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"lightbulbs" poems
in the hospitals and jails it's the worst in madhouses it's the worst in penthouses it's the worst in skid row flophouses it's the worst at poetry readings at rock concerts at benefits for the disabled it's the worst at funerals at weddings it's the worst at parades at skating rinks at ****** ****** it's the worst at midnight at 3 a.m. at 5:45 p.m. it's the worst falling through the sky firing squads that's the best thinking of India looking at popcorn stands watching the bull get the matador that's the best boxed lightbulbs an old dog scratching peanuts in a celluloid bag that's the best spraying roaches a clean pair of stockings natural guts defeating natural talent that's the best in front of firing squads throwing crusts to seagulls slicing tomatoes that's the best rugs with cigarette burns cracks in sidewalks waitresses still sane that's the best my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
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The Worst And The Best
A tired old man groans As he hand you some Asian culture cuisine. Riddled with spices It tickles the little thing in the back of your throat As you swallow the substance. Face now flushed Like a cluster of fire ants crawling on the hill Calling it their home. Home? Where was it? Your memory slips. Glee storms the man’s face As he studies your expression. “Seems like you can’t handle such a simple thing." Clouding your judgement, you bite your tongue In desperate attempt to knock back the sense That gone up and left. However It fails. Numb as the lightbulbs turn into bottle-cap suns Concealing sight With the light that it shares. Count as your heart stops With eyes bloodshot His crafted words echo In your failing ears.
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Jun 23, 2015
Jun 23, 2015 at 2:33 PM UTC
No Tolerance
He lives in a cold and empty house Where lightbulbs hang from silver chains And lonely ghosts live within The cracking, creaking wooden walls He leaves out his favorite books for them And listens to footsteps beneath the floorboards He plays piano, a reclusive recital for empty rooms And they keep each other's soft-spoken secrets
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Feb 2, 2015
Feb 2, 2015 at 4:03 PM UTC
Ghosts
I walk along a path I do not know But falter left nor right, And, welcoming the light Of birches, still and white As sleeping snow, A raven, coat that shimmers Soft as coal, Beside me flutters square And, drawn like to a snare, Alights upon the air As on a knoll. A ripened chestnut, trapped Within his maw And hard as ancient ice, Is tightened by the vise And shatters at the slicing Of his jaw To crumble into dust, Which quick cascades And settles, as it slows, To carefully compose The shape of raven toes Where he parades. The raven flies ahead And, with a stamp, His talons take a grip Atop a wooden tip Of birches, dead and stripped To form a ramp. I stumble after, fixed Through field of black As in a telescope, And, clawing at the slope, I climb it with a hope To touch his back And ****** a hand ahead Just as he slumps, Both limp but stiff, to lie Upon his side and die. I meet his cloudy eye Upon the stump, Then lift my head to find A willow sprig, A tendril hanging free For me to grip. Indeed, I climb the strip of tree, The little twig, And swivel in the air, As if by choice. I hear a humming, low, Resounding from below— The raven’s eyes, aglow With Odin’s voice. Like lightbulbs flicker, dim with yellow light, They sharpen with the tones That bellow from his bones— This god and poet moans His heavy spite: He damns me to the lifetime of a bird. My sin, I do not know But bear the bitter woe And close my eyes to focus On this word: Saṃsāra. So I feel my Senses spill Upon the ground And flood out all around And swallow every sound Till all is still.
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Feb 26, 2014
Feb 26, 2014 at 5:50 PM UTC
Raven Odin Dream
I walk along a path I do not know But falter left nor right, And, welcoming the light Of birches, still and white As sleeping snow, A raven, coat that shimmers Soft as coal, Beside me flutters square And, drawn like to a snare, Alights upon the air As on a knoll. A ripened chestnut, trapped Within his maw And hard as ancient ice, Is tightened by the vise And shatters at the slicing Of his jaw To crumble into dust, Which quick cascades And settles, as it slows, To carefully compose The shape of raven toes Where he parades. The raven flies ahead And, with a stamp, His talons take a grip Atop a wooden tip Of birches, dead and stripped To form a ramp. I stumble after, fixed Through field of black As in a telescope, And, clawing at the slope, I climb it with a hope To touch his back And ****** a hand ahead Just as he slumps, Both limp but stiff, to lie Upon his side and die. I meet his cloudy eye Upon the stump, Then lift my head to find A willow sprig, A tendril hanging free For me to grip. Indeed, I climb the strip of tree, The little twig, And swivel in the air, As if by choice. I hear a humming, low, Resounding from below— The raven’s eyes, aglow With Odin’s voice. Like lightbulbs flicker, dim with yellow light, They sharpen with the tones That bellow from his bones— This god and poet moans His heavy spite: He damns me to the lifetime of a bird. My sin, I do not know But bear the bitter woe And close my eyes to focus On this word: Saṃsāra. So I feel my Senses spill Upon the ground And flood out all around And swallow every sound Till all is still.
