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"laborious" poems
my love is building a building around you,a frail slippery house,a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginning of your smile)a skilful uncouth prison, a precise clumsy prison(building thatandthis into Thus, Around the reckless magic of your mouth) my love is building a magic, a discrete tower of magic and(as i guess) when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall crumble the mouth-flower fleet He’ll not my tower, laborious, casual where the surrounded smile hangs breathless
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My Love Is Building A Building
He almost let out a sigh of dismay, Knowing this stint would be short lived. The common sense in his head seemed to say, "No one could be this lucky, don't have yourself deceived". His wheels wobbled and shook; squeaked and wailed, Under the collective weight of the two. Screaming threats from worn bearings that ailed, He did not want to appear weak so his legs pummelled on through. The ease of cycling was only temporary He pedalled harder to gain more speed. Then the ground began to slope gently His lungs felt like bursting as he pounded his iron steed. The journey uphill had been more laborious than he had expected. All the while, the beauty hadn't uttered a single word. His mind had drifted off even though he was worn and ragged, The thought of emerging as a couple seemed less than absurd. The crest of the hill was a cool, long anticipated welcome. He could finally ease up on the pedalling. The view from there was nothing short of handsome, The downhill would take charge and he could catch up on his breathing. The wind met his face and whistled itself tuneless. The bicycle rattled as it rolled down the uneven trail. He felt a sense of flight, there was an air of calmness, Almost had forgotten about the quiet guest on his tail. At the bottom he thought he should check on his passenger, He looked ahead as he addressed the lady. When he had expected an almost immediate answer, No response came, despite his calls for her repeatedly. He pedalled with little effort as if there wasn't added weight The bicycle slowed down to a clearing where it was dim. Fatigue was setting in as the night stretched late His curiosity won the battle and got the better of him. He stopped his bicycle and maintained balance with his feet, He twisted his torso so he could speak to his fare. The moment he did so, his heart had almost ceased to beat, To his horror, he found that the lady was no longer there...
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 12:00 AM UTC
All Downhill from Here (III)
He almost let out a sigh of dismay, Knowing this stint would be short lived. The common sense in his head seemed to say, "No one could be this lucky, don't have yourself deceived". His wheels wobbled and shook; squeaked and wailed, Under the collective weight of the two. Screaming threats from worn bearings that ailed, He did not want to appear weak so his legs pummelled on through. The ease of cycling was only temporary He pedalled harder to gain more speed. Then the ground began to slope gently His lungs felt like bursting as he pounded his iron steed. The journey uphill had been more laborious than he had expected. All the while, the beauty hadn't uttered a single word. His mind had drifted off even though he was worn and ragged, The thought of emerging as a couple seemed less than absurd. The crest of the hill was a cool, long anticipated welcome. He could finally ease up on the pedalling. The view from there was nothing short of handsome, The downhill would take charge and he could catch up on his breathing. The wind met his face and whistled itself tuneless. The bicycle rattled as it rolled down the uneven trail. He felt a sense of flight, there was an air of calmness, Almost had forgotten about the quiet guest on his tail. At the bottom he thought he should check on his passenger, He looked ahead as he addressed the lady. When he had expected an almost immediate answer, No response came, despite his calls for her repeatedly. He pedalled with little effort as if there wasn't added weight The bicycle slowed down to a clearing where it was dim. Fatigue was setting in as the night stretched late His curiosity won the battle and got the better of him. He stopped his bicycle and maintained balance with his feet, He twisted his torso so he could speak to his fare. The moment he did so, his heart had almost ceased to beat, To his horror, he found that the lady was no longer there...
