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"moored" poems
Every day you play with the light of the universe. Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water, You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands. You are like nobody since I love you. Let me spread you out among yellow garlands. Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish. Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them. The rain takes off her clothes. The birds go by, fleeing. The wind. The wind. I alone can contend against the power of men. The storm whirls dark leaves and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky. You are here. Oh, you do not run away. You will answer me to the last cry. Curl round me as though you were frightened. Even so, a strange shadow once ran through your eyes. Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle, and even your ******* smell of it. While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth. How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans. My words rained over you, stroking you. A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body. Until I even believe that you own the universe. I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Every Day You Play....
Every day you play with the light of the universe. Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water, You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands. You are like nobody since I love you. Let me spread you out among yellow garlands. Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish. Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them. The rain takes off her clothes. The birds go by, fleeing. The wind. The wind. I alone can contend against the power of men. The storm whirls dark leaves and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky. You are here. Oh, you do not run away. You will answer me to the last cry. Curl round me as though you were frightened. Even so, a strange shadow once ran through your eyes. Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle, and even your ******* smell of it. While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth. How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans. My words rained over you, stroking you. A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body. Until I even believe that you own the universe. I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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I work hard for this friend-ship Though I'm not quite on board, I'm there when you lose grip, Well at least when you're moored. Like a lighthouse I stand, And like a lighthouse I'll stay, I'll be a beacon on land Watching still when you fade away. You'll experience it all, good, bad and scary, Yet I'll stay by my post, watching and wary. Nobody saves the lighthouse From the violent, swirling mess. When the angry storms rouse Each flash of light is my own SOS. And I know they see my light Because they promptly turn away, And I'm not trying to put up a fight Honestly it's better this way.
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 12:31 PM UTC
The Lighthouse
Moored to the same ring: The hour, the darkness and I, Our compasses hooded like falcons. Now the memory of you comes aching in With a wash of broken bits which never left port In which once we planned voyages, They come knocking like hearts asking: What departures on this tide? Breath of land, warm breath, You tighten the cold around the navel, Though all shores but the first have been foreign, And the first was not home until left behind. Our choice is ours but we have not made it, Containing as it does, our destination Circled with loss as with coral, and A destination only until attained. I have left you my hope to remember me by, Though now there is little resemblance. At this moment I could believe in no change, The mast perpetually Vacillating between the same constellations, The night never withdrawing its dark virtue >From the harbor shaped as a heart, The sea pulsing as a heart, The sky vaulted as a heart, Where I know the light will shatter like a cry Above a discovery: "Emptiness. Emptiness! Look!" Look. This is the morning.
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The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence
Orange peel Thursdays and the Velcro shoes Of children hordes Who spider up Alice on toadstools in Central Park Dusted psilocybin shoots my eyes through With the clarity of ice and sliced mushroom Steeping in stomach acid before finding blood The kids are tripping like madmen or halloween candy Like its time to release and give up to the nonsense And let your young self congeal to a saccharine sludge I don’t stroll in the park to keep my mind sharp I’m here because it’s a riot My head can throb to the jittery birds And the blasts of carsong It’s the right kind of rhythm to walk to ** ** ** Ketamine days and the lolling slums To make sure the insane stay insane And the hobos are washed with spit from the clouds And the subway exhaust always hangs in our hair And the old Coney Island burns again and twice more We don’t pretend to understand what we see In subway grates thirty feet wide Like the earth punching out of work for a bit Opening to you her *** belly So you can