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"misfortunes" poems
In order to expose my heart and truly write, I must release my status or my pride, this is not about me, it was never meant to be a way to gain recognition, another way for me to perform on a stage, some sort of exhibition. Yet I find myself hesitating to write my thoughts, trying to impress people I don't even know, It was only meant to be an outlet a therapy for me, never some sort of show, but like everything I have ever done somehow Id rather waste my time trying to impress. My guilty conscience driving me to be truly under duress. Forced to hold back the leanings of my heart I merely release a fluffy worthless shallow piece. I will not be stifled, held down by my need to please, my ribs will not rupture under this pressure as I try to breathe. I must write with heart and soul or not at all. So this is my open message to you pride, no matter how many times I fool myself into putting on your mask, I promise, your control over me will not last. I will take you off just as quickly as I put you on because I want someone who reads these to truly see me. To see me with all of my scars misfortunes and faith, I will put my heart out, I will never aspire to be fake.
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 10:18 PM UTC
Pride
burn the light of fire and wax the ears of injustice. chide the moon and bid ado to the reckless sun. count the blessings of misfortunes and wave verbs in the air-- breathing the hopeful breaths of married sandals Label the pains of a billion rain drops and fawn the feathers of a nightingale over the glory of failed triumphs known as yesterday. break the hands of a wristwatch and make a ******* of time-- for through the God in Satan was how Earth was won.
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Mar 6, 2013
Mar 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM UTC
Envelopes of Oatmeal Psychology
A shadow washed over the land, filling the people with an uncommon dread. Darkness began to fill their thoughts, their fears came to light What is this shadow? What is this fear? How do we overcome this dark abyss? We fight, we refuse to roll over and die We smile at our misfortunes We laugh in the face of danger We overcome the darkness and we choose to live in the light.
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Sep 16, 2013
Sep 16, 2013 at 1:21 AM UTC
Overcome
Night is for the hours Cowards, Let a man of God speak or night Will continue to burn flowers It's been said napkins are the greatest currency For it holds the food spittle of man Like how ambulances sit waiting To clean up after misfortunes And make fortunes for the fortun- Who Ate paragraphs of spider webs And patted weaves like black men seating at the back of the limited luxurious Q46 bus nodding heads to the noise of Toyota cameras they couldn't afford in the land where they spend $300 million to part the seas for summer entertainment While they only spent $40 on California cuteness and walked on water with 13 Jesus' and ate at the bottom of the sea with only three tokes from the plastic bag Let a man of God speak or night Will continue to burn flowers For we graduated from 30 hot nights of mathematics Only to find that the future will always be white and in the *******
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May 2, 2013
May 2, 2013 at 7:44 PM UTC
Breakfast for a 31st century genius
I want you to paint me, and leave your mark. Use my skin as your canvas, Make me your work of art. I want you to draw on me, make me your personal sketch. Using implements as pencils, With each mark that you etch. I want you to colour me, in your signature shade. Rosey pink with crimson red, Then bid it not to fade. I want you to hurt me, as only you can do. Make me pay for your misfortunes, Tell me i deserve it too. I want you to punish me, show me you’re not weak. Dispose of your bad luck, Make my pain your winning streak. I don’t know how to love you, if you don’t hurt me too. I don’t know how to treat you. I will end up hurting you!
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Jul 18, 2016
Jul 18, 2016 at 1:11 PM UTC
Art
I used to think that ****** was the same as ***** And therefore I was both broken and unclean. I have learned that you can wash the blood off And cast out the stains of yesterday’s misfortunes That I may kneel before you and tell you That I am still sacred in my own skin.
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Jul 19, 2022
Jul 19, 2022 at 7:56 PM UTC
Clean
Have you ever dated a butterfly ? A butterfly who wings been  grounded by lies,sin, adultery and broken promises. A grounded butterfly whose wings ripped apart from a monstrous ant. The butterfly stayed realizing its wings will never grow but it loved that ant for pleasures  that won't fill the soul but just entice the body. One day  that butterfly did try to fly again but no wings and it found itself by mere coincidence in the nest of  a growing dragonfly. The dragon fly too was hurt and found itself wingless doing anything to forget it couldn't fly. One day the butterfly and dragonfly came to be one together to ease the pain and to give the love the other deserves both too soon not ready but it's great, good and **** right horrible days. But over time through mistakes and lies. The dragonfly past vices caught up to it and little did the butterfly know it had baggage too it was fighting though wrong it tried to hide it but made things worse. More time passed and struggles and misfortunes continued; it  became apparent to the butterfly tired of being grounded it saw the dragonfly as species it cant intermix with. They fought mentally against eachother only while hurting deep inside, the dragonfly too became more devoided and hidden but secretly it wanted to help bring the wings back to the butterfly.  But after being dishonest the butterfly came to see it as a no good liar and cheat too. A simple mistake it made and it hangs over something it never did but the die was cast, a created persona made from pain and hurt. Truth is till this day that dragonfly only wishes to help and love that butterfly  like it should be and dispel that hurt. It wonders how can you get a butterfly that gave you chances and now won't take you back ?can you make a home, write a poem, or stay home alone wondering can you turn back time..... It's still got a ways to go before its fully mature and experienced but it wishes to grow along side the butterfly as it too grows it's wings. Can one day they build into what eachother needs with reckless abandon and learn to love one another the right way. Just mere thoughts from a dragonfly.
