"lightyear" poems
when the aliens come down in their spaceship
when they land on earth after their lightyear-long trip
would they see the war? would they see the hate?
would they see the body count? would they see the weight
of our actions when we cause all this pain?
would they take one glance at earth and never come again?
Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 11:24 AM UTC
The wheel of the quivering meat
conception
Turns in the void expelling human beings,
Pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nits,
Mice, lice, lizards, rats, roan
Racinghorses, poxy bucolic pigtics,
Horrible unnameable lice of vultures,
Murderous attacking dog-armies
Of Africa, Rhinos roaming in the
jungle,
Vast boars and huge gigantic bull
Elephants, rams, eagles, condors,
Pones and Porcupines and Pills-
All the endless conception of living
beings
Gnashing everywhere in Consciousness
Throughout the ten directions of space
Occupying all the quarters in & out,
From supermicroscopic no-bug
To huge Galaxy Lightyear Bowell
Illuminating the sky of one Mind-
Poor!
I wish I was free
of that slaving meat wheel
and safe in heaven dead.
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you shine bright as the sun
you're as beautiful as the
stars in the night sky
you're more brilliant
than a shooting star
more rare than a comet
i'm red with anger
much like mars
over not being in the
same room as yours
your blue eyes
draw me in and
make me feel safe
and comfortable
much like uranus
and neptune
their beautiful pale blue
color matches your eyes
don't forget the kindhearted
yellow color of venus
named after the goddess
of love aphrodite
that planet can represent
my love for you
because you're my light
in the darkness
of all space
and to end this
know that if you leave
like pluto
i'll miss you dearly
so please stay
another lightyear
and be my moon
together we'll create harmony
within ourselves
and within each other
because we're all stars
Sep 13, 2016
Sep 13, 2016 at 9:02 PM UTC
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TO
INFINITY
AND BEYOND
TO INFINITY
AND BEYOND
TO INFINITY
AND BEYOND
TO INFINITY
AND BEYOND
TO INFINITY
AND BEYOND
TO INFINITY
AND BEYOND
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND TO
INFINITY AND BEYOND TO
INFINITY AND BEYOND.
Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 1:00 PM UTC
Her legs hang low,
just above the night's whispering tide,
illuminated only by dawn's dim light.
Polar limbs and the nonlinear confide.
She does not hide. No, not on this night.
Her outstretched arms
question the supposed limitless oblivion.
For foot by mile, lightyear by revolution,
she has seen everything:
Loves enactment upon re-enactment,
The crying of the lost and lonely infant,
the rodent's of the night that creep and crawl along
a city's cobblestone streets,
and she has seen two worlds fall asleep
time and time again.
The moon has already heard forever
yet each night she listens to a different tune.
The moon is forever.
The light and the wise coccoon.
Nov 17, 2011
Nov 17, 2011 at 8:47 AM UTC
Stars are history lit by lightyears of time
There is one for every being that ever lived
Every blade of grass, every greatest mind
That is why they are uncountable
(The value of life cannot be measured)
Light travels in years and years
Faster than cars every drunken day
It’s no wonder that it starts the planets spinning
Sets the universe in a haphazard dance
(Though music doesn’t conduct in the absence of air)
We don’t see stars like the dinosaurs did
We see stars as they existed back then
A lightyear is a tower with a thousand floors
On every one there’s a doorway filled by glass
(These lives are not yours to live, not yet)
You and me, we’re all condensed explosions
Speckles of supernovas and molecules of galaxies
Humans are a thousand sparks of history
Condensed into one hundred years
(The past repeats because it is always reborn)
Dreams are a symphony played by chance collisions
Seconds in a blink of eternity’s eye
Yet a single thought can flash-bang a revolution
Save a life or take a future
(No matter how you’re small, you really do matter)
We can map space to the edge of our sightline
Make quadrants for fire and roadways for brightness
Though it’s hard to draw lines through thinner than air
To hold electricity in a loop of motion
(Mastery over kinetic does not a monarchy make)
Every day we walk through echoes of motion
Fading into combination and reflecting forensics
Don’t dust for fingerprints, dust for enlightenment
The inspiration in the flowers of a fairy ring
(Eternal dances with skeletons always have the best music)
Shake hands with the ghosts of every stuttering memory
Life is a game played with actions, not words
We the people has always meant people, not person
That’s why East Coast waves echo on West Coast shores
(Midwest sings salt ’n dust chemical rain)
I’ve met people capable of infinite kindness
I’ve been beaten down by unconscious hate
It’s always a game of chess in this world
No one has less than twelve reasons for what they do
(Except with love, which is madness, which doesn’t count)
Every star has a person to belong to
Every past holds hands tight with the future
Every spark has a little bit of kindling
And the crescendo of dreams shifts the world on its foundation
(Burning bright means so much less than helping others catch flame.)
Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 10:35 PM UTC
*To me family is:
All the people that mean something to you.
They dont have to be blood.
They dont have to be the same race, gender, age, religion.
As long as they mean something to you
As long as you love them with everything you have.
That
is what I call
Family.*
~~~~~~~~~
So you mean Like you are to me Fenix?
~~~~~~~~~~
Yes Hawk. That is what I mean.
~~~~~~~~
***Fenix you know you are my sister.
I love you through and through
You've pulled me out of the gutter more times then I would like to admit.
You've been there for me
And I have tried my hardest to be there for you.
To my children you will Always be Aunty.
To my wife you are consider sister in law.
I will always be your big brother
There to protect you.***
~~~~~
*Yes Hawk you are my big brother.
Forever*
~~~~~
Infinity and beyond
~~~~~
*What are we?
Toy story?*
~~~~~~
***I am Buzzlightyear
Hear me Roar***
~~~~~~~~~
*Dear Gundi
if your are buzz lightyear
we are all doomed*
~~~~~
hums you got a friend in me
~~~~~~
And this is why we are family
Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 12:23 PM UTC
In the middle of folding laundry one afternoon
thinking this might not be a big deal
but then again it's not such a bad way to spend the day and
the back door opened and
my neighbor showed up in full paintball gun attire and
pointed his paintball gun at me and
yelled at me to get on the ground!
i smiled and
put down my child's underwear and
grabbed his Buzz Lightyear sound and
light activated laser gun that he had recently gotten for Christmas and
aimed it at him and
yelled NO! You get on the ground and
then 40 men rushed into my house and
at least 10 of them had rifles and
i was thrown down on the floor,
wood floor,
right cheek made direct impact and
**** that hurt and
i heard a shout of a voice ordering the 10 men with the 10 rifles pointed at my head
not to shoot and
that the shoot to **** order was off,
that it was a toy plastic gun,
he repeated,
it was a plastic children's toy and
in one fell swoop of motion my right shoulder was taken out of its socket and
**** that hurt and
twisted around behind my back in order to handcuff that hand to my other hand and
stand me up and
walk me out as I watched dozens and
dozens of what i could only presume to be storm troopers from the Star Wars movies wearing white protective gear covering their shoes bodies and
faces entirely
spilling into my house with the great invasion of an ant colony and
several groupings of men in black pants and
black shirts with white letters on the back spelling out different acronyms such as S. W. A.T., and
K.B.I, KDH&E;
The storm troopers were actually Bio HAZ MAT men
testing to see if the air quality in the house was higher than their acceptable limits of
risk of having a chemical explosion occur
while in the house on that afternoon of January
when officers of the Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Group
executed a search warrant at my house on Main St.in my small town in Kansas and
made entry at the location and
took me into custody while
Certified **** Lab Techs from the Sheriff’s Office
collected 2 Mountain Dew bottles and
some rubber tubing and
rendered the items safe and
Agents of HazMat Inc. were contacted and
responded to collect the hazardous materials for disposal
I sat in the back seat of the cop car and
thought this might be a big deal
this could be a bad way to spend the day
Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 2:42 AM UTC
Where along did the line become dotted?
When did the line become crossable through gaps?
Steady white line, double parallel yellows
Following this lined street till I find the end,
Till I get to the bottom,
Till this drawn line stays constant and cannot be crossed.
Who was the first to cross this line that is so drawn on my soul?
