"landside" poems
Boulders crushing
In a landside
Unable to lift
Betrayal hit me
My love crushed me
You crushed me
In a landslide
Stealing my breath away
“I’ll never hurt you”
“You’re too good for me”
“When you hurt I hurt”
In a landslide
In a landslide
You never came
And I faded away
Along with my trust in you.
Feb 22, 2015
Feb 22, 2015 at 12:10 AM UTC
I left
because I had to
prove it to
myself-
but I see
my reflection
in your
face, a landside.
clover from
lawns
torn with grass
and all
tied to your
wrist-
the delicate
jewelry.
pointing at
the jar
I say, this
is where honey comes from.
(I’ll never
leave you.)
Aug 12, 2013
Aug 12, 2013 at 2:42 PM UTC
He's a thundercrash thorncake
Can crush you with a handshake
Juicy as a rare steak
Feeds my dreams
Owns a chartreuse shotgun
Is taller than the noon sun
Has me coming undone
Licks my pain
He's a cyanide thrill ride
A rollercoaster landside
Likes it by the bedside
Fills my ache
I am his and he's mine
Like succotash and sunshine
Exploding like a landmine
Save our souls!
Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 11:08 PM UTC
it is like a muddy avalanche,
surfing the surface, pulling from the deep,
boulder size nuggets, leaving cuts,
that blood, has to be stanched,
landside not a victory, rubble forms a heap,
at the bottom, where Earth puts
feet.
Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015 at 5:17 PM UTC
I hate birds but I've been teaching them how to sing
For you
Even though you lurk in the
Depths of my mind - surfacing
Momentarily at all of the wrong times
Torturing me
Alluring
Exhilarating- me
I could not imagine a single
Millisecond that you are not
Behind my eyes
I could not go a day without internally hearing your voice -
You are the ocean and I am the
Smallest crustacean - a bottom feeder
You are the moon and I am the sun
I die everyday so that you can
Breathe
I could not live this life without you
Even if it is spent away from you -
You are here
Within me
You are in every song I hear
Every sunset I see
Every inch of me burns with your touch
Why did I not leave a space of my own?
1, 1,00, 100,000 years from now
Even after out souls have returned to
Their rightful homes-
Yours the tress and mine
The constellations (opposites) I will love you
You will always be the first rock -
That started my landside
The first disturbance that caused my
Avalanche
The center of my being, my world, my galaxy, my universe
I want to die like this
If love were a window you were
The whole **** house
Feb 28, 2015
Feb 28, 2015 at 3:28 PM UTC
A thousand miles wide
The storm it is landside
Takes all the trees that were going to die
The cargo floods the highways
A pier ride in the ocean
Fifty-five hundred sheltered, safe and sound
Over 6 million people without power
Did they ever really have the power
Not like Sandy
Such devastation
The govenor needs a vacation
Again
Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 8:39 AM UTC
Crimes and recriminations, swear oath to the Constitution, so help me God, Charlottesville, good men on both sides, a merry-go-round of sychophants and con-men, love letters to dictators, not up, not in, partying with Epstein, ******* prostitutes and playgirls, Maga rallies and riots. turning Oval Office into black box, pulling kids, even babies, from mothers's arms, a wall too far, no bridges, can't read or write English, pandemic a "Democrat hoax," Mar-a-lago back swing, under the bus, orange skin and orange hair, no empathy, blaming others, one impeachment after another, take 'em to court 50-60 times, racists, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, KKK, won by a landside, storm the Capitol, hang Pence, **** Pelosi, another day in democracy, Air Force One, America last.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS
Jan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021 at 6:45 AM UTC
monkey DNA rules the landside
multitudes of dudes
rally around the ranch hands
planning to take stands
against stands of trees
standing tall
light refracts
bending ever so
giving the low lying foliage
full spectrum—
apelike in their motions
and communicating only in grunts
suspendered stewards stake claims
on the Sycamore
for more money
moreover,
eyes shine on the falling pine –
mannish flexing
droplets of sweat
stack rack of sweet smelling fir slats
binge drinking between filling bins
train cars destined for ports
shipping the soil's children
to the impoverished and underdeveloped –
aged tycoons
rest scabby elbows
on traditional oak armrests
seated near the mahogany footed desk lamp
just to the left of a little cedar box containing cigars –
Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 10:50 PM UTC