check out the strips of metal inside Before she slurps you down and with an esophageal squeeze Shoots you through the turnstiles The train squeals and grinds down our eyes With thoughts as slow as ketamine Makes room for schizophrenia in a conversation We’re listening to ‘til sundown ** ** ** Years full of Brooklyn and the assorted pills Makes offal fit for punks in name brand shoes Squared off with police in the park Being beaten for the fun of being beaten Peacoat locals pass the days in supermarkets And you grow up to the loony mumble Of the woman who knows the boat Moored at the end of the street Mansion of the stray cat colony You help her with her daily chore to feed them Tabbies popping the pills of the homeless And puking in tandem all over their house Living off generous dying folk
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Feb 11, 2010
Feb 11, 2010 at 4:02 PM UTC
Ketamine Days and the Lolling Slums
Orange peel Thursdays and the Velcro shoes Of children hordes Who spider up Alice on toadstools in Central Park Dusted psilocybin shoots my eyes through With the clarity of ice and sliced mushroom Steeping in stomach acid before finding blood The kids are tripping like madmen or halloween candy Like its time to release and give up to the nonsense And let your young self congeal to a saccharine sludge I don’t stroll in the park to keep my mind sharp I’m here because it’s a riot My head can throb to the jittery birds And the blasts of carsong It’s the right kind of rhythm to walk to ** ** ** Ketamine days and the lolling slums To make sure the insane stay insane And the hobos are washed with spit from the clouds And the subway exhaust always hangs in our hair And the old Coney Island burns again and twice more We don’t pretend to understand what we see In subway grates thirty feet wide Like the earth punching out of work for a bit Opening to you her *** belly So you can check out the strips of metal inside Before she slurps you down and with an esophageal squeeze Shoots you through the turnstiles The train squeals and grinds down our eyes With thoughts as slow as ketamine Makes room for schizophrenia in a conversation We’re listening to ‘til sundown ** ** ** Years full of Brooklyn and the assorted pills Makes offal fit for punks in name brand shoes Squared off with police in the park Being beaten for the fun of being beaten Peacoat locals pass the days in supermarkets And you grow up to the loony mumble Of the woman who knows the boat Moored at the end of the street Mansion of the stray cat colony You help her with her daily chore to feed them Tabbies popping the pills of the homeless And puking in tandem all over their house Living off generous dying folk
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An omnibus across the bridge Crawls like a yellow butterfly, And, here and there, a passer-by Shows like a little restless midge. Big barges full of yellow hay Are moored against the shadowy wharf, And, like a yellow silken scarf, The thick fog hangs along the quay. The yellow leaves begin to fade And flutter from the Temple elms, And at my feet the pale green Thames Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
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Symphony In Yellow
Here again, behind closed eyes Balanced on this fragile threshold One Enjoying the moment before it’s over As morning melts the locks Two Tenderly tracing unseen features Kneading you from dreams and memories Three Feeling the meter of your sleeping heartbeat Synchronizing as we breathe Four Folding you closer, moored in your warmth Pressing your blessed scent against my chest Five Picturing the glow outside Alighting on your resting eyes Six Savoring our seven precious seconds Helplessly defending the present tense Seven Today I woke up holding your pillow.
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Aug 28, 2016
Aug 28, 2016 at 6:25 PM UTC
Seven Seconds
Gone is the long, long winter night; Look, my beloved one! How glorious, through his depths of light, Rolls the majestic sun! The willows, waked from winter's death, Give out a fragrance like thy breath-- The summer is begun! Ay, 'tis the long bright summer day: Hark, to that mighty crash! The loosened ice-ridge breaks away-- The smitten waters flash. Seaward the glittering mountain rides, While, down its green translucent sides, The foamy torrents dash. See, love, my boat is moored for thee, By ocean's weedy floor-- The petrel does not skim the sea More swiftly than my oar. We'll go, where, on the rocky isles, Her eggs the screaming sea-fowl piles Beside the pebbly shore. Or, bide thou where the poppy blows, With wind-flowers frail and fair, While I, upon his isle of snows, Seek and defy the bear. Fierce though he be, and huge of frame, This arm his savage strength shall tame, And drag him from his lair. When crimson sky and flamy cloud Bespeak the summer o'er, And the dead valleys wear a shroud Of snows that melt no more, I'll build of ice thy winter home, With glistening walls and glassy dome, And spread with skins the floor. The white fox by thy couch shall play; And, from the frozen skies, The meteors of a mimic day Shall flash upon thine eyes. And I--for such thy vow--meanwhile Shall hear thy voice and see thy smile, Till that long midnight flies.