That so moves me to boil with red convection and spill
Drips down my pan side face. Third degree flame ignited pain
In every line of bone and vain in my body.
Walking by playground filled with shouts and laughs,
Stomping little feet, hands of monkeys.
Nothing but joy and impressions, pressed into the skin.
Children are so easily impressed.
The blacktop filled with lines is the child’s whole world
Of lines to frolic at four-square or hop-scotch to the jungle bars.
On the way to the cafeteria to lunch with pink and blue tennis shoes
And lunch boxes of Snow White and Buzz Lightyear
Listen when told to stay in line.
Listen to:
Lines of scratched skin. Lines crossed.
Lines of makeup drips. Lines crossed always remembered.
Lines of people trying to forget
Being line crossed by one who found a gap.
In the middle of that same bad dream
I always try to wake you up before it happens.
To you who veers the line, you who crossed
You who stings, you who injures:
When and where I meet you,
I will show you these lines.
I will teach you.
Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 11:36 PM UTC
*To me family is:
All the people that mean something to you.
They dont have to be blood.
They dont have to be the same race, gender, age, religion.
As long as they mean something to you
As long as you love them with everything you have.
That
is what I call
Family.*
~~~~~~~~~
So you mean Like you are to me Fenix?
~~~~~~~~~~
Yes Hawk. That is what I mean.
~~~~~~~~
***Fenix you know you are my sister.
I love you through and through
You've pulled me out of the gutter more times then I would like to admit.
You've been there for me
And I have tried my hardest to be there for you.
To my children you will Always be Aunty.
To my wife you are consider sister in law.
I will always be your big brother
There to protect you.***
~~~~~
*Yes Hawk you are my big brother.
Forever*
~~~~~
Infinity and beyond
~~~~~
*What are we?
Toy story?*
~~~~~~
***I am Buzzlightyear
Hear me Roar***
~~~~~~~~~
*Dear Gundi
if your are buzz lightyear
we are all doomed*
~~~~~
hums you got a friend in me
~~~~~~
And this is why we are family
Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 10:47 AM UTC
There’s no fear in the place
I’m going to be in a few years,
In the time it takes to tune a piano,
In the decades of a dog’s wagging tail.
There’s nothing scary there.
When I’m as many years older
As there are seconds in a lightyear,
Or sound waves in wallpaper,
I’ll still be cock-a-doodle-doing perfectly
Dandy in a yellow-spotted bouncy way.
When I’ve said and written as many
Words as there are to say on an afternoon,
And when my heart’s as old and big
As orange and gold, as great as
A slide whistle going up, up, up, then,
I’ll see what I saw when I was
The size of a bright laugh:
That all the world, in its infantile grace,
(Even the places nearly shaded from sight)
Is bursting with unexplainable light.
Feb 28, 2011
Feb 28, 2011 at 6:43 PM UTC
Are you searching
or are you lost
Have you, a map
or are the stars your guide
Because if so I'd like to tell them
To not keep you for long
As the blades of grass I'm sitting on
are starting to suffocate
with the earth beneath
barely keeping themselves together
Are you searching
or are you lost
Because I'd like to know how much longer I have in waiting
or is it even worth all the petals I've strung away
And just in case time runs out
I want you to know that I was here
That I've always been listening
from the other side of the moon
Are you searching
or are you lost
Because perhaps one day
if you do find me
I'd like to tell you about that one time
I felt infinite
with only the night sky as company
and a choir of stars as a lullaby
Are you searching
or are you lost
Because I hope I haven't been the only one
crossing oceans of doubt
and climbing mountains of fear
with hopes of being a lightyear closer from where you are
Are you searching
or are you lost
Because I too, am searching
but I'm quite afraid
I might probably be
a little lost
Oct 11, 2013
Oct 11, 2013 at 2:41 PM UTC
The light that shines upon me,
Is the reflection of your beauty
That sweet sunshine
Radiates like diamonds from a deep mine
It blinds me and I can't see much else
A fire roars in my heart and I burn myself.
A bright star against an obsidian sky,
Light as overwhelming as the sparkle in your eye
But you've illuminated my life more than any flaming orb could,
If I had to travel a lightyear to get to you I would.
