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The ultimate Dragon Poem and a childhood favourite of mine which still sends shivers to this day... Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Little Jackie paper loved that rascal puff And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff oh Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail Jackie kept a lookout perched on puff's gigantic tail Noble kings and princes would bow whene'er they came Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name oh Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee A dragon lives forever but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave oh Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee
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Feb 27, 2017
Feb 27, 2017 at 10:39 AM UTC
Puff The Magic Dragon by Leonard Lipton, Peter Yarrow
The ultimate Dragon Poem and a childhood favourite of mine which still sends shivers to this day... Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Little Jackie paper loved that rascal puff And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff oh Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail Jackie kept a lookout perched on puff's gigantic tail Noble kings and princes would bow whene'er they came Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name oh Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee A dragon lives forever but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave oh Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee
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Photography, Photo journalistic, Everyday, realistic. Commercial, architecture, landscape, artistic, Industrial, fashion, ethnographic, pornographic. Big Brother, fallace, stealer of souls, vouyer. News seller, instant gratifier, man pleaser, woman abuser. Barthes, Sontag, Cindy Sherman, Virginia Woolf, Warhol. Weegie, Francesca Woodman, Leibovitz, Adams, Arbus, Tina Modotti, Nan, Evans, Hoffer and even the Paparazzi. Cheap ***** digital manipulator, image poser, Center fold, coupons, Jackie O and Marilyn Monroe. Where did they go: Lifeless paper product, painter's picture mess, C-type, digital archival, Sepia, black and white, hard drive retrival. Image addict, Image taker, Image maker, image seller, image buyer. Newspaper, magazine, graphics and ads, TV, dreams, even the trash. Billboards, subways, phones and buses: Utopia: Surreal, crop, stretched and air brushes. Modern ideal. Surface manipulator. Brain conditioner. Consent manufacturer. Oh Photography, I got you in my eye. A few thousand dollars, A BFA, A critical scholar. Or maybe a nerd, Just boys with toys. Telephoto genitals, with motor drive action. Studio lights, umbrella traction. Oh Photography, You proprietor of obscene. Detailed, de-sensitized. Court ordered, jury analyzed. Click, image, copy, edit, paste, print or post. Myfacespace, twitter, flicker, An internet media overdose. Pry, spy, your friend's friend's acquaintances. Parties, picnics, reunions and shows. Visits, vacation, style, shoes and clothes. Pics, photos, images, jpegs and giffs. Snap shot, portrait, panoramic, Kodak kiss. Exacerbate: Divorce, break-ups, jealousy, envy, love and fears. Devour and captivate society for years. Slaves to Western and Capitalist desires, Destruction of Earth with psychological, monetary empires.
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Jan 11, 2010
Jan 11, 2010 at 7:05 AM UTC
On Photography
Photography, Photo journalistic, Everyday, realistic. Commercial, architecture, landscape, artistic, Industrial, fashion, ethnographic, pornographic. Big Brother, fallace, stealer of souls, vouyer. News seller, instant gratifier, man pleaser, woman abuser. Barthes, Sontag, Cindy Sherman, Virginia Woolf, Warhol. Weegie, Francesca Woodman, Leibovitz, Adams, Arbus, Tina Modotti, Nan, Evans, Hoffer and even the Paparazzi. Cheap ***** digital manipulator, image poser, Center fold, coupons, Jackie O and Marilyn Monroe. Where did they go: Lifeless paper product, painter's picture mess, C-type, digital archival, Sepia, black and white, hard drive retrival. Image addict, Image taker, Image maker, image seller, image buyer. Newspaper, magazine, graphics and ads, TV, dreams, even the trash. Billboards, subways, phones and buses: Utopia: Surreal, crop, stretched and air brushes. Modern ideal. Surface manipulator. Brain conditioner. Consent manufacturer. Oh Photography, I got you in my eye. A few thousand dollars, A BFA, A critical scholar. Or maybe a nerd, Just boys with toys. Telephoto genitals, with motor drive action. Studio lights, umbrella traction. Oh Photography, You proprietor of obscene. Detailed, de-sensitized. Court ordered, jury analyzed. Click, image, copy, edit, paste, print or post. Myfacespace, twitter, flicker, An internet media overdose. Pry, spy, your friend's friend's acquaintances. Parties, picnics, reunions and shows. Visits, vacation, style, shoes and clothes. Pics, photos, images, jpegs and giffs. Snap shot, portrait, panoramic, Kodak kiss. Exacerbate: Divorce, break-ups, jealousy, envy, love and fears. Devour and captivate society for years. Slaves to Western and Capitalist desires, Destruction of Earth with psychological, monetary empires.
