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"livelier" poems
Dead fish do not move. They lay there, Dead. Dead fish do not breathe, They lay there, Dead. Dead fish do not speak. They lay there, Dead. But the dead fish do wander. They wander around fish heaven, Or fish hell. Dead fish's minds, lasting longer than their physical bodies do, Explore crevices of the universe that people aren't even familiar with. Well, at least not people from Earth. Dead fish not only wander, but they do this thing that sounds like wander and is spelled like wander but is called "wonder." Their minds forever wonder about things. Like seaweed, ah the good ol' days of eating seaweed. Or maybe dead fish wonder about what life is like now that they are gone. They might wonder if it's raining, or if it's sunny. But they're fish, so what the hell matters if it's raining or sunny? You see, dead fish also do this thing. It sounds much like wander and wonder but it's different. The thing is "nothing." Well, I assume "nothing" would sound like the words "wander" and "wonder" to a dead fish. Considering dead fish can do nothing. They just lay there, Dead. But we are not dead fish. We are alive people, well at least some of us. We can do things. Like ride a rollercoaster, or eat a sandwich. We can watch televisions shows probably longer than most other human beings can. We can write poetry books that only five and a half people will read. (One of those hits home for this author.) We can go out and live lives livelier than those dead fish. We can live for those dead fish. We can wander and wonder and do nothing all at the same time. We are all given life to live and lives to breathe life into. Alive humans and dead fish. At one point in time, we all have the opportunity to be someone who does something maybe even with somebody. Alive humans and dead fish. Dead humans and alive fish. Alive humans and alive fish. Dead human and dead fish. Creatures have beautiful and blank canvases on which they can spill beautiful masterpieces on. Or even blank masterpieces. It just depends on who you're asking to paint you a picture. An alive human, or a dead fish. Both have some type of story to tell.
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Aug 26, 2015
Aug 26, 2015 at 11:16 PM UTC
DEAD FISH
Dead fish do not move. They lay there, Dead. Dead fish do not breathe, They lay there, Dead. Dead fish do not speak. They lay there, Dead. But the dead fish do wander. They wander around fish heaven, Or fish hell. Dead fish's minds, lasting longer than their physical bodies do, Explore crevices of the universe that people aren't even familiar with. Well, at least not people from Earth. Dead fish not only wander, but they do this thing that sounds like wander and is spelled like wander but is called "wonder." Their minds forever wonder about things. Like seaweed, ah the good ol' days of eating seaweed. Or maybe dead fish wonder about what life is like now that they are gone. They might wonder if it's raining, or if it's sunny. But they're fish, so what the hell matters if it's raining or sunny? You see, dead fish also do this thing. It sounds much like wander and wonder but it's different. The thing is "nothing." Well, I assume "nothing" would sound like the words "wander" and "wonder" to a dead fish. Considering dead fish can do nothing. They just lay there, Dead. But we are not dead fish. We are alive people, well at least some of us. We can do things. Like ride a rollercoaster, or eat a sandwich. We can watch televisions shows probably longer than most other human beings can. We can write poetry books that only five and a half people will read. (One of those hits home for this author.) We can go out and live lives livelier than those dead fish. We can live for those dead fish. We can wander and wonder and do nothing all at the same time. We are all given life to live and lives to breathe life into. Alive humans and dead fish. At one point in time, we all have the opportunity to be someone who does something maybe even with somebody. Alive humans and dead fish. Dead humans and alive fish. Alive humans and alive fish. Dead human and dead fish. Creatures have beautiful and blank canvases on which they can spill beautiful masterpieces on. Or even blank masterpieces. It just depends on who you're asking to paint you a picture. An alive human, or a dead fish. Both have some type of story to tell.
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For Leonard Baskin To his house the bodiless Come to barter endlessly Vision, wisdom, for bodies Palpable as his, and weighty. Hands moving move priestlier Than priest's hands, invoke no vain Images of light and air But sure stations in bronze, wood, stone. Obdurate, in dense-grained wood, A bald angel blocks and shapes The flimsy light; arms folded Watches his cumbrous world eclipse Inane worlds of wind and cloud. Bronze dead dominate the floor, Resistive, ruddy-bodied, Dwarfing us. Our bodies flicker Toward extinction in those eyes Which, without him, were beggared Of place, time, and their bodies. Emulous spirits make discord, Try entry, enter nightmares Until his chisel bequeaths Them life livelier than ours, A solider repose than death's.