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The Arctic Lover
The Coastline The salty spray Crashing to the shore Takes my breath away I want to see more. The coastline curves Around the glorious bay The beach huts serve The finest cafe au lait. Crunching pebbles underfoot Sand in-between my toes Forgetting the time it’s took But then nobody knows. Knows my whereabouts Where I have been Cannot hear my shouts Or hear me scream I’m joined by a lone gull I offer him to share my lunch In two seconds flat our space was full Of hungry beaks eager to munch. I enjoyed their company Although I couldn’t hear myself think There was that many Birds fighting to eat and drink. They eventually flew They had other plans I could see They had found someone new And had finished with me. I cared not a jot now and explored The ragged coastline to the new town. Rusty red boats were moored Next to new ones clad in brown. Ropes twisted, knotted and tied Holding fast against the afternoon swell The time suggests the incoming tide My walk was over by order of the ship's bell.
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 7:45 AM UTC
A Coastline
Holding me firm, I can feel it incarcerating me. With my ankles bruised from carrying the same heavy chains, day by day. Chains, that will keep hurting my ankles with every step I take. I can hear them squeak, tearing my tympanum with every drag. Reminding me remorselessness that I am one more slave. Working under its rules, shaping my life with my every breath. Punishing me with all my memories and rewarding me with an unknown future. At night it laughs spitefully seeing that it has caught me in its timeless web of an insomniac hex. And in the morning it plays the same joke seeing that it has caught me in an eternal doze. I wake up , following the ritual it has for me, slapping me in the back with its whip declaring its power over me, as my owner. At 7:00 am  I wake up indoctrinated by a false faith" Thank You 'God' for this new day ( I thank a 'God' I do not know a 'God' I do not follow)" I suddenly feel confuse.   7:30 am; I shower. 7:40am; I choose my outfit, one in particular that will disguise my insecurities. 7:50am; I  have breakfast. My palate already knows the taste, and it protests intensely for a new tang. 8:00am; I walk out of my house, feeling the wind through my body silencing the cacophony of the chains and the beeping of the time clock they hold. With every beep, I realize I can be late. I rush. 9:00am; I start my ritual, managing papers in an office full of sick people, just like me.  Moored by their own chains to their own sorrows, with different time clocks and slaved by the same owner. 4:00pm; I plead it to go faster, to show me mercy. It laughs. 7:00pm; It frees me from my work routine, I thank it before it slaps me in the back again. 8:00 pm; I'm home the chains feel looser now, and I have a break. 9:00pm; I eat dinner same flavor, my palate prepares to taste the same. 10;00pm; It orders me to go to bed, to laugh again about by insomnia and wake me up with no pity. It doesn't care about what I need, I go under its rules. It threatens me everyday with my memories and it frightens me with an unknown tomorrow. And, I only have 24 hours each day,60 minutes in each hour and 60 seconds in each minute to do what the calendar of life has for me . I was convicted with a human felony, and I am currently serving a life sentence in this time machine. I am cursed by time and my challenge is to defeat procrastination and monotony.
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Dec 8, 2013
Dec 8, 2013 at 12:15 AM UTC
Timeless prison
Holding me firm, I can feel it incarcerating me. With my ankles bruised from carrying the same heavy chains, day by day. Chains, that will keep hurting my ankles with every step I take. I can hear them squeak, tearing my tympanum with every drag. Reminding me remorselessness that I am one more slave. Working under its rules, shaping my life with my every breath. Punishing me with all my memories and rewarding me with an unknown future. At night it laughs spitefully seeing that it has caught me in its timeless web of an insomniac hex. And in the morning it plays the same joke seeing that it has caught me in an eternal doze. I wake up , following the ritual it has for me, slapping me in the back with its whip declaring its power over me, as my owner. At 7:00 am  I wake up indoctrinated by a false faith" Thank You 'God' for this new day ( I thank a 'God' I do not know a 'God' I do not follow)" I suddenly feel confuse.   7:30 am; I shower. 7:40am; I choose my outfit, one in particular that will disguise my insecurities. 7:50am; I  have breakfast. My palate already knows the taste, and it protests intensely for a new tang. 8:00am; I walk out of my house, feeling the wind through my body silencing the cacophony of the chains and the beeping of the time clock they hold. With every beep, I realize I can be late. I rush. 9:00am; I start my ritual, managing papers in an office full of sick people, just like me.  Moored by their own chains to their own sorrows, with different time clocks and slaved by the same owner. 4:00pm; I plead it to go faster, to show me mercy. It laughs. 7:00pm; It frees me from my work routine, I thank it before it slaps me in the back again. 8:00 pm; I'm home the chains feel looser now, and I have a break. 9:00pm; I eat dinner same flavor, my palate prepares to taste the same. 10;00pm; It orders me to go to bed, to laugh again about by insomnia and wake me up with no pity. It doesn't care about what I need, I go under its rules. It threatens me everyday with my memories and it frightens me with an unknown tomorrow. And, I only have 24 hours each day,60 minutes in each hour and 60 seconds in each minute to do what the calendar of life has for me . I was convicted with a human felony, and I am currently serving a life sentence in this time machine. I am cursed by time and my challenge is to defeat procrastination and monotony.