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Dec 1, 2019
Dec 1, 2019 at 4:19 AM UTC
To date a butterfly
Have you ever dated a butterfly ? A butterfly who wings been  grounded by lies,sin, adultery and broken promises. A grounded butterfly whose wings ripped apart from a monstrous ant. The butterfly stayed realizing its wings will never grow but it loved that ant for pleasures  that won't fill the soul but just entice the body. One day  that butterfly did try to fly again but no wings and it found itself by mere coincidence in the nest of  a growing dragonfly. The dragon fly too was hurt and found itself wingless doing anything to forget it couldn't fly. One day the butterfly and dragonfly came to be one together to ease the pain and to give the love the other deserves both too soon not ready but it's great, good and **** right horrible days. But over time through mistakes and lies. The dragonfly past vices caught up to it and little did the butterfly know it had baggage too it was fighting though wrong it tried to hide it but made things worse. More time passed and struggles and misfortunes continued; it  became apparent to the butterfly tired of being grounded it saw the dragonfly as species it cant intermix with. They fought mentally against eachother only while hurting deep inside, the dragonfly too became more devoided and hidden but secretly it wanted to help bring the wings back to the butterfly.  But after being dishonest the butterfly came to see it as a no good liar and cheat too. A simple mistake it made and it hangs over something it never did but the die was cast, a created persona made from pain and hurt. Truth is till this day that dragonfly only wishes to help and love that butterfly  like it should be and dispel that hurt. It wonders how can you get a butterfly that gave you chances and now won't take you back ?can you make a home, write a poem, or stay home alone wondering can you turn back time..... It's still got a ways to go before its fully mature and experienced but it wishes to grow along side the butterfly as it too grows it's wings. Can one day they build into what eachother needs with reckless abandon and learn to love one another the right way. Just mere thoughts from a dragonfly.
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Accidents and misfortunes crowding my life choking out pleasures reserved for a lucky few. Not realizing that they were there for me too, just to look for passed by as I chose to look back, blinded to what could have been. Running in circles skirting the truth looking for lost moments, ticking into eternity. My hope is in this new life that I’ve found awakening the child I’d lost, now born again in you. You’ve taught me to live, to look now for the simple and pure; a glass of ***** Cana or a flock of cranes grazing on a hill. Moving together in the rhythm of jazz in the early morning sounds and light reflecting on you. Your beautiful face, angelic in the morning light.
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Aug 21, 2012
Aug 21, 2012 at 9:47 PM UTC
RUNNING IN CIRCLES
(Holding fire and water together) I don't know why the rain keeps writing the name of Nigeria on the ground in every corner. I don't know why we are this broken and tortured like the fragments of the dust. I don't know why the Dapchi girls returned yesterday while their chikbok friends are still in captive. I don't know why every street in Nigeria is known with an imprint of good leaders. I don't know why we cry yet point accusation. fingers back to ourselves, who is fooling who? I don't know why the sun cry here with a closed lips. I don't know why we keep writing love stories while our brothers and sisters perish in shame! I don't just know why but I think you should know. Are you not the one that collected a cup of rice, clean notes and Abrahamic lie from them? I won't speak ill of this land again, I won't! I won't judge any one, no, I won't for the sake of my unborn children. No, I won't for the sake of what happened to Dele Giwa and Saro Wiwa. We poets are abnormal psychologically. We paints abstraction from the abstracts creating fears that might hurt those true patriots. My muse fell out from me yesterday night, When my television opened to a scene of genocide. Men on pants, women on trousers painting out the tears made for people inhabiting hell. Their laughters and smiles were printed to be archived among themselves. I won't speak ill of this country, no, I won't! Because of my unborn children, I won't! But I will tell just one tale for them to remember Of how monkeys carted away with our monies! Of how Snake swallowed our currency! Of how good our leaders are, I think you know! I have been holding these demons in me until last night they came out horribly in fierce protest to revisit this land again. To tell of those girls ***** under the bridge, To ask why boys like me are named after me, To speak against shadows of death lurking here and there. Nigeria is grey and black, red and violent, Retrieving this oceans of mysteries from the hidden abyss of grave corruption is the passport tabled on the pyramid top to recreate a versatile muses of a lyrics calling for a right to write our rights. Take a walk to memory lane pass your shadow, that of your father, mother & grandmas You will see a Nigeria in another angle trying to free herself from the grip of corruption, then, revisit her tears and struggles you will know we are the cause of our own misfortunes.! ©John Chizoba Vincent From_A_Pen_Refusing_Frustrations
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Jun 30, 2018
Jun 30, 2018 at 5:00 PM UTC
Re-Visiting Nigeria
