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"keenly" poems
yours is the music for no instrument yours the preposterous colour unbeheld —mine the unbought contemptuous intent till this our felsh merely shall be excelled by speaking flower (if I have made songs it does not greatly matter to the sun, nor will rain care cautiously who prolongs unserious twilight)Shadows have begun the hair’s worm huge,ecstatic,rathe…. yours are the poems i do not write. In this at least we have got a bulge on death, silence,and the keenly musical light of sudden nothing….la bocca mia “he kissed wholly trembling” or so thought the lady.
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Yours Is The Music For No Instrument
I don't care I never did I never will I don't care about the stabs I don't care about the lies I don't care about the loss I never did I never will I don't care about you abandoning me in the middle of nowhere or making me doubt every single person I meet or forcing me to look at the mirror and despise the foolishness I had. I don't care about all the above. I try to convince myself every night that I don't. But, I do; I fully keenly wholesomely do care and my care was my doom.
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Jun 29, 2019
Jun 29, 2019 at 6:42 AM UTC
I don't care
Deep love within the heart Ignite luscious flames aglow. Spreads vast with just a spark, Desires down below. Keenly tantalizing, Flawless colors and hue; Unbridle free flying, Loose reign while dreams come true. Spreads rapidly, bright blaze, Gold lighting of hope Alive, aware, un hypnotize, Curious Kaliedoscope. A journey to enjoy Burning fire devour Life's burdensome's toy; Amid a horse named Wildfire.
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Jan 26, 2017
Jan 26, 2017 at 12:43 AM UTC
Wildfire
From the green hill, blows downwards a wind, gently titillating the languid trees of this dense forest,the rustling of the leaves create, an impromptu tune, proving they are taut strings, yielding willingly to the sensual fingers of the wind. Super moon,while raising, listens keenly awhile as if she had never heard one like this before. The wise silver owl, sitting on the high branch keeping account  of every stroke of night,with an imaginary wand, as the conductor, catches the emerging mood that seethes within the million pieces of orchestra that gently merge, get exhilarated, finds a pause to punctuate it with a timely hoot, the moment freezes, falls in to the repository of time for keeps.
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Jan 3, 2016
Jan 3, 2016 at 12:39 PM UTC
A slice of forest night for keeps
*as winter acquiesces to the blazing sun a soothing breeze softly grazes tips of aspen gently shedding past liaisons a perfect panacea allowing wild freedom for summer’s dawn healing from the ominous night a flower gingerly releases its grasp leaning into golden rays of summertime keenly aware of newfound vulnerability it yawns into the light a rousing essence induces a silhouette of life once thought lost prodding river’s rigid ice blue crystals to melt and flow with buoyant wonder kaleidoscopic-like waves having weathered near annihilation a sculptured consciousness remains painting summer clouds with soft-hued wisdom all awakens from the dream and should the cold return once more the sun will shine again ©2016janetaylor
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Apr 30, 2016
Apr 30, 2016 at 3:23 AM UTC
a perfect panacea
Two fairies it was On a still summer day Came forth in the woods With the flowers to play. The flowers they plucked They cast on the ground For others, and those For still others they found. Flower-guided it was That they came as they ran On something that lay In the shape of a man. The snow must have made The feathery bed When this one fell On the sleep of the dead. But the snow was gone A long time ago, And the body he wore Nigh gone with the snow. The fairies drew near And keenly espied A ring on his hand And a chain at his side. They knelt in the leaves And eerily played With the glittering things, And were not afraid. And when they went home To hide in their burrow, They took them along To play with to-morrow. When you came on death, Did you not come flower-guided Like the elves in the wood? I remember that I did. But I recognised death With sorrow and dread, And I hated and hate The spoils of the dead.
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Spoils Of The Dead
There lies a rage inside. Deep within, away it'll hide. I taste the venom now and then. The shadows slowly creeping in. I dare never to let it go. To turn reality into a hell I so keenly know. Visions in my head, loop, again and again. Begging hands to act in both blood and sin. Just a shift, I can never lose control. Of this ageless battle within my soul. Else darkness will descend, spread itself inside my skin. Born with a secret from lives long passed. Every body a vessel not meant to last. I see it now, a cycle on repeat. This cursed bond birthed in hunger and deceit. In the end we always meet, eternal. Through the burning flames of the infernal..