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As I sit pondering, at a sight so rare. With all kinds of pebbles, spread wall to wall there. Not a speck of sand at all, can be seen here on a beach so rare. The object of the climb down here, was not to fall. As waves of white, crash to the site. One is quite enthralled. By the power of the might, God has given all the right. For winds and waves so strong, to set against the pebbles throng. The smell of salt fills the air, seeing the sights of seaweed is quite fair. Clouds in the sky just linger over there, barely covering the mountain tops where, Birds in flight soar below, Oh! But where is the eagle grand, How he flies far above the land. The boats sit moored not far from land, all is here on Pebble Beach sand.
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Apr 23, 2012
Apr 23, 2012 at 1:49 AM UTC
Pebble Beach
Maynard the Martyr moored in the marshland misrepresented and misinformed much maligned melancholy misfortunate and small-minded unmotivated a real Melvin – macho magpies munch mangos and marshmallows in the moonlight mired in muck and mud misshapen mutated malformed mushrooms manifest momentarily mocking Miss Marple – marbleized Maples mobilize marching to madness in moccasins across Morocco to Monico or Mexico perhaps Montana?
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 10:53 AM UTC
M is for morning
sometimes if you stop breathing you can hear you can hear the sound of the single drop of water as it drips onto a bit of tin amidst the grass and the mud or the sound of the ducks’ feathers as they play in the eddies or the sound of the sun as it rises over the grey canal kissing it to life over treetops that are japanese watercolours and boats moored in the marina memories of a time gone by sometimes if you stop breathing you can feel you can feel the breeze on the hair of your arms the wind as it chills your fingers and you exhale dragon breath sometimes if you stop breathing you can feel life in death sometimes if you stop breathing you gasp as you take in the details the masthead on a boat a dragon with horns? a greek god to keep storms away? hammered iron and blue a totem a good luck charm a protective spell sometimes if you stop breathing everything fades and all we have is the now the single breath pain vanishes and all that remains is bliss
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Feb 18, 2016
Feb 18, 2016 at 3:29 AM UTC
Sometimes if you stop breathing...
*Ragged cliffs loom o'er the shore- as waves punish the rocks below - "Deafening", is their roar*.......... *A fleece, a blanket, of mist...and fog, muffles the 'pleas' From the 'sailing ships'..... moored in the salty seas* *Out from the mist... alone.........she comes- "A battle waits.... to be won" says this maiden.....from Avalon* *With arms outspread-- and opened palms....... She 'chants'...for the sea to lie "still.... and calm"... says the maiden.......from Avalon* "*Oh God of Nature....of  all men - I beseech thee.......... To shield these men of  gallantry"..... 'Chants'...the maiden from Avalon* *As she speaks..... the waves subside.....silent, is their roar The solar orb....no longer hides.... As the brave doth come ashore*. *Is it magic, myth, or simply......lore? perhaps, a tale not told before- But....... when all was said, and done...... "Blessed be the maiden"*..... "From Avalon" r.riddle- 10-29-2016
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Oct 29, 2016
Oct 29, 2016 at 7:42 PM UTC
" Out From the Mist"
Lawrence Hall [email protected]   https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/ poeticdrivel.blogspot.com                    Beowulf and the Danish Passport Officer                      From a recently discovered manuscript The clapped-out Boeing         wheezed to the gate The ground crew jumped                 name-tags rattling And swiftly moored the shining ocean-bird Behind his plastic shield a Danish official watched The travelers approach their passports raised He stood peeking down at the naughty selfie His girlfriend sent to his bold smart-phone Shaking his rubber stamp he spoke: “What is the purpose of your visit? Business, or pleasure? Hwaet! I’ve stood At this same gate longer than you know Keeping our gift shops free from British footer hooligans No commoner carries such fine matching luggage Unless his Rolex and his boyish good looks Are lies You! Tell me your name And your home address and your email! The quicker the better I’m off-duty in ten minutes.” Beowulf answered him Unlocking his smart-phone: “We are the Geats the mighty, mighty Geats! Men who follow Malmo FF Malmo FF the great! And we have come seeking Parken Stadium Greatest of all stadia Its shining seats polished By cheering generations of fat-full footer fans We have come to cheer Malmo FF While they whup up on Dansk Boldspil Union Instruct us, watchman Where is the stadium But first, where is the beer?” The worthy officer Answered him boldly: “A true fan knows The difference between fighting on the field And puking in the stands and keeps that knowledge clear In his beery brain I believe your babbling Go forward, credit cards and all on into Denmark Spend your money! Our exchange rate is generous! And then go home bearing our love while we bear your money.” (Stamp, stamp, stamp) “Tram stop to the left Taxis to the right” (Scholars everywhere will regret that here the burnt and torn manuscript breaks off.)
