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"motorized" poems
I was three years out of high school and finally getting the chance to grow up. I’d been ready since before graduation day. Everybody in the world was certain that I would fail. I couldn’t succeed. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am proving them wrong. I’m succeeding, maybe not thriving, but succeeding right before their very eyes. Success is living on my own. Being able to do every household chore on my own. Success is getting myself to and from where I need to be in my broken down, beat up wheelchair. Success is budgeting my money each month. Success is not getting killed and ***** on my walk home from work in the dark. Success is living up to their standards and way of life. Success is faking a smile. I’ve learned more about life in the last eight months than ever before. I’ve made mistakes, just like they said I would. What they didn’t count on was me learning from those mistakes and picking up the pieces. They told me I wouldn’t last more than a month, six weeks at the most. I would ***** up, fail miserably, get hurt and hospitalized. Thank you for the boost of self-esteem. It’s made me tougher than steel. I may not be the perfect student, skinny blonde ***** award winning page designer or most eloquent writer. I may not speak Spanish fluently, have loads of extra cash lying around or a motorized, state of the art wheelchair. Stop telling me what I need. I don’t need or want any of them. Success is living how I want to live. Success is a productive day when I want nothing but hot tea and soft music. Success is having the confidence to ask for help when I’ve been told I shouldn’t. Success is making friends who can read through my masquerade. Success is facing the consequences. Success is found through red ink marks and piles of papers. Success is not letting those who don’t believe in me get the best of me. Success is sunshine on a cloudy day
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Aug 9, 2010
Aug 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM UTC
Vote Of Confidence
I was three years out of high school and finally getting the chance to grow up. I’d been ready since before graduation day. Everybody in the world was certain that I would fail. I couldn’t succeed. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am proving them wrong. I’m succeeding, maybe not thriving, but succeeding right before their very eyes. Success is living on my own. Being able to do every household chore on my own. Success is getting myself to and from where I need to be in my broken down, beat up wheelchair. Success is budgeting my money each month. Success is not getting killed and ***** on my walk home from work in the dark. Success is living up to their standards and way of life. Success is faking a smile. I’ve learned more about life in the last eight months than ever before. I’ve made mistakes, just like they said I would. What they didn’t count on was me learning from those mistakes and picking up the pieces. They told me I wouldn’t last more than a month, six weeks at the most. I would ***** up, fail miserably, get hurt and hospitalized. Thank you for the boost of self-esteem. It’s made me tougher than steel. I may not be the perfect student, skinny blonde ***** award winning page designer or most eloquent writer. I may not speak Spanish fluently, have loads of extra cash lying around or a motorized, state of the art wheelchair. Stop telling me what I need. I don’t need or want any of them. Success is living how I want to live. Success is a productive day when I want nothing but hot tea and soft music. Success is having the confidence to ask for help when I’ve been told I shouldn’t. Success is making friends who can read through my masquerade. Success is facing the consequences. Success is found through red ink marks and piles of papers. Success is not letting those who don’t believe in me get the best of me. Success is sunshine on a cloudy day
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His hat says I Remember Pearl Harbor He asks me to put the wine in the basket Hanging behind his motorized wheelchair He smells a little like *** His sweatpants have dark stains all over Like a leapord who has gone old and grey "They can put a motor on one of these things but they can't make them comfortable" "When you're an old man like me maybe yours will fly but I bet your *** will still fall asleep all the time" I tell him that when I am old I hope they make wheelchairs that feel like a father's shoulders He shakes his head after I say that and laughs "That sounds like it might be nice But i couldn't say I know what that feels like" Me neither I tell him
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May 2, 2013
May 2, 2013 at 2:52 PM UTC
Conversaions With Older People: The Veteran in the Wheelchair
I sit and I dream, a parasitic dream, where we aren't who we were and we aren't how we seem. Where I eat you and you eat me and somehow we're still happy. In each pile of body on body I walk by loneliness and loss. I love you's and I hate me's saturate the air's conscience. Us, the nation and all are pinned against each wall being ****** mercilessly. We are ********** heartbreakers. Our ***** are property of others: intellectual property. In my dream, where I dream, everyone I've ever loved, is dreaming and trapped in a pit of motorized rubber ****** where the rubber pumps and eats, pumps and eats, breaking ribs, shattering spines, ripping esophagus, splitting spirit like tissue paper. Bodies ripped apart by branded, artificial "love": society's configuration. Brand recognition. Product placement. Motor salad.