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Sculptor
I eyed you from across the room, Tim was yak-yakking about some drop D heavy metal band he was drumming in, But I was tired of socializing, I had only come to drink, yet I was overtaken by you. I'd seen you prettier, livelier. You looked so blue decked all in red, in your worn out fuck-me-shoes. I think my mouth was still agape, when your gaze turned my way. We both were locked. Getting headsick from the smoke, waiting for the flame to catch up. You'd never seen me so unkept. I hadn't shaved in a couple months, my hair was to my shoulders, and my body was drowing in wrinkled, secondhand, early 2000s high fashion. I walked over. Leaving Tim talking about fusing dubstep with his metal **** You were working at a bank, making three bucks more than minimum. You changed your major. Your relations got too public, so you're shooting for journalism. Haha me too, or something like that, is what I said. Your smile became parasitic to my clumsy words. You said we should hang out for old time's sake. "I won't take no for an answer." "I'm too sober for this." I walked off, grabbed the flask from Tim, spent the night strolling under streetlights, and hoping to have a revelation. But all I had was a dwindling buzz, and a divine gravity pulling me away from remaking the same mistakes.
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Dec 8, 2010
Dec 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM UTC
Old Times Hitting on the Present
It was a throwback party Of the Bossa Nova Staying up late until The dance was over. The Latin beat pounding, The music was everything It was so happy sounding. Bossa Nova was king. It is the cousin to samba And in Brazil it is the way To party with your amigos Partying the night away. Dancing like the music Lives inside your soul. Much livelier than cha cha Twice as hot as rock and roll. It was a throwback party Of the Bossa Nova Staying up late until The dance was over. Time to wear **** clothing Girls in dresses up so high Men in calças they can dance in Oba! How the hours fly. Music, sometimes words And a strong and ***** beat Drive away the daily worries And put the rhythm in the feet. It was a throwback party Of the Bossa Nova Staying up late until The dance was over. The Latin beat pounding, The music was everything It was so happy sounding. Bossa Nova was king.
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Dec 3, 2015
Dec 3, 2015 at 11:00 PM UTC
BOSSA NOVA PARTY
Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow: Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea! Nor I alone--a thousand bosoms round Inhale thee in the fulness of delight; And languid forms rise up, and pulses bound Livelier, at coming of the wind of night; And, languishing to hear thy grateful sound, Lies the vast inland stretched beyond the sight. Go forth into the gathering shade; go forth, God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth! Go, rock the little wood-bird in his nest, Curl the still waters, bright with stars, and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast: Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep: And they who stand about the sick man's bed, Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep, And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow. Go--but the circle of eternal change, Which is the life of nature, shall restore, With sounds and scents from all thy mighty range Thee to thy birthplace of the deep once more; Sweet odours in the sea-air, sweet and strange, Shall tell the home-sick mariner of the shore; And, listening to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream.
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The Evening Wind
Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow: Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea! Nor I alone--a thousand bosoms round Inhale thee in the fulness of delight; And languid forms rise up, and pulses bound Livelier, at coming of the wind of night; And, languishing to hear thy grateful sound, Lies the vast inland stretched beyond the sight. Go forth into the gathering shade; go forth, God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth! Go, rock the little wood-bird in his nest, Curl the still waters, bright with stars, and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast: Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep: And they who stand about the sick man's bed, Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep, And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow. Go--but the circle of eternal change, Which is the life of nature, shall restore, With sounds and scents from all thy mighty range Thee to thy birthplace of the deep once more; Sweet odours in the sea-air, sweet and strange, Shall tell the home-sick mariner of the shore; And, listening to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream.
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soft words and their way of making people sing lull me like a sweet tune in this chimney, in this place in my head, slurring over and over until lines would draw up triangles of sleepy infant "jeux",   circles of faded fantasies would come to life and pray,   plus rectangles and cornucopias filled with fun and livelier days. clouds of droopy golden light drip over our heads as we both lay in soft blankets made out of my personal handmade Heaven's embrace lush silk pillows under our overweight, over-bearing, strongly fastened necks   'cause they hold Atlas' weight and the answers for today. the cycle ends for another shortened day... the air seems rich with the smell of freshly-made pancakes. little troll walking down the stairs with a new spring in her step. lean into the chocolatey sweetness of a mother's oven-like haze, close your eyes and wonder if you'll ever feel the same.