(Holding fire and water together) I don't know why the rain keeps writing the name of Nigeria on the ground in every corner. I don't know why we are this broken and tortured like the fragments of the dust. I don't know why the Dapchi girls returned yesterday while their chikbok friends are still in captive. I don't know why every street in Nigeria is known with an imprint of good leaders. I don't know why we cry yet point accusation. fingers back to ourselves, who is fooling who? I don't know why the sun cry here with a closed lips. I don't know why we keep writing love stories while our brothers and sisters perish in shame! I don't just know why but I think you should know. Are you not the one that collected a cup of rice, clean notes and Abrahamic lie from them? I won't speak ill of this land again, I won't! I won't judge any one, no, I won't for the sake of my unborn children. No, I won't for the sake of what happened to Dele Giwa and Saro Wiwa. We poets are abnormal psychologically. We paints abstraction from the abstracts creating fears that might hurt those true patriots. My muse fell out from me yesterday night, When my television opened to a scene of genocide. Men on pants, women on trousers painting out the tears made for people inhabiting hell. Their laughters and smiles were printed to be archived among themselves. I won't speak ill of this country, no, I won't! Because of my unborn children, I won't! But I will tell just one tale for them to remember Of how monkeys carted away with our monies! Of how Snake swallowed our currency! Of how good our leaders are, I think you know! I have been holding these demons in me until last night they came out horribly in fierce protest to revisit this land again. To tell of those girls ***** under the bridge, To ask why boys like me are named after me, To speak against shadows of death lurking here and there. Nigeria is grey and black, red and violent, Retrieving this oceans of mysteries from the hidden abyss of grave corruption is the passport tabled on the pyramid top to recreate a versatile muses of a lyrics calling for a right to write our rights. Take a walk to memory lane pass your shadow, that of your father, mother & grandmas You will see a Nigeria in another angle trying to free herself from the grip of corruption, then, revisit her tears and struggles you will know we are the cause of our own misfortunes.! ©John Chizoba Vincent From_A_Pen_Refusing_Frustrations
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I remember the night my mother was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to crawl beneath a sack of rice. Parting with his poison - flash of diabolic tail in the dark room - he risked the rain again. The peasants came like swarms of flies and buzzed the name of God a hundred times to paralyse the Evil One. With candles and with lanterns throwing giant scorpion shadows on the mud-baked walls they searched for him: he was not found. They clicked their tongues. With every movement that the scorpion made his poison moved in Mother's blood, they said. May he sit still, they said May the sins of your previous birth be burned away tonight, they said. May your suffering decrease the misfortunes of your next birth, they said. May the sum of all evil balanced in this unreal world against the sum of good become diminished by your pain. May the poison purify your flesh of desire, and your spirit of ambition, they said, and they sat around on the floor with my mother in the centre, the peace of understanding on each face. More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours, more insects, and the endless rain. My mother twisted through and through, groaning on a mat. My father, sceptic, rationalist, trying every curse and blessing, powder, mixture, herb and hybrid. He even poured a little paraffin upon the bitten toe and put a match to it. I watched the flame feeding on my mother. I watched the holy man perform his rites to tame the poison with an incantation. After twenty hours it lost its sting. My mother only said Thank God the scorpion picked on me And spared my children.
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May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 7:29 AM UTC
Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
I remember the night my mother was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to crawl beneath a sack of rice. Parting with his poison - flash of diabolic tail in the dark room - he risked the rain again. The peasants came like swarms of flies and buzzed the name of God a hundred times to paralyse the Evil One. With candles and with lanterns throwing giant scorpion shadows on the mud-baked walls they searched for him: he was not found. They clicked their tongues. With every movement that the scorpion made his poison moved in Mother's blood, they said. May he sit still, they said May the sins of your previous birth be burned away tonight, they said. May your suffering decrease the misfortunes of your next birth, they said. May the sum of all evil balanced in this unreal world against the sum of good become diminished by your pain. May the poison purify your flesh of desire, and your spirit of ambition, they said, and they sat around on the floor with my mother in the centre, the peace of understanding on each face. More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours, more insects, and the endless rain. My mother twisted through and through, groaning on a mat. My father, sceptic, rationalist, trying every curse and blessing, powder, mixture, herb and hybrid. He even poured a little paraffin upon the bitten toe and put a match to it. I watched the flame feeding on my mother. I watched the holy man perform his rites to tame the poison with an incantation. After twenty hours it lost its sting. My mother only said Thank God the scorpion picked on me And spared my children.
