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Seán Mac Falls Jun 2016
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I once was young on shores of pond,
Deep in clump grasses mossy, longed
By seasons that turned shining winds,
Older than years etched into tree rings,
I played at song in the rushes of marsh,
Danced to moon from my bedroom loft
And in the theaters of starlight shadow,
Wrote my fables after sleeping narrows,
Dreamed dreams as young boy should,
Rethinking Sophocles in hemlock wood
I named the flowers wildest within sun,
Built forts from the forest floors of ruin,
Burned in rashes of ivy, itching poison,
Swam by water snakes in mucky unison
Spring was tireless as nettles and bees,
A wide river glided into the seven seas,
Pond was lake and oceans uncharted,
Skies rolling thunder after lightenings
More gold than lots' aspirations prised,
All showers flamed, Promethean fires.
Darrel Weeks Jul 2016
We watch the thunder in the sky
Listen to the lightenings cry
Feel the rain drops fall like dreams
Tears upon an open stream
Hold onto this moment
While the waves of life passes by
See the sunshine fall away
With hope it sees another day
What a voyage our lives can be
So set out to sea
There is a fantastic place where all your emotions are stored ready to be harvested
I was afraid of the storm and the power it possessed
I thought it was rude and angry
It was a large man thundering out vicious words like rain
I watched as veins flashed across his face like lightening
I would lay terrified in bed as he lit up my room and darkened my skies
He would turn off all the lights if my attention was divided
Forcing me to listen to his every word
To absorb them like rain on the dry earth
As I grew fear turned to awe
Instead of hiding, I sat outside and watched the beauty unfold
As the Earth came alive and I watched clouds fight like children in the sky
They tossed and turned, dodged and tumbled over each other
But when the booming, motherly, voice of reason could not reign them in
Her hands would flash out like lightenings to separate them
She opened the skies like floodgates
The clouds dropped their faces to the Earth as muttered apologies poured from them like rain
As awe turned to jealousy, I knew I was wrong before
The storm was like me and had a story to tell
Unlike me the storm was brave enough to say it and strong enough to make you listen
I wanted to make the world hear me
But no matter how I tried, how I screamed, the world shut me out
So I used the storm
I wrote my story and sent it to the moon
And the thunder tells my story for me.
Seán Mac Falls Apr 2015
I once was young on shores of pond,
Deep in clump grasses mossy, longed
By seasons that turned shining winds,
Older than years etched into tree rings,
I played at song in the rushes of marsh,
Danced to moon from my bedroom loft
And in the theaters of starlight shadow,
Wrote my fables after sleeping narrows,
Dreamed dreams as young boy should,
Rethinking Sophocles in hemlock wood
I named the flowers wildest within sun,
Built forts from the forest floors of ruin,
Burned in rashes of ivy, itching poison,
Swam by water snakes in mucky unison
Spring was tireless as nettles and bees,
A wide river glided into the seven seas,
Pond was lake and oceans uncharted,
Skies rolling thunder after lightenings
More gold than lots' aspirations prised,
All showers flamed, Promethean fires.
Mahesh Hegde Nov 2013
I was walking trying not to slip and roll,
My thoughts speeding widout control,
And I was crawling across your memories.
But then the mountain came along,
Which hid my most longing dawn,
And on your smile were subsiding all my worries.

Places I had been and the places I want to go,
It was always you who was meant to be in my burrow,
I was striking with pride against the thunders.
And then there came a cyclone,
While the lightenings blended shone,
Wid you I can make many wonders.

But as the banks seperated from the river,
Soul catched the cold with the heat of fever,
Misunderstandings were meant to always shading.
Clouds gathered for sorting out the querries,
Here was I, collecting moments in raindrops and the raindrops in memories,
Maybe the scarred smile is silently fading.

But as nothings ever gone for always,
Hopeless Hopes tend to turn backways,
But theres a light always spreading wide seeking a trade.
Frozen leaves smile as the sun shines in the sky,
My lips call you back as my hands wave you goodbye,
Its wading, for what my heart has craved..
Seán Mac Falls Oct 2015
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I once was young on shores of pond,
Deep in clump grasses mossy, longed
By seasons that turned shining winds,
Older than years etched into tree rings,
I played at song in the rushes of marsh,
Danced to moon from my bedroom loft
And in the theaters of starlight shadow,
Wrote my fables after sleeping narrows,
Dreamed dreams as young boy should,
Rethinking Sophocles in hemlock wood
I named the flowers wildest within sun,
Built forts from the forest floors of ruin,
Burned in rashes of ivy, itching poison,
Swam by water snakes in mucky unison
Spring was tireless as nettles and bees,
A wide river glided into the seven seas,
Pond was lake and oceans uncharted,
Skies rolling thunder after lightenings
More gold than lots' aspirations prised,
All showers flamed, Promethean fires.
Mike Hauser Sep 2015
Dear Archie,