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Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 at 1:28 PM UTC
warmth in psychology
I see more of you every day. It's been 5 months since you passed, and your sister acts like you. Saturday night she came over, and showed us all your favorite videos. We laughed, as did she, and we realized that for the first time in years, she was a little livelier than before. That's when I realized the skip in her step so closely resembled yours. For a moment of seeing her near the bonfire, I was awfully sure I saw you. As these thoughts left my head I swore I saw you above, shooting star. I pointed out the star, she pointed out that it was dead. Maybe she knew what I was thinking. Maybe that's why she pointed that out. Maybe you're watching her. Maybe you're more proud than I remember. Maybe you're glad she's finally past crying at the mention of your name, because you know we all had that. I know she misses you, more than we. She longs to go back. She regrets all those fights and sleepless nights, and wishes she'd spent just one more hour, or week, pulling pranks. Then maybe, she'd have just a few more memories of you, her brother.
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May 4, 2015
May 4, 2015 at 9:47 PM UTC
Brother
When the sun glowed warm with brighter sheen The Earth that lay inert in drunken sleep Woke up suddenly to greet the glorious dawn Casting aside the blanket of fluffy wool Beams of light thawed and melted the icy crust Leaving the land, bare, bright and new A clean slate for life to make a fresh start And give our Earth a lovely face lift As winter slouched away in staggering steps Spring, came down gracefully on dancing feet Like an ingenious wizard with the Mida’s touch Turning everything into glittering green n’ gold So awesome it is to watch with widening eye The first burgeoning of life with the kiss of spring Every tree n’ every shrub, dressed in sudden sprout of leaves And every plant and every bough bursting into newer buds Daffodils on wayside nodding in blooms of gold Pansies and daisies springing close to passing heels The laburnum and lilacs, getting ready to burst into bloom Flowers yellow, red and blue on every fence and field Butterflies flitting round and round on colorful wings And exotic blooms in gentle breeze swinging their heads The birds that ere migrated to warmer climes Coming back once more to fill the aerial space Sparrows merrily twittering around tiled eaves The robin springing, throwing a livelier note The lark disappearing into the sky of fleecy clouds The swallows shooting out into giddy heights The feathered minstrels, filling the air in riotous rings And Nature covering the Earth in quilts of lovely designs Lovers leave their fireside hearths and coming out To ramble through country paths, hand in hand Oh! Spring has come to wipe away the frosty tear And fill the hearts with overwhelming cheer Let us join this array of happy crowd And sing a song of joy with this mirthful brood
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Jul 15, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 at 11:57 AM UTC
Lovesome Spring
When the sun glowed warm with brighter sheen The Earth that lay inert in drunken sleep Woke up suddenly to greet the glorious dawn Casting aside the blanket of fluffy wool Beams of light thawed and melted the icy crust Leaving the land, bare, bright and new A clean slate for life to make a fresh start And give our Earth a lovely face lift As winter slouched away in staggering steps Spring, came down gracefully on dancing feet Like an ingenious wizard with the Mida’s touch Turning everything into glittering green n’ gold So awesome it is to watch with widening eye The first burgeoning of life with the kiss of spring Every tree n’ every shrub, dressed in sudden sprout of leaves And every plant and every bough bursting into newer buds Daffodils on wayside nodding in blooms of gold Pansies and daisies springing close to passing heels The laburnum and lilacs, getting ready to burst into bloom Flowers yellow, red and blue on every fence and field Butterflies flitting round and round on colorful wings And exotic blooms in gentle breeze swinging their heads The birds that ere migrated to warmer climes Coming back once more to fill the aerial space Sparrows merrily twittering around tiled eaves The robin springing, throwing a livelier note The lark disappearing into the sky of fleecy clouds The swallows shooting out into giddy heights The feathered minstrels, filling the air in riotous rings And Nature covering the Earth in quilts of lovely designs Lovers leave their fireside hearths and coming out To ramble through country paths, hand in hand Oh! Spring has come to wipe away the frosty tear And fill the hearts with overwhelming cheer Let us join this array of happy crowd And sing a song of joy with this mirthful brood
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Wind, you, this oak grandfather clock; That clicked and knocked in Nature’s wind; That grew and leafed and once housed things More and less than clockwork. I grew Once in the sweet season scents, Ignorant of axe-men and axe-wounds, Who, sent on their rounds sent Me to be wound. Slung to the Round, conforming blade That confined me to box. And yet This age would be young were I but Livelier wood. Hands I may have, but my rings are now lost, And my boughs and roots, once strong to climb, And my new-leaf shoots, gone now for chimes (Do they comfort your nights, my new-life screams?) That are of a gold less precious than green. My youth was the joy of wind’s breath on my branches – Before your deep breaths in the chore of your winding. Now we have purpose, but once I had meaning – In whispering and twisting and creaking and leaning.