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Aug 16, 2017
Aug 16, 2017 at 10:30 PM UTC
Ace of Swords
F-Fraternizing with people on the internet A-Affable communication had by this set C-Chatting happily as would a bird's duet E-Establishing terrific friendships you bet B-Bringing folks together in a sociable way O-On the world wide web is where we play O-Oodles of great mates go online every day K-Keenly we are involved in a cordiality ray
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 6:47 AM UTC
Facebook (Acrostic Poem)
In the wondrous story book of night,                I fully absorb and contemplate, You were the one omnipresent,                in light years far and flames near.                                    As orbs of light, in many intensities and hues                                                      the ray of infinite grace that envelops,                                       That feels like the caressing of lotus petals,                                                     was you my eternal beloved. Soft, frothing moon light has been          at times of pain my true consolation, The moving comet my source of wonder,           that takes me to you in imagination.                                              A reader, I was keenly searching.                                                       for meanings of things in light and dark                                                Being another character formed                                                         of dust sedimented from many stars. You are enshrined in the diamond                temple of my mind's still center making you my lover was                in honor of my yen for sublime.                                                The story book of night has pages                                                          on spirited mornings, noons and dusk                                                   your benign presence in each step,                                                             moves galaxies and milky ways. I see your moving eye brows    in the tumult of dark rain clouds, Your intense eyes flash love to me     when in pain,if  I feel some doubt,                                                                                                                   In waves one after another of ocean,                                                              your hands embrace me to assure,                                                        mountain wind from far distance                                                              brings your songs nightingales sing. I am a living monument that's breathed          from the elements , to keep on loving you not ever a  jealous lover,I am like  a millioner        ready to sacrifice all just for your presence.                                                                                                            Is there any other lover with such care                                                   who brings  boundless grace, like you?                                                    you've the very same eyes of my mother                                                            that reach me the moment I fall. In days I am moving within a dream        for which, you are the creator, moving spirit, I turn the pages of storybook of night    whenever I want to be closer to your warmth.                                                                                          A mirror you are reflecting my candor, ,                                                         more than anything I ever yearned for,                                                      You are the river that flows along  me,                                                          to the ocean, eternally seething in wait.
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May 8, 2016
May 8, 2016 at 7:34 AM UTC
In the story book of night, you are omnipotent
In the wondrous story book of night,                I fully absorb and contemplate, You were the one omnipresent,                in light years far and flames near.                                    As orbs of light, in many intensities and hues                                                      the ray of infinite grace that envelops,                                       That feels like the caressing of lotus petals,                                                     was you my eternal beloved. Soft, frothing moon light has been          at times of pain my true consolation, The moving comet my source of wonder,           that takes me to you in imagination.                                              A reader, I was keenly searching.                                                       for meanings of things in light and dark                                                Being another character formed                                                         of dust sedimented from many stars. You are enshrined in the diamond                temple of my mind's still center making you my lover was                in honor of my yen for sublime.                                                The story book of night has pages                                                          on spirited mornings, noons and dusk                                                   your benign presence in each step,                                                             moves galaxies and milky ways. I see your moving eye brows    in the tumult of dark rain clouds, Your intense eyes flash love to me     when in pain,if  I feel some doubt,                                                                                                                   In waves one after another of ocean,                                                              your hands embrace me to assure,                                                        mountain wind from far distance                                                              brings your songs nightingales sing. I am a living monument that's breathed          from the elements , to keep on loving you not ever a  jealous lover,I am like  a millioner        ready to sacrifice all just for your presence.                                                                                                            Is there any other lover with such care                                                   who brings  boundless grace, like you?                                                    you've the very same eyes of my mother                                                            that reach me the moment I fall. In days I am moving within a dream        for which, you are the creator, moving spirit, I turn the pages of storybook of night    whenever I want to be closer to your warmth.                                                                                          A mirror you are reflecting my candor, ,                                                         more than anything I ever yearned for,                                                      You are the river that flows along  me,                                                          to the ocean, eternally seething in wait.
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Sunday's newspapers come on Saturday, coupons spill out torrentially. weekend manna from publisher's hell. makes my breathing heavy, from studious inspection, so many needs unmet. I fall to pieces every weekend, securely knowing, I'm lacking in so many things, feeling my insecure neediness keenly. my Target is feverishly simple, solution oriented. no can find any discounts for new rhythms, new rhymes, life high fivers to satisfy, adhere, and revere, that would be my Best Buy. but I'm clipped, the coupons, not.
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 4:37 PM UTC
Sunday's newspapers come on Saturday
In the dark night I was prevented from my satisfying slumber, as I was troubled by my rooms dark corner. Though my eyes were soon to be sealed, may my dreamcatcher cure me from this dreadful darkness to be revealed. Thankfully, the dreamcatcher protected me through this night, as I was navigated to an existence so bright. I was floating above the sea as I saw the lights of thousand beaconing lighthouses from these ongoing heights. Keenly guided from all insecurities, I now clearly see the seas of opportunities.