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Oh Jackie Do you think it’s easy To fall in love with just a kiss Now every day I miss that natural Curl of your lips I can’t explain your beauty Maybe it’s just a kink Something I saw in a dream Of beauty Aphrodite esteems And maybe some ancient time You’re shape was aspired You were molded like clay And heaven laid the lines on your face I so admire Every glowing smile And forever linked In a web of my little kinks I fall hard for beauty Carved like a goddess from maybe another life When I’m drunk I wanna call you up And say, **** it let’s go elope Be my wife And I’d never say these things to your face For all you know I’m just another disgrace A missed connection, you could never give a **** For every text and every kiss that I miss And you can find something else? I wish I knew what it was Cause when I met you I just wanted to run away in the sun And find you a place that I can truly say The beauty only compares To the curl of your lips And the rose of your cheeks And the soft, caress of your kiss Forever imprisoned To find something comparable This feeling has taken me over, it’s unbearable I can only lay, here, here in the sand And hope to god a love like hers Will find me somewhere?
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 4:01 PM UTC
Aphrodite Aspire
The already preset disposition of being Asian. I must've been accidentally mixed in the wrong laundry basket, because they tell me I'm white-washed. Born with foreign looks but a native tongue my birth certificate calls me ***** I would be the blonde-hair-blue-eyes of a country on the other side of the world but here, I'm still considered an immigrant in my own home. When you are Asian-American, you are also the stereotypes that trail your title. You are sushi You are jackie-chan You are karate You are good grades You are the slant-eyed pignose supporting character WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE WHERE UNITED IS TRANSLATED AS DISCRIMINATED! BUT DON'T GET IT TWISTED, ASIANS ARE PRETTY COOL! Excuse me straight misogynist white male, your Godzilla type of Asian, or my culture? When have I as an individual played a character in these quote on quote American movies? Hmm oh yeah, that's right! I was in Fast and Furious! Didn't I also make an appearance in Harry Potter as the cute innocent Cho Chang? If this also applies to you can I please have your autograph because I'm pretty sure I've seen you star in every movie I've ever seen. Or at least your people, right? Don't try to tone down the damage I already know I'm categorized in this Asian fetish that all you'll ever see in me is rice and anime, nothing more, nothing less. And if I were to become an author instead of a doctor, I'd be considered as a social unnorm a disgrace but isn't it already disgraceful that in this bleached-colors world I have lost touch of my heritage, my roots replaced with a skeleton idea of who I'm supposed to be I wear a mask. My friends speak to my mom in their native language. Sitting there, disoriented, lost in pronunciation I ask my mother why she did not teach me her natural tongue. She says, "because you are American." And I still do not believe her.
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 11:48 PM UTC
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The already preset disposition of being Asian. I must've been accidentally mixed in the wrong laundry basket, because they tell me I'm white-washed. Born with foreign looks but a native tongue my birth certificate calls me ***** I would be the blonde-hair-blue-eyes of a country on the other side of the world but here, I'm still considered an immigrant in my own home. When you are Asian-American, you are also the stereotypes that trail your title. You are sushi You are jackie-chan You are karate You are good grades You are the slant-eyed pignose supporting character WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE WHERE UNITED IS TRANSLATED AS DISCRIMINATED! BUT DON'T GET IT TWISTED, ASIANS ARE PRETTY COOL! Excuse me straight misogynist white male, your Godzilla type of Asian, or my culture? When have I as an individual played a character in these quote on quote American movies? Hmm oh yeah, that's right! I was in Fast and Furious! Didn't I also make an appearance in Harry Potter as the cute innocent Cho Chang? If this also applies to you can I please have your autograph because I'm pretty sure I've seen you star in every movie I've ever seen. Or at least your people, right? Don't try to tone down the damage I already know I'm categorized in this Asian fetish that all you'll ever see in me is rice and anime, nothing more, nothing less. And if I were to become an author instead of a doctor, I'd be considered as a social unnorm a disgrace but isn't it already disgraceful that in this bleached-colors world I have lost touch of my heritage, my roots replaced with a skeleton idea of who I'm supposed to be I wear a mask. My friends speak to my mom in their native language. Sitting there, disoriented, lost in pronunciation I ask my mother why she did not teach me her natural tongue. She says, "because you are American." And I still do not believe her.