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Feb 1, 2010
Feb 1, 2010 at 12:32 PM UTC
Words to a Winding Key (Once)
If I finally lost myself, and the pieces of my mind and soul were as scattered as my thoughts, would you find them for me and help piece me back together? If these nightmares finally come true, and my fears and my worries begin ripping me apart at my seams, would you fight them off and stitch together my heart? If I believed what I saw in the mirror and what my mind was whispering in my ear, and began my slow descent into the abyss of self loathing, Would you tell me how you love me? Your words of comfort and consolation are the remedy to the sickness of my mind, an antidote to these poisonous thoughts. I wish they were a vaccine but my mind requires the occasional reassurance. I regret these thoughts and the weight they share in both our hearts, I don't wish to impose this noxious state of mind upon you. But even when my mind is burning, even when I wake, gasping, in the middle of the night, when Pandora's Box is wrenched from my hands and forced open, and Hope flies out, I swear. I swear that I'll love you. I'll love you with my rough hands, with these tired eyes. I'll love you with every last shred of my being, even in the deepest pit of self-hate. Because you're the bottom of that pit. You don't let me fall deeper into my hate. You lift me up and you give me hope. You give me a reason to smile again. When my life flashes before my eyes, it's a boring movie for a while, but then your image comes into the frame and everything becomes brighter and livelier. I love you in the most irretrievable and unconditional way. I've signed off my soul and heart off to you, I have your name and your smile branded into my brain. Everything I have and everything I am, everything I will ever be and that I will ever have, is yours. I surrender myself entirely to you, a flawed being with good intentions. I would lay upon the very ground you walk on and be your bridge when all of them have burned down. I would carry you on my back when your legs give out from underneath you. I would swim across oceans and fight currents to pull you closer to me, I would take a blade or a bullet or both, to prevent any harm from coming to you. I know it may seem overwhelming to you my dear but I won't apologize for the way I've fallen for you. I'm in love with you, and there's no use in denying the truth. So for as long as you choose to deal with my thoughts and my fears, I promise to love you and listen to you and kiss you with all of my heart and every bit of me I can.
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 12:29 PM UTC
Irretrievable Love
If I finally lost myself, and the pieces of my mind and soul were as scattered as my thoughts, would you find them for me and help piece me back together? If these nightmares finally come true, and my fears and my worries begin ripping me apart at my seams, would you fight them off and stitch together my heart? If I believed what I saw in the mirror and what my mind was whispering in my ear, and began my slow descent into the abyss of self loathing, Would you tell me how you love me? Your words of comfort and consolation are the remedy to the sickness of my mind, an antidote to these poisonous thoughts. I wish they were a vaccine but my mind requires the occasional reassurance. I regret these thoughts and the weight they share in both our hearts, I don't wish to impose this noxious state of mind upon you. But even when my mind is burning, even when I wake, gasping, in the middle of the night, when Pandora's Box is wrenched from my hands and forced open, and Hope flies out, I swear. I swear that I'll love you. I'll love you with my rough hands, with these tired eyes. I'll love you with every last shred of my being, even in the deepest pit of self-hate. Because you're the bottom of that pit. You don't let me fall deeper into my hate. You lift me up and you give me hope. You give me a reason to smile again. When my life flashes before my eyes, it's a boring movie for a while, but then your image comes into the frame and everything becomes brighter and livelier. I love you in the most irretrievable and unconditional way. I've signed off my soul and heart off to you, I have your name and your smile branded into my brain. Everything I have and everything I am, everything I will ever be and that I will ever have, is yours. I surrender myself entirely to you, a flawed being with good intentions. I would lay upon the very ground you walk on and be your bridge when all of them have burned down. I would carry you on my back when your legs give out from underneath you. I would swim across oceans and fight currents to pull you closer to me, I would take a blade or a bullet or both, to prevent any harm from coming to you. I know it may seem overwhelming to you my dear but I won't apologize for the way I've fallen for you. I'm in love with you, and there's no use in denying the truth. So for as long as you choose to deal with my thoughts and my fears, I promise to love you and listen to you and kiss you with all of my heart and every bit of me I can.