Like a supernova, you ripped apart my world
And put it back together in the shape of a beautiful girl.
Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 8:07 PM UTC
I bought a Joker bobblehead at an antique store
it bobbled it's head as I went out the door
it bobbled and turned
and with a laugh it said
get me out of this box *****
or I'll slice off your head
I turned right around
went back in the store
and asked for a refund
of $11.54 - including tax
I'm sorry she said
no refunds given here
now you're stuck with that *****
may God help you my dear
he's carved and beheaded
every Woody in my collection
he set fire to Buzz Lightyear
and gave Barbie a c-section
he's the devil himself
inside that bobbin' head
you'd better unload him
or soon you'll be dead
before she could put the closed sign on the door
I heard the feet of the Joker as they hit the floor
now you've done it she moaned
we've lost his *** now
I'm taking lunch
so find him somehow
before I could think of what my game plan would be
a voice, and a bob, bob, bob from behind laughed at me
'10.99 for the Joker plus tax!?'
and I turned just in time to catch Daniel Boone's ax
between the eyes!
May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016 at 12:43 PM UTC
*My heart pounds like the Leonids.
I fail to find the voice to console her.
I do not wish to be the reclining Moon,
Nor the twilight that reminds her of the little things.
She has the eyes of a heavenly body,
I love her blindly.
And as the slow lightyear of a tear
Shoots down to her lips, I wonder
How the stars really taste like.
And so we kiss,
But it did not change the universe.*
© 2015 J.S.P.
Nov 17, 2015
Nov 17, 2015 at 10:50 PM UTC
My Cuddlebugs, November 25th, 2010
Good night and sleep tight
say your prayers every night.
Have pleasant, sweet dreams
of laughing and playful screams,
and of your joyful friends
flying kites in the wind
or kicking the ball
through the leaves of Fall.
Remember this
and it's first on my list
I'll love you forever
and we'll soon be together
Our bond is so strong
to try and break would be wrong.
You're in my heart always
in my prayers all the days.
To not have you here,
I shed tear after tear
I'm counting down to the day
I bring you back home to stay.
What's happening to us isn't fair and you'll see
that your smiles and laughter belong home with me.
Until then be strong
even though this is wrong
and again soon our home will have laughter and cheer,
running and jumping with Iron Man and Buzz Lightyear.
So, until that day I too will be strong
and together we can go to infinity and beyond!
Love,
MOMMY
Jan 3, 2011
Jan 3, 2011 at 9:29 PM UTC
Bars of the year
Im lightyears ahead of my peers
They need lightyear speed to be at least near
Im already in the future my flow galatic
Futuristic bars thats traveling
At the speed of light
You can Only catch a image with satellites
Flow like black holes
My mind celestial
To be technical ima extraterrestrial
Flyer than an astro
Im passed pluto
An Almighty being gave me this cerebral
My presence can be felt in the devils cathedral
Yall space shuttles need more artificial intelligence
I beat rappers wit my past flow thats past tense
Even in the present
im better
my mind need some excedrins
Im jus continuing from the sequel
My past flow was even unbeatable
Its not legal
To be thinking
Jul 30, 2015
Jul 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM UTC
If you saw me
I might be upside down,
Different spectra of vibrations
Pulsing from my goosebumped knees.
I imagine if I sweep my arms back and forth
Across the benthic stretches of our skies
I may feel your structure
In the crease of my thumb.
I reach my hand out to touch you.
Your elbow is somewhere in space,
Bent a certain posture.
It's possibly inverted,
But it could be rigid and reaching for my hair.
I think your forehead may point toward my collarbone,
Protruding like deer antlers.
In your universe my collarbone looks different,
Objects that will never be
metaphoric molds for my words,
But exist in every third line of your poetry
You may or may not write.
In-between our possible distance
There are millions of bodies,
Or just a few.
Neither of these options we can see
Or touch.
We will never know how close our blinks are.
Yet I can feel my breath rush down my chin,
Knowing if we ever found each other
Your exhale would twist into mine.
Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 12:51 AM UTC
I love you and always will but I can no longer beg or force you to stay.
I don’t know how much more pain and heartbreak my heart can take.