It's best you find your bunker

The world as we know it

Has certainly gone asunder

Political correctness

Don't it make you wonder

If we should be taking names

And writing down their numbers

Oh and Archie,

Lucky now your six feet under

Out of lightenings range

And all the man made thunder

Those were the days

We could laugh like ******

At each other

Goodbye Archie bunker
beth winters Nov 2010
how remarkable a thing it is, to be struck by lightenings of words, torrents of ideas, chokes of emotions and then stop. and think how is it that i got here, how is it that i do this and say? how is it that i say? and to be overcome with a two year old sense of imagination that does not die until the wee hours of the morning when the birds peck on your window and say hello. you are here, i am here.

and how wonderful it is, when there are leaves on the ground to be kicked aside and cursed at as an excuse for the children, or the dog, or the spouse who left because things are too complicated. and these leaves hold every human emotion, set there by words spoken to them and no one else, set there by a small child who holds the beautiful colors up to a mother that is too distracted to realize that this is the defining moment in a life and you must grasp it and hold it up to the light and wonder through the stained glass effect.

and how it is that we choose to let the world wash over us and over and over and slowly rub away all the pretty age spots that told us we were human, how it is that we do not give all our change to the men sitting on the street, how it is that umbrellas are used every day because some people do not like the rain. when you could open your eyes and pretend you are three and every glimpse of light is a rainbow and there are monsters under your bed and someday you will be a grown-up and do whatever you want to. how it is that people do not become children and stare at the world.

how is it, that when the wind rushes through the trees and rattle, that we shudder? how is it, that when the storms desecrate houses people cry? we could live off moonlight and sunshine and we could go back fifty years, start the movement over and this time do it right. and it wouldn't matter. people would still ignore the warm colors on the ground and focus on the cold, people will still put up brightly colored umbrellas that do not save anything but their wool coats that cost more than a years worth of food for an orphanage in asia, people will still be blind and there will be others who try to open their eyes.
Milan Sep 2020
ZARA! ZARA! he called,
not a single response.
ZARA! ZARA! he called again...
zara looked at his eyes, and went dead all his life..
he screamed as he hugged her,
as if she was going to "respond."
he screamed and kissed her,
as if she was going to feel.
this time,
he lay his head on her chest.
crying, crying, and crying
wishing for this not to really end.
but this time,
zara was for real..
she went dead and will never be back again.
as he was laying his head,
zara was still not there..
zara from up above,
sending tears through rains,
meaning to tell him.
meaning to show him.
meaning to tell him to stop, and realize what he has still not lost.
lightenings occurs
sound of thunder
they all are angers from zara:
"YOU DON'T ONLY MISS ME! BECAUSE I DO TOO. YOU DON'T ONLY MISS ME!BECAUSE I DO MORE THAN YOU DO! YOU DON'T ONLY LOVE ME! BECAUSE I DO MORE AND MORE! YOU DON'T TELL ME DON'T GO! BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT ME TO! AND AM SORRY I JUST DID AND YOU CAN'T BRING ME BACK! BECAUSE I AM ALREADY GONE! NOTHING CAN BRING ME TO YOU! ONE SHOT IN THE HEART CAN BRING YOU TO MY ARMS. AS I HAVE PROMISED THOSE ENDLESS, TIGHT WARM HUGS.."
he looked at the sky,
shedding tears,
gave a smile,
and send all his love to up above..
so she wont be lonely,
and feel the love he always promised he would give and for her to feel.  
He looked down, and kissed her,
looked at the sky...
and..
goodbyed her.
as he shed his last tears,
her shirt was a big drop of tears..  

-Mila
Marian Apr 2014
After this I looked, and,
behold, a door was opened in
heaven: and the first voice which I
heard was as it were of a trumpet
talking with me; which said,
Come up hither, and I will shew
thee things which must be hereafter.
2 And immediately I was in
the spirit: and, behold, a throne
was set in heaven, and one sat on
the throne.
3 And he that sat was to look
upon like a jasper and a sardine
stone: and there was a rainbow
round about the throne, in sight
like unto an emerald.
4 And round about the throne
were four and twenty seats: and
upon the seats I saw four and
twenty elders sitting clothed in
white raiment; and they had on
their heads crowns of gold.
5 And out of the throne proceeded
lightenings and thunderings
and voices: and there were
seven lamps of fire burning before
the throne, which are the
seven Spirits of God.
6 And before the throne there
was
a sea of glass like unto crystal:
and round about the throne, were
four beasts full of eyes before and
behind.
7 And the first beast was like
a lion, and the second beast like a
calf, and the third beast had a face
as a man, and the fourth beast
was like a flying eagle.
8 And the four beasts had each
of them six wings about him; and
they were full of eyes within: and
they rest not day and night, saying,
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God
Almighty, which was, and is, and
is to come.
9 And when those beasts give
glory and honour and thanks to
him that sat on the throne, who
liveth for ever and ever,
10 The four and twenty elders
fall down before him that sat on
the throne, and worship him that
liveth for ever and ever, and cast
their crowns before the throne,
saying,
11 Thou art worthy, O Lord,
to receive glory and honour and
power: for thou hast created all
things, and for thy pleasure they
are and were created.
Mpayinfo) Akwaaba,
The melodies streaming and vibrating,
Are lyrics inked
By the rankled lightenings,
On the dark clouds,
And blown by the gods
From their retributive flutes,
Prompting the thunders to chorus,
The terrors,