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My mother is like a lightbulb, She makes her mistakes She burns and she brightens And then she breaks. - My mother is like a lightbulb She brightens the room But make no mistake, She can darken one too, - My mother is like a lightbulb She blunders and cries But don't think she's harmless It's a well crafted disguise - But regardless of it all Someone gets hurt Palms are cut open And fingers are burnt - And yet, my mother is unlike a lightbulb, Because broken lightbulbs are replaced.
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Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 at 1:45 PM UTC
genuine fake
You're the kid that asks how the cotton candy skies got that color except now it's all blood red "I guess God killed all the angels" he said and I think: baby my wrists are rags, ripped up rags, and needles give you bad memories, and my minds a black, empty, hole but it's still so ******* heavy just a weight that no matter how much you want to say you can, you just cannot carry and you need to stay alive because there's no spots for angels anymore when they die but I just can't bring myself to say it and he knows people only remember things about me like the fact that I like whiskey, and my suicidal tendencies a lining of lightbulbs infused on the wire in my brain he says Jesus was like any other psychopath , just a normal schizophrenic and if there's a God we pray for him to fix the problem he's created what if heavens just like hell in the form of a maze golden maps leading you to places you aren't any happier acid trips into abandon attics, blonde babes with tied up hair and yellow teeth cracked out, veins complaining that the life they hated ever changed he says I ruined the calm after the storm that no one lives to see the ending of the bible that no one has enough attention in them to read
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Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 9:12 PM UTC
Constantine and Christianity
I can see you there standing in your studio relishing in the faces of your followers creaming their jeans over your creations lightbulbs hanging from the cealing by telephone cords and photographs of babies dressed as dictators trying to prove that innocence still exists when we both know that this world was robbed of its innocence a million years ago you might fool some people but I can see right through you professional hipster, wearing tie dye underneath your skin and an overpriced suit on the outside painting your lips with designer brand translucent rasberry lipstick and kissing your acquaintances a kiss for each cheek I want to know how you can fake it so well hiding behind your little purple door counting money while I’m busy counting lies was it easy to push your dreams so far away so deep in the back of your mind that they may as well be in your shoes did you ever think you’d be here that you’d sell your soul to the devil because I’m afraid that you might be my future and I would rather stand at the end of the dock with Mr.Gatsby gazing at the green light across the river holding on to hope forever
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM UTC
Professional Hipster
If I moved a muscle right now a window would break. If I took a solitary step the tiles beneath me would crack. Submerged in the oscuridad save for a small pulse of luz called optimism because that’s just how I was raised. I know I can’t pretend to make an oasis Because how well did that work out for me last time The lightbulbs can yell and scream and punch the air But nothing will make them turn on without a power source. I can’t be breathing hard or else the candle stub I have left will blow out I have to Guard it but keep looking for my next step using its meager light trusting That the beacon I look for is not further than the reaches of my Light that I will with the remaining shards of my life to keep on Reining now is uncertainty that is diametrically opposed to the concept that the sun is gonna rise tomorrow I promise so let me stroke your hair and shroud you until it does. I exist in this limbo of heeding the hours that come. The ticking of the clock drudges yet I gulp every last second as it arrives. I voraciously **** the teaspoon of trust I have left that the Audience is just watching the plot arc to progress and that The dramatic irony of  some surety is just beyond the radius of the hardly illuminated path beneath my shuddering feet. Maybe someday I will stumble upon the next candlestick or something. Maybe someday I’ll find a working light bulb buried in the snow or something. But here I progress or something. Un día a la vez or something. Grappling foot by foot for something. Something.