Don’t fall in love with a poet because your heart will break and you know it.
I wish someone had told me that before I fell so deep in love with you.
Within your circle of friends someone knew that you were falling in love with someone new.
But you kept me waiting all this time just so you could let me down like gravity.
I gave you the galaxy but somehow you still needed more space – that was very imprudent of you.
My Buzz Lightyear heart was willing to love you to infinity and beyond.
The buzz my love gives out could last for light-years so this is more than just another toy story.
Love does not know the pain it heals and pain does not know the love it seeks.
It’s hard walking away from a girl whose arms I’ve always wanted to run into.
What should I do now with the love that I have always wanted to give to you?
Someone knew that you were gradually falling in love with someone new.
You should have known where I was coming from; I was doing just fine before you came along.
Someone knew that there was a possibility that I closed myself off from loving someone new because of you.
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016 at 4:52 AM UTC
I honestly can’t tell you how I feel if I haven’t fully internalised my emotions.
My ex-girlfriend used to tell me that showing vulnerability is a weakness.
Even when we were both falling in love, she always kept her distance.
For a good reason that never sat well with me, that’s why we let each other down like gravity.
I’ve been repeatedly questioning myself for over some time now, why am I lacking longevity?
We could never rewrite our history because even if I gave her the galaxy, she would still need more space.
My Buzz Lightyear heart was willing to love her to infinity and beyond.
This is pain and poetry, this is me drowning in depression and loneliness.
This is me admitting that I am an emotional wreck, my heart is in a mess.
I’ve been concerned about caring for everyone that I lost touch with loving myself wholeheartedly.
I’ve been concerned about caring for everyone that they gradually stopped checking up on me.
So, from this point onwards, know that all these poems will no longer be written the same.
These words cannot explain the tidal waves of mystery I always find myself drowning in.
These waves of depression drown me in complete silence, so even if I cried for help you wouldn’t be able to hear me.
It’s unfortunate that even if I cried for help you wouldn’t be able to save me.
Nov 23, 2017
Nov 23, 2017 at 8:20 AM UTC
We wish you a happy Halloween
To celebrate Halloween
Party on at Halloween
Yes that sounds so radical dude
Party with the goblins
Party with Dracula
Party with the ghosts
Party with monsters
Party with Godzilla
Oh yeah we will be happy at
Halloween yes we will celebrate it oh yeah
Party with red cordial for blood
Lolly snakes for worms
Black liquorish for the bowerconstricter
Yes that sounds really rad
Kids going trick or treating
Dressed up as characters they like
Some people go as Tim the toolman
And buzz lightyear and mr potato head
Happy Halloween happy Halloween
Happy Halloween everyone
Sep 1, 2020
Sep 1, 2020 at 8:34 AM UTC
i measure snow
by the lightyear --
only a few atoms per cubic
meter.
do you hear the crystals form?
the unfeeling, passionless mist looms
over the door, like over the bin of lamb chops at the grocer's.
an exit with no entrance
a retreat with no paid leave.
why won't you let me in?
i can see so many dying stars
in that compound eye of a cockroach
who hides in the walls, behind
a shield of asbestos, turning
over onto its back, vulnerable.
a thin sheet of ice forms over a puddle.
i dip my foot in and my boot so easily permeates,
intrudes.
Aug 20, 2019
Aug 20, 2019 at 12:11 PM UTC
Feeling the palm of your hand in mine is all I can ask for in order to feel calm. Sometimes I fear that I miss my life passing by as I'm trying so hard to remember everything, trying desperately to record instead of actually listening. I feel as though I live more through my memories than I do in the present, and even while they are happening I begin to feel nostalgic for the moment at hand; I know that life is the sand of an hour glass, but I still cry when the grains slip between my fingers. I want to shatter the glass of this containment, but instead I trace the curve like I would of your cheek, wishing for every yesterday to last forever. They say there are more stars in the sky than the number of grains of sand on every beach on Earth, and I know how each kiss burns like a lightyear. I can't imagine how long it would take to count these seconds, losing time with every breath
May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 11:50 PM UTC
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Apr 14, 2015
Apr 14, 2015 at 12:33 AM UTC