                    Mpayinfo)
The legs of time is stout,
And will stride wearing not,
For the coals and brimstones creeps,
And will be pernicious,
Even to your progenies,

                       Mpayinfo)
For the language of the gods,
I speak not,
But their deep seated pique
And bruises,
I tell and forewarn,

                           Mpayinfo),
Where is Okyeame and the Omanhene,
Where are they?
Why come without them?
I guess they know;their clandestines
Have fallen before the sights of the gods,
Vultures that eats from the pots of the eagele;In his absence,
And smear faeces on the tips,
Traitors of traditions,

For the alien groceries
Have tucked their intelligence,
And left them groggy
Famished Dogs

                            Mpayinfo),
Why sit-tight and watch;
As aliens contrive a throne
Over our goods?
And defile our land
With their iniquituos schemes
Ubiquitously,

                       Mpayinfo)
The gods sing the blues,
And grieve day and night,
Their tadpoles have lorn them,
And clung to an alien deity,
For this I say and forewarn,
Like I told your fathers before,
If the witchweed is not uprooted with vehemence,
The creeping coals and brimstones,
Shall surely surmount entirely,
"A word to a wise";They say"it enough"
Now go,


                               Oracle
                              ©Historian E.Lexano,
Seán Mac Falls May 2020
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I once was young on shores of pond,
Deep in clump grasses mossy, longed
By seasons that turned shining winds,
Older than years etched into tree rings,
I played at song in the rushes of marsh,
Danced to moon from my bedroom loft
And in the theaters of starlight shadow,
Wrote my fables after sleeping narrows,
Dreamed dreams as young boy should,
Rethinking Sophocles in hemlock wood
I named the flowers wildest within sun,
Built forts from the forest floors of ruin,
Burned in rashes of ivy, itching poison,
Swam by water snakes in mucky unison
Spring was tireless as nettles and bees,
A wide river glided into the seven seas,
Pond was lake and oceans uncharted,
Skies rolling thunder after lightenings
More gold than lots' aspirations prised,
All showers flamed, Promethean fires.
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tompoet rwanda Aug 2018
Just a save of caramity
A dagger for serenity
A crush for the hatred mentality
A bribe for my ability
Diminishing my ample capacity
Breaking my desired apology.

Dark reddish,my eyes glowed
An avalanche on me just snowed
My insecurities are awakened
Like i'm being hypnotized
I don't even know how it started.

Just a fake love with gluesome acids
A sturdy liar with much pretendings
Drowned me into beautiful seemed longings
And left me with grieved feelings
Now there's no more cuddles and soothings
Until my shallow heart
eye a night of elegant lightenings.
Ivan Brooks Sr Feb 2018
The world's weather has gone mad
Grace to man himself
Mother nature is so sad
That she turned on herself.

Now she sneezes disastrous storms
And ***** heavy mudslides.
At noon forests burns,
Leaving acres of burned trees and dead birds.

She no longer showers at noon
Instead, she farts powerful lightenings
And urinates wet monsoons
Before sending the floods in the evenings.

Mother nature is now a vindictive *****.
She unleashes extreme weathers in America.
Next, she breathes the cold on Europe like a witch
And seizes the rainfalls in parts of Africa.

Mother nature's anger causes earthquakes
Her frustration is linked with signs of global warming.
Greenhouse gasses will melt the artic and scorch earth until it bakes
As a sign to mankind that mother nature is fuming.

IBPoetry©️
2/5/2018
Take care of nature, she gave us everything!
Yenson Jun 2020
To another vine lend me your ears precious
in serene pennyworth abide with these musings
perchance some are worth tasting while some to spill
for in roaring thunder even lightenings fall to earths mud
departing in blazing strikes all soon back nowhere
thunder's enraged roars is nowt but a calling ring to clouds

In the town unsettled where beings walk backwards
copulatives asunder in misty dusts of vacuous airs
scatterlings and urchins denied widows mites spittle red-eyed
while reasons abscond and aged find marbles less to minds
in blooming fog and steamy cacophonies vocal daggers brandishes
deadly songs crawl out in hot peculiar jargon devoid of rhyme
dancing wounding poses striking jugulars in scarlet reign

as such the story of the many in times of then and now
but the sages deem if the center holds the outer battle lessens
the ***** to the walking remains grounded despite the big mouth
a wounded tiger carries twofold fierceness
and thus will strike with two paws and hinds
while the blinds sees all beings as dark faced voices regardless
so from the core ill bearing utterances I at quick take to burial
shawled in the knowing of cause and intention as a bird flies
the sour meal put on my table is not mine to eat

A lady of the night is always the first to recognize a *******
pilferers will call others thieves to move the shadows from them
while errant preachers call on God as their witness
misdeeds and chicaneries abound for man is born in sin
sounds alas, the formidable weapons that maim and kills
same as it molds and caresses same as it utters love in lies or truth
so water of a duck's back for some or a fitting burial
or take with that pinch of salt
if in certainty one is absolve of causation
in inner peace the center will hold and one remains fair of face
for Karma is beautiful and not always that ***** of 'renowned

— The End —