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You leave us: you will see the Rhine, And those fair hills I sail'd below, When I was there with him; and go By summer belts of wheat and vine To where he breathed his latest breath, That City. All her splendour seems No livelier than the wisp that gleams On Lethe in the eyes of Death. Let her great Danube rolling fair Enwind her isles, unmark'd of me: I have not seen, I will not see Vienna; rather dream that there, A treble darkness, Evil haunts The birth, the bridal; friend from friend Is oftener parted, fathers bend Above more graves, a thousand wants Gnarr at the heels of men, and prey By each cold hearth, and sadness flings Her shadow on the blaze of kings: And yet myself have heard him say, That not in any mother town With statelier progress to and fro The double tides of chariots flow By park and suburb under brown Of lustier leaves; nor more content, He told me, lives in any crowd, When all is gay with lamps, and loud With sport and song, in booth and tent, Imperial halls, or open plain; And wheels the circled dance, and breaks The rocket molten into flakes Of crimson or in emerald rain.
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 098
As thy friend’s face, with shadow of soul o’erspread, Somewhile unto thy sight perchance hath been Ghastly and strange, yet never so is seen In thought, but to all fortunate favour wed; As thy love’s death-bound features never dead To memory’s glass return, but contravene Frail fugitive days, and always keep, I ween Than all new life a livelier lovelihead:— So Life herself, thy spirit’s friend and love, Even still as Spring’s authentic harbinger Glows with fresh hours for hope to glorify; Though pale she lay when in the winter grove Her funeral flowers were snow-flakes shed on her And the red wings of frost-fire rent the sky.
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Life The Beloved
‘TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well, the horned head: We poor lads, ’tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship ’tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time Moping melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.’ Why, if ’tis dancing you would be, There’s brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s ways to man. Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter *** To see the world as the world’s not. And faith, ’tis pleasant till ’tis past: The mischief is that ’twill not last. Oh I have been to Ludlow fair And left my necktie God knows where, And carried half way home, or near, Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer: Then the world seemed none so bad, And I myself a sterling lad; And down in lovely muck I’ve lain, Happy till I woke again. Then I saw the morning sky: Heigho, the tale was all a lie; The world, it was the old world yet, I was I, my things were wet, And nothing now remained to do But begin the game anew.
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Sep 21, 2015
Sep 21, 2015 at 5:30 PM UTC
LXII. Terence, this is stupid stuff
Entangled in this lost love this New trust all wrapped in New lust this gray scale Between being alone and in love The enigma I am, Existing between the borders Of feeling enough leaning up against that hard line Marking off space for the insufficients, Deaf,loners and mutes and All those awkward adolescents, Loitering on the far side of sanity. Any body ostracized for being different than what ever normal means. Or those lonley people like me. your meek and vulnerable, Dyeing For something on the other side I fiddle around somewhere in the middle Sometimes I’m so sad And I just don’t cry. It just wont work And then when you have me laughing Side aching gasping I think of all the little things And now that I feel safe I can take a breath, I want to cry about everything. What the hell does that mean? There finely something to feed the ache in my chest. I feel livelier I feel brighter And sadder in the same ways But I’m like a beacon shining through the broken Hanging to the notion that broken dreams Can heal too and when they get together They can transform like a caterpillar Into the butterflies in you. When you smile it’s like a glimpse at a truth I keep chasing after but have never really seen Heading contrary to this person I became. You excite me into being something I am but have never lived And I’m fighting to see who she is I’m pinning myself against the answers to the questions About who this new person really is. And wondering the part in it you will play, Kicking my self for my uncertainty in the claim Of being broken or brave At this silent admission of my wanting you to stay.