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Puff the magic dragon Lives by the sea We know him from our childhoods Living down in Hona Lee Little Jackie Paper He loved that dragon puff But, he's grown up and he's moved away He's too old for all that stuff What happened to the dragon? What is Puff doing these days? Few children come to visit him He's still swimming between the bays Puff is writing stories Of his time so long ago He uses a computer now For his writing was so slow Little Jackie Paper Is a doctor in Duluth He doesn't think of Puff at all He won't accept the truth His imagination Disappeared as Jackie grew Puff was not a living thing As far as Jackie knew Puff is making money But, longs for old pursuits Like sealing wax and other things And kids in rubber boots Jackie came to visit He brought his family to the beach Puff was there in hiding And he stayed just out of reach Jackies son, he saw him told his dad of dragon Puff Jackie said, it isn't real "Of this talk I've had enough" Puff the magic dragon heard this and he did cry He missed his Jackie Paper He never said good bye Jackies son kept wanting To see the dragon by the shore So, Jackie took him down again To find the dragon friend once more Puff, he saw them coming And he made his way on out And to his little Jackie Paper Puff, gave out a shout He shot fire from his nostrils He splashed water with his tail He even showed Jackies young boy How he could harness wind and sail Puff the magic dragon still lives by the sea One day Jackie will notice him And his mind will then be free A child's imagination Must be nurtured as they grow Harness it as they grow up Maybe they'll put on a show Never, tell your children to stop playing around Play along and you will see Puff is there still to be found Puff, the magic dragon Lives by the sea He still frollicks in the autumn mist In a land called Hona Lee
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Sep 9, 2012
Sep 9, 2012 at 11:33 AM UTC
Puff the magic dragon 2
Puff the magic dragon Lives by the sea We know him from our childhoods Living down in Hona Lee Little Jackie Paper He loved that dragon puff But, he's grown up and he's moved away He's too old for all that stuff What happened to the dragon? What is Puff doing these days? Few children come to visit him He's still swimming between the bays Puff is writing stories Of his time so long ago He uses a computer now For his writing was so slow Little Jackie Paper Is a doctor in Duluth He doesn't think of Puff at all He won't accept the truth His imagination Disappeared as Jackie grew Puff was not a living thing As far as Jackie knew Puff is making money But, longs for old pursuits Like sealing wax and other things And kids in rubber boots Jackie came to visit He brought his family to the beach Puff was there in hiding And he stayed just out of reach Jackies son, he saw him told his dad of dragon Puff Jackie said, it isn't real "Of this talk I've had enough" Puff the magic dragon heard this and he did cry He missed his Jackie Paper He never said good bye Jackies son kept wanting To see the dragon by the shore So, Jackie took him down again To find the dragon friend once more Puff, he saw them coming And he made his way on out And to his little Jackie Paper Puff, gave out a shout He shot fire from his nostrils He splashed water with his tail He even showed Jackies young boy How he could harness wind and sail Puff the magic dragon still lives by the sea One day Jackie will notice him And his mind will then be free A child's imagination Must be nurtured as they grow Harness it as they grow up Maybe they'll put on a show Never, tell your children to stop playing around Play along and you will see Puff is there still to be found Puff, the magic dragon Lives by the sea He still frollicks in the autumn mist In a land called Hona Lee
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~ dad said she'd be famous ~ *"...a doctor or diva like lena horne,"* he said he'd been doing odd day jobs and driving cabs deep into the night through  these mean city streets since ella's debut at the apollo and his smile grew wider than jackie o's reservoir in central park when this bouncing baby girl made her grand debut into his world the dimples on her cherub caramel cheeks were irresistibly pinchable and those twinkling eyes knew she'd be spoiled infinitely like a fruit-fly in a box of rotten apples ~ reality check ~ ....if you look closely you might still see one dimple; but the twinkles departed back in '75 ....and the burns on her fingertips and blistered lips ....and the bones.... jutting  like the bones of refugees and anorexics ....missing flesh ...and the tracks on her forearms and filthy jeans .....and the eyes.... shifting like the eyes of senators and thieves ....telling lies .....and the rotting corpse in a black garbage bag in fresh kills multiple choices removed from the doctor and diva of daddy's dreams hijacked by dream-killers: *smack       crack   and addiction* ~ P (Pablo) (8/1/2013)
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Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 3:26 PM UTC
Daddy's Dreamgirl...
Ozzie Smith, Yazstremski, Dave Stieb and Robin Yount these men were of a special group It's one I'm proud to count There's players who achieve a goal While others just achieve They set a standard for the rest In their heart they just believe The game is full of heroes Men depended on each game They all have certain attributes And we all know them by name Kaline, Ripken, and Wade Boggs The Carters, Joe and Gary They're men who inspire us They have a reputation tough to carry To be a man of character You must be better than the rest You have to be a leader If you ***** up, you must confess Baseball doesn't make you one For character's within You just learn how to channel it Bring it out from where it's been Now, Cobb, Ruth and McLain Were characters as well But, not the kind of characters That we are here to tell They had a reputation One that is not lost upon the game But, to say that they had character Then you would not speak their names Tom Seaver and Clemente Thurmon Munson, Sparky too Were men who set examples Of exactly what to do To build a reputation One that shows character and heart Is something time consuming It's built of many parts To do the right thing once Is not the thing I want to see But to do it right consistently That defines character to me There are so many examples Of players in this group But there are ten times as many Who miss the homer with a bloop Baseball brings it out in you It doesn't put it there You show what you are made of By definition....to be fair Williams, Maris, Dimaggio Robinsons, Jackie and Frank They played with an integrity You could take it to the bank If you want to be a winner Please do this if you can Be a man of character Not a character of a man. ..