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Jan 9, 2015
Jan 9, 2015 at 8:01 PM UTC
Motor Salad
at the end of the pier no one is fishing a couple from Jersey leans out over the rail looking down into the brown swill rolling under the weathered boards The wife remarked “Belmar's water is much nicer.” on the Gulf’s edge unhappy gulls convene, plaintively gazing over gray waves ebbing at their feet Brown Pelican crews fly in long ordered formations incessantly circling in widening rounds seemingly reluctant to plunge into the endless depletion of this aquatic dead zone I speak with a Jefferson Parish employee working a shovel to regrade disturbed sand boasting a consistency of moist drying cement “How did the Gulf oil spill affect this place?” I ask “It took evarding.” she said With a slight Cajun accent, “dig down a foot or two in da sand you hit earl. It nevar goes away. Nevar. “I live down bay side near forty years. Had’nt been in de water fer twenty five.  The ****** ******** took evarding. They should go back to Englund” She went back to tilling the sand. Deepwater Horizon yet festers a short forty miles out to sea is now covered by an advancing storm swelling in the Gulf standing at the end of the long pier my hands  grasp the sun bleached lumber straining my eyes peering into a dark avalanche the serenade of bird songs have been replaced by the motorized drone of tenders servicing offshore rigs sounding a constant refrain filling my ears with a disquieting   seaside symphony the taste of light sweet crude dances on my tongue the pungent sting of disbursements climbs into nostrils rends my face prickles my eyes grandeur is a conditional state never permanent forever temporary Music Selection: Cajun Music: Hippy To-Yo Grand Isle 2/20/17 jbm
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Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 5:52 PM UTC
Grand Isle
at the end of the pier no one is fishing a couple from Jersey leans out over the rail looking down into the brown swill rolling under the weathered boards The wife remarked “Belmar's water is much nicer.” on the Gulf’s edge unhappy gulls convene, plaintively gazing over gray waves ebbing at their feet Brown Pelican crews fly in long ordered formations incessantly circling in widening rounds seemingly reluctant to plunge into the endless depletion of this aquatic dead zone I speak with a Jefferson Parish employee working a shovel to regrade disturbed sand boasting a consistency of moist drying cement “How did the Gulf oil spill affect this place?” I ask “It took evarding.” she said With a slight Cajun accent, “dig down a foot or two in da sand you hit earl. It nevar goes away. Nevar. “I live down bay side near forty years. Had’nt been in de water fer twenty five.  The ****** ******** took evarding. They should go back to Englund” She went back to tilling the sand. Deepwater Horizon yet festers a short forty miles out to sea is now covered by an advancing storm swelling in the Gulf standing at the end of the long pier my hands  grasp the sun bleached lumber straining my eyes peering into a dark avalanche the serenade of bird songs have been replaced by the motorized drone of tenders servicing offshore rigs sounding a constant refrain filling my ears with a disquieting   seaside symphony the taste of light sweet crude dances on my tongue the pungent sting of disbursements climbs into nostrils rends my face prickles my eyes grandeur is a conditional state never permanent forever temporary Music Selection: Cajun Music: Hippy To-Yo Grand Isle 2/20/17 jbm