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Oct 4, 2021
Oct 4, 2021 at 9:10 AM UTC
Beowulf and the Danish Passport Officer
Lawrence Hall [email protected]   https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/ poeticdrivel.blogspot.com                    Beowulf and the Danish Passport Officer                      From a recently discovered manuscript The clapped-out Boeing         wheezed to the gate The ground crew jumped                 name-tags rattling And swiftly moored the shining ocean-bird Behind his plastic shield a Danish official watched The travelers approach their passports raised He stood peeking down at the naughty selfie His girlfriend sent to his bold smart-phone Shaking his rubber stamp he spoke: “What is the purpose of your visit? Business, or pleasure? Hwaet! I’ve stood At this same gate longer than you know Keeping our gift shops free from British footer hooligans No commoner carries such fine matching luggage Unless his Rolex and his boyish good looks Are lies You! Tell me your name And your home address and your email! The quicker the better I’m off-duty in ten minutes.” Beowulf answered him Unlocking his smart-phone: “We are the Geats the mighty, mighty Geats! Men who follow Malmo FF Malmo FF the great! And we have come seeking Parken Stadium Greatest of all stadia Its shining seats polished By cheering generations of fat-full footer fans We have come to cheer Malmo FF While they whup up on Dansk Boldspil Union Instruct us, watchman Where is the stadium But first, where is the beer?” The worthy officer Answered him boldly: “A true fan knows The difference between fighting on the field And puking in the stands and keeps that knowledge clear In his beery brain I believe your babbling Go forward, credit cards and all on into Denmark Spend your money! Our exchange rate is generous! And then go home bearing our love while we bear your money.” (Stamp, stamp, stamp) “Tram stop to the left Taxis to the right” (Scholars everywhere will regret that here the burnt and torn manuscript breaks off.)
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~ "memory runs back farther than mythology." two years, two months, and two days, in a cabin they built near Walden Pond. on a mission of gravity, the heavens forming a spotlight on centrifugal force, abroad the hollow mind, chronically untethered. "I went to the woods to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..." this ship's captain was an architect, but her starblazing failed to break ground, so this life is now a structure settled upon sand, and way out yonder, where there is no blade of grass, just weeds growing out from under the floor. but her daughters are grinning magnets, passionate machines. "copy that?...," asks Houston. she takes a long, hard swallow, the shadow of a bell inspiring the astronaut in her to shoot for incapable stars, but the bell she hears now is that of an alarm clock telling her it's time to wake up: shoulders straight. hands free. arms strong. fingers stiff. chronically untethered. she's not looking for new days, she is a new day, compacted out of water, tired of changing real estate and showering with other people's success. those loud kids, her kids, play down the hall, in the beehive. radio jargon's on full blast too and telling her where to buy and sell today's instant pleasure. she's busy now with self-stimulation, Betty Dodson Method, then mixing orange powder with 100 year old whiskey kept in the lunar module: it's a spacewalk to eternity, faster-than-light: she sees broken pool tables and backyard swings. she sees 'ordinary' checked off on the calendar. she sees 'happiness' hiding in an old photo of Murphy's Camp. she wakes to her husband, Houston, in a holding pattern, she feels him moving, whispering, and touching something far off inside of her, but not moored in a specific time or place. in search of where she now exists (if she even existed at all), her memories feel artificial in that she lacks the emotional attachment that comes with actually having lived them. there are no answers, no choices. only reactions. it is always going to be that broken state of things: these days of heaven, chronically untethered. "only that day dawns to which I'm awake. there is more day to dawn, I suppose. and like us, the sun is but a morning star upon being dreamed into existence..." ~
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Jul 25, 2022
Jul 25, 2022 at 9:19 PM UTC
Koinophobia (Days of Heaven)