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No one else, but a poet...can bring colors to scenes...with verses, in crass or subtle tones......gather words together in lines, uncertain in their ebbing and flowing... the results create surprise in many hues that could make one cry, grimace......frown......or smile readers are led to far, or near destinations...to the cool, sweet air and peaceful atmosphere of paradise, or, to unlit corners...uncharted waters, or deep into an abyss...or, a black hole, an unknown corner, where moribund souls are biding their time, maybe, they could now define by themselves, purgatory and hell, understand those sunken souls who have lost all...except their arms, and begging eyes... then, through appropriate words, a poet paints a laborious path, or a stairway...so an enlightened reader may climb back to safe, calm waters... a poet makes the mind see a human heart, beating in many rhythms...throbbing, .......aflame with longing and desire, bursting from ecstatic, sublime moments, then, later on, shift to grayish thoughts that cut deep....tormenting...crashing, ............gnashing the heart... a poet paints a soul walking on cloud nine, later, to dip feet in celebrative pools. sometimes, a poet would rather not, yet, an inner force prevails, thereby paints a drooping soul...dying, in total surrender, ready to fall..............but, again, with a barrel of lively-colored words, a poet takes this despondent soul to berth, with soothing verses, bring it to a rebirth... every human being is worth an effort ..............even those that have fallen .........................are worth savin' ..... a poet's palette is uniquely enriched with colorful experiences, a poet paints life in its truest colors, ..........could be dark...or bright .....nothing more......nothing less... Sally © Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan January 29, 2017
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Jun 3, 2018
Jun 3, 2018 at 6:13 AM UTC
Painter
No one else, but a poet...can bring colors to scenes...with verses, in crass or subtle tones......gather words together in lines, uncertain in their ebbing and flowing... the results create surprise in many hues that could make one cry, grimace......frown......or smile readers are led to far, or near destinations...to the cool, sweet air and peaceful atmosphere of paradise, or, to unlit corners...uncharted waters, or deep into an abyss...or, a black hole, an unknown corner, where moribund souls are biding their time, maybe, they could now define by themselves, purgatory and hell, understand those sunken souls who have lost all...except their arms, and begging eyes... then, through appropriate words, a poet paints a laborious path, or a stairway...so an enlightened reader may climb back to safe, calm waters... a poet makes the mind see a human heart, beating in many rhythms...throbbing, .......aflame with longing and desire, bursting from ecstatic, sublime moments, then, later on, shift to grayish thoughts that cut deep....tormenting...crashing, ............gnashing the heart... a poet paints a soul walking on cloud nine, later, to dip feet in celebrative pools. sometimes, a poet would rather not, yet, an inner force prevails, thereby paints a drooping soul...dying, in total surrender, ready to fall..............but, again, with a barrel of lively-colored words, a poet takes this despondent soul to berth, with soothing verses, bring it to a rebirth... every human being is worth an effort ..............even those that have fallen .........................are worth savin' ..... a poet's palette is uniquely enriched with colorful experiences, a poet paints life in its truest colors, ..........could be dark...or bright .....nothing more......nothing less... Sally © Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan January 29, 2017
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if words are food for the mind, then here is a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then here is why i'm so pained. abandoned, abhorrent abnormal, absent abstract, abuse addicted, anxious betray, bitterly blank, blasphemy bloodless, breakdown breathless, brutal captive, casually catastrophe, cautiously change, cigarettes crucial, clueless damaged, dangerous deadly, disastrous disheartened, disconcerting dramatic, dreading eager, eccentric ecstasy, eerie effete, effortless embittered, excess faded, failure faintly, fallacy faltering, fatally fearfully, finally garbage, gawky gibberish, gloomy gone, goodbye graphic, gratify hallucinate, harshly hazy, heartless hectic, helpless hesitant, hit-and-miss idiotic, idly ignorant, intimacy illogical, imaginative infatuated, intoxicated jealousy, jittery journey, journal joylessly, judicial junk, juvenile keen, killing knavish, knocking knockout, knotty knowingly, knowledge laborious, lacking lame, languishing lifeless, literature lovelorn, lugubrious madness, maintenance make-believe, malaise mean, melancholic mellow, melodramatic naff, naivety nameless, naturally nauseous, nebulous neglected, nervous oasis, objectionable obliged, obliterate oblivion, obscurity obsolete, one-and-only pacifist, pained pale, panicky paradise, paralyze passionately, passively raging, ranting rationalize, raving realistic, reasonable rebellious, reckless saboteur, sadness sake, sameness sanity, satisfactory scar, steady taint, tangled tasteless, tearful telling, temperamental terror, theoretical unaffected, uncanny uncommon, unconsciously undesirable, uneasy unfortunate, untidy vaguely, vanish vanity, vanquish versatile, vicious violence, voracious waiting, waking walkout, wanting wasteful, weary withering, wrecking if words are food for the mind, then you've seen a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then no wonder i'm so pained. -djs
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Aug 5, 2013
Aug 5, 2013 at 11:21 PM UTC