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Apr 29, 2012
Apr 29, 2012 at 1:08 PM UTC
Man of Character
Ozzie Smith, Yazstremski, Dave Stieb and Robin Yount these men were of a special group It's one I'm proud to count There's players who achieve a goal While others just achieve They set a standard for the rest In their heart they just believe The game is full of heroes Men depended on each game They all have certain attributes And we all know them by name Kaline, Ripken, and Wade Boggs The Carters, Joe and Gary They're men who inspire us They have a reputation tough to carry To be a man of character You must be better than the rest You have to be a leader If you ***** up, you must confess Baseball doesn't make you one For character's within You just learn how to channel it Bring it out from where it's been Now, Cobb, Ruth and McLain Were characters as well But, not the kind of characters That we are here to tell They had a reputation One that is not lost upon the game But, to say that they had character Then you would not speak their names Tom Seaver and Clemente Thurmon Munson, Sparky too Were men who set examples Of exactly what to do To build a reputation One that shows character and heart Is something time consuming It's built of many parts To do the right thing once Is not the thing I want to see But to do it right consistently That defines character to me There are so many examples Of players in this group But there are ten times as many Who miss the homer with a bloop Baseball brings it out in you It doesn't put it there You show what you are made of By definition....to be fair Williams, Maris, Dimaggio Robinsons, Jackie and Frank They played with an integrity You could take it to the bank If you want to be a winner Please do this if you can Be a man of character Not a character of a man. ..
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Jackie Robinson is exalted as the first Black man to play, but far fewer fans remember Glenn Burke, the first ballplayer openly gay. Like Jackie, he played for the Dodgers- (different coast and a different time.) Glenn came up to the Majors In the summer of 79’ Burke was strong and tall and fast And some teammates called him “ King Kong” Though he roomed with Reggie Smith on the road most nights Reggie Smith slept alone. Burke befriended Young Tommy Lasorda which was why he was traded away. Old Lasorda couldn’t deal with the rumors, Nor acknowledge his own son was gay. Glenn Burke rode the pines while in Oakland Billy Martin never gave him much chance When Burke injured his leg in Spring Training That ended his time at the dance. He drifted, his playing days over, He used, he stole and did time. An accident left him a ******* Unprotected *** ended his line. No shock was the A.I.D.s diagnosis- His sister had long known he was gay. When she took him in he was dying when all others turned him away. Sandy Alderson, with the Athletics, took pity on Burke in despair. The team paid for his A.I.D.S. medication and covered the cost of his care. Sad is the fate of the Athlete unsung, dying apart from his team. Glenn Burke showed that a gay man could play, That a Gay Athlete also can dream. Glenn Burke passed a long time ago But his story deserves to be told. He said when your suffering, dying of A.I.D.S. Even days in the summer are cold.