~ "memory runs back farther than mythology." two years, two months, and two days, in a cabin they built near Walden Pond. on a mission of gravity, the heavens forming a spotlight on centrifugal force, abroad the hollow mind, chronically untethered. "I went to the woods to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..." this ship's captain was an architect, but her starblazing failed to break ground, so this life is now a structure settled upon sand, and way out yonder, where there is no blade of grass, just weeds growing out from under the floor. but her daughters are grinning magnets, passionate machines. "copy that?...," asks Houston. she takes a long, hard swallow, the shadow of a bell inspiring the astronaut in her to shoot for incapable stars, but the bell she hears now is that of an alarm clock telling her it's time to wake up: shoulders straight. hands free. arms strong. fingers stiff. chronically untethered. she's not looking for new days, she is a new day, compacted out of water, tired of changing real estate and showering with other people's success. those loud kids, her kids, play down the hall, in the beehive. radio jargon's on full blast too and telling her where to buy and sell today's instant pleasure. she's busy now with self-stimulation, Betty Dodson Method, then mixing orange powder with 100 year old whiskey kept in the lunar module: it's a spacewalk to eternity, faster-than-light: she sees broken pool tables and backyard swings. she sees 'ordinary' checked off on the calendar. she sees 'happiness' hiding in an old photo of Murphy's Camp. she wakes to her husband, Houston, in a holding pattern, she feels him moving, whispering, and touching something far off inside of her, but not moored in a specific time or place. in search of where she now exists (if she even existed at all), her memories feel artificial in that she lacks the emotional attachment that comes with actually having lived them. there are no answers, no choices. only reactions. it is always going to be that broken state of things: these days of heaven, chronically untethered. "only that day dawns to which I'm awake. there is more day to dawn, I suppose. and like us, the sun is but a morning star upon being dreamed into existence..." ~
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A Lighthouse to light beyond the Reasons An Astragal to tone down the Passion A Lantern to bright beyond the Horizons In that permanent Love's Peregrination Some wished him to be an Anchor He is just a moored Beacon, offshore.
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Jun 28, 2016
Jun 28, 2016 at 12:45 PM UTC
Prism of Life
Nestled in a pencil case And snuggled up in fluff There snoozed a tiny pirate man Of legendary stuff He'd spied the hidden secrets And trod the haunted shore Blu-tack Beard the buccaneer Scourge of the open floor He stole a shoe-box galleon And sailed the carpet blue With pencil mast and paper sails And crayons as his crew They forayed on the crooked tiles And crested every ridge Blu-tack Beard the scallywag The raider of the fridge When moored up in the kitchen With all his crew around The captain showed to one and all A treasure map he'd found It bore a chart of distant parts And quite a course it plot It pointed to the bathroom lands And tip-ex marked the spot They crammed the hold with cornflakes To feed them on their trip They pulled hard on the piece of string And weighed the paperclip The crew they dragged their boat aloft On neatly woven hairs Blu-tack Beard the privateer Surmounter of the stairs They heaved their vessel restlessly Atop the final brow The crayon pirates caught their breath And leaned against her bow Then scaled tiny ladders And each took to their post Blu-tack Beard was at the helm And watched the foreign coast Through countless minutes voyaging There loomed the bathroom door They slacked the sail and went below And each took to an oar They pulled a mighty rhythm Till their waxy arms were numb And Blu-tack Beard the plunderer Was beater of the drum But though they pried in every nook And each last inch of grout They skirted round the skirting board They tapped each silver spout Illusive was their bounty And they grew ever the crueller They took their skipper angrily And made him walk the ruler He landed glum and ruefully Amid the ***** socks He heard the merry spiteful sound Of laughing, taunting mocks And saw the sight of mutiny With waxen little smiles Blu-tack Beard the cast-away Alone among the tiles He commandeered a washing cloth And weaved himself a rope He scaled the dreaded washstand And stole a bar of soap He carved himself a coracle And set his sights on home Blu-tack Beard the wanderer Awash amid the foam He slithered down the stairwell And landed with a plan For warmer climes and restfulness A cocktail and a tan And so he met his final port Right then did he retire Blu-tack Beard the pensioner Of the warm spot near the fire