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i'll admit i found him humorous upon first sighting. he was obese, with one leg, in a motorized wheel chair, wearing large sunglasses, a volunteer firefighter cap, and awkward headphones, circa '79. "hello there, sir!" he shouted as his wheel chair and body shifted, slanted, bounced with each crack in the pavement. "hey, how's it goin'?" i called back, with a warm and hospitable tone. i've been trying to be more social. "i am blessed, but sir, would you be so kind as to help me get some food?" "yeah sure. where's the food?" good deed for the day. "i don't know, i guess around this here corner. i'm lookin' for that pizza place." "oh okay, i think it's just over here past the bookstore." "alright. what's your name, boy? "josh. and yours, sir?" "james. josh it is a pleasure to meet you. and i thank you. you see i'm homeless, mr. josh. and you wouldn't believe how often people turn away from me, josh." "that's awful." "yes it is. but i pray for them. they need it. may the lord forgive them. may the lord forgive me." "here's that pizza place." "excellent. would you go in and get me some food?" oh. i'm buying him food. that's what "help me get some food" means. "of course. what would you like?" i returned ten minutes later with a gyro, a pepsi, and some chips. "thank you mr. josh," he said with a bright smile, "this will be a fine meal. now, josh, you have done a good thing. look at my eyes." he removed his sunglasses. his eyes seemed normal enough. "i ain't no druggy or dope fiend. i'm just james w. green. mr. green. i was a bass player that just fell on some bad luck. now josh, i'm asking you as a friend to just give me a little more, so i can eat tonight." this made me uncomfortable. i hate to admit it, but i began to suspect this uni-legged, bass player, of ripping me off. i gave him a 5-dollar bill. that's a weeks worth of suppers at taco bell. he said a prayer for me. then he asked me on behalf of jesus, "can you look into your heart and give generously? just one big donation and who knows what could happen!?" i gave him another ten. "thank you mr. josh. i appreciate it. remember me? and do me a favor?" "sure." "tell the world about mr.green!" you're welcome, james.
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May 3, 2010
May 3, 2010 at 1:41 PM UTC
james w. green
i'll admit i found him humorous upon first sighting. he was obese, with one leg, in a motorized wheel chair, wearing large sunglasses, a volunteer firefighter cap, and awkward headphones, circa '79. "hello there, sir!" he shouted as his wheel chair and body shifted, slanted, bounced with each crack in the pavement. "hey, how's it goin'?" i called back, with a warm and hospitable tone. i've been trying to be more social. "i am blessed, but sir, would you be so kind as to help me get some food?" "yeah sure. where's the food?" good deed for the day. "i don't know, i guess around this here corner. i'm lookin' for that pizza place." "oh okay, i think it's just over here past the bookstore." "alright. what's your name, boy? "josh. and yours, sir?" "james. josh it is a pleasure to meet you. and i thank you. you see i'm homeless, mr. josh. and you wouldn't believe how often people turn away from me, josh." "that's awful." "yes it is. but i pray for them. they need it. may the lord forgive them. may the lord forgive me." "here's that pizza place." "excellent. would you go in and get me some food?" oh. i'm buying him food. that's what "help me get some food" means. "of course. what would you like?" i returned ten minutes later with a gyro, a pepsi, and some chips. "thank you mr. josh," he said with a bright smile, "this will be a fine meal. now, josh, you have done a good thing. look at my eyes." he removed his sunglasses. his eyes seemed normal enough. "i ain't no druggy or dope fiend. i'm just james w. green. mr. green. i was a bass player that just fell on some bad luck. now josh, i'm asking you as a friend to just give me a little more, so i can eat tonight." this made me uncomfortable. i hate to admit it, but i began to suspect this uni-legged, bass player, of ripping me off. i gave him a 5-dollar bill. that's a weeks worth of suppers at taco bell. he said a prayer for me. then he asked me on behalf of jesus, "can you look into your heart and give generously? just one big donation and who knows what could happen!?" i gave him another ten. "thank you mr. josh. i appreciate it. remember me? and do me a favor?" "sure." "tell the world about mr.green!" you're welcome, james.
