second chance, Shouldn't be granted To boys who selfishly grasp At my vulnerability When it comes to romance I should've never written poems Asking myself what it was that Made you deem me unworthy I should've realized After relapse 2 and 3 and 4 That your words would always be Untrustworthy. Your bedroom is small, It can no longer hold me, Its walls thinned out. Perhaps my dreams are too wide Or perhaps I've finally Found my pride.
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How do I feel? You all know how I feel! I've been telling you all this long year That I'd rather I died Than spend any more time Drowning in stale old trite tears. How do I feel? I've screamed how I feel. I tore at my hair, don't you remember? The days on that stage When I fell into rage Eyes wild, screams silent, wounds tender. How do I feel? I've told you how I feel. I've not stopped my pleas since the fall When the leaves shriveled and fell I told you I was in hell I told everyone, everything, all. How do I feel? I've sobbed how I feel. Over tiles and full plates and porcelain. My words sound so nice You forget that they're right Read the truth from my meek little pen. Am I okay? You should know what I'll say. I've been answering you for a lifetime. If you'd only listen You wouldn't be missing The boldfaced italicized signs. How do I feel? Angry sad hurt alone I feel empty and hopeless and ragged. I feel as I've felt For a long time without Love to make the world's edges less jagged. Just because my worlds lilt Doesn't mean I don't tilt Tiptoed over a death dive. The emptiness calls And demands that I fall. How do I feel? I feel barely alive.
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Jan 25, 2013
Jan 25, 2013 at 5:03 PM UTC
ASK ME AGAIN
i meant (italicized) to commit to many things. i meant (underlined) to submit to my authority. obligation. restriction. (pause) deterioration. i go over the f o r m u l a over and (caps) over again. one that no (bold) one looks at. but me (underlined). accepting what i see. some form of (italicized) rotary dial coin slot skipping cd broken sink peanut butter and jelly crust click push breathe particles layered dust on the window sill. commited to a mental institution (meant to). middle eastern tradition. no variety (elipse) —sonic boom— no room for parady (italics) commit suicide. a process according to the scribbles of man. and a pattern that absolutely nothing amounts to (period).
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Feb 16, 2017
Feb 16, 2017 at 7:32 PM UTC
commitment