a glimpse of my mind
if words are food for the mind, then here is a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then here is why i'm so pained. abandoned, abhorrent abnormal, absent abstract, abuse addicted, anxious betray, bitterly blank, blasphemy bloodless, breakdown breathless, brutal captive, casually catastrophe, cautiously change, cigarettes crucial, clueless damaged, dangerous deadly, disastrous disheartened, disconcerting dramatic, dreading eager, eccentric ecstasy, eerie effete, effortless embittered, excess faded, failure faintly, fallacy faltering, fatally fearfully, finally garbage, gawky gibberish, gloomy gone, goodbye graphic, gratify hallucinate, harshly hazy, heartless hectic, helpless hesitant, hit-and-miss idiotic, idly ignorant, intimacy illogical, imaginative infatuated, intoxicated jealousy, jittery journey, journal joylessly, judicial junk, juvenile keen, killing knavish, knocking knockout, knotty knowingly, knowledge laborious, lacking lame, languishing lifeless, literature lovelorn, lugubrious madness, maintenance make-believe, malaise mean, melancholic mellow, melodramatic naff, naivety nameless, naturally nauseous, nebulous neglected, nervous oasis, objectionable obliged, obliterate oblivion, obscurity obsolete, one-and-only pacifist, pained pale, panicky paradise, paralyze passionately, passively raging, ranting rationalize, raving realistic, reasonable rebellious, reckless saboteur, sadness sake, sameness sanity, satisfactory scar, steady taint, tangled tasteless, tearful telling, temperamental terror, theoretical unaffected, uncanny uncommon, unconsciously undesirable, uneasy unfortunate, untidy vaguely, vanish vanity, vanquish versatile, vicious violence, voracious waiting, waking walkout, wanting wasteful, weary withering, wrecking if words are food for the mind, then you've seen a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then no wonder i'm so pained. -djs
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Think me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men. Tax not my sloth that I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book. Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Goes home loaded with a thought. There was never mystery, But 'tis figured in the flowers, Was never secret history, But birds tell it in the bowers. One harvest from thy field Homeward brought the oxen strong; A second crop thine acres yield, Which I gather in a song.
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The Apology
He was tripping space ***** whilst receiving some strange alien calls, up on planet Acidon, From where he sat he could see Uranus, he was so out of his mind, he thought he could fly, boy was that crazy spaceman high, The journey took him really far, way out to a distant star, His food supplies consisted of turtle soup, but his bowels couldn't handle it, so he often pooped, after consuming turtle soup, The journey had been long and laborious, and his co-pilot was a drug dealing walrus, that could not handle his drink, it made his eyes go pink, to the point that he could not blink, They were so out of their box, they could no longer think. By Christos Andreas Kourtis and Larna Kira Kourtis
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 5:42 PM UTC
The Journey
One day, you’ll fall deeply and irrevocably in love with the nape of the neck and the lobe of the ear you’ll want to nibble just above the edge of the jaw and run your fingers through the tousled spirally hair, but the slight quiver of curved lips will halt you in thoughts as the darting pupils furtively flutter behind closed eyelids searching for a break of dawn in the shadows of a room where dust hangs heavily then settles in unsuspecting lungs making the rise and fall of the chest raspy and laborious, making nostrils flare up to make room for something less heavy something more familiar, more light and less lugubrious, something like a touch on the curve of the neck just below the edge of the jaw and a whisper of something gentle that nibbles on the ear as erring fingers run through spirally hair, sending waves of shivers that make curved lips quiver and darting pupils flutter enough to one day break open closed eyelids where you’ll fall deeply and irrevocably in love.
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Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 2:26 PM UTC
And This Is How You Fall
If you get it, you lost it. I am here (On this platform it is evident for your reading now) I express myself (Heads scratching, wondering what and how?) I share pieces of me (A defragmented glimpse of an experience deemed ‘worthwhile') Callous, sensuality? (Or a traitor in sheep cosplay?) A dead-end hi-way? Or this pawn from yesterday? Here, your final say This family we never asked Amontillado without it's cask Dry and cheery Heart’s are bleary We own this laborious task My sins are scrollable, thumbed in haste, Wrapped in ribbons of curated taste. A gallery of masks, all timed just right, My shadow dances in the ring light. What of shame when shame gets likes? What of thought when thought’s in spikes? I weep in drafts, but post a grin— The world won’t wait for the shape I’m in. So brand the bruise, then sell the hue: A wellness tip in sponsored blue. This self I host in feedback’s cage— A pet, a post, a digital page. I bare my soul (or just its shell). You’ll never know. I sell it well. I logged on seeking something undefined, A tether, maybe—some reciprocal ache. But all I found were mirrors misaligned, Each smile too wide, each word opaque. The comments pile like leaves, not read. Applause from ghosts, replies from ghosts. I feed the feed, it feeds instead— A hunger that consumes its hosts. I draft a truth. I dress it twice. Add polish. Then delete. I write in blood, convert to nice, Make trauma fit a beat. No lesson left. No higher shelf. Just one more version of myself.