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Used to smoke a pack a day, now it’s just two cigarettes in the evening time, when the lady is in the shower and after the ****** has been smoked. I sit on the ledge of our patio, legs stretched out Exhaling long trails of smoke. observing the busy apartment complex. Mainly blacks & Mexicans with a dash of Apache Junction white trash. Two girls in their early twenties sit on a bench in the little courtyard talking loudly. gesturing wildly about some ***** neither can stand. Purple lightning flashes overhead, illuminating the courtyard. Then it begins to sprinkle And then it starts to rain. A woman walks down the stairs from her apartment. She’s barefoot and smiling, head tilted up towards the sky, taking in deep breaths of the good rain smell. I imagine she’s been waiting for this. Waiting on the rain. In her apartment. It’s really started coming down. She couldn’t light her cigarette, the rain was dropping from everywhere. Two children run and skip down the sidewalk with their mother running close behind. Her arms, both of them, full of mail, grocery bags, and a baby, yellin at her kids, “hurry, hurry, hurry up. C’mon, the mail is getting wet and I got Netflix here, ********* move your ***** A man in a motorized wheelchair Emerges from one of the halls across the courtyard. I watch his electric chair buzz by on the sidewalk. He was going for a full lap of the place it seemed. When he passed me, I saw droplets of rain breaking on his face and streaming down. Grinning ear to ear he winked one eye at me. made me smile. This is Arizona. Rain in the summer is a gift. Means a lot to us. All of us
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Dec 8, 2011
Dec 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM UTC
Two Smokes & The Summer Rain
Used to smoke a pack a day, now it’s just two cigarettes in the evening time, when the lady is in the shower and after the ****** has been smoked. I sit on the ledge of our patio, legs stretched out Exhaling long trails of smoke. observing the busy apartment complex. Mainly blacks & Mexicans with a dash of Apache Junction white trash. Two girls in their early twenties sit on a bench in the little courtyard talking loudly. gesturing wildly about some ***** neither can stand. Purple lightning flashes overhead, illuminating the courtyard. Then it begins to sprinkle And then it starts to rain. A woman walks down the stairs from her apartment. She’s barefoot and smiling, head tilted up towards the sky, taking in deep breaths of the good rain smell. I imagine she’s been waiting for this. Waiting on the rain. In her apartment. It’s really started coming down. She couldn’t light her cigarette, the rain was dropping from everywhere. Two children run and skip down the sidewalk with their mother running close behind. Her arms, both of them, full of mail, grocery bags, and a baby, yellin at her kids, “hurry, hurry, hurry up. C’mon, the mail is getting wet and I got Netflix here, ********* move your ***** A man in a motorized wheelchair Emerges from one of the halls across the courtyard. I watch his electric chair buzz by on the sidewalk. He was going for a full lap of the place it seemed. When he passed me, I saw droplets of rain breaking on his face and streaming down. Grinning ear to ear he winked one eye at me. made me smile. This is Arizona. Rain in the summer is a gift. Means a lot to us. All of us
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I see the cockroach caress the counter next to a brewing *** of coffee, striking a chord of crystaline sweetness, that God and Satan could both agree upon. In the living room, my best friends are killing each other, kissing each other, falling in love, snagging, splitting stitches, chalk outlines, black mail, and hopes for a resurrection swirl and spin with the scent of perfume and coffee beans. My phone lights up with a message asking for some real advice, my response is to get a new religion, and wait for the bombs to fall. Outside light pollution fills the sky, an eerie day that just won't die, negotiating with eager streetlights, and all-night diners. On the corner of 23rd and Western, a dancing grinderman, a homeless woman with a snaggletooth smile, and their prize of a monkey are cutting the night with desperation croons, and delightful foresight. Just past the construction on the east side of the city, a one-legged, heathen named James W. Green is finding solace with a defeated, overthehill harlot, going to and fro in a motorized sanctuary, and grabbing change from her coin-dispensing hips. I discover a pen embedded in the carpet, I spend the rest of the evening split between Midnight Man poetry, and dictating divine apocrypha, while once bright-eyed friends of mine mourn over marriage, self-medication strategies, and scrape the bottom of the barrel with their tongues to ensure it's tangible.