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 4:33 PM UTC
Blu-tack Beard the Pirate
Nestled in a pencil case And snuggled up in fluff There snoozed a tiny pirate man Of legendary stuff He'd spied the hidden secrets And trod the haunted shore Blu-tack Beard the buccaneer Scourge of the open floor He stole a shoe-box galleon And sailed the carpet blue With pencil mast and paper sails And crayons as his crew They forayed on the crooked tiles And crested every ridge Blu-tack Beard the scallywag The raider of the fridge When moored up in the kitchen With all his crew around The captain showed to one and all A treasure map he'd found It bore a chart of distant parts And quite a course it plot It pointed to the bathroom lands And tip-ex marked the spot They crammed the hold with cornflakes To feed them on their trip They pulled hard on the piece of string And weighed the paperclip The crew they dragged their boat aloft On neatly woven hairs Blu-tack Beard the privateer Surmounter of the stairs They heaved their vessel restlessly Atop the final brow The crayon pirates caught their breath And leaned against her bow Then scaled tiny ladders And each took to their post Blu-tack Beard was at the helm And watched the foreign coast Through countless minutes voyaging There loomed the bathroom door They slacked the sail and went below And each took to an oar They pulled a mighty rhythm Till their waxy arms were numb And Blu-tack Beard the plunderer Was beater of the drum But though they pried in every nook And each last inch of grout They skirted round the skirting board They tapped each silver spout Illusive was their bounty And they grew ever the crueller They took their skipper angrily And made him walk the ruler He landed glum and ruefully Amid the ***** socks He heard the merry spiteful sound Of laughing, taunting mocks And saw the sight of mutiny With waxen little smiles Blu-tack Beard the cast-away Alone among the tiles He commandeered a washing cloth And weaved himself a rope He scaled the dreaded washstand And stole a bar of soap He carved himself a coracle And set his sights on home Blu-tack Beard the wanderer Awash amid the foam He slithered down the stairwell And landed with a plan For warmer climes and restfulness A cocktail and a tan And so he met his final port Right then did he retire Blu-tack Beard the pensioner Of the warm spot near the fire
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In the warmth of a summer sunset I sat idle on the sea shore Looking at the grey enormity That heaved and swelled in turn As I looked on, the breakers rose high Thundering sea waves dashed And crashed over the boulders Before me was the wild brutality of the sea! Though at times she is calm and windless, A smoldering volcano lies beneath her surface I sat away from the crowd In a cool squire of quiet Inhaling the briny air And enjoying the foam and spray My mind then was light as that of a child That plays on the sea shore, making sand castles I watched small boats carrying men They were heading towards the Casino Moored in the inlet of the sea I felt those men were like flies lured by the flame They come either to perish or to prosper Most of them go back with empty wallets Very few fortunate to splurge in money newly amassed My eyes stretched far into the horizon Bound by a vault of azure sky Swallows were circling beneath tangled clouds The tall masts of ships could be seen at a distance I watched waves taking the shape of curving scrolls Dolphins were seen leaping over the waters And ever growing ripples drifted and strayed As the fabric of blue got continuously shredded For fun I scribbled my name on the sands But a wave came crashing against the shore And the very next moment washed it away Was it here or there, I had scrawled my signature I don’t know. It has vanished leaving no trace Suddenly from a child, I grew into a sage How transient is man’s life on Earth How very tiny we are Set against the vastness of the sea In the wide expanse of life, as on a sea shore We scribble our names to stay But Alas! Some unknown hands wipe them away It dawned on me that with time’s ceaseless flow The world will continue to speed away Without you or me Leaving no memorials behind!