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Dec 11, 2021
Dec 11, 2021 at 5:37 PM UTC
oscuridad
If I moved a muscle right now a window would break. If I took a solitary step the tiles beneath me would crack. Submerged in the oscuridad save for a small pulse of luz called optimism because that’s just how I was raised. I know I can’t pretend to make an oasis Because how well did that work out for me last time The lightbulbs can yell and scream and punch the air But nothing will make them turn on without a power source. I can’t be breathing hard or else the candle stub I have left will blow out I have to Guard it but keep looking for my next step using its meager light trusting That the beacon I look for is not further than the reaches of my Light that I will with the remaining shards of my life to keep on Reining now is uncertainty that is diametrically opposed to the concept that the sun is gonna rise tomorrow I promise so let me stroke your hair and shroud you until it does. I exist in this limbo of heeding the hours that come. The ticking of the clock drudges yet I gulp every last second as it arrives. I voraciously **** the teaspoon of trust I have left that the Audience is just watching the plot arc to progress and that The dramatic irony of  some surety is just beyond the radius of the hardly illuminated path beneath my shuddering feet. Maybe someday I will stumble upon the next candlestick or something. Maybe someday I’ll find a working light bulb buried in the snow or something. But here I progress or something. Un día a la vez or something. Grappling foot by foot for something. Something.
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I stand before you, not as an expert, but as a concerned citizen. One of the four hundred thousand people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis. As a poet, I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way; as if it were a fiction. As if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away. But I think we all know better than that now. Every week we’re seeing new and undeniable climate events, evidence that accelerated climate change is here, right now. Droughts are intensifying, our ocean’s are acidifying, with methane plumes rising up from the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events and the west Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melting at unprecedented rates decades ahead of scientific projections. The scientific community knows it. Industry knows it. Governments know it. Even the United States military knows it. The chief of the US navy’s Pacific command, Admiral Samuel Locklear recently said that climate change is our single greatest security threat. My friends, this body, perhaps more than any other gathering in human history now faces this difficult but achievable task. You can make history or you will be vilified by it. To be clear, this is not about just telling people to change lightbulbs or to buy a hybrid car. This disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make. This is now about our industries and our governments around the world taking decisive large-scale action. We need to put a price tag on carbon emissions and eliminate government subsidies for all oil, coal, and gas companies. We need to end the free ride that industrial polluters have been given in the name of a free market economy. They do not deserve our tax dollars, they deserve our scrutiny. For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. This is not a partisan debate, it is a human one. Clean air and a livable climate area inalienable human rights and solving this crisis is not just a question of politics. It is a question of our own survival. But now it is your turn. The time to answer humankind’s greatest challenge, is now. We beg of you to face it with courage and honesty. Thank you
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 6:51 AM UTC
Poets of the World Unite
I stand before you, not as an expert, but as a concerned citizen. One of the four hundred thousand people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis. As a poet, I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way; as if it were a fiction. As if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away. But I think we all know better than that now. Every week we’re seeing new and undeniable climate events, evidence that accelerated climate change is here, right now. Droughts are intensifying, our ocean’s are acidifying, with methane plumes rising up from the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events and the west Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melting at unprecedented rates decades ahead of scientific projections. The scientific community knows it. Industry knows it. Governments know it. Even the United States military knows it. The chief of the US navy’s Pacific command, Admiral Samuel Locklear recently said that climate change is our single greatest security threat. My friends, this body, perhaps more than any other gathering in human history now faces this difficult but achievable task. You can make history or you will be vilified by it. To be clear, this is not about just telling people to change lightbulbs or to buy a hybrid car. This disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make. This is now about our industries and our governments around the world taking decisive large-scale action. We need to put a price tag on carbon emissions and eliminate government subsidies for all oil, coal, and gas companies. We need to end the free ride that industrial polluters have been given in the name of a free market economy. They do not deserve our tax dollars, they deserve our scrutiny. For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. This is not a partisan debate, it is a human one. Clean air and a livable climate area inalienable human rights and solving this crisis is not just a question of politics. It is a question of our own survival. But now it is your turn. The time to answer humankind’s greatest challenge, is now. We beg of you to face it with courage and honesty. Thank you