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Oct 21, 2012
Oct 21, 2012 at 12:03 PM UTC
Out at the Plate
Is there someone out there that can make the insecure, secure? The lost become found? The weak become strong? The introvert extrovert and all things in-between? The ugly more beautiful? The headedness and nightmares become more of a joke? The sounds in the background become solid and free Chuck out the garbage The ties that bind thee Those that put you in trouble of the deepest kind The ugliest of mothers hellbent on revenge Taking out pennies from someone else's den Is there someone decent and cool To help get along in the life of a fool? I am the pest the irregular verb Adjectives, hyphens the comma's full stop and nerds All comprehensive found sometimes expensive So you'll never know what kind of gift wraps inside Quaky, Jackie, Stumble bunny and fall Am running amok for the sake of it all Sinderella what a fella He went to the garden zoo Played hokey cokey Oh what a jokey He even drank the soup Happy Halloween you creeps! © Bernard M Coldwell all rights reserved
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Nov 2, 2013
Nov 2, 2013 at 5:44 AM UTC
Happy Halloween
When you paint houses bring your little brother Hoffa couldn't keep his mouth shut Mannlicher Carcano carbines cleave off the tops of skulls Cosa Nostra prove The idiocy of convertibles Pretty boy politicians sprayed across Jackie's face Kennedy never should have rocked the boat Bufalino brotherhood born for bloodshed Irishman knows that .32 goes in but doesn't come back out Turning grey matter into brain sauce pudding Hoffa couldn't keep his mouth shut Got what he wanted kept demanding more Stupid Sicilian stooges get sliced up in pork store backrooms limbs spread to the four corners of Michigan Irishman painted his house Hoffa couldn't keep his mouth shut
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Jun 15, 2012
Jun 15, 2012 at 6:22 AM UTC
Hoffa
Bang bang **** **** Aw **** I work it through a hose and **** out the deluge Cardboard houses and razor **** straps And my eye is dilating as my heart races I explode in a rage Of wind and acid A blow tube in my vein A blackened eye A cigarette between two lips A train exiting the station 'All aboard! **** **** yeah! I do k-k-k ******* and k-k-k crystal **** and k-k-k ****** Blasphemous cheese Black holes Brown eyes Poopie trim Unwinding ecstacy Driven by speed anger and vengeance Running behind the booming Urination of oil and sludge From my tail pipe Blue Velvet Black cake Purple hoses Red tubing Nose bleed Big cheese **** me Venom Cruelty Sage wisdom Magic sage Marijuana Marijuana Marijuana I am not jesus I am just a ****** I am just a ****** I am just a creep a ****** a cheat a lie a **** a cheap little **** **** **** away. Blow up! AHHHHHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA All play and no work makes Jackie boy lazy. Rage Rage Death End this brain flow! BANG!
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Oct 8, 2013
Oct 8, 2013 at 8:33 AM UTC
Untitled
Its a **** shame that she had such a pretty picture Cause when we finally met she was such a ***** - Her Mouth kept running round the clock She ******* about her life non-stop I said "girl, I don't care about your **** Stuck up privileged little rich girl Its a shame that shes such a beautiful disaster Cause her pretty smile wont let anyone walk past her Pay attention and you'll see She thinks she's Jackie Kennedy That stuck-up little bitch-girl Dont waste my time I dont want to hear it anymore You hate your dad And your sick of being bored Maybe that means something To somebody else You think that you're the only one Looking for a way out Some day she'll wake up and she'll look in to the mirror And she will find out that theres no one near her What do you expect When all you care about's yourself But there are some nights that I still miss her... My privileged little bitch-girl.
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Sep 28, 2011
Sep 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM UTC
Privileged Little Bitch-Girl
I closed my eyes. Felt the warmth of the sun on my face. All the grief and pain Was simply too hard to erase. I could smell the ocean in the air. I opened my eyes only to see you far off in the distance. I knew it was you there. I called out your name As I ran to you. My prayers had been answered. It was all too good to be true. Beautiful as always You smiled and held me so near. This moment was happening It was all perfectly clear. You laughed and said "I'm happy you're here. Welcome to my beach in the sky, But you can't stay forever." As a big sister always knows why. "You see there is a little place at my beach in the sky. It's called Heaven and that's where I live. I am happy and content And have no one else to forgive." "I dance in the sun and play in the waves. I collect seashells as I watch the sunrise and set All of my days". "I know no more hate, sorrow or grief. I only know love and peace. And I stand firmly with my God on that belief." "You have not yet learned what it takes. You can't be with me on my beach in the sky. Just because you think you have faith You still have not learned why." "Go back to your world and do what you can. Be kind and gentle to each and every man. Have a compassionate heart. Remember my words as we now must part." "Little things matter. Be the best you can be. Take great care with others As you would a seashell at sea. Be helpful, be strong And never ask why. That's all it takes To reach my beach in the sky." I opened my eyes And felt the mean Spring Winter cold. It was all an illusion Everything I had just been told. The snow flurries fell. I was not on a beach But was back in my hell. It could have all been a dream Until I looked down And discovered a seashell. Jackie Bush Holcomb
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Sep 29, 2015
Sep 29, 2015 at 12:32 PM UTC
The Beach In The Sky
I closed my eyes. Felt the warmth of the sun on my face. All the grief and pain Was simply too hard to erase. I could smell the ocean in the air. I opened my eyes only to see you far off in the distance. I knew it was you there. I called out your name As I ran to you. My prayers had been answered. It was all too good to be true. Beautiful as always You smiled and held me so near. This moment was happening It was all perfectly clear. You laughed and said "I'm happy you're here. Welcome to my beach in the sky, But you can't stay forever." As a big sister always knows why. "You see there is a little place at my beach in the sky. It's called Heaven and that's where I live. I am happy and content And have no one else to forgive." "I dance in the sun and play in the waves. I collect seashells as I watch the sunrise and set All of my days". "I know no more hate, sorrow or grief. I only know love and peace. And I stand firmly with my God on that belief." "You have not yet learned what it takes. You can't be with me on my beach in the sky. Just because you think you have faith You still have not learned why." "Go back to your world and do what you can. Be kind and gentle to each and every man. Have a compassionate heart. Remember my words as we now must part." "Little things matter. Be the best you can be. Take great care with others As you would a seashell at sea. Be helpful, be strong And never ask why. That's all it takes To reach my beach in the sky." I opened my eyes And felt the mean Spring Winter cold. It was all an illusion Everything I had just been told. The snow flurries fell. I was not on a beach But was back in my hell. It could have all been a dream Until I looked down And discovered a seashell. Jackie Bush Holcomb