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Mar 17, 2013
Mar 17, 2013 at 8:12 PM UTC
Entangled
Entangled in this lost love this New trust all wrapped in New lust this gray scale Between being alone and in love The enigma I am, Existing between the borders Of feeling enough leaning up against that hard line Marking off space for the insufficients, Deaf,loners and mutes and All those awkward adolescents, Loitering on the far side of sanity. Any body ostracized for being different than what ever normal means. Or those lonley people like me. your meek and vulnerable, Dyeing For something on the other side I fiddle around somewhere in the middle Sometimes I’m so sad And I just don’t cry. It just wont work And then when you have me laughing Side aching gasping I think of all the little things And now that I feel safe I can take a breath, I want to cry about everything. What the hell does that mean? There finely something to feed the ache in my chest. I feel livelier I feel brighter And sadder in the same ways But I’m like a beacon shining through the broken Hanging to the notion that broken dreams Can heal too and when they get together They can transform like a caterpillar Into the butterflies in you. When you smile it’s like a glimpse at a truth I keep chasing after but have never really seen Heading contrary to this person I became. You excite me into being something I am but have never lived And I’m fighting to see who she is I’m pinning myself against the answers to the questions About who this new person really is. And wondering the part in it you will play, Kicking my self for my uncertainty in the claim Of being broken or brave At this silent admission of my wanting you to stay.
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There is no need... To try to be a Superhero Be satisfied by just giving someone's the light Be their light in the darkness So their life is brighter is livelier than ever before.. Free someone from their darkest life The best deed you do indeed...
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Dec 29, 2013
Dec 29, 2013 at 10:59 AM UTC
Good Deed
he slept in a world slightly higher truer livelier than mine, a world that held him tighter and loved him sharper than i could have with my earthen arms. but i felt him come back to me when the weariness of my bones asked for a glimmer moment taste of eternity from his lips and he gave it to me
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Sep 7, 2016
Sep 7, 2016 at 12:12 AM UTC
good morning kiss
Witch-elms that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright; And thou, with all thy breadth and height Of foliage, towering sycamore; How often, hither wandering down, My Arthur found your shadows fair, And shook to all the liberal air The dust and din and steam of town: He brought an eye for all he saw; He mixt in all our simple sports; They pleased him, fresh from brawling courts And dusty purlieus of the law. O joy to him in this retreat, Immantled in ambrosial dark, To drink the cooler air, and mark The landscape winking thro' the heat: O sound to rout the brood of cares, The sweep of scythe in morning dew, The gust that round the garden flew, And tumbled half the mellowing pears! O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on the lawn: Or in the all-golden afternoon A guest, or happy sister, sung, Or here she brought the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon: Nor less it pleased in livelier moods, Beyond the bounding hill to stray, And break the livelong summer day With banquet in the distant woods; Whereat we glanced from theme to theme, Discuss'd the books to love or hate, Or touch'd the changes of the state, Or threaded some Socratic dream; But if I praised the busy town, He loved to rail against it still, For 'ground in yonder social mill We rub each other's angles down, 'And merge' he said 'in form and gloss The picturesque of man and man.' We talk'd: the stream beneath us ran, The wine-flask lying couch'd in moss, Or cool'd within the glooming wave; And last, returning from afar, Before the crimson-circled star Had fall'n into her father's grave, And brushing ankle-deep in flowers, We heard behind the woodbine veil The milk that bubbled in the pail, And buzzings of the honied hours.