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Jan 5, 2011
Jan 5, 2011 at 7:42 AM UTC
of chalk outlines, heathens, and harlots
the last time i flew it was daylight i didn’t look out the window. now i look outside and see a thousand lights; and each light is a thousand souls burning against the gaslamp yellow nightscape. clouds provide a familiar metaphor yet those nightshade souls still glimmer through where the cotton grey is weakest shining as i like to imagine they will always shine even though i know that always is a relative term. once in Tokyo i had the perfect drink like electric moonbeams and violets and secrets soaked in gin. i taste it here in the recycled air above the nightscape while viewing the souls that may or may not be the remnants of fevered dreams. listen with me if we’re very quiet, we can hear the faint strains of tokyo jazz filtering through the soft thrum of wheels and motorized air and a crying baby that’s never tasted the smoky sweet burn of gin and juniper.
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Dec 8, 2012
Dec 8, 2012 at 12:02 PM UTC
night flight
My black cat of twelve years pretends not to know me following my five months of hospitalized absence. Perhaps it is the newly acquired wheelchair, or the motorized invalid bed? Why should he be any different than some old friends whose calls are now noticeably less frequent than prior to my paralyzing accident? Or perhaps it is I, too cinched up in my need bag to reach out for a pet pat or a pal chat?
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Sep 13, 2012
Sep 13, 2012 at 5:25 PM UTC
Absence
1 He leant down Quietly carving his name into the sand; The pursuing waves, Repeatedly rippling forward, with The force of a motorized modern army Gunning down civilians, Dragged it clean. Flies loquaciously buzzed around his head, As, crushing down seaweed, He carved his name again. 2. The roots dug deep, pushing against The soil. The particles spread apart With sexless ardour. The man, Of a tolerant disposition, wrenched The roots free with drenched hands. Nothing lasted forever. 3. The yellow and green of the sunrise Turned swiftly into unpretentious browns The light changing shape as the Morning matured and the sun Rose further in the sky. Pumped up Clouds rolled sinuously along, combining and separating Like fantastic amoeba. 4. And so it continued Under the burning sun; more spiteful from year to year. The man said nothing As he climbed into the salt water, Gulls circumnavigating above his head, With nothing to say or remember Except the lines in the sand.
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Dec 11, 2016
Dec 11, 2016 at 6:34 PM UTC
CARVING HIS NAME
for Beau this mixte bag of nutty facts, compote of this's and that's, fragrant but yucky tasting potpourri, sordid assortment of seemingly unseemly random collection of facts, whoppers, recipes and formulae, and his 'n her stories (my fav!) useless motorized drivel, running around my head that you have with me creme-filled, data conglomerated, transformed by mongol hordes of grey cells urged on, nay transformed, by **** and beer into a magnificent miscellaneous mile of jumble, virtuous and verifiable grab bag of ever so humble, tuneful melodies of a medley of snatches and patches of Jagger and Liszt, a verifiable pastiche of vital and downright dumb Factors and Factoids, I thank you suchly muchly musta taken years, maybe even decades to collect and codify, this assemblage of verifiable factoids, after-all, took you twelve to feed me in eye dropper ingestible quantities! though with Wiki this and Wiki that, I coulda save us all some time, and since it is all on the Internet, and any way 99% I forgot like a cell phone number no matter, I can reads and counts and writes term papers downloaded, but caught my eye you wrote of a mutton stew denominated as hotchpotch, but we variant truants, ici, aux Etats-Unis, on dit and spell our salmagundi as hodgepodge but in summary summation, thanks for teaching me creative thinking, for without this skill, I would but be, a tool of Wikipedia and not its creator P.S.  It's gadzooks, not gad zooks, according to Wikitionary, even them Oxford fellas agree, tee hee, you could look it up on the internetsky, Teach....