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‘Your voice,            I feel sedated whenever I hear                      its dark caress            Yet it invigorates me enough                      for it to be my work song You took me from Eden                  to the church that is                                   you I entered its ancient confines-                  to meet another you,           someone new                                               and Wilson you said: *“Be my Jackie,                          let’s steal a child from creation                          for I don’t want to be alone           like real people do who run into the woods somewhere ne'er to return to humanity"*                I wallowed in the heat of your                    Auburn cathedral and got seared by the heat of your *****              and I hear your voice                         as sweet                               as cherry wine And as I hear the trickling of fire I realized that it is the arsonist’s lullaby.‘
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Dec 3, 2015
Dec 3, 2015 at 2:04 AM UTC
Hozier
Less violence More silence A tear rolls from my eye As I silently wonder why This aching pain Of which you are to blame Consumes me on this day On this bittersweet bed on which I lay No words can keep my sadness From flowing from my fingers Onto this platform on which I type This poem, this writing, these chicken scratches Will serve as nothing but ephemeral reminiscences Of what joy you used to bring me. We can't (couldn't) keep going We have no one to blame but ourselves It is time to keep on trucking Move on And hope for someone/something new It is a brutal, grim, meat hook realization that we are not good for each other and it is very hard to accept. I think, 10 years from now we may either look at this point in our lives as either nothing but a flight of fancy or something we had that we were not able to contain very well that was at times equally magical and horrid. A deep Fear surrounded our relationship and there was not enough Support from either side to make it last. Things fade. Time has a way of showing how Stupid and Miserable everyone was. You fell in love with a drunken ******* I fell in love with a **** disguised as a fallen angel. Looking back one year, we never would have thought this is how we would be spending the anniversary of our first kiss. Our first moment. We were crazy. We still are. I don't want resentment anymore. I don't want your love. I just want acknowledgement today. I want you to find someone in your school that reminds you of me in one form or another and give him a hug, because you need it, I need it and judging who he reminds you of, he probably needs it to. I will acknowledge you today in the only way I know how. Inebriation whilst listening to Elliott Smith. May I never do it again. This is my send off. Jackie Be careful. I still care about you. I wish you nothing but the best. If I didn't I wouldn't have written a poem and a brief essay today. Have fun with life. Now I can be happy. This is a fitting end. Resolution is mine. No violence Just silence
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Sep 23, 2013
Sep 23, 2013 at 6:31 AM UTC
Untitled
Less violence More silence A tear rolls from my eye As I silently wonder why This aching pain Of which you are to blame Consumes me on this day On this bittersweet bed on which I lay No words can keep my sadness From flowing from my fingers Onto this platform on which I type This poem, this writing, these chicken scratches Will serve as nothing but ephemeral reminiscences Of what joy you used to bring me. We can't (couldn't) keep going We have no one to blame but ourselves It is time to keep on trucking Move on And hope for someone/something new It is a brutal, grim, meat hook realization that we are not good for each other and it is very hard to accept. I think, 10 years from now we may either look at this point in our lives as either nothing but a flight of fancy or something we had that we were not able to contain very well that was at times equally magical and horrid. A deep Fear surrounded our relationship and there was not enough Support from either side to make it last. Things fade. Time has a way of showing how Stupid and Miserable everyone was. You fell in love with a drunken ******* I fell in love with a **** disguised as a fallen angel. Looking back one year, we never would have thought this is how we would be spending the anniversary of our first kiss. Our first moment. We were crazy. We still are. I don't want resentment anymore. I don't want your love. I just want acknowledgement today. I want you to find someone in your school that reminds you of me in one form or another and give him a hug, because you need it, I need it and judging who he reminds you of, he probably needs it to. I will acknowledge you today in the only way I know how. Inebriation whilst listening to Elliott Smith. May I never do it again. This is my send off. Jackie Be careful. I still care about you. I wish you nothing but the best. If I didn't I wouldn't have written a poem and a brief essay today. Have fun with life. Now I can be happy. This is a fitting end. Resolution is mine. No violence Just silence
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November in Quebec. Almost winter, dull wet snow And clothing never warm enough To keep the dampness out. Nothing like Dallas it seems Where, even though the television says it’s cool, She wears a light-weight suit of pink and navy blue And matching pillbox hat. November in Quebec. On a day that seems to go from grey to grey And grey all in between, We sit in heated classrooms With the first damp smell of mothballed wool, While black and white New England nuns, Banished for their sins to northern, foreign cold, Talk about their hero (and now ours) As if he were alive: Alive enough to step up from the grave, Alive enough to kiss the snow-white blonde, Who squeezed into a dress that shone like freezing rain The night she sang her birthday tune. I watch for tears from the widow’s blank-stare eyes: They don’t show through the sheer black veil That drapes her pillbox hat. It’s ’64 and winter in Quebec. The ground’s so hard That grandma has to wait for spring to lie down in the ground. I think of her as if she were alive: I feel her hold my feet again, I see her smiling at the door. On this sad and sunny day, In my grey wool coat and matching pillbox hat, I watch a dark brown box get rolled away. Looking down at the new white snow and my new red boots I blink and blink and squeeze my frozen tears behind my blank-stare eyes And think I might be Jackie.