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troll tooth oger toe  flow stupid  fistful of shiny carbon lattice wilt and a composted halo too beautifully torn derivatives slid from this orifice oven timer set fer  office space wasted noob cubed  these are exponential times we're livin in, sim yer prolly obsolete, so tap the banner below for more there's more trends friend then interrogate  unfriend those has-been's for the win dim  naked lightbulbs swing from threadbare strings faster than light plus **** too  there's ***** adorno how right you were  this **** is almost criminal  art narcs on the hole a' truth so help me dog im the hominid  that stood up  this fiction. slipstream hoolahoop no-show
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Aug 8, 2016
Aug 8, 2016 at 7:05 PM UTC
copywrittenly yours, you
Somewhere along the way the silver threads that embroider daylight with dreams have melted, losing architectured edges and I find these days it's harder to tell whether I'm even awake at all. Trance chaos, but curiously calm, considering and sleepy. My corridor is long but I have no reason to hurry. Broken lamps against the walls dusty apartments to spiders and fluff. No lightbulbs. Only husks of maybe once upon a time ideals. There is a familiar light of gossamer gold murmurs over me I've been here before and there isn't much farther left to go. Incandescent airspace pulsing like a living heart rising, ebbing, coaxing me on. The lamps are a silent vigil to my journey. Again I am here at my tabula rasa. The door is laid with bricks, sealed by my own earthly hands Will not open! Will not open! Un-opening door. And as far as I've ever come. Light all around, fleeing from robinred tetris brickwork. Intimate, tantalizing, maddening Bone aching Mystery. Yet. Yet. Yet. Yet. Yet. I yet. Yet again. I am here. Crossroads. Yield to trains. There is no last stop until I play cartographer and circumnavigate Wasteland concepts. Swamps of muted wishes. Until I put my broken lamps back together I am here. Wandering, waiting, a ghost.
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Jan 21, 2012
Jan 21, 2012 at 3:57 PM UTC
Noun: "A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep"
Wired like a loaded gun Waiting for the morning sun Hello! How are you today And I wonder My love Should I take the sun from you Put it in a box of darkness Like setting I spread the ashes of a love never in love just a circle venn diagram make believe but not Peter Pan And love I love you so I am the sun And I shine for no one So box of darkness Here I come Speckled star dust farm eggs Fresh renewed self conviction Moon born Phasing through to a life Without you Hedonism blood pulse Still sentimental soul Selling out to the lone wolf Sneaky fox Flowers tainting memories Hand holding cheek kissing nostalgia bliss Don't think Of the one you will miss Just kiss Supernova Little sunhat at nighttime party Don't don't listen to the lies you whisper to yourself You are the one you'll miss If you don't help yourself Feast on sin and self-righteousness Reincarnation is second chance Listen to the hands with the carnations outstretched Fellow stranger with star burnt eyes caring for those self told lies You cheat yourself with handholding cypress knees bending towards neurons collapsing into the one who Binary stars you Binary stares at you Holds you in your sleep from far away Dream meeting past life fleeting into the now You answer to this highschool crush pop quiz invader of reality Who questions what color to paint the moon Never almost drowning But who has only ever taken a life that belonged to them alone relating in fictional patterns of physics Undeniable wavelengths colliding crashing consoling You knew from the first eyes that seeds of doubt would sprout in what you mislead as love And you ask Why not? Hello,         today is not tomorrow.
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Oct 22, 2015
Oct 22, 2015 at 3:50 AM UTC
Replacing the lightbulbs
Wired like a loaded gun Waiting for the morning sun Hello! How are you today And I wonder My love Should I take the sun from you Put it in a box of darkness Like setting I spread the ashes of a love never in love just a circle venn diagram make believe but not Peter Pan And love I love you so I am the sun And I shine for no one So box of darkness Here I come Speckled star dust farm eggs Fresh renewed self conviction Moon born Phasing through to a life Without you Hedonism blood pulse Still sentimental soul Selling out to the lone wolf Sneaky fox Flowers tainting memories Hand holding cheek kissing nostalgia bliss Don't think Of the one you will miss Just kiss Supernova Little sunhat at nighttime party Don't don't listen to the lies you whisper to yourself You are the one you'll miss If you don't help yourself Feast on sin and self-righteousness Reincarnation is second chance Listen to the hands with the carnations outstretched Fellow stranger with star burnt eyes caring for those self told lies You cheat yourself with handholding cypress knees bending towards neurons collapsing into the one who Binary stars you Binary stares at you Holds you in your sleep from far away Dream meeting past life fleeting into the now You answer to this highschool crush pop quiz invader of reality Who questions what color to paint the moon Never almost drowning But who has only ever taken a life that belonged to them alone relating in fictional patterns of physics Undeniable wavelengths colliding crashing consoling You knew from the first eyes that seeds of doubt would sprout in what you mislead as love And you ask Why not? Hello,         today is not tomorrow.