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Words blow with the blast Ink drops as oil to the flame and burn the fire's light Waved in the leaden air   the majesty of accuracy scald the ears waxed with injustice Literacy and liberty are for all longing eyes A witness to the silences— to misfortunes ignored to blessings need to be heard to weak breath trying to make sense of its existence- the sonar in the deepest sea of truth hears silences louder than speeches Also, he believes in voices voices stronger than power
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 7:55 AM UTC
a sonar in the deepest sea of truth - for a journalist
We’re quick to blame those that break our hearts, Railing against lovers for our misfortunes, Consigning them to hell and so forth, When in reality, Our oft exhausted and defeated transgressors Serve merely as the catalyst for the internal destruction that follows For no one impacts your emotional wellbeing as much as you, And you birth your demons, your pain, After ‘us’ is no more, There is just you and your head, An entity far more dangerous than any borne of flesh and blood Do not judge those that hurt you, For they are as foolish and human as you, And remember that though Love may linger and torment, It is a reminder of what your heart can do, When it’s met its match
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Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 9:16 AM UTC
Catalyst
Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) There are more and more misfortunes in the world Known to you dear people in your diverse conditions, But my life and experience has taught me unique lessons Of kindred to befit me Elizabeth, a daughter of Zinjathropus Hailing in the savannah desert, Turkana County of Kenya, I have graduated in to a single lady without test of marriage, As desert men look at me in their irritating impotence, **** clothes wrapped around their slender waists passing on me Like a dog passing on American dollars; cursed be desert men, I thought my beauty of dark African complexions will give them a ****** tease But to my chagrin; desert men have a fear of beautiful ladies My conscience tells me that my beauty is an eye sore to them, I thought my bulging hips will entice them as is a promise of fertility Leave alone not to mention my concupiscent ****** warmth, uhmmm! Desert men have dared not to see and appreciate my **** bossom, They often pass on me driving their donkeys and emaciated carmels, I thought my ***** sharp pointed ******* assign of virginity Will call them to me into a treat of love, affiliative love, But sadly enough; these dudes are erotically blind, They they nonchalantly pass on my **** ***** Wielding a begging bowl in their ***** long hands Running like drunkard chimpanzees going to Oxfam stores to beg for food, Cursed be Oxfam an imperialist agent, it has crashed flat The testicles of our desert brothers into ****** insensitivity, Oxfam has made African desert men to beg like Hebrew lepers Other than standing up on their feet to feed their women, Normally as men would do from the sweat of their brow, I thought my education will attract them to me, To love me with those romantic University kisses, But desert men have crude cultures and slavish religion They rebuke girl child education as if it is a devil, Oh my dear God of the forsaken desert ladies Of the forsaken African daughters, Take me out of this ****** desert Take me out of the city desert of Lodwar, Take me to the equator line and give me a husband, My eggs are pretty ready to conceive and sire children Sons and daughters for your own glory O almighty God, Take me out of this ****** desert, Where no man treats a modern woman, Take me out of here and give me a fresh man of my dream. Because I have known from today; It is accurse to be a woman in Africa It is a curse to be a beautiful lady in African deserts It is a curse to be a woman graduate in the African desert It is a curse to have ***** ******* in the African desert, O! Help me God.
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Mar 5, 2014
Mar 5, 2014 at 9:58 AM UTC
MELODY OF A DESERT SINGLE LADY
Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) There are more and more misfortunes in the world Known to you dear people in your diverse conditions, But my life and experience has taught me unique lessons Of kindred to befit me Elizabeth, a daughter of Zinjathropus Hailing in the savannah desert, Turkana County of Kenya, I have graduated in to a single lady without test of marriage, As desert men look at me in their irritating impotence, **** clothes wrapped around their slender waists passing on me Like a dog passing on American dollars; cursed be desert men, I thought my beauty of dark African complexions will give them a ****** tease But to my chagrin; desert men have a fear of beautiful ladies My conscience tells me that my beauty is an eye sore to them, I thought my bulging hips will entice them as is a promise of fertility Leave alone not to mention my concupiscent ****** warmth, uhmmm! Desert men have dared not to see and appreciate my **** bossom, They often pass on me driving their donkeys and emaciated carmels, I thought my ***** sharp pointed ******* assign of virginity Will call them to me into a treat of love, affiliative love, But sadly enough; these dudes are erotically blind, They they nonchalantly pass on my **** ***** Wielding a begging bowl in their ***** long hands Running like drunkard chimpanzees going to Oxfam stores to beg for food, Cursed be Oxfam an imperialist agent, it has crashed flat The testicles of our desert brothers into ****** insensitivity, Oxfam has made African desert men to beg like Hebrew lepers Other than standing up on their feet to feed their women, Normally as men would do from the sweat of their brow, I thought my education will attract them to me, To love me with those romantic University kisses, But desert men have crude cultures and slavish religion They rebuke girl child education as if it is a devil, Oh my dear God of the forsaken desert ladies Of the forsaken African daughters, Take me out of this ****** desert Take me out of the city desert of Lodwar, Take me to the equator line and give me a husband, My eggs are pretty ready to conceive and sire children Sons and daughters for your own glory O almighty God, Take me out of this ****** desert, Where no man treats a modern woman, Take me out of here and give me a fresh man of my dream. Because I have known from today; It is accurse to be a woman in Africa It is a curse to be a beautiful lady in African deserts It is a curse to be a woman graduate in the African desert It is a curse to have ***** ******* in the African desert, O! Help me God.