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Apr 30, 2016
Apr 30, 2016 at 11:41 PM UTC
On the Seashore
In the warmth of a summer sunset I sat idle on the sea shore Looking at the grey enormity That heaved and swelled in turn As I looked on, the breakers rose high Thundering sea waves dashed And crashed over the boulders Before me was the wild brutality of the sea! Though at times she is calm and windless, A smoldering volcano lies beneath her surface I sat away from the crowd In a cool squire of quiet Inhaling the briny air And enjoying the foam and spray My mind then was light as that of a child That plays on the sea shore, making sand castles I watched small boats carrying men They were heading towards the Casino Moored in the inlet of the sea I felt those men were like flies lured by the flame They come either to perish or to prosper Most of them go back with empty wallets Very few fortunate to splurge in money newly amassed My eyes stretched far into the horizon Bound by a vault of azure sky Swallows were circling beneath tangled clouds The tall masts of ships could be seen at a distance I watched waves taking the shape of curving scrolls Dolphins were seen leaping over the waters And ever growing ripples drifted and strayed As the fabric of blue got continuously shredded For fun I scribbled my name on the sands But a wave came crashing against the shore And the very next moment washed it away Was it here or there, I had scrawled my signature I don’t know. It has vanished leaving no trace Suddenly from a child, I grew into a sage How transient is man’s life on Earth How very tiny we are Set against the vastness of the sea In the wide expanse of life, as on a sea shore We scribble our names to stay But Alas! Some unknown hands wipe them away It dawned on me that with time’s ceaseless flow The world will continue to speed away Without you or me Leaving no memorials behind!
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You sit now stranded, moored to nothing, going nowhere, your bilges dry, your engines shut down and up inside the salt-rusted skin, pocked with rot, where once you sliced across the water's top, a vessel full of life, bow and stern, prop and anchor, never ever in your mindless dreams believing you would stop, and no one would even care- no sailors, no cargo, no sunrises, sunsets, waves and beasts of the deep to sound their fare-thee-wells, no more those chimed 8 bells, you, now stopped, docked and alas, forgot. _______ Derelict: http://beautyineverything.com/5096209757
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Oct 20, 2010
Oct 20, 2010 at 4:42 AM UTC
Derelict
. •see- min- gly tied, moored to this bed• rust enc- rust- ed, e- mpty ,beat- en an- •                       d un-                       • •••                       man-                       ••• •••••                    ned•                    ••••• a wreck long forgotten... and ghostly dead• anchored but afloat, never touching the sand • .
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Apr 11, 2017
Apr 11, 2017 at 10:38 AM UTC
Moored
By the old garages near the railway sidings slipping or sliding, through the tiding hiding away, or near to the solemn aspects of ****** with ease, she can tease the eve of your heave- ** or go, no, stay, she says, just today, or all of your tomorrows shall be forgotten Lonely was the name on a tag, lagged, left forgotten at the bottom of the river, where she lay, today, floating away- But he stays, the way his spirit lays, let( )down or all around this town, how it lingers; the memory of love or lust on drunken Friday nights by the fright of old Frank Alight, setting alight the houses in furor, or moor the more he bores by the moored shore of that amour armoured, charmed, alarmed at the speech patterns in the night sky, as she lay down to die, or to cry, questioning why, Frank could try and do this, Brutus, brutally mutually assured destruction, social construction or constriction, the friction of hands around the throat, she never floats, just sinks corpses stink, porous ink stained every lane leading to the place where in disgrace, he beat her face, and replaced the lace, in the place leading to the lake
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Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 4:54 PM UTC
Reciprocating Precipitation, Stained the Nation (No Adulation for Emancipation)
Hushed in the smoky haze of summer sunset, When I came home again from far-off places, How many times I saw my western city Dream by her river. Then for an hour the water wore a mantle Of tawny gold and mauve and misted turquoise Under the tall and darkened arches bearing Gray, high-flung bridges. Against the sunset, water-towers and steeples Flickered with fire up the slope to westward, And old warehouses poured their purple shadows Across the levee. High over them the black train swept with thunder, Cleaving the city, leaving far beneath it Wharf-boats moored beside the old side-wheelers Resting in twilight.
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Sunset: St. Louis