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i spent seven days in a foxhole eating sand and burying the secrets of former lovers. i gave myself the silent treatment for the first four days then i sang for the other three. i dreamed of cowboys and westbound trains and i had an old sack full of bottles so i wasnt alone. i was a fine toothed comb or a skill saw and i felt useful for once in my life. i crushed a box of lightbulbs on the fourth night and i found the prettiest place to sleep. i hung photos on the wall of the prison to keep me happy and missing you. now i live in the basement of the world and i wish for nothing more than a swiss army knife and one word from you.
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Mar 23, 2012
Mar 23, 2012 at 9:47 PM UTC
foxhole
In second grade, we did an experiment with static electricity We rubbed balloons on our heads, & stuck them to walls & kissing you is kinda like that My hair stands on end, I get shocked when I touch things & I want to tell you stupid stuff like, kissing you is a bundle of kittens colliding with my face at .5 miles an hour It's like being shot with a dart gun made of hummingbirds that shoots darts made of hummingbirds & your lips are so soft, I can't actually tell when we are touching, like braiding hair underwater, like napping under a blanket filled with rainbows & clouds, & your favorite books When you kiss me, the cartoon devil & angel on my shoulder climb into my ears, like all of my neurons, & start ******* on my brainsteam If you were a 300 pound professional weight lifter & if I were a Kia Sorento, you could drag me anywhere Kissing you is patient & impossibly slow, like peeling paint off the wall with glittery stickers, or cooking a turkey with a lighter You remind me of the time in second grade when Bethany Hopkirk called me a freak face & stabbed me in the arm with a pencil Cause kissing you is kinda like that, unhealthy & will probably result in disfigurement But baby, bring on the ****** scars & lead poisoning Cause when you kiss me, you are dangling me off a bridge by a belt You are the screen door of my childhood, all taste & swinging So full of holes you could never keep anything in You are every black eye, you're a semitruck & I'm a turtle with two broken legs, & a broken heart You are illegal fireworks falling down stairs together, driving on four flat tires, playing frisbee at night with a saw blade Kissing you is like falling out of a 37 story window, exploding into a cloud of robins & reappearing on the ground with my mouth full of feathers & when I can't kiss you, I try to find the static electricity in my apartment I dig around in light sockets, change lightbulbs with my teeth, & make out with the toaster & I know we've only been seeing eachother for a couple of weeks, But baby, when you kiss me, I can't remember my middle name, or which one is my left foot So come over tonight We'll shuffle around the apartment in our socks, & we'll let our lips drift toward each other, like tectonic plates made... out of kittens
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014 at 9:45 AM UTC
Thirty Two . Static Electricity
In second grade, we did an experiment with static electricity We rubbed balloons on our heads, & stuck them to walls & kissing you is kinda like that My hair stands on end, I get shocked when I touch things & I want to tell you stupid stuff like, kissing you is a bundle of kittens colliding with my face at .5 miles an hour It's like being shot with a dart gun made of hummingbirds that shoots darts made of hummingbirds & your lips are so soft, I can't actually tell when we are touching, like braiding hair underwater, like napping under a blanket filled with rainbows & clouds, & your favorite books When you kiss me, the cartoon devil & angel on my shoulder climb into my ears, like all of my neurons, & start ******* on my brainsteam If you were a 300 pound professional weight lifter & if I were a Kia Sorento, you could drag me anywhere Kissing you is patient & impossibly slow, like peeling paint off the wall with glittery stickers, or cooking a turkey with a lighter You remind me of the time in second grade when Bethany Hopkirk called me a freak face & stabbed me in the arm with a pencil Cause kissing you is kinda like that, unhealthy & will probably result in disfigurement But baby, bring on the ****** scars & lead poisoning Cause when you kiss me, you are dangling me off a bridge by a belt You are the screen door of my childhood, all taste & swinging So full of holes you could never keep anything in You are every black eye, you're a semitruck & I'm a turtle with two broken legs, & a broken heart You are illegal fireworks falling down stairs together, driving on four flat tires, playing frisbee at night with a saw blade Kissing you is like falling out of a 37 story window, exploding into a cloud of robins & reappearing on the ground with my mouth full of feathers & when I can't kiss you, I try to find the static electricity in my apartment I dig around in light sockets, change lightbulbs with my teeth, & make out with the toaster & I know we've only been seeing eachother for a couple of weeks, But baby, when you kiss me, I can't remember my middle name, or which one is my left foot So come over tonight We'll shuffle around the apartment in our socks, & we'll let our lips drift toward each other, like tectonic plates made... out of kittens