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 5:50 AM UTC
Hey Teach! This Hodgepodge
for Beau this mixte bag of nutty facts, compote of this's and that's, fragrant but yucky tasting potpourri, sordid assortment of seemingly unseemly random collection of facts, whoppers, recipes and formulae, and his 'n her stories (my fav!) useless motorized drivel, running around my head that you have with me creme-filled, data conglomerated, transformed by mongol hordes of grey cells urged on, nay transformed, by **** and beer into a magnificent miscellaneous mile of jumble, virtuous and verifiable grab bag of ever so humble, tuneful melodies of a medley of snatches and patches of Jagger and Liszt, a verifiable pastiche of vital and downright dumb Factors and Factoids, I thank you suchly muchly musta taken years, maybe even decades to collect and codify, this assemblage of verifiable factoids, after-all, took you twelve to feed me in eye dropper ingestible quantities! though with Wiki this and Wiki that, I coulda save us all some time, and since it is all on the Internet, and any way 99% I forgot like a cell phone number no matter, I can reads and counts and writes term papers downloaded, but caught my eye you wrote of a mutton stew denominated as hotchpotch, but we variant truants, ici, aux Etats-Unis, on dit and spell our salmagundi as hodgepodge but in summary summation, thanks for teaching me creative thinking, for without this skill, I would but be, a tool of Wikipedia and not its creator P.S.  It's gadzooks, not gad zooks, according to Wikitionary, even them Oxford fellas agree, tee hee, you could look it up on the internetsky, Teach....
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That thin line is where I want to be Cut off between us two. No matter how much we change, this line will always be. Between motorized vehicles the patter of shoes, old & new. Spaced out between concrete plateaus and painted highway lines. The onlookers & passerbys caught in the wind without second glance, that thin line where I want to be Can only be described as Beside you. Between the trees, beside the small lakes & birds of your imagination, That thin line where I end & you begin. Our invisible bridge where my voice tickles your ear & is miles long That thin line that grasps your hand & mind. No matter how much we change this line will always be & this line where we always meet
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Sep 14, 2020
Sep 14, 2020 at 5:13 PM UTC
Boarders (Thin Lines)
I struggle with the seatbelt in your car. You express passionately, "You'll have to stay with me forever." You don't understand how much it frustrates me that I love you. Because I know the whole unadventured world lays ill at ease outside your smeary windows. But the safe sentiment of your vehicle leaves me wrestling with myself. To be free or to be unassailable.
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Jan 27, 2018
Jan 27, 2018 at 7:19 PM UTC
Motorized
This is where the beech tree fell all that remains is a splintered stump all the birds morn her death and with no songs bow their heads The forest weeps in silent tears in falling leaves for she was the last boarder of the ancient woodlands now her shadow with never be cast in her majestic frame never one liken to her will ever be seen again Through the years by the new road she had endured motorized impacts even her new buds of early spring would replace their own when singed Mighty was her endurance of winds swift and fast she had withstood the blight of many a parasite had broken off limbs for the fear of loosing all on hot heat waves that could finish ones all In her younger years of life she had witnessed great battles seen many a brave man fall on her espied battlefield Yet that night of that great tempest she made her whispers to the others and as the corn turned ****** red she resigned herself to her death bed By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
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Aug 28, 2013
Aug 28, 2013 at 7:37 PM UTC
Where The Beech Tree Fell
Entombed in chrome, steel, and speed, Humanity slays the night With headlights, Banshee engines screaming V8 defiance, High-octane ghosts in the exhausts Bellowing spectral smoke, A motorized mausoleum Driving away from nature And slipping into darkness In the midnight heart Of a graveyard city.