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Jun 10, 2025
Jun 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM UTC
Empty Casks
If you get it, you lost it. I am here (On this platform it is evident for your reading now) I express myself (Heads scratching, wondering what and how?) I share pieces of me (A defragmented glimpse of an experience deemed ‘worthwhile') Callous, sensuality? (Or a traitor in sheep cosplay?) A dead-end hi-way? Or this pawn from yesterday? Here, your final say This family we never asked Amontillado without it's cask Dry and cheery Heart’s are bleary We own this laborious task My sins are scrollable, thumbed in haste, Wrapped in ribbons of curated taste. A gallery of masks, all timed just right, My shadow dances in the ring light. What of shame when shame gets likes? What of thought when thought’s in spikes? I weep in drafts, but post a grin— The world won’t wait for the shape I’m in. So brand the bruise, then sell the hue: A wellness tip in sponsored blue. This self I host in feedback’s cage— A pet, a post, a digital page. I bare my soul (or just its shell). You’ll never know. I sell it well. I logged on seeking something undefined, A tether, maybe—some reciprocal ache. But all I found were mirrors misaligned, Each smile too wide, each word opaque. The comments pile like leaves, not read. Applause from ghosts, replies from ghosts. I feed the feed, it feeds instead— A hunger that consumes its hosts. I draft a truth. I dress it twice. Add polish. Then delete. I write in blood, convert to nice, Make trauma fit a beat. No lesson left. No higher shelf. Just one more version of myself.
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The *** with match, lit the fire scolding kettle with burnt goaless ambition. claiming snobbish golden prowess paid in wanton , savage, screaming tuition. "It is I" said *** "Who has sent aromas of worlds preperations in lifes gluttonous lust smiling rewards genorously hailed with slothed culanary trust..." "tis true" whispered kettle "It is I, the *** forged in iron clad who in laborious toil so generously cast my sweet savory scraps amongst your soot and soil..." "tis true" hissed kettle, "For I, the *** adapt in multiple arrangement of compliment and comfort where you lack with singular solitary function wailing, seared and scarred in black..." "Tis true" whistled kettle "I, the *** filled in glorious substance and magnificant sustenance praised in lifes delicate, vital, victuals and viands in with which I do enhance..." "Tis true" howled kettle "Yet it is I, Kettle, in further fashion of design than copious function in fare do not heed your song and dance..." "Blah" clammered *** "For it is I, the lowly kettle, sing to each melodious morning to begin the days unknown magical soaring..." "Pishaw" growled *** "It is I, kettle, bestowed in somber, modest truth of fact nakedly express that you too, my dear *** are simply black..." "humbug" steamed *** *** humbled... kettle mumbled... "It is in each honorable day we serve our distinguishable stay in detectable unadorned identicle way. "Tis true" said ***
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Sep 24, 2012
Sep 24, 2012 at 3:27 AM UTC
*** and Kettle
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes. Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness, Like the flight of a moth which, had it known, Would have tended nevertheless toward the candle's flame. Others would deal with ways to silence anxiety, The little whisper which, though it is a warning, is ignored. I would deal separately with satisfaction and pride, The time when I was among their adherents Who strut victoriously, unsuspecting. But all of them would have one subject, desire, If only my own -- but no, not at all; alas, I was driven because I wanted to be like others. I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me. The history of my stupidity will not be written. For one thing, it's late. And the truth is laborious. Berkeley, 1980. Trans. Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky