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 089
Witch-elms that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright; And thou, with all thy breadth and height Of foliage, towering sycamore; How often, hither wandering down, My Arthur found your shadows fair, And shook to all the liberal air The dust and din and steam of town: He brought an eye for all he saw; He mixt in all our simple sports; They pleased him, fresh from brawling courts And dusty purlieus of the law. O joy to him in this retreat, Immantled in ambrosial dark, To drink the cooler air, and mark The landscape winking thro' the heat: O sound to rout the brood of cares, The sweep of scythe in morning dew, The gust that round the garden flew, And tumbled half the mellowing pears! O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on the lawn: Or in the all-golden afternoon A guest, or happy sister, sung, Or here she brought the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon: Nor less it pleased in livelier moods, Beyond the bounding hill to stray, And break the livelong summer day With banquet in the distant woods; Whereat we glanced from theme to theme, Discuss'd the books to love or hate, Or touch'd the changes of the state, Or threaded some Socratic dream; But if I praised the busy town, He loved to rail against it still, For 'ground in yonder social mill We rub each other's angles down, 'And merge' he said 'in form and gloss The picturesque of man and man.' We talk'd: the stream beneath us ran, The wine-flask lying couch'd in moss, Or cool'd within the glooming wave; And last, returning from afar, Before the crimson-circled star Had fall'n into her father's grave, And brushing ankle-deep in flowers, We heard behind the woodbine veil The milk that bubbled in the pail, And buzzings of the honied hours.
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Hearts sparse in this carpark, the wind feeling rowdy, biting like a small rabid animal with no collar wandering the city alone at night. The car is making me claustrophobic, I've spent far too much time with the heat, too many minutes burning cigarettes and my hands near-numb from the caffeine. Poems are less like action movies and more like action paintings exploding in suspended motion. I'm sure we all remember when art felt new. I can't recall when it didn't feel so lived-in. (*And of course this poem is merely a memory of feelings, which is not much of anything to me or you because the past is dry and done and does not intrude.*) Lincoln, Nebraska is a livelier city than one expects. It is like going to an art exhibit expecting Rothko and getting Basquiat, bombast and immediacy. My favorite poet is Craig Morgan Teicher because he and I may ramble but he is not afraid to sacrifice accessibility for feeling. He could find the beauty in the image of Lincoln, Nebraska in January. I will soon need to devise another way to keep myself entertained so let us say this CD spins one more time and maybe I can go for a walk, clear my head. I do not intend this to be wrought with sentiment, but there are times I am not as cold as this city. There are times the mind must scream so the heart stays safe.
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Dec 10, 2014
Dec 10, 2014 at 2:07 AM UTC
Lincoln, Nebraska (pt. I)
Oh, wast thou with me, dearest, then, While I rose up against my doom, And yearn'd to burst the folded gloom, To bare the eternal Heavens again, To feel once more, in placid awe, The strong imagination roll A sphere of stars about my soul, In all her motion one with law; If thou wert with me, and the grave Divide us not, be with me now, And enter in at breast and brow, Till all my blood, a fuller wave, Be quicken'd with a livelier breath, And like an inconsiderate boy, As in the former flash of joy, I slip the thoughts of life and death; And all the breeze of Fancy blows, And every dew-drop paints a bow, The wizard lightnings deeply glow, And every thought breaks out a rose.
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 122
They said she'd never walk again That she'd never be the same To a wheelchair her world confined But my faith lies otherwise They said she'd never walk again But I know she'll do much more She'll dance and leap and sing And shout with endless joy They said she'd never walk again But boy were they wrong She's as lively as a mockingbird And sings even livelier songs They said she'd never walk again But I push them off with a shrug I dream at night and I see her Swinging, waltzing and doing the jitterbug They said she'd never walk again And swore it on their graves too But I swear now on the whole wide world Grandma: I Love You
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Dec 31, 2011
Dec 31, 2011 at 10:12 AM UTC
They Said She'd Never Walk Again
I love seeing you in colors. You don't notice me at all. You've never noticed me. Heck, you probably don't know me. But I know you, and I know that I love seeing you in colors. You were wearing yellow the first time I saw you. The sun was hot and shining in the sky, and you were leaning against the brick wall our school, your shirt standing out against the the dull brown background. I especially loved how the yellow complimented your green eyes, how it made them seem brighter, livelier. When it rains, I find that you wear blue. Every single time. I imagine you are friends with the weather gods and coordinate with the rain so that you can wear something blue. It's endearing, seeing you fiddle the blue buttons of your blue shirt as you gaze outside, then softly closing your eyes as you listen to the pitter patter of the rain. When someone from school died you didn't wear black. Instead, you wore red. More than half of the school wore black that day but you wore red. It made your skin shine, and your lips looked even more red. I heard someone ask why you wore red and you answered it was the dead's favorite color. You were always beautiful, especially inside, and I loved that. You look so good in color. The world could go dark but I bet you'd shine. It doesn't matter what color you were wearing, it will always look good on you. To top it off, you were also kind, gentle, loving. You have a beautiful soul, so beautiful. Maybe that's why all colors look good on you, because they're reflecting your kind heart. Soon, I found that it didn't matter to me what color you were wearing. Because out of all colors, the brightest and most beautiful was you.