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Tonight, lanterns will swing freely like me, brassiere-less and glowing Steam growing misty around my eyes, My hair all pulled up, my bangs sticking to my forehead. Lanterns will swing freely and the light will escape from them and create Patterns on the glossy sidewalk Plaster-white sidewalk with only a few pieces of black gum. Lanterns will swing and patterns will dance and mirrors will tarnish With time, green or brown, with cracks. Until, perhaps, one day I shall not be able to see myself in them My reflection might be murky and indistinguishable from that of a tree Or a root Or a dog Or any other lonely person. Tonight, the mirrors will crack and the glass will collect dust and piggy-banks will be left unshaken  Their promises unfulfilled, Leaving empty tummies and sunken-welled eyes. Tonight, the lanterns may swing free but the lightbulbs inside will be trapped,  Emaciated and skillfully looking for ways to break the glass. Tonight, men will cry and mothers will mourn for themselves And decisions will be decided And switches will be flicked And dancing will illuminate the gum
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Nov 26, 2011
Nov 26, 2011 at 8:16 PM UTC
Suddenly
If you could see the way she looks at you you would know But you're busy building walls of doubt nursung weary what-ifs like feeding gremlins after midnight I have this picture of the both of you You are staring off into your imagination always just above the horizon And she is laughing at something you said She is looking right at you smiling honest Only you can make her laugh like that Only you I guess some of us need it spelled out Our egos need to be reminded You are not always going to be her favorite everything You are not the best But for whatever reason she chose you Chose you like a raffle ticket from a barrel full of so much better You are not a jackpot she is not a jackpot but you both have won something You're both walking away with what you came here for You break her heart some days How her eyes sadden and she does that thing that girls do you know when they go awww but it's pronounced oohh (Men love that sound) I see the tremble in her arms the hesitation to hold your head to her ******* But your signals cross and you beat yourself up later for not acting differently because she might fall in love with you if you had done things differently You can't act your way into a relationship If you're not being yourself You're being somebody else and in that case she's better off with that other guy It makes me wonder about lightbulbs and how many people it takes to ***** them in depending on your occupation I wonder how many pairs of eyes it takes to notice what love looks like Because if you could see the way she looks at you you would know and the only thing you might do differently is continue to be yourself
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Apr 27, 2012
Apr 27, 2012 at 7:13 AM UTC
How Many Pairs of Eyes Does it Take to Notice What Love Looks Like? (FLP)
If you could see the way she looks at you you would know But you're busy building walls of doubt nursung weary what-ifs like feeding gremlins after midnight I have this picture of the both of you You are staring off into your imagination always just above the horizon And she is laughing at something you said She is looking right at you smiling honest Only you can make her laugh like that Only you I guess some of us need it spelled out Our egos need to be reminded You are not always going to be her favorite everything You are not the best But for whatever reason she chose you Chose you like a raffle ticket from a barrel full of so much better You are not a jackpot she is not a jackpot but you both have won something You're both walking away with what you came here for You break her heart some days How her eyes sadden and she does that thing that girls do you know when they go awww but it's pronounced oohh (Men love that sound) I see the tremble in her arms the hesitation to hold your head to her ******* But your signals cross and you beat yourself up later for not acting differently because she might fall in love with you if you had done things differently You can't act your way into a relationship If you're not being yourself You're being somebody else and in that case she's better off with that other guy It makes me wonder about lightbulbs and how many people it takes to ***** them in depending on your occupation I wonder how many pairs of eyes it takes to notice what love looks like Because if you could see the way she looks at you you would know and the only thing you might do differently is continue to be yourself
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when i am home alone my separated parents off doing separated things i drive my car around the neighborhood looking at the christmas lights. i do this in silence; i want nothing more than to just gaze at them remember the sheer awe and beauty of a couple little lightbulbs strung together on wire. it used to strike me as odd why people hang lights anyway around christmas time but i soon came to realize it's because it brings people closer together. neighbors whom you have ignored are now helping you find power outlets. friends of your wife whom you used to detest are now handing you a plate of cookies, smiling and wishing you a safe and wonderful christmas. i see this all of the time. and it makes me smile to know that just by a simple arrangement of little blue-bulbed lights we are all, actually family.