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Gene and Jenny Taylor Had long been man and wife But a heinous disagreement Took a hold upon their life For each bemoaned their tackle It was Gene who started first He justified why dangly bits Were easily the worst “They tangle in your underwear And twist themselves about If I sit down in football shorts They try to wriggle out They chafe on nearly everything They’re difficult to dry And when it’s hot an humid out They’re welded to your thigh” Jenny swiftly countered him “Well ***** are surely worst For shaving is laborious And not all lips are pursed The periods are painful With a week of aggravation And we use three times the toilet roll And cause deforestation “ But Gene had more to muster “Well the ***** is a ******* And hiding an ******** Is a skill each man has mastered They lead us into jeopardy They always take the **** And first thing in the morning They’ve a tendency to miss” So Jenny said “Vaginas Are a curse between the thighs And lady bits look monstrous To anyone with eyes They’re prone to thrush and fondling And embryo gestation ***** are only any good For use in aviation” Gene and Jenny caught their breath The stalemate was called For genitals, the lips and ***** Or **** and hairy ***** Are vital to our species More useful than they seem And you’ll see a marked improvement When they’re working as a team
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 7:14 AM UTC
Knobs and ***** A Comparative Study
Raw flesh drenched in alcohol Burning numbing till paralyzed, keeps me still                          Power you have over my being, keeps me fearing              Your presence destroys me, shatters me Feeling naked, inadequate when my eyes see My reflection's negation in you Cannot hide anything when you expose all of me Wounded animal beaten without avail Knowing, proprietor of my pain                You don't understand my whimper, wail? My blood being diluted by the sweat of your laborious efforts Precociously tactful, inhumanly strangling my will Ever-becoming antithesis to facades, fears, farces in me Facing scalpels and clamps to my insecurities, my tactics, my pride Leaving me open not caring if I'll die from exposure                     Caring only that you're exposing the real me I-nvoluntarily l-acerated, o-n the v-erge of e-nding u-ndone Somberly Always Unsettling Leaving me bare
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Feb 4, 2013
Feb 4, 2013 at 10:50 AM UTC
Somberly Always Unsettling Leaving (Me Bare)
What drives a man to achieve his goals? Motivation of course! The enthusiastic mindset that if you work hard, you'll achieve. The unhindered perspective that compels you to think about the end goal and ignore the hardships that attempt to impede your progress towards greatness. The idea that putting your best foot forward will gain the admiration of a metaphorical Hermes who will then grant you his winged sandals to propel you above the rest of your peers and out of your unsatisfactory situation. What drives a man to succeed in his ventures? Motivation of course! A burst of energy that says "I can do it if I believe I can." despite limitations on your strength or your intelligence or your character. An aura that surrounds you and invigorates your humors, enticing your senses as well as giving you a mask that hides your unsure demeanor. It's a revelation, that motivation, which enlightens the soul and frees the body from the chains that marked the end of it's abilities. What drives a man to accomplish milestones for himself? Perhaps it manifests itself in something other than motivation. It could be the desire to find acceptance, to be wanted, to get that simple thumbs up that sends a message that needs not be spoken. "You did well." Possibly it would be the wish, the simple wish that a man will have done something worth remembering in the brief existence that he has, something he can look back on and think to himself, "I didn't do half-bad on that, did I?" Teetering on the self-existential reflecting concepts, it could just be that man wishes to find fulfillment by filling his daily activities with anything. And that the greater the activity, the laborious hours put into completion, here man finds solace in putting meaning into his day to day living. Thus we find that goals are merely tick marks, road signs on the long drive from life's start to inevitable death. This, this is all motivation. Anything that places reins over a man's mind and hits the spur against his brain, in hopes that this will help him move forward and do what he believes is necessary to do. Motivation is to place one's self in this self-deprecating position as to be a slave to ambition in order to be satisfied with one's life. And to think that motivation is a blessing that leads to self-improvement. Motivation is truly the mind's greatest illusion.
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Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 10:11 PM UTC
Motivation!