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Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 9:39 PM UTC
November in Quebec
A baseline that you feel in your chest, Humming thick in your ears, And your mouth, You just want to live in their blur of impactful words, That you don’t understand, Because it’s just a baseline to you, But have you ever felt so proud of someone? That what they’re saying, or what they’re playing or who they’re being, Becomes the only thing that’s keeping off the rain, And you can see every tooth in the room, Every heart that becomes unbroken and every heart that breaks, Well it’s a shooting star, Baby it’s gold dust, Because his gaze is tattooed on your body, Under your sweater, Under your skirt, Yours is a crime scene littered with his fingerprints, But you’re no ****** victim, Jackie, Jane, Joan, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Survivor, Protector, Warrior, Woman, Know when it’s dark, And subtle shadows are all that remains of your bodies, Finding all the bones in your shoulder, The piano strings that move your fingers, And each indentation of your spine, Is a bible, But God won’t give him strength, It’s your skeleton that is fortitude, You’re the dragon protecting the castle, You’re Rosie the Riveter, You can hold up the world with perfectly manicured hands, You will listen, And you will care, Let him breathe in the fractions of your soul that you exhale, That way, Every standing ovation and every wound that heals, Is saturated with the influence of you, Though you don’t understand, That baseline you can feel in your chest, It is your to be proud of too.
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 5:38 PM UTC
Samson's Hair
A baseline that you feel in your chest, Humming thick in your ears, And your mouth, You just want to live in their blur of impactful words, That you don’t understand, Because it’s just a baseline to you, But have you ever felt so proud of someone? That what they’re saying, or what they’re playing or who they’re being, Becomes the only thing that’s keeping off the rain, And you can see every tooth in the room, Every heart that becomes unbroken and every heart that breaks, Well it’s a shooting star, Baby it’s gold dust, Because his gaze is tattooed on your body, Under your sweater, Under your skirt, Yours is a crime scene littered with his fingerprints, But you’re no ****** victim, Jackie, Jane, Joan, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Survivor, Protector, Warrior, Woman, Know when it’s dark, And subtle shadows are all that remains of your bodies, Finding all the bones in your shoulder, The piano strings that move your fingers, And each indentation of your spine, Is a bible, But God won’t give him strength, It’s your skeleton that is fortitude, You’re the dragon protecting the castle, You’re Rosie the Riveter, You can hold up the world with perfectly manicured hands, You will listen, And you will care, Let him breathe in the fractions of your soul that you exhale, That way, Every standing ovation and every wound that heals, Is saturated with the influence of you, Though you don’t understand, That baseline you can feel in your chest, It is your to be proud of too.
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If my face were on a milk carton, who might say they know me? Family Trees were hell, but I got Bruce Lee for a dad. Almond-shaped eyes and yellow skin don’t flow with a white name. Heritage was anime and soy sauce, my attempt to grasp childhood. Khakis and button downs smother a kimono; good thing I knew my third cousin was Jackie Chan. Exemplary English scores, mediocre math were my sentence, the honorable ACT presiding. All rise for the boy with no history. Science might prove otherwise but until then. . . Orphans don’t have happy beginnings the birds and the bees sit better with both parties in a normal family. Paper can’t lie, but parents sure can. Fantasy-cursed for eighteen years until Truth finally came, the coward. All rise for the boy with no history. All rise for the ******* son.