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Jan 22, 2017
Jan 22, 2017 at 5:24 PM UTC
Dreamcatcher
This is for the father that does not consider to be a whole in his creations life. This is for the mother who chooses to 'opt out' of being a giver of love to the fruit of her womb. This is for the one who has chosen to be an absent parent.. This is for you... WAKE. the. **** UP!! What are you doing? What is wrong with you? It seems to me you may not fully understand the ramifications that your chosen absence will play in the life of your child. So I will spell it out it for you.. Your child, your gift, your delight, the one who was created from your very own dna, the one that you willingly gave life to and brought into this world... will remember everything you have not done. And they will carry this as a load upon their back for quite possibly most of their life. Each will carry it differently, but carry the load they will. Some will carry it with forgiveness, some will carry with resolve, some will carry with the added weight of a heavy heart. Some will carry defiantly and will never truly forgive. And no matter how they position the weight you give, by choosing to be absent, they will still carry that load... because of you. And you will continue to add weight to that load every day you choose to be absent from their life. Each missed opportunity will be a pound of disappointment that your child will carry... for you. Each broken promise will be a pebble. Each late appointment will be a handful of sand. Each missed birthday will be a tablespoon of gravel to fill their pockets. And every achievement they experience, that you have missed, will weigh upon their mind and their heart. And because of this, throughout their life, they will continually try to win your love. You hear that...?? They will try. and. win. your. love... Because... it is not given freely... so they will try to win it.!!! because, bottom line... let's face it... you're a selfish **** And because of your self centered behaviour, everything that they need, want and have to experience without you will be tainted with your chosen absence. Every tear and heart break, every grazed knee, bad dream, smile, whisper, secret, colouring on the fridge door, every clay model, every needed word of advice, comfort, support and encouragement, every exam result, every moment of despair, loss, grief and first love... each and every lost opportunity to say 'i miss you' each and every unuttered 'i love you' will be carefully, silently and invisibly weighed, measured and carried. And i promise you this.. the weight you have placed upon them will be keenly felt   when it is their time to fly. This is not to say they will not fly, because they will, and beautifully so.. And with wings that you did not help to fashion. And, because of your chosen absence, your creation, your child, your very own delight will always carry the weight that you have placed upon them. And the weight of your absence is so much heavier than you could possibly imagine.
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Jun 27, 2016
Jun 27, 2016 at 11:27 AM UTC
The weight of absence
This is for the father that does not consider to be a whole in his creations life. This is for the mother who chooses to 'opt out' of being a giver of love to the fruit of her womb. This is for the one who has chosen to be an absent parent.. This is for you... WAKE. the. **** UP!! What are you doing? What is wrong with you? It seems to me you may not fully understand the ramifications that your chosen absence will play in the life of your child. So I will spell it out it for you.. Your child, your gift, your delight, the one who was created from your very own dna, the one that you willingly gave life to and brought into this world... will remember everything you have not done. And they will carry this as a load upon their back for quite possibly most of their life. Each will carry it differently, but carry the load they will. Some will carry it with forgiveness, some will carry with resolve, some will carry with the added weight of a heavy heart. Some will carry defiantly and will never truly forgive. And no matter how they position the weight you give, by choosing to be absent, they will still carry that load... because of you. And you will continue to add weight to that load every day you choose to be absent from their life. Each missed opportunity will be a pound of disappointment that your child will carry... for you. Each broken promise will be a pebble. Each late appointment will be a handful of sand. Each missed birthday will be a tablespoon of gravel to fill their pockets. And every achievement they experience, that you have missed, will weigh upon their mind and their heart. And because of this, throughout their life, they will continually try to win your love. You hear that...?? They will try. and. win. your. love... Because... it is not given freely... so they will try to win it.!!! because, bottom line... let's face it... you're a selfish **** And because of your self centered behaviour, everything that they need, want and have to experience without you will be tainted with your chosen absence. Every tear and heart break, every grazed knee, bad dream, smile, whisper, secret, colouring on the fridge door, every clay model, every needed word of advice, comfort, support and encouragement, every exam result, every moment of despair, loss, grief and first love... each and every lost opportunity to say 'i miss you' each and every unuttered 'i love you' will be carefully, silently and invisibly weighed, measured and carried. And i promise you this.. the weight you have placed upon them will be keenly felt   when it is their time to fly. This is not to say they will not fly, because they will, and beautifully so.. And with wings that you did not help to fashion. And, because of your chosen absence, your creation, your child, your very own delight will always carry the weight that you have placed upon them. And the weight of your absence is so much heavier than you could possibly imagine.
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Your poetry Speaks of forever While the answer Keenly showing in your eyes. Sunshine of my mind and soul, You are such a beautiful, Beautiful liar Nonetheless, It was the unwritten rhythm Of your heartbeats, That gave you away.