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No other thing in this uncertain world Tastes sweeter and surer Than your name on my lips A grace, undeserved Bestowed upon me For all the times you've held me And I do not know what I did In this life, or another To be blessed by the heavens Unsure if I was chosen somehow Or by some stroke of luck Came out from misfortunes Given the sweetest grace I am still somehow in doubt If I am worthy But deemed so by your touch Igniting everything in me And I am alive, living finally Maybe it is true That mercy changes you Because now I have been renewed And if this is a mistake Against the world and all of nature Then it is one I am willing to make You have been named after fate But in my mind I call you sweeter things You say that you cannot see it And maybe so, maybe it is me Because lately I have been realizing I am the one who is lucky
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Sep 2, 2022
Sep 2, 2022 at 1:54 PM UTC
The Sweetest Grace*
Watch me as I fall from here I do not wish to speak of such misfortunes unfortunately other options have quickly began shortening their obvious attempt for what can be logical decision such incision with a knife also a master of the fiddle fear me not the sky is lightened now the dark began to set How I wish it were to echo, as the moon was put to bed Yet my life has become ill gotten, a thorn of crown upon my head, yet my troubles seem so meager then those of mice unlike us men Gently weep into the silence go forth brother hear your cry may the sightly wind be with you guide it deep into the sky cause of thunder and then lighting limit those who fear the sound hear them weeping at the door step as if the cat had made a sound
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Jul 1, 2013
Jul 1, 2013 at 4:06 AM UTC
height
Arrow upon arrow the stricken heart endured, Strife and doom its woeful dream ensured. Vile phantoms of creed with deception en route Intended to thwart, unveil their wicked fruit. Satan had withered our spirit's joy and flame, And gathered an earthly militia; among those to blame. A maze he encrypted, the heir's light yet unseen, All prospects stolen, great efforts wiped clean. Creative their mind twilight art they presented, The Sphere's evil hosts all reflected and resented. Lost was all hearing, faith and sight, Misplaced sense of wonder and good sense in flight. "I worship nothing!" His heir once preferred, Such was the spirit in high degrees deterred.        "Paragons of justice, will I ever get to see The day my misfortunes cease to be? They shadow, entrap and starve my soul Of love and joy and all control! So tired I am, and tired I shall stay If purpose here is merely to convey No purpose at all, except for one: To enslave the soul, casting punishment for fun. My simple wish, then, is simply to impart An end to this misery and to my sanctioned heart."        His despairing heir put in motion so An idea most frightening, its telling shall forego... Immerse in their demise, allow for stricken grief, Then foresee the King's love and His graciousness in fleet. He gathered around, with love He replaced Satan and his minions conspiring in space; The King broke off the heir's chains with great might, He enlightened our spirit, who had not known the light. The heir's desperate cries reached The King's vibrations, He released the heir and nullified all limitations. Profound divine wisdom our heir now espies; Seeing The King's glory and the through destroyer's lies. Great wisdom and revelation now fill this mended heart, But it's a tale best left for another form of art...
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Nov 20, 2016
Nov 20, 2016 at 11:35 PM UTC
The King and The Heir
Arrow upon arrow the stricken heart endured, Strife and doom its woeful dream ensured. Vile phantoms of creed with deception en route Intended to thwart, unveil their wicked fruit. Satan had withered our spirit's joy and flame, And gathered an earthly militia; among those to blame. A maze he encrypted, the heir's light yet unseen, All prospects stolen, great efforts wiped clean. Creative their mind twilight art they presented, The Sphere's evil hosts all reflected and resented. Lost was all hearing, faith and sight, Misplaced sense of wonder and good sense in flight. "I worship nothing!" His heir once preferred, Such was the spirit in high degrees deterred.        "Paragons of justice, will I ever get to see The day my misfortunes cease to be? They shadow, entrap and starve my soul Of love and joy and all control! So tired I am, and tired I shall stay If purpose here is merely to convey No purpose at all, except for one: To enslave the soul, casting punishment for fun. My simple wish, then, is simply to impart An end to this misery and to my sanctioned heart."        His despairing heir put in motion so An idea most frightening, its telling shall forego... Immerse in their demise, allow for stricken grief, Then foresee the King's love and His graciousness in fleet. He gathered around, with love He replaced Satan and his minions conspiring in space; The King broke off the heir's chains with great might, He enlightened our spirit, who had not known the light. The heir's desperate cries reached The King's vibrations, He released the heir and nullified all limitations. Profound divine wisdom our heir now espies; Seeing The King's glory and the through destroyer's lies. Great wisdom and revelation now fill this mended heart, But it's a tale best left for another form of art...