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Jun 20, 2013
Jun 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM UTC
Words Written on I-16
This is a poem made by her hand a poem of marks you can read left to right right to left any which way an ascemic script it tells a tale late in the day beside a river still sunlit clouds vast in a Maytime sky down on the mud and shingled shore these found things arrived at her feet as they do when waiting for her dear hand’s touch upon their metalled forms rusted and rivered by the daily tides the diurnal wash and dry of weather and watered river mud-coloured beside boats bedded in the river bank each plaqued to remember thirty wooden boats in all that plied a river’s journey there and back once to and fro now charged up high on Pulton shore a motorized trow a top-sail schooner Edith and the New Despatch steel and concrete barges Severn Collier and Mighty Monarch lying hard into the silt a yard at rest a grave of vessels
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Feb 6, 2015
Feb 6, 2015 at 11:41 AM UTC
On Pulton Shore
Shifting forward I'm ready for this rubber on gravel, creaking I'm ready to not be here fleeting air on skin One step, one chance a sudden screech I'll pretend I didn't see him walking casually
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Nov 29, 2011
Nov 29, 2011 at 9:14 PM UTC
To be hit by a motorized vehicle
If I was a droid, life wouldn't feel the same. I'd see the world through holograms, kiss cold-lips, feel just a bit of heat in my LED. My joints would be motorized-gears, not sinew. But would I even have the emotion to want to kiss, any desire to engage in such physical contact? There would be no need for any of that. Everything would be just useless-information. There would be no warmth from the sun on my Teflon skin, no sex-organ to act on my lack of inhibitions, smell would mean nothing. So I guess, if I were a droid, I'd be bored to death & not living, just existing in a body containing diodes & transistors, hard drives & resistors. I'd be integrated, solid-state, driving a data-bus to nowhere, doomed to misery, a pathetic, an unfeeling state, without a real date.
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Dec 28, 2013
Dec 28, 2013 at 2:30 PM UTC
If I Was A Droid (I'd Be Doomed)
Burning red eyed glow Cool to your embers Blow smothering the flame Bonfire emotes in flame Blue oceans deep pass over your heat Let me sink in I've dove deep Your pools of blue Draw and drown Magnetic energy motorized within me I spark Hitherto never shocked White blinding light Disappear in the cloud Trampoline of cotton Take me higher, higher Show me wonder Don't drop me. For I will fall onto the green Grass won't stop this descent Bush won't cushion this fall Tree won't just impale Forest nights grow darker I'm lying down on my blanket Pressing into the lush Breathing nostrils tendril tickles Sink a half inch deeper into the bending saber tips Watch from your tower Rays of gold meld and procreate naturally Don't take my warmth and life Golden globular orb melting sloughing sliding down Un-fathomable happiness Limitless light life justice Ice cold depression Death wallow in grief When the mighty winks goodbye The black will rule Hades rises Hellish requiem depress souls Let the forms wander as empty husks Tombs line roads and no light to see them Take my vision hearing smelling Leave me warmth Even your red eyed glow I submit
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 9:23 PM UTC
The World
On the highway, 3am, a myriad of stars looms over the expanse like a blanket of fairy dust- you're the only one on the road You pull off onto the shoulder - stop- climb out of that motorized wagon, lean back against a  fender- Stretch those legs a bit What was it that made you stop....       Something....inexplicable The desert can get cool at night- the silence.....part of the mystique, creating the mood, for what is about to come..... You stiffen...silent...pensive a slight breeze begins to lift- becoming stronger-more gusty You turn,  facing it-  'listening', waiting....for what? 'for the rumble' Faint at first growing louder as it nears- the sound of steel and wood breaking the silence                                                                             Wagon Wheels! roll'n atop the wind! The migration West- their spirits riding, relentless in purpose- Men...women.... children.... You can only imagine- the expression on their faces- determined.....dauntless..... building this country- You smile..... as they pass....... How proud of them, you are.... the spirits of our ancestors Who carved the path- A drop of a tear- as the roars of the wagons Quieten.......fading........ into..... silence Standing poised.... absorbing  the beauty......... You understand the magic-.... of its solitude. the desert at night copyright: richard riddle October 26, 2015
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 10:29 AM UTC
"Listen to the Wind"