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Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023 at 8:03 AM UTC
Rhythm Of The Night 🎵
Dearest of them all the light of my life, without you there is darkness The love of my life, I do not find you in the pearl or in the rest of the world Like you said i will I do not go to the "market" Yes all day i sit still And to live i have managed It's not been long till you said "Hold on to me love, For in moments i am dead" And moments later you left me now watching us from above And tales i tell my grandson and he listens so keenly Love like ours has done immeasurable healing to him Bask in your wisdom, the whole village now comes to me for justice They're rights taken and land pillaged How much do they miss their king! Yes for nine times i thought no we cannot be so, The time was seventy years ago I was young and never imagined You'll see in me what i hadnt But i lost now the will to live im old and not beautiful anymore you at all the wonderful things at store To tell me and to make me smile Why? why couldnt you stay a while But ill be there, my king wherever you are our love will bring Yes ill continue to live But i'll see you soon i believe I'll see you soon i believe
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Nov 8, 2013
Nov 8, 2013 at 10:00 PM UTC
Grand mom to Grandad
The clouds as I see them, rising urgently, roseate in the mounting of somber power surging in evening haste over roofs and hermetic grim walls— Last night As if death had lit a pale light in your flesh, your flesh was cold to my touch, or not cold but cool, cooling, as if the last traces of warmth were still fading in you. My thigh burned in cold fear where yours touched it. But I forced to mind my vision of a sky close and enclosed, unlike the space in which these clouds move— a sky of gray mist it appeared— and how looking intently at it we saw its gray was not gray but a milky white in which radiant traces of opal greens, fiery blues, gleamed, faded, gleamed again, and how only then, seeing the color in the gray, a field sprang into sight, extending between where we stood and the horizon, a field of freshest deep spiring grass starred with dandelions, green and gold gold and green alternating in closewoven chords, madrigal field. Is death’s chill that visited our bed other than what it seemed, is it a gray to be watched keenly? Wiping my glasses and leaning westward, clearing my mind of the day’s mist and leaning into myself to see the colors of truth I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.
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Clouds
'Kabali' and 'Badlapur' actor Radhika Apte will be the show-stopper in the upcoming Lakme Fashion Week in the ‘Gulzar’ collections of a prominent Kolkata-based fashion designer. “We have been working with Radhika since 'Majhi the Mountain Man' days (2015) and she will be flaunting our fabrics as show-stopper in India’s premier fashion show which is keenly followed by Bollywood," the well-known city-based woman fashion designer told media after a fashion show in a city hotel last Friday night. The Lakme Fashion Week is a bi-annual fashion event with the summer-resort show taking place in April while the winter-festive show is held in August. This year the winter-festive show will be held from August 24 to 28. Radhika will be wearing bright-colored lehenga since the show will be focused on beautiful India, it’s colours and contours, choreographed with the poetry of nature by Amir Khusro, the designer said. “It can also be termed our tribute to a great name like Gulzar saab who has brought our lyrics and poems to a new level,” the designer Saroj Jalan said. The signature style of the designer, whose works adorn Bollywood actors like Radhika beside well known models Lisa Sharma and former Miss Universe India winner Ushoshi Sengupta, is delicate floral patterns along with the use of Zardozi and array of hand-woven tusser silk and velvet enhancing the experience of the garments and “we will project the same in the Lakme week where the accent is on ethnicity,” designer Saroj Jalan said. Supermodel Ushoshi, having recently debuted in the Bengali film 'Egoler Chokh', said “Lakme show reflects the different tastes of all leading Indian fashion designers who are still rooted to Indian heritage.”Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com/short-formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/red-carpet-celebrity-dresses
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Aug 22, 2016
Aug 22, 2016 at 12:29 AM UTC
Radhika Apte to be show-stopper of Kolkata fashion designer in Lakme Show