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The Art of Subconscious Illusion is an elusive tendency towards the averse,              or rather, the act of lying to oneself         Oft times you’ll find yourself wondering how...              …how you lost her…how you lost love…                             how you lost yourself          Your mind a jumble of                spiral static,          coils of confusion, twisting malevolently,                              failing and falling,                    flawed and faulty,           feeble and fading, you slowly begin to yearn for a second chance,         wish that you had performed more charmingly in the blistering tragedy of feelings lost... but there are few second chances in the misfortunes of life.       the damage is done, and now you must live with the consequences        of a dying will to persist in this journey,                               the ups                                                 the downs                                 the laughter                                                          the pain after endless days of convincing yourself you’re not to blame you finally see it for what it is...                     You made the choice      you made your bed, and now you must lie in it… and as you slowly make your way towards the reclining slope of the soft satin covers you’ll begin to see…. it was not a bed your actions relayed....                                                            ....it was a coffin
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Jun 22, 2017
Jun 22, 2017 at 8:51 PM UTC
A. S. I
The Art of Subconscious Illusion is an elusive tendency towards the averse,              or rather, the act of lying to oneself         Oft times you’ll find yourself wondering how...              …how you lost her…how you lost love…                             how you lost yourself          Your mind a jumble of                spiral static,          coils of confusion, twisting malevolently,                              failing and falling,                    flawed and faulty,           feeble and fading, you slowly begin to yearn for a second chance,         wish that you had performed more charmingly in the blistering tragedy of feelings lost... but there are few second chances in the misfortunes of life.       the damage is done, and now you must live with the consequences        of a dying will to persist in this journey,                               the ups                                                 the downs                                 the laughter                                                          the pain after endless days of convincing yourself you’re not to blame you finally see it for what it is...                     You made the choice      you made your bed, and now you must lie in it… and as you slowly make your way towards the reclining slope of the soft satin covers you’ll begin to see…. it was not a bed your actions relayed....                                                            ....it was a coffin
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This is the song of the handsome people bleached white bones dark red flesh with wrinkles deep and old as the desert. Their arrows having disembarked have faded into the molten clay of the mean-spirited earth. Their heritage having been habitually crushed with cause for hatred has been enveloped in peace and pride and is cloaked in dry hides. Feathered in cold trails of tears to match trails of aging they have covered up their misfortunes with song and smoke. Their rainbow carried by the wind to some far-off pasture rides on the backs of deer and dead bison to be consumed in smoke and black flame.
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 3:21 PM UTC
The handsome people
I sneak a peek through the bullet hole in my ***** kitchen's window, steel bars prevent escape. I gaze upon piles of worthless junk thoughtlessly discarded on the asphalt lot below, where children run and play. Momma drinks to another day's sorrows, from a fingerprinted glass, surrounded by the colored bottles from yesterday's celebration. I quietly walk to the living room where a suffering Jesus weeps silently upon the silver-flowered wallpapered wall, I swear sometimess he speaks to me in a whisper, telling me, "Don't despair." Arguing voices cursing the misfortunes of a drug deal gone bad. Break! The silence outside my living room's door. Dungeon gray.... Heavy as steel..... Countless locks..... A piercing scream echoes, goes ignored, then fades.... I sit alone upon our dusty brown couch, as Momma rambles on senselessly in the other room, an alcholics tune. I stare once again to the suffering Jesus hanging hopelessly upon the wall, as the night draws near and the light as dim as my dreams? I whisper a tearful prayer for hope, within this ghetto's gloom.....
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Jul 22, 2012
Jul 22, 2012 at 11:23 AM UTC
"A Voice From The Ghetto"
Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) With audacious openness Let me accept substantial lot of men folk When it comes to efforts in love, Most are misfortunate. Every time they dare to built Affiliative bonding for love With beauties beheld By their limited eyes The invincible whirling spell Of fortune’s fool Beguile them forlornly Down the social abyss of time, I and my type not an exception to the club Of the guys who swallowed misfortune Like the dog of Theodore erotokorostos Does to a piece of bone In poetic obscurantism Of the corruptible simple souls Obtaining their pathetic lot from ***** and wine, In the first trial I chanced on a neurotic peasant, In the second trial I chanced on turn to be henpecked, On the third trial I chanced on a beautiful paranoid, My fourth trial chanced me a deadly stooge, My fifth trial gave me the worst blow As I forlornly chanced on the time’s public commoner, My sixth trial makes me chicken Had it not been poetic audacity That makes me brave to chew in public The lot of my misfortune as I recall The bitter sweetness of chancing on A beautiful epileptic kleptomaniac, My tired trial in the waned efforts Chanced me a lesbian with insignificant bisexuality, O! I now tire off from misfortunes of love With a last black chance on a neurotic money-maniac, And this is the silent lot of men In their usual efforts to fulfill their dreams of love.