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Feb 2, 2012
Feb 2, 2012 at 2:33 PM UTC
Lineage and *** Stickers
you talk like a kennedy. east-coast americana. salt spits from your weaponised mouth. go back to your compound and lie on the surf from whence you came. chunky sweater man. i’m not your jackie, nor will i piece your head back together. your old-world dreams return to the sea.
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 11:03 AM UTC
massachusetts
October 1968 Strange day away from a war, in a bubble with the liar who was my friend who wore a shirt with a combat aviation badge a dead man had earned, first stolen glory I ever saw. We are awol, but nobody knows, then a doughy white guy with a camera, asks the liar why we are in Saigon, at the zoo, in the middle of a war. A Stars and Stripes reporter, gathering the opinion of warriors ( right, in Saigon) re Jackie Kennedy marrying the Greek He took our picture, asked our names, we were awol, but what the hell, how many losers ever see their picture in the Stars and Stripes? Lesson send a boy to fight a war, never tell him who wins, if he lives. As an old man, like that tiger, in a cage, not San Diego Zoo Eco-accurate Habitat, a cage, concrete floor, old-time cowboy movie jail barred cage, waiting, like that tiger in the Saigon zoo, 1968.
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Apr 5, 2019
Apr 5, 2019 at 1:49 PM UTC
I saw the tiger in the Saigon zoo
me and you, we're sisters, in more ways than one, though, no one would would ever know. when all is said and done. maybe it was all of the damage, that made everything so hard to manage. & made it so easy for me to run. sorry, it's not easy for me to forgive you, and to have a better relationship with you, but i love you deep down inside, andwe've both made alot of mistakes through the years, but i know that you tried. maybe someday, we'l be, just like the sisters on tv, and you'l call me just to see how i am, and we'l be closser you and me, just like jackie and roseanne.
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 6:20 PM UTC
my sister
Jackie read from my grey iris prompter. With dew covered eyes, she explained the suffocating moss of her past life. Jackie told me she was ***** at thirteen by her brother. "I didn't know you had a brother." Jackie then said, "I have a half-brother." Jackie told me she cut her wrists to feel alive. "I thought you said you had never handled a knife." Jackie then said, "I handled shaving razors." Jackie told me her father was a drunk. "I thought he was a minister." Jackie then said "My father is a drunk minister". Jackie told me she had an abortion. "I thought you were abstaining." Jackie then said, "I've had *** and those times didn't count". Jackie told me she loved me. "I thought you moved on." Jackie then said, "I'm allowed a past and present."
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Jul 12, 2011
Jul 12, 2011 at 3:21 PM UTC
Jackie's Past Life
Your cause for concern is a cause of concern for me Its greeted very suspiciously I believe it to be fictitious you see Projecting your issues onto me Like I'm some wide screen tv Go sort out your own "problems" Before you come and preach to me And I'll do the same I'm tired of the hypocrisy Neither am I easily deceived Asking "are you alright?" When really you're Asking "are you alright with me?" But I don't work in-security Guards up, words no matter how deep No longer move me Your fault lines Causing tremors when there's no need But not to worry I'm lucky Got those that support sincerely And know me well enough to go about it surreptitiously Pancake hiding the healthy Mmm yummy! Ninja motive, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee I aim to Inspire through action (movie) Cause Advice is the biggest vice (city) And we're all guilty Talk the talk But when it comes to walk the walk Everyone must be claiming disability! But Life is no Game-Boy No cheat codes, No PS3 Bond over passions not problems And BE Happy Its your own responsibility So don't look to me This isn't Advice, or a Preach It's a rant, wrapped up in a Vent-rilloquist, Dummy! You do you, I'm just doing me: Seriously, Silly :)
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 3:02 PM UTC
Cause for Concern
It might be painful It might be disdainful It might be lightning It is so frightening Could be the thunder That has my number It could be Jesus knocking concerned about my mocking It could be my future or my lack of culture It could be those fried reasons maybe it's Jackie Gleason It could be the hollow that always seems to follow me into the night so black without any sight It could be a light from my star at height tumbling through the heavens or bread that is unleavened . . . All I know is it just happened while I was here just napping
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Dec 21, 2016
Dec 21, 2016 at 8:00 PM UTC
It Just Happened
The pink Corvette        -      driving madam | in Jackie O shades & pink pillbox hat                getting photographed pulling            up to the townhouse       for the Page Six pin-up   :        :  her girls from the Midwest, trained & groomed, crowned & titled;                  every one wearing their own diamond tiara; only the best of the best dolls,       dames &                    dishes get served                                 [working girls]  work Barbie's Dream Brothel;    bouffant & hoop earrings                             & a silver slit skirt;                             timelessly retro          (the one sixteen, the other fourteen)                                               where the hell do u think u're going - -]
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 5:58 PM UTC
Barbie's Dream Brothel