What drives a man to achieve his goals? Motivation of course! The enthusiastic mindset that if you work hard, you'll achieve. The unhindered perspective that compels you to think about the end goal and ignore the hardships that attempt to impede your progress towards greatness. The idea that putting your best foot forward will gain the admiration of a metaphorical Hermes who will then grant you his winged sandals to propel you above the rest of your peers and out of your unsatisfactory situation. What drives a man to succeed in his ventures? Motivation of course! A burst of energy that says "I can do it if I believe I can." despite limitations on your strength or your intelligence or your character. An aura that surrounds you and invigorates your humors, enticing your senses as well as giving you a mask that hides your unsure demeanor. It's a revelation, that motivation, which enlightens the soul and frees the body from the chains that marked the end of it's abilities. What drives a man to accomplish milestones for himself? Perhaps it manifests itself in something other than motivation. It could be the desire to find acceptance, to be wanted, to get that simple thumbs up that sends a message that needs not be spoken. "You did well." Possibly it would be the wish, the simple wish that a man will have done something worth remembering in the brief existence that he has, something he can look back on and think to himself, "I didn't do half-bad on that, did I?" Teetering on the self-existential reflecting concepts, it could just be that man wishes to find fulfillment by filling his daily activities with anything. And that the greater the activity, the laborious hours put into completion, here man finds solace in putting meaning into his day to day living. Thus we find that goals are merely tick marks, road signs on the long drive from life's start to inevitable death. This, this is all motivation. Anything that places reins over a man's mind and hits the spur against his brain, in hopes that this will help him move forward and do what he believes is necessary to do. Motivation is to place one's self in this self-deprecating position as to be a slave to ambition in order to be satisfied with one's life. And to think that motivation is a blessing that leads to self-improvement. Motivation is truly the mind's greatest illusion.
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Let us awake from the decay of strategic costumes where the incestuous fragrance of madness permeates golden dreams of eclectic strokes. Bureaucratic self-enhancement nurtures docile manufacturers of laborious compliance, whilst social conscience plummets to depths of callous and entrepreneurial versatility. Enduring imitations of an unsatisfactory kind is like pairing mint fondant with rich and savoury gravy which is acquired with strategic dishonesty. Oh, negligent wakefulness – will we ever arise and discern those lobotomised representatives in this legislative brothel of excessive absurdity? Shake me at one minute to midnight in the House of Lords.
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 10:44 PM UTC
Monarchical Slumber
Life's Better When You're Dreaming Of a Transcendental World With Deliverance and Freedom Under a Sky of Neon Pearls, Where the Populace are Former Loves All Gathered in the Clouds And Lend an Ear, for Bygone Cheer So Memoirs can be Ploughed. Life's Better When You're Dreaming Of Archaic Silver Screen Parading Lavish Garments And Conversing with James Dean, Where Bowler Hats are Stock Attire And Pea-coats Line the Hall And Champagne Flutes, Say 'Fill your Boots' To an Infinite Curtain Call. Life's Better When You're Dreaming Of a Ride on the Good Ship Hope With Secret Codes and Yellow-bricked Roads And ***** with the Pope, Where Lotus-eaters Man The Decks And White Rabbits Scale the Mast We'll Sail Away, On a Tranquil Day And Pervade the Ocean Vast. Life's Better When You're Dreaming Of Unblemished Skin and Bone On a Bed of Fragrant Petals On which Countless Seeds are Sewn, Where Laborious Figures Embrace as One Compelling Magnets to Concede And Music will, Amuse them 'till They Repeat the Final Scene. Life's Better When You're Dreaming That all the World's a Stage And that Pair are a Distant Footnote On the Thirty Thousandth Page, Where the Cast are Poised in Waiting And the Finale is About to Start They Take a Bow, And this Tells Me How I Came to Play this Part. December 2010 (Completed April 2011)
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Apr 20, 2011
Apr 20, 2011 at 9:18 AM UTC
Life's Better When You're Dreaming
Sixteen has never tasted so sweet, Her innocence stains my teeth Her essence rolls over my tongue And sits in my cheek Her taste leave me breathless Unable to speak Her grip tightens Her head lulls back She breaths in Heated, laborious breaths In her eyes I see untouched depths I play her nerves like puppet strings Prompting and pulling her To heights unseen We tumble into euphoria In a fervor of hands and lips In the light of the moon We're transported with a kiss
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Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 9:05 PM UTC
Sweetest Sixteen
Clamp the red march onward! Cut the winding trench! Mask a visage for protection from the visceral drench. Light the forge in battle! Keep the battlefield alive. Hear the laborious drumbeat of a heart trying to survive. Stainless steel and knowledge in the forge are fired Gone are human needs - Death is never tired. On each second rests a lifespan. Each minute gambles years. A surgeon only has two hands and no mortal fears. The battle surges forward as blood is forced right back from the heart it came from; a heart still under attack. Even as the battle ended, with blood, tears and sweat, the war raged ever onward, Death remains a threat. Every day a battle. Every life a war. Against Death and the ethereal survival is the score.