'Kabali' and 'Badlapur' actor Radhika Apte will be the show-stopper in the upcoming Lakme Fashion Week in the ‘Gulzar’ collections of a prominent Kolkata-based fashion designer. “We have been working with Radhika since 'Majhi the Mountain Man' days (2015) and she will be flaunting our fabrics as show-stopper in India’s premier fashion show which is keenly followed by Bollywood," the well-known city-based woman fashion designer told media after a fashion show in a city hotel last Friday night. The Lakme Fashion Week is a bi-annual fashion event with the summer-resort show taking place in April while the winter-festive show is held in August. This year the winter-festive show will be held from August 24 to 28. Radhika will be wearing bright-colored lehenga since the show will be focused on beautiful India, it’s colours and contours, choreographed with the poetry of nature by Amir Khusro, the designer said. “It can also be termed our tribute to a great name like Gulzar saab who has brought our lyrics and poems to a new level,” the designer Saroj Jalan said. The signature style of the designer, whose works adorn Bollywood actors like Radhika beside well known models Lisa Sharma and former Miss Universe India winner Ushoshi Sengupta, is delicate floral patterns along with the use of Zardozi and array of hand-woven tusser silk and velvet enhancing the experience of the garments and “we will project the same in the Lakme week where the accent is on ethnicity,” designer Saroj Jalan said. Supermodel Ushoshi, having recently debuted in the Bengali film 'Egoler Chokh', said “Lakme show reflects the different tastes of all leading Indian fashion designers who are still rooted to Indian heritage.”Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com/short-formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/red-carpet-celebrity-dresses
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Drawing things I cannot see, Listening, Keenly, Too the strange things, Coming from, the albino dressed pavement smoothed, Bedroom walls, Braille textures, slipping like termites, or a strange smell, dancing from the dusty old lady haired vent, on the ceiling, Braille raindrops, escaping from your, soul window sill, fog, gets in the room, and we light cigarettes, purple scented totem poled candles, with out near future, melting, and dripping on the wooden counter-top, which we dip our fingers into, sticky like petroleum, sticky like the sap from a forest broken snapped, tree limb, which we tasted, which we ran danced hollered and orgasmed, like the melting candle, like the sapped, broken kansas public tree limb, and i, took off your, orange dress that you stole, though only a few dollars, i called bonnie, you called me paradise, though we danced gleefully, in the slums snout snarling broken home windows, pot-holes,untied shoes,untied fathers,lovers planning paradise, inside the blue 80's oldsmobile, with the stereo turned low, low like the quiet hummingbird song, of making love, in the cold night, under trees, that was old, and had probably seen many lovers, come and go, as its Fall leaves grew wings, as its, winters balding scalp, scattered away, like a field of dandelions, or the birds, that flew from nests, only to fly south, or like wise boxcar boxcar dharma bums, sat on telephone wires, at the intersection, where two lovers planned paradise, in the back-seat, of a blue Oldsmobile, and the night, holy night, and i, **** mind wonderer without wings, or sad singer leather boots harmonica whiskey drinker, and Her, white as stars, dancing in a blind choreographed orchestra, in the sky, far, far, far, even the highway, has no exits, to see this performance, So i sit on a rock, smoking a cigarette, with a Fools smile, as I, watch beauty, from the Key-hole, that is, Solitude.
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Feb 5, 2013
Feb 5, 2013 at 8:09 PM UTC
On the typewriter
Drawing things I cannot see, Listening, Keenly, Too the strange things, Coming from, the albino dressed pavement smoothed, Bedroom walls, Braille textures, slipping like termites, or a strange smell, dancing from the dusty old lady haired vent, on the ceiling, Braille raindrops, escaping from your, soul window sill, fog, gets in the room, and we light cigarettes, purple scented totem poled candles, with out near future, melting, and dripping on the wooden counter-top, which we dip our fingers into, sticky like petroleum, sticky like the sap from a forest broken snapped, tree limb, which we tasted, which we ran danced hollered and orgasmed, like the melting candle, like the sapped, broken kansas public tree limb, and i, took off your, orange dress that you stole, though only a few dollars, i called bonnie, you called me paradise, though we danced gleefully, in the slums snout snarling broken home windows, pot-holes,untied shoes,untied fathers,lovers planning paradise, inside the blue 80's oldsmobile, with the stereo turned low, low like the quiet hummingbird song, of making love, in the cold night, under trees, that was old, and had probably seen many lovers, come and go, as its Fall leaves grew wings, as its, winters balding scalp, scattered away, like a field of dandelions, or the birds, that flew from nests, only to fly south, or like wise boxcar boxcar dharma bums, sat on telephone wires, at the intersection, where two lovers planned paradise, in the back-seat, of a blue Oldsmobile, and the night, holy night, and i, **** mind wonderer without wings, or sad singer leather boots harmonica whiskey drinker, and Her, white as stars, dancing in a blind choreographed orchestra, in the sky, far, far, far, even the highway, has no exits, to see this performance, So i sit on a rock, smoking a cigarette, with a Fools smile, as I, watch beauty, from the Key-hole, that is, Solitude.