Rain runs down the windshield, blurring brake lights Heavy drops concentrated into rivulets Swept away by motorized arms on the glass Red brick blurs by in the corner of my eye Speeding by neon signs in the dark A worn down face on a bar stool, just a glimpse Of a tired lonely life, drowned in a bottle When he wakes up in the morning, shivering under sheets The chill of sweat soaking the mattress The pounding in his head like hammers smashing bricks The smell of last nights sickness, cloying & rancid That spot where she used to lay her head is empty That spot where she used to lay her body is cold That spot where she used to touch his heart is burning Burning like that cheap whiskey he sips with tap water Burning like her pictures in the fireplace Burning like the sickness in his stomach Chained to a bottle & a memory long forgotten Puddles keep forming, rearranging the dirt But he's seen enough, for tonight & all other nights Enough rain & enough snow, he wants sunshine To sit & sweat, feel the enveloping warmth of summer When he was young & everything was possible No one could die & the world was so beautiful But now all he sees is ugliness & futility Now all he sees is her face
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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 4:55 AM UTC
A Face With No Name
I say always play nice with the neighbors, don’t rile them up or make them sore But my wife,( who’s a bit of a hot head), went to war with the people next door. The “causas belli” are murky, the results of the skirmish unclear But the fellow next door is a hacker; now me and the wife live in fear. We have every modern convenience; programmable gadgets galore. But your password should never be “password” when fighting the hacker next door. Our motorized shades were ascending as the missus was trying to dress. “Alexa” just called her a “fat Cow”- who programmed that is easy to guess. In the depth of the winter we’re freezing As our AC is in his control. When we shower the temperature varies. Its either too hot or too cold. We spent thousands on home automation. But now we are riddled with doubt. We tried for a truce, but , alas, it’s no use. Now we’re paying to tear it all out!
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Jul 12, 2017
Jul 12, 2017 at 7:58 PM UTC
The Hacker Next Door
(From October, 2015) On the highway, 3am, a myriad of stars looms over the expanse like a blanket of fairy dust- You're the only one on the road You pull off onto the shoulder - stop- climb out of that motorized wagon, lean back against a  fender- Stretch those legs a bit What was it that made you stop....       Something....inexplicable The desert can get cool at night- the silence.....part of the mystique, creating the mood, for what is about to come..... You stiffen...silent...pensive a slight breeze begins to lift- becoming stronger-more gusty You turn,  facing it- 'listening', waiting....for what? 'for the rumble' Faint at first growing louder as it nears- the sound of steel and wood breaking the silence                                                          ­­                   *Wagon Wheels! roll'n atop the wind!* The migration West- their spirits riding, relentless in purpose- Men...women.... children.... You can only imagine- the expression on their faces- determined.....dauntless..... building this country- You smile..... as they pass....... How proud of them, you are.... the spirits of our ancestors Who carved the path- A drop of a tear- as the roars of the wagons Quieten.......fading........ into..... silence Standing poised.... absorbing  the beauty......... You understand the magic-.... of its solitude. *the desert.... at night* copyright: richard riddle October 26, 2015
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Aug 29, 2016
Aug 29, 2016 at 12:33 AM UTC
"Listen to the Wind"
(From October, 2015) On the highway, 3am, a myriad of stars looms over the expanse like a blanket of fairy dust- You're the only one on the road You pull off onto the shoulder - stop- climb out of that motorized wagon, lean back against a  fender- Stretch those legs a bit What was it that made you stop....       Something....inexplicable The desert can get cool at night- the silence.....part of the mystique, creating the mood, for what is about to come..... You stiffen...silent...pensive a slight breeze begins to lift- becoming stronger-more gusty You turn,  facing it- 'listening', waiting....for what? 'for the rumble' Faint at first growing louder as it nears- the sound of steel and wood breaking the silence                                                          ­­                   *Wagon Wheels! roll'n atop the wind!* The migration West- their spirits riding, relentless in purpose- Men...women.... children.... You can only imagine- the expression on their faces- determined.....dauntless..... building this country- You smile..... as they pass....... How proud of them, you are.... the spirits of our ancestors Who carved the path- A drop of a tear- as the roars of the wagons Quieten.......fading........ into..... silence Standing poised.... absorbing  the beauty......... You understand the magic-.... of its solitude. *the desert.... at night* copyright: richard riddle October 26, 2015
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Nov 25, 2015
Nov 25, 2015 at 10:22 PM UTC
The physical examination
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