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Feb 28, 2014
Feb 28, 2014 at 9:43 AM UTC
MISFORTUNE IN SERIES OF LOVE
See him wasted on the sidewalk, in his jacket and his jeans Wearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smile Once he had a future, full of money love and dreams Which he spent like they was goin' outta style And he keeps right on a'changin', for the better or the worse Searchin' for a shrine he's never found Never knowin' if believin', is a blessin' or a curse Or if the goin' up was worth, the comin' down He's a poet, an' he's a picker, he's a prophet, an' he's a pusher He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's ****** He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home He has tasted good and evil, in your bedrooms and your bars And he's traded in tomorrow for today Runnin' from his devils Lord, and reachin' for the stars And losin' all he loved, along the way But if this world keeps right on turnin', for the better or the worse And all he ever gets is older and around From the rockin' of the cradle, to the rollin' of the hearse The goin' up was worth, the comin' down He's a poet, an' he's a picker, he's a prophet, an' he's a pusher He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's ****** He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home There's a lot of wrong directions, on that lonely way back home
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Nov 10, 2014
Nov 10, 2014 at 7:45 PM UTC
The Pilgrim, Chapter 33/ Kris Kristofferson
only dead boys hold insects like they're something special only a dead boy would let a mantis in his heart and preying was always a better descriptor because hymns burned in my throat and i scratched a cross into my palm but i was never lucky enough to scar but oh, dead boy bug lover enduring a thousand lashes to save the soul of a beetle  - i'll help you peel off all your scabs to make sure they scar thick tissue skin memory sometimes you think scars are the closest you'll get to a wedding ring you're a suicide king i think a kingdom of hearts was never the safest place for you i don't think you understand the way your subjects' hearts are strung because entomology entomos everything you love is cut to bits and on the fourteenth of february you told me the only purpose of a flower was to hold a spider inside and i guess that was why you painted all your walls with roses i hope your garden  smells as sweet covered in your misfortunes only a dead boy would let a praying mantis so close to his neck oh, you freak. disgusting. i ate the last one that let me this close. you told me {if i die leave my body in the forest by an anthill} maybe you don't realize we were doomed from the start or maybe you're just naïve but honey you're a dead boy and corpses don't fall in love. [you're so genuine it hurts and i think i could teach you how to be a fake - nobody likes an honest man i could teach you how to hate the world but you said {the only one i hate here is me}] freakish child. all you see in every rorschach is mantes and decapitations and wedding rings you are an aberration, suicide king entomologist your throne room was full of termites. with hallowed cheeks and hollowed churches, i will assure that you scar dead boy, if you die i will put maggots in your chest
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Jun 29, 2013
Jun 29, 2013 at 2:44 PM UTC
i thought of you while pulling weeds (every dandelion reminds me of you)
only dead boys hold insects like they're something special only a dead boy would let a mantis in his heart and preying was always a better descriptor because hymns burned in my throat and i scratched a cross into my palm but i was never lucky enough to scar but oh, dead boy bug lover enduring a thousand lashes to save the soul of a beetle  - i'll help you peel off all your scabs to make sure they scar thick tissue skin memory sometimes you think scars are the closest you'll get to a wedding ring you're a suicide king i think a kingdom of hearts was never the safest place for you i don't think you understand the way your subjects' hearts are strung because entomology entomos everything you love is cut to bits and on the fourteenth of february you told me the only purpose of a flower was to hold a spider inside and i guess that was why you painted all your walls with roses i hope your garden  smells as sweet covered in your misfortunes only a dead boy would let a praying mantis so close to his neck oh, you freak. disgusting. i ate the last one that let me this close. you told me {if i die leave my body in the forest by an anthill} maybe you don't realize we were doomed from the start or maybe you're just naïve but honey you're a dead boy and corpses don't fall in love. [you're so genuine it hurts and i think i could teach you how to be a fake - nobody likes an honest man i could teach you how to hate the world but you said {the only one i hate here is me}] freakish child. all you see in every rorschach is mantes and decapitations and wedding rings you are an aberration, suicide king entomologist your throne room was full of termites. with hallowed cheeks and hollowed churches, i will assure that you scar dead boy, if you die i will put maggots in your chest
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From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaking at his son’s middle-school graduation, June 3:
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Jul 11, 2017
Jul 11, 2017 at 10:38 AM UTC
I hope you will be treated unfairly
A toadstool is swelling inside my limbic system. Spores sweat amongst tissue cavities, dining out on grey matter, until they force me to stay in bed through the day. What a thing it would be. Depression as a fungus. A mildewed mind as damp sets in, the trumpet player with athletes foot, casting out the air-borne blues. Misfortunes follow one another along straits of fate, as if sadness were a colony itself. I want to take a pill to **** the mushroom that plumes over my head. You can only diagnose through words and symbols, only treat once you set down your pen and hold the hand of a patient lover, of the savant drinking at the bar. For now I will let air in through the open window, watch the dreamcatcher sway and hang like a tarantula over the stars and crescents, spilling out over my bed. When I close my eyes I hear the ocean in distant traffic, sounding as waves when rolling by the door. I will drown in seawater and hallucinate a scene of happiness. Of a place for a poet's retreat.