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Even though your funeral was in the summer, It felt like autumn the way the tears Hung off Aunt Shelley's jawbone like cold raindrops On the eaves of the old porch, The way Grandpa's eyes were too red and wet and A thousand years away, The way Dad's sorrow poured out of folded arms and tight lips, Soft like worn leather, The way it rained too lightly to add any cliché dreariness. I just couldn't think of that red granite box as you, even though I Knew It was the soft gray remains of your body. Death is not like winter, cold and harsh Death is autumn, life draining from bodies, Life drip-dripping from stuttering lips and Once-strong grips Death is watching summers of laughter and hugs fade to Hospital rooms and rain-grey skin and Slow sad songs like wind in red-brown, dead-brown leaves And feeling a slow, quiet loneliness invade your veins. Your death was not cold, impersonal sterile white; it was the Aching melancholy melody of removing One shade of green From a palette, not noticed in the painting at large But felt  keenly in the way the artist's hand no longer Cues that brushstroke. Watching you die was watching all the green leach out of the leaves And turn them briefly, painfully on fire, Standing in a field of emerald grass and feeling it Crinkle and turn yellow-orchre under cold fingers Collapsing into mud. Watching Death from the outside is the single Most painful part of your painless process. When you took your last breath, your features were a Picture-perfect memory of peace, even as my face was a Mask of confusion, my chest heaving with stale hospital air The way yours would never again. I wanted to run outside and imagine all the trees turning red-gold In your honor, mimicking your final Blaze of glory in that last smile. Autumn came early that year, though no trees Turned Til October. Even in the middle of spring I can smell the Rain-woods-wind-wine scent of your autumn soul And it makes me smile.
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Sep 23, 2014
Sep 23, 2014 at 9:13 PM UTC
Great-Grandfather, of Autumn
Even though your funeral was in the summer, It felt like autumn the way the tears Hung off Aunt Shelley's jawbone like cold raindrops On the eaves of the old porch, The way Grandpa's eyes were too red and wet and A thousand years away, The way Dad's sorrow poured out of folded arms and tight lips, Soft like worn leather, The way it rained too lightly to add any cliché dreariness. I just couldn't think of that red granite box as you, even though I Knew It was the soft gray remains of your body. Death is not like winter, cold and harsh Death is autumn, life draining from bodies, Life drip-dripping from stuttering lips and Once-strong grips Death is watching summers of laughter and hugs fade to Hospital rooms and rain-grey skin and Slow sad songs like wind in red-brown, dead-brown leaves And feeling a slow, quiet loneliness invade your veins. Your death was not cold, impersonal sterile white; it was the Aching melancholy melody of removing One shade of green From a palette, not noticed in the painting at large But felt  keenly in the way the artist's hand no longer Cues that brushstroke. Watching you die was watching all the green leach out of the leaves And turn them briefly, painfully on fire, Standing in a field of emerald grass and feeling it Crinkle and turn yellow-orchre under cold fingers Collapsing into mud. Watching Death from the outside is the single Most painful part of your painless process. When you took your last breath, your features were a Picture-perfect memory of peace, even as my face was a Mask of confusion, my chest heaving with stale hospital air The way yours would never again. I wanted to run outside and imagine all the trees turning red-gold In your honor, mimicking your final Blaze of glory in that last smile. Autumn came early that year, though no trees Turned Til October. Even in the middle of spring I can smell the Rain-woods-wind-wine scent of your autumn soul And it makes me smile.
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On the heap, Thou dangle and screech And bedeck, for I seemingly espouse. The anecdotes and myths: Engaged in a mutual pose. There comes the hymn, And the sway and the hum; The abnormality and the deform Halted on a single stance. To dozen of the tokens Whom I prejudged; The prevalence of the chaos That sleeps merely on my tongue. To all the estrangements From which I refrain, Within the bawl of the tantrum, upon the hook of the day. Farewell to all, farewell the haze Farewell the cluster, To the resolution found within a fane; Where rituals confuse, Where the practice becomes a fame. There thou taketh solely, A hymn and an interminable haze. Whats the sense of the ovation When no screen displays A mourning motion For which no motion craves? I sigh, and mumble To which mere consciences giveth To me only, mine solely. His to hear and his, keenly.
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Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 8:50 AM UTC
The Sway in the Temple
With heavy sigh A single leaf falls The first I've caught in the act It slides down my right shoulder Kissing my skin with parched lips 'Save me,' It whispers "No," I sing A single, skittering chipmunk Bounds across the soggy banks Of Lake Fred Unafraid and nearly near enough to touch But keenly and instinctually aware Of my innate barbarism He keeps his distance "Did you see that?" I call to him Pointing to the crumpled leaf beside me "Summer is dying." The chipmunk stops Cranes its neck and twitches its whiskers in consideration And replies 'Of course it is, What else would it do?'
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 8:57 AM UTC
I'm No Good at Naturalism (Noctoberiety; Take 2)
I did not die, I did not lose hope and cried. My eyes did not what they imply It’s the weather that made my lips dry I did not lost my precious soul My fire didn’t change into sable coal I was still sure of my heroic role It’s the weather that made me feel sole I did not step into frowning abyss Trying to heal some emotional illness Darkness did not give me a seducing kiss It’s the **** weather that I wanted to dismiss I did not die and probably never will… But if I did and became real ill, well,nearly over my own hill finally forced to pay the bill… I’d jump on the table Singing my favorite song Fight one last battle With some guy who’s really strong I’d kiss the girls and get rejected To hell with the money that I collected! On the streets I’d act like awfully dense Dressing funny, asking people for a silly dance And finally lay on some keenly green grass Whistle a beautiful melody for the whole mass Of flowers and bees and butterflies Until the very second that my melody dies. But I did not die, and I probably never will. But if I did…
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 2:36 PM UTC
I did not die...but if I did...