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Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 7:38 AM UTC
The Great War
Two men under a moonlit sky Stacking stones With heavy hearts and tired limbs Stacking stones Others slowly passing by, look and wonder why They are Stacking stones The men know, though others question That they have good reason For their enduring habit of Stacking stones Their journey to here long has been Trial marking and marring their way Still they use the last bit of their strength Stacking stones The benefit they get From their laborious task Is worth the price Of fortitude That they pay Stacking stones The men finish And turn Finally going to their homes To rest, if only for a time From what seems like the ceaseless work of Stacking stones A small child Young and innocent Questions the men as they pass by Returning home, no longer engaged in Stacking stones The men turn And manage some few words To the one questioning Why they are Stacking stones For these stones they say remind them Of how far they have come For many many many years each pile represents To them a reminder Of a victory won And so when all seems lost They look upon the hill Where their have toiled And then they Cannot help but remember What they have accomplished To drive them to go on Stacking stones So as long as they can lift These rocks from the rushing river They will carry on Stacking stones. (theinkthatspeaks.blogspot.com)
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Dec 4, 2012
Dec 4, 2012 at 10:29 PM UTC
Stacking stones.
I can never compensate for the poems I have misplaced, Yet I proceed to shed sincere ink upon an empty canvas, and revert towards elusive answers. I once again resort to the preferred instrument, And stumble into a liberating trance. However, genuine introspection often Unearths wretched recurring recollections, That have served as the creative source For previous poetry collections, Some of which cannot be read Without a deep sense of dread, Hence I flinch from acknowledgment instead. How disoriented am I? As disoriented as 20 year old Kimberly Her derelict of a son is an embodiment Of her youth blues memories. How aimless it must be to venture Amidst the sanctum of stagnation. It was not long before even the architect Began to disdain his own laborious creation. Why wouldn't he? He was a fool to build A foundation out of complacency. The structure is able to endure Since it thrives off of a perpetual tragedy Of self-defeating beliefs, lascivious senses, And misguided aspirations. Unfortunately, whoever it houses Collapses out of utter exasperation. An inevitable predicament I predict Will confront me as soon as I deteriorate mentally. The sanctum itself testifies to an aphorism I recount hearing during a melancholic plight: Truthfully, throughout the ages, Fallibility has always been Among humanity's playwrights. 6/18/13 (c) 2013 Brandon Antonio Smith
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Nov 30, 2014
Nov 30, 2014 at 1:04 PM UTC
The Sanctum of Stagnation
1447 How good his Lava Bed, To this laborious Boy— Who must be up to call the World And dress the sleepy Day—
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How good his Lava Bed
I have been bruised I have dropped six thousand feet after a euphoric high I have been defeated in reaching an imaginary sky But the ground to which I fall on Has become the strength to which I stand on The pillar to where I pick myself up after a laborious fight The friend which tells me that in order To gain infinities, I must win the Battles of small beginnings
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 11:39 AM UTC
A Letter to Myself : Small Beginnings
Flowing forth from an unexplored spring comes the hope and unheard of ring of reason, of love, of rejoice; The creator of life hears my voice. The unbearable fear of absence resides in the forgotten realm of the unused mind. Relentless, forever searching, comes the crushing truth that feeds off our surroundings. Lengthy thinking sessions and laborious travels throughout the land, Thinking, pondering, lurking lurking lurking in the dark since time began hovering in the night behind the shadows the shadows of time. Calling out for aid in a world of emptiness no one hears, save one. The one, who hears our pleas, our requests. The one who can't stand loneliness. The helper. The one we've forgotten but hasn't forgotten us. Always in the peripheral, making sure we have what is needed to survive this lonely realm always lending a hand, or a shoulder. this is what he is. This is why we are. For the helper to help us. To need him him. To be helpless.
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Sep 26, 2010
Sep 26, 2010 at 8:48 AM UTC
To be helped by the helper
Sunday 5:47 p.m. Opine - usually ends up more Laborious than Arborous. Sunday 11:14 p.m. I know your peripheral view Is better than Not saying hello, Until I'm far enough away To hear only the timber and not the tongue. Thursday 1:12 a.m. Who is Echo And who is Narcissus When their names are the same? Tomorrow, I'll cough up blood. Disavow something. Anything. Just for kicks.