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Apr 16, 2017
Apr 16, 2017 at 1:44 PM UTC
colors
I love seeing you in colors. You don't notice me at all. You've never noticed me. Heck, you probably don't know me. But I know you, and I know that I love seeing you in colors. You were wearing yellow the first time I saw you. The sun was hot and shining in the sky, and you were leaning against the brick wall our school, your shirt standing out against the the dull brown background. I especially loved how the yellow complimented your green eyes, how it made them seem brighter, livelier. When it rains, I find that you wear blue. Every single time. I imagine you are friends with the weather gods and coordinate with the rain so that you can wear something blue. It's endearing, seeing you fiddle the blue buttons of your blue shirt as you gaze outside, then softly closing your eyes as you listen to the pitter patter of the rain. When someone from school died you didn't wear black. Instead, you wore red. More than half of the school wore black that day but you wore red. It made your skin shine, and your lips looked even more red. I heard someone ask why you wore red and you answered it was the dead's favorite color. You were always beautiful, especially inside, and I loved that. You look so good in color. The world could go dark but I bet you'd shine. It doesn't matter what color you were wearing, it will always look good on you. To top it off, you were also kind, gentle, loving. You have a beautiful soul, so beautiful. Maybe that's why all colors look good on you, because they're reflecting your kind heart. Soon, I found that it didn't matter to me what color you were wearing. Because out of all colors, the brightest and most beautiful was you.
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It wouldn't matter now, would it? Anything, anyone Empty heart with a cluttered brain Deadlier than the history Livelier than the memory I wish and wish if only I could hope The float of the bubble , nowhere to go Stuck in a limbo In the casket , about to dig the grave Empty, so empty i am, this is vain.
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Nov 28, 2021
Nov 28, 2021 at 3:21 AM UTC
vain
- *How could I see the fire in your soul? And let hidden from their eyes How could I hear your emotion? Like whispering wind And kept silent from their ears I wonder how I feel you, Why your ghost feels so alive to me? Your melody twirls livelier than a young girl Skin glows brighter than a new-born Breathe warmer than a summer sun So young but so old to caress me expertly Like you’re dwelling inside eternally, Moving from time to time From one body to another, Like an endless poetry That saves every lonely person Stuck under the blank night With no moon and no stars Merely looking to an end... a light, a hope, or death*
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Sep 27, 2016
Sep 27, 2016 at 1:52 PM UTC
Lonely Saves the Lonely
Summer's webs remain behind. They are tucked between an air conditioner who is leaving for vacation on a shelf in the laundry room downstairs and the window frame that faces a lonely winter tucked out of view on a short wall staring at the pond next door which has been emptied by this Autumn's drought. And like that old mottled and greyed lace dress I saw hanging limply in a thrift shop once, they speak of livelier times.
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Nov 3, 2013
Nov 3, 2013 at 11:24 PM UTC
Summer's Webs Remain
You're a myth, a product of a playful imagination, A beauty with no trace of imperfection. You are an angel, disguised as a human sent from above. Within your presence, I never felt like a flightless dove. Your character is filled with gallant bravery, And while in your arms, I feel serenity. You are magnificent in every single way, Without you in this world, I have no reasons to stay. Despite your admirable grandiloquence, You noticed me when the world was oblivious to my absence. You ended my lamentations when my world seems blue, And made it livelier along with numerous vibrant hues. You are my knight in shining armor, The love of my life forevermore. You are my protector, my heart's fervor. For you are an angel and I'm only human, nothing more. In this world full of hurt and pain, You're the one who helped me through the rain. Slowly as time passed by, a love like a blooming rose began. No one knew how or why, but to me you're like no other man. For you are my angel and I, your human.
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Jan 24, 2015
Jan 24, 2015 at 7:02 AM UTC
The Knight Angel