The mood seems desolate at dusk, a time when emotions are on the rise; The shining hours of day are gone, and mystical images confront our eyes. Not quite sure of what we see, in the vastness of the indigo skies; 'Round about the glowing lamps of light, keenly focused upon iridescent sights. Are we witnessing life's mysteries unfold, the way our elders' stories told ? Yet darker still our evening grows, shivering, shaking in the windless cold. Sitting close on our front porch swing, seeking wonders of imagining; There they go--the ghosts of our youth, which beckon still despite the sting. We're not alone as visions float by, and dawn reveals what the future may bring. Frances McClelland July 17, 2016
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Aug 1, 2016
Aug 1, 2016 at 3:48 PM UTC
At Dusk
How is it that I am now so softly awakened, My leaves shaken down with music?-- Darling, I love you. It is not your mouth, for I have known mouths before,-- Though your mouth is more alive than roses, Roses singing softly To green leaves after rain. It is not your eyes, for I have dived often in eyes,-- Though your eyes, even in the yellow glare of footlights, Are windows into eternal dusk. Nor is it the live white flashing of your feet, Nor your gay hands, catching at motes in the spotlight; Nor the abrupt thick music of your laughter, When, against the hideous backdrop, With all its crudities brilliantly lighted, Suddenly you catch sight of your alarming shadow, Whirling and contracting. How is it, then, that I am so keenly aware, So sensitive to the surges of the wind, or the light, Heaving silently under blue seas of air?-- Darling, I love you, I am immersed in you. It is not the unraveled night-time of your hair,-- Though I grow drunk when you press it upon my face: And though when you gloss its length with a golden brush I am strings that tremble under a bow. It was that night I saw you dancing, The whirl and impalpable float of your garment, Your throat lifted, your face aglow (Like waterlilies in moonlight were your knees). It was that night I heard you singing In the green-room after your dance was over, Faint and uneven through the thickness of walls. (How shall I come to you through the dullness of walls, Thrusting aside the hands of bitter opinion?) It was that afternoon, early in June, When, tired with a sleepless night, and my act performed, Feeling as stale as streets, We met under dropping boughs, and you smiled to me: And we sat by a watery surface of clouds and sky. I hear only the susurration of intimate leaves; The stealthy gliding of branches upon slow air. I see only the point of your chin in sunlight; And the sinister blue of sunlight on your hair. The sunlight settles downward upon us in silence. Now we ****** up through grass blades and encounter, Pushing white hands amid the green. Your face flowers whitely among cold leaves. Soil clings to you, bark falls from you, You rouse and stretch upward, exhaling earth, inhaling sky, I touch you, and we drift off together like moons. Earth dips from under. We are alone in an immensity of sunlight, Specks in an infinite golden radiance, Whirled and tossed upon silent cataracts and torrents. Give me your hand darling! We float downward.
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How Is It That I Am Now So Softly Awakened
How is it that I am now so softly awakened, My leaves shaken down with music?-- Darling, I love you. It is not your mouth, for I have known mouths before,-- Though your mouth is more alive than roses, Roses singing softly To green leaves after rain. It is not your eyes, for I have dived often in eyes,-- Though your eyes, even in the yellow glare of footlights, Are windows into eternal dusk. Nor is it the live white flashing of your feet, Nor your gay hands, catching at motes in the spotlight; Nor the abrupt thick music of your laughter, When, against the hideous backdrop, With all its crudities brilliantly lighted, Suddenly you catch sight of your alarming shadow, Whirling and contracting. How is it, then, that I am so keenly aware, So sensitive to the surges of the wind, or the light, Heaving silently under blue seas of air?-- Darling, I love you, I am immersed in you. It is not the unraveled night-time of your hair,-- Though I grow drunk when you press it upon my face: And though when you gloss its length with a golden brush I am strings that tremble under a bow. It was that night I saw you dancing, The whirl and impalpable float of your garment, Your throat lifted, your face aglow (Like waterlilies in moonlight were your knees). It was that night I heard you singing In the green-room after your dance was over, Faint and uneven through the thickness of walls. (How shall I come to you through the dullness of walls, Thrusting aside the hands of bitter opinion?) It was that afternoon, early in June, When, tired with a sleepless night, and my act performed, Feeling as stale as streets, We met under dropping boughs, and you smiled to me: And we sat by a watery surface of clouds and sky. I hear only the susurration of intimate leaves; The stealthy gliding of branches upon slow air. I see only the point of your chin in sunlight; And the sinister blue of sunlight on your hair. The sunlight settles downward upon us in silence. Now we ****** up through grass blades and encounter, Pushing white hands amid the green. Your face flowers whitely among cold leaves. Soil clings to you, bark falls from you, You rouse and stretch upward, exhaling earth, inhaling sky, I touch you, and we drift off together like moons. Earth dips from under. We are alone in an immensity of sunlight, Specks in an infinite golden radiance, Whirled and tossed upon silent cataracts and torrents. Give me your hand darling! We float downward.