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Sep 8, 2014
Sep 8, 2014 at 9:01 AM UTC
Poet's Retreat
Its annoyance Anointed In pessimistic clairvoyance Its the avoidance Of the simplistic And stoical Components Its motion Less Ness In oceans Of lip service Its ***** potions For the passionate Its fake **** And face lifts Its abortions In portions Of subordinates As gifts In gifs Of gorgeous Ordinance Distorted In tortured Tapping Of the dead Its all the fame In shoving The pain Of loving In the oven Of stubborn Mothers Blubbering Under the covers With other men Its the omens Of the oh mans In roman Misnomers Of fortunate Misfortunes Torn From time Its the mine mine mines Confined To their own kind Pre signed In old blood Its consignment killers Its the drugs Its timeless thrillers Its the shrugs Its the thunder Plundering Structures Rattling out From under the bed Its all the thoughts In our heads Blaring The booms Of the tamed Its the assumed The restrained Its this tomb Of shame In doing The same Old **** again And again Its been Better Then again I grin When Cold Its when i should fold That i embolden Its all the No's Its blankets nose Its the cut blow And lack of flow Its fists and elbows As opposed To safety locks Its ******* flu shots Its everything That ****** me off Its the the stupid robots And the silly riot cops Fencing in the famished flocks Its the ***** And the ***** In plastic boxes Giving rocks Off Without us Its the gold pots And stacked stocks Locked From us Its the Rocks Inside my socks As they knock The blocks Of billy bobs Bobbling On the dash Its the harsh And its the rash Its inside the last Bastion Of dummassez passing Through the Blast radius. Alas Its the mass graves And the paved pools Of anyone who knew Anyone who stood Its all us fools As cool kids Knowing No show biz In soul **** Its in knowing this And ******** And barking At the moon Soon To swoon None I am peaking soon In looming threat Of lost concepts Slipping away Under the sun Electing to quit While im ahead Way back when It was fun Way back when It mattered Its a gun Shooting blather Blathering As a bladder Would Misanthropic And misunderstood A changed topic Knock on wood Bye is good Goodbye Told you Its implied In rite So Good night Until next time
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 2:59 AM UTC
Blather shoot
Its annoyance Anointed In pessimistic clairvoyance Its the avoidance Of the simplistic And stoical Components Its motion Less Ness In oceans Of lip service Its ***** potions For the passionate Its fake **** And face lifts Its abortions In portions Of subordinates As gifts In gifs Of gorgeous Ordinance Distorted In tortured Tapping Of the dead Its all the fame In shoving The pain Of loving In the oven Of stubborn Mothers Blubbering Under the covers With other men Its the omens Of the oh mans In roman Misnomers Of fortunate Misfortunes Torn From time Its the mine mine mines Confined To their own kind Pre signed In old blood Its consignment killers Its the drugs Its timeless thrillers Its the shrugs Its the thunder Plundering Structures Rattling out From under the bed Its all the thoughts In our heads Blaring The booms Of the tamed Its the assumed The restrained Its this tomb Of shame In doing The same Old **** again And again Its been Better Then again I grin When Cold Its when i should fold That i embolden Its all the No's Its blankets nose Its the cut blow And lack of flow Its fists and elbows As opposed To safety locks Its ******* flu shots Its everything That ****** me off Its the the stupid robots And the silly riot cops Fencing in the famished flocks Its the ***** And the ***** In plastic boxes Giving rocks Off Without us Its the gold pots And stacked stocks Locked From us Its the Rocks Inside my socks As they knock The blocks Of billy bobs Bobbling On the dash Its the harsh And its the rash Its inside the last Bastion Of dummassez passing Through the Blast radius. Alas Its the mass graves And the paved pools Of anyone who knew Anyone who stood Its all us fools As cool kids Knowing No show biz In soul **** Its in knowing this And ******** And barking At the moon Soon To swoon None I am peaking soon In looming threat Of lost concepts Slipping away Under the sun Electing to quit While im ahead Way back when It was fun Way back when It mattered Its a gun Shooting blather Blathering As a bladder Would Misanthropic And misunderstood A changed topic Knock on wood Bye is good Goodbye Told you Its implied In rite So Good night Until next time
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