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Dec 4, 2011
Dec 4, 2011 at 9:20 PM UTC
christmas lights.
Alien encounters abducted by my own frontal lobe sand dripping down my toes like those sandcastles I used to make at the beach as a kid with peach fuzz dunes and flower petal skies I want my orange bathing suit sewed to my skin and my finger nails cut too short so it stings when I waltz on surfaces made of wood or steel or linoleum like those victorian queen polka days when we used to lay on the kitchen floor sunlight vomiting onto our faces and we laughed anyway I want your mustache forests and I want to believe in them and you told me I ran so fast I don't know why I slowed down there are 6 easter eggs hiding in the garden but one has a slug on its shell and when you pick up the tie dyed droplet surface you'll shriek in delight in the light of the moon the golden one hides in the creases of the trees and it will remain there for 1 week until you smell the stench like emerald gas climbing up your nose I have dreams of flying falling thoughts of icicles and snow angels pretending I am someone I am not an actress with all the lightbulbs and glitter who am I to say it me me me me me me back to the hallway extremities and ski lift blushing and ocean drowning I can not wait for the day that I finally realize what I need to understand in order to vacuum the carpet in order to in order to
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Nov 22, 2013
Nov 22, 2013 at 10:08 PM UTC
going 60 down a 25
please take me into the forest, deep with tall redwoods and let me feel the rocks like swords under my callous feet. where we can watch the sunset from up above the tilting world, sitting on our thrones made of Marlboro filters and sticks on a mountain cliff. we'd be cliffhangers and thieves and vagabonds, painting ourselves with the blue tinted night like the deepest parts of the sea far from the wandering grasp of reality. watch the stars with eyes like flickering lightbulbs, shining yellow in empty, echoing rooms. bring along four bottles of wine, one for each of us. we'll drink until theres wine slipping past our cheeks like some kind of blood-orange sob, leaking out our hollowed belly-buttons rivers running swift through the lines of our palms. wounded from every pore with the blood of our intoxication; magenta tongue stained skin. would you let me take your hand and lead you through the empty, knocking dark and sing to you in the soft moments of before morning? would you trust me enough to close your eyes and let me lead you in a bruised, tumbling drunken journey to the top of the highest mountain? we could lay in the summer blanketed wind made of dancing sky and burning earth. close our eyes and stop the earthquake in our minds, wake up with the sunshine seeping through every corner of our aching bodies, roses growing out of our jigsaw jaws and puzzle piece crumbling ribs and lungs; see through our sober fingers and wandering eyes a different world than it was at midnight.