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Gray Owl hearkens the dappled daybreak knell echoing through the wildwood forest stand; rock doves and frosty stones abide, where a marooned heart doth dwell, disrobed by the longest night's frigid touch Timber stand grips tight red clay and bedrock of ages, postured tall and strong as eagle's spirit throne Pine cones hide in the low drifting clouds, ripe acorns tumble down alone unto  a  windblown shallow earthen grave, hillocked  beneath the sky-high canopy Bones of branches, furrowed bark from burled oak, wood-grains of pith, natural gnarled achings peeled by the shivering wind's breath Paling autumn memories grow dim as the receding sunlight, recollections of ebbing Jasmine's mellowing fragrant balm waft aloft in a favorite fading fantasy, the edge of winter metamorphosis bears down with a prodigious weight of a different kind of retreating light; brindled Queen Anne's lace hold sway across the tawny frostbitten meadow imbuing the poignantly whetting breeze The blink of an eye winks, to catch sight of an intimate glimpse, an unspoken solitude holds forth, the mesmerizing coo of rock doves, reverently mirroring the sanctity of the forest wildwood lingering amongst the frosty ferns and stones The harmony of tranquil silence wanders; only the bowing resistance of the boughs manifest the shapeless wind’s whispered  breathe swirling above the labyrinth threshold; therein lies an unfractured fault line rooted deeply beneath the earth’s crust like the sonorous heart of a sanctuary hearthstone Hence there is symmetry felt in silence that only whispers in the deep toned consonant of our own harbored sighs a holy human blood link born of  heritage wilderness heartwood beats keenly alive written by:   harlon rivers ... December 2017
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Dec 22, 2017
Dec 22, 2017 at 6:21 PM UTC
In the Winter Wildwood
Gray Owl hearkens the dappled daybreak knell echoing through the wildwood forest stand; rock doves and frosty stones abide, where a marooned heart doth dwell, disrobed by the longest night's frigid touch Timber stand grips tight red clay and bedrock of ages, postured tall and strong as eagle's spirit throne Pine cones hide in the low drifting clouds, ripe acorns tumble down alone unto  a  windblown shallow earthen grave, hillocked  beneath the sky-high canopy Bones of branches, furrowed bark from burled oak, wood-grains of pith, natural gnarled achings peeled by the shivering wind's breath Paling autumn memories grow dim as the receding sunlight, recollections of ebbing Jasmine's mellowing fragrant balm waft aloft in a favorite fading fantasy, the edge of winter metamorphosis bears down with a prodigious weight of a different kind of retreating light; brindled Queen Anne's lace hold sway across the tawny frostbitten meadow imbuing the poignantly whetting breeze The blink of an eye winks, to catch sight of an intimate glimpse, an unspoken solitude holds forth, the mesmerizing coo of rock doves, reverently mirroring the sanctity of the forest wildwood lingering amongst the frosty ferns and stones The harmony of tranquil silence wanders; only the bowing resistance of the boughs manifest the shapeless wind’s whispered  breathe swirling above the labyrinth threshold; therein lies an unfractured fault line rooted deeply beneath the earth’s crust like the sonorous heart of a sanctuary hearthstone Hence there is symmetry felt in silence that only whispers in the deep toned consonant of our own harbored sighs a holy human blood link born of  heritage wilderness heartwood beats keenly alive written by:   harlon rivers ... December 2017
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I love your appearance and I'll never change that stance seeing your smile makes me want to get up and dance And I can't even tell you how your laugh makes me feel You have the personality and looks too good to be real like you have the best deal but you're not cheap and your frown would make me want to weep or jump off a cliff that's steep onto concrete because no one else's smile can compete and your hair makes me keenly aware of how it's unfair to anyone else to compare You win, since there is no comparison like just breathing the same airs a sin It'll make my day just to see your grin (I have to mention you're not too fat or too thin) Every feature looks great down to the shin Take pride and let me confide that you're bonafide gorgeous And I wasn't prepared for this. But I'll let it happen and study this picture like a map then
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 4:20 AM UTC
I Love Your Appearance