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 12:25 AM UTC
Daedalus
Oh, here I am confined to the walls of my sadness! I am lean and weary, my heart thin and dreary. Oh, how I've longt to wander yon mountainous hills again, this time with thee, descending the steeps, our bare foots brushing against the heath beneath blending into the hilly surroundings under the laughter of the joyful heavens - o how riveting the bank underneath shall be! O how delicacy shall reign my frame abruptly - bequeathing its foreign spirit gladly, so that I am showered with its frantic idyll with adversity whose love can never forget! O how this joy shall conquer any rivers of indignation, drive their disdained yoke away along with those conceited tears of sullenness, hatred, and amorous gluttony! But unreachable art thou! O Kozarev, my prince, sole prince in these silent wintry dreams, how thou appeareth like a gleaming apparition, soothing my reposes, making whose armours complete, with smiles can bear all my gloominess away, whose lovely jests are warmth to my soul, my yearning and choking soul, in the deathlike bursts of this misty day! O Kozarev, in today's laborious air I shall think of thee, thy stately figure, thy youth of ardour! Thy grin the star to the fading sun; thy words that calmeth sorrow; and sendth thrills through my bones! O mumbling lips, o trembling horns! My little treasure, if only thou could hear my earnest longing my very earnest desire; sincere yet tempestuous that I shalt lift my hands around thee Just how those rocks stand firm on the glaring sea Cheers in its coldness; praises its bland waviness Like a small boat unyielding to the melodious storm when the last harmony is no longer sounding! O, how I long to share this fondness with thee! Kozarev, my demure pleasure, my belated fate! My firing snow, my blazing sun, the handsomest flower of my being! My lithe little heart might be of nothing to thee I am unworthy, yet I yearn for thee so willingly! Kozarev, amidst the rolls of my dreams I devour thee, wherein dwells the upmost of our affection and sits our sheepish little village! And adjacent to the gentle fireside upon our wooden squeaking chair brimmed with love, smeared with laughs I should rock by thee sew thee into my very own loveliness and ****** thy grace to the faint redness of my lips.
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Nov 30, 2012
Nov 30, 2012 at 5:55 AM UTC
An Unknown Letter
Oh, here I am confined to the walls of my sadness! I am lean and weary, my heart thin and dreary. Oh, how I've longt to wander yon mountainous hills again, this time with thee, descending the steeps, our bare foots brushing against the heath beneath blending into the hilly surroundings under the laughter of the joyful heavens - o how riveting the bank underneath shall be! O how delicacy shall reign my frame abruptly - bequeathing its foreign spirit gladly, so that I am showered with its frantic idyll with adversity whose love can never forget! O how this joy shall conquer any rivers of indignation, drive their disdained yoke away along with those conceited tears of sullenness, hatred, and amorous gluttony! But unreachable art thou! O Kozarev, my prince, sole prince in these silent wintry dreams, how thou appeareth like a gleaming apparition, soothing my reposes, making whose armours complete, with smiles can bear all my gloominess away, whose lovely jests are warmth to my soul, my yearning and choking soul, in the deathlike bursts of this misty day! O Kozarev, in today's laborious air I shall think of thee, thy stately figure, thy youth of ardour! Thy grin the star to the fading sun; thy words that calmeth sorrow; and sendth thrills through my bones! O mumbling lips, o trembling horns! My little treasure, if only thou could hear my earnest longing my very earnest desire; sincere yet tempestuous that I shalt lift my hands around thee Just how those rocks stand firm on the glaring sea Cheers in its coldness; praises its bland waviness Like a small boat unyielding to the melodious storm when the last harmony is no longer sounding! O, how I long to share this fondness with thee! Kozarev, my demure pleasure, my belated fate! My firing snow, my blazing sun, the handsomest flower of my being! My lithe little heart might be of nothing to thee I am unworthy, yet I yearn for thee so willingly! Kozarev, amidst the rolls of my dreams I devour thee, wherein dwells the upmost of our affection and sits our sheepish little village! And adjacent to the gentle fireside upon our wooden squeaking chair brimmed with love, smeared with laughs I should rock by thee sew thee into my very own loveliness and ****** thy grace to the faint redness of my lips.
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That point where perspective fails Is a sharp and shameless end A failure, yes I must confess For I have preached and I have practiced And yet I have managed to fester a mess Acquired a weightless collection of because While fate heckles with his game of luck Conducting an explicit scene That has made a joke out of my childish dream Finding solace in the irregularity of unearthly absolutes I will carry my sore knees, drag my swollen knuckles To rescue the sweet of my laborious fruits
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Mar 3, 2012
Mar 3, 2012 at 9:30 PM UTC
Damaged Debut