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 10:15 AM UTC
blood-orange
please take me into the forest, deep with tall redwoods and let me feel the rocks like swords under my callous feet. where we can watch the sunset from up above the tilting world, sitting on our thrones made of Marlboro filters and sticks on a mountain cliff. we'd be cliffhangers and thieves and vagabonds, painting ourselves with the blue tinted night like the deepest parts of the sea far from the wandering grasp of reality. watch the stars with eyes like flickering lightbulbs, shining yellow in empty, echoing rooms. bring along four bottles of wine, one for each of us. we'll drink until theres wine slipping past our cheeks like some kind of blood-orange sob, leaking out our hollowed belly-buttons rivers running swift through the lines of our palms. wounded from every pore with the blood of our intoxication; magenta tongue stained skin. would you let me take your hand and lead you through the empty, knocking dark and sing to you in the soft moments of before morning? would you trust me enough to close your eyes and let me lead you in a bruised, tumbling drunken journey to the top of the highest mountain? we could lay in the summer blanketed wind made of dancing sky and burning earth. close our eyes and stop the earthquake in our minds, wake up with the sunshine seeping through every corner of our aching bodies, roses growing out of our jigsaw jaws and puzzle piece crumbling ribs and lungs; see through our sober fingers and wandering eyes a different world than it was at midnight.
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Sometimes, I stare at the stars. It's almost like some kind of event for me, A recurring celebration or memorial. A birthday, christmas or halloween. "Starday." - Someone once said, *"What if it was a just a ceiling, And the stars were just lightbulbs."* And I laughed at the idea. A real laugh. A child's laugh. - I used to sit outside, on the cold, wet, grass, in the middle of the night. I'd ***** my head to the heavens and just watch. Obsidian. An ocean of black, lined with burning jewels, winking back at me. I figured, explorers had already mapped and navigated all the others. There was but one ocean left. - Sometimes I'd imagine that a spaceship would open up the sky, Drifting down on a wave of fire and light. And they would pick me up, They'd pick me up and steal me away. They'd say, "We heard your prayers." And I'd say, "Finally." N.H.
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Jun 3, 2013
Jun 3, 2013 at 10:22 AM UTC
Ceiling
Come here. Let’s. Let’s? Let’s… Let’s. Come here. Listen to Edith Piaf (So hipster, n'est-ce pas?) and the scratch of her voice on the turntable, will be ours to keep in Moleskine notebooks of memory. So that we’ll try to believe, love is actually a thing. Let’s. Come here. This quaint room will be ours, our guest, as we breathe life into the coffee cups, wooden chairs. We’ll give it a nose, yes. Lightbulbs will smell red wine in fingerprinted glasses. Windows will drink us, to us. And we’ll laugh, our faces hot and sad, mouths crammed with French fries. A scene blurred with happiness. Let’s. Come here. Trash the hands of every boy, who’s spread himself out on marginalia of our days. Slathered himself on pieces of time we wish we had hugged to ourselves. Hate, hate, hate him, we’ll say. And his **** hands. Let’s. Come here. Our eyes will be fireflies behind our glasses, in this cinema’s night, as we ‘swoon’ at rom-coms as buttery as the popcorn we bought in the interval. Life’s too short, we say. Eat about it, drink about it, maybe even talk about it. Forget about it. Let’s. Come here. Talk, about nothing. We’ll all be dead one day. Let’s. Come here. We can be friends. Let’s. Let’s. Let’s. Let’s? (And your giggle will end all and every verse written. I’m **** sure of it.)
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Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM UTC
Let's
The days of the week bleed together like watercolor memories of a clumsy painter. Find your question, Solve your puzzle. Make yourself shine in a box of dull lightbulbs "I was born into a floating sphere in space, And I'm not sure what to make of this place." So what the hell am I here for? And what am I thinking? I'm in a generation that just can't stop screaming. But I'm still standing.
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Aug 7, 2012
Aug 7, 2012 at 5:47 AM UTC
The Days of the Week
XD If you offer Moses porkchops And Ghandi t-bone steaks An Amish woman lightbulbs You have what it takes! If fish ain't on the menu For a Catholic's Friday meal And you fast on a Fat Wednesday You're the real deal! If at a Mosque you're dancing While they're bowing to the east If you use a salad fork To eat the main course feast At Episcopal church functions Then don't give a dime At Joel Osteen's mega-church Man, you're right on time! Non-religious offenders Really should unite! Just do what comes naturally! Don't give up the fight! Far from being reverent Take it one step more! Diss ol' jolly Santa While looting big box stores! But watch the gays and lesbians! Jokes we won't allow! Or political gurus and women *For those are sacred cows!* SoulSurvivor (C) 10/9/2013
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Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015 at 2:52 AM UTC
nothin's sacred