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"outlasting" poems
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming               as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up               to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed....               over soft new               grass                              like               strands of green gemstone,               as delicate as humming-bird tongues               teasing nectar               from a titan,               in the sky                                        triumphant in the void,               a golden bead in the baffling blue !               cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface                           of a myriad fertilities.               as if                         nature itself had known, one day                        a poet would come ~               to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts                      in awesome humility ~ and so prepared               a path afflux                 that ambled near               and yes !               an                         anonymous nomad               with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills               would indeed               stumble in      as if returning home               to a mansion restored to glory               and seraphic randomness....               a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before dark-fall                        and so... there               amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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Sep 8, 2012
Sep 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM UTC
Humming-Bird Tongues, Teasing Nectar From A Titan
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming               as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up               to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed....               over soft new               grass                              like               strands of green gemstone,               as delicate as humming-bird tongues               teasing nectar               from a titan,               in the sky                                        triumphant in the void,               a golden bead in the baffling blue !               cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface                           of a myriad fertilities.               as if                         nature itself had known, one day                        a poet would come ~               to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts                      in awesome humility ~ and so prepared               a path afflux                 that ambled near               and yes !               an                         anonymous nomad               with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills               would indeed               stumble in      as if returning home               to a mansion restored to glory               and seraphic randomness....               a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before dark-fall                        and so... there               amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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I have suicidal depression--                                         and no,  I don't want to tell you about it. I'd rather hide it from you (if I could) And bury it the way you might do with someone you once loved Maybe sharing their pain if only just for the moment... I don't want you to sympathize with me either. It's not that kind of sad I'm afraid.. I need this to hurt me, because if it doesn't I won't learn that it isn't okay to feel this way. A long and outlasting life will be my punishment for this.  I will die in valour and bury this axe where cessation lies dormant Never to be shared with you My sickness fully contained.  I will vanquish this demon inside myself. I will starve before it feeds. I solemnly swear this exorcism on your behalf. You will never know My pain.
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Sep 24, 2017
Sep 24, 2017 at 11:42 PM UTC
My Pain
GUNS Tanning Karate Outrunning storms on 40 Outlasting my compatriots full of toxins Yawning after afternoon Delight and coffees. I'm going to miss her like hell When I expatriate, Her and these simple road signs.
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Dec 22, 2011
Dec 22, 2011 at 2:40 AM UTC
GUNS Tanning Karate
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming               as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up               to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed....               over soft new               grass                              like               strands of green gemstone,               as delicate as humming-bird tongues               teasing nectar               from a titan,               in the sky                                        triumphant in the void,               a golden bead in the baffling blue !               cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface                           of a myriad fertilities.               as if                         nature itself had known, one day                        a poet would come ~               to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts                      in awesome humility ~ and so prepared               a path afflux                 that ambled near               and yes !               an                         anonymous nomad               with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills               would indeed               stumble in      as if returning home               to a mansion restored to glory               and seraphic randomness....               a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before darkfall                        and so... there               amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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Sep 27, 2011
Sep 27, 2011 at 5:51 PM UTC
as delicate as humming-bird tongues, teasing nectar from a titan
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming               as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up               to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed....               over soft new               grass                              like               strands of green gemstone,               as delicate as humming-bird tongues               teasing nectar               from a titan,               in the sky                                        triumphant in the void,               a golden bead in the baffling blue !               cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface                           of a myriad fertilities.               as if                         nature itself had known, one day                        a poet would come ~               to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts                      in awesome humility ~ and so prepared               a path afflux                 that ambled near               and yes !               an                         anonymous nomad               with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills               would indeed               stumble in      as if returning home               to a mansion restored to glory               and seraphic randomness....               a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before darkfall                        and so... there               amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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we leave by passing through. by outlasting roots. by grooming deep runes like arabian horses.... mountainous [ pontoons ] spine crack liqueur of soft doom and true Orchids... the ******** aftermath of covenants at half mast a limp flag of jolly rogers pettifogging dull noggins. we pass through, phantom roosters ante-Bantam in the Bedlam.... Conscience Chauntecleer as Opaque. our blood has new boots and now our hearts can Mussolini { you strangle The Headless Horseman; as i lust for your Ichabod } no cranes.
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Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 8:54 AM UTC
ALL THAT JAKE IN YOUR GYLLENHALL
T'was a myriad of emotions that had overcome, Of life, love, and laughter, with happiness for some. Years will have passed, but this love shall remain true, Outlasting time that pales in comparison, to the bond I have with you. Under dreamy night skies, star-crossed lovers shall wait. Withstanding the distances, unyielding to their fate. Hope burns anew like a living and kindred fire, Only because of you, the one I truly desire. I was once in pain, and had gone astray. And then you came along, and took it all away. During the nights that you shared with me your stories, Oh, I miss you so, you had taken all my worries. Remember, my love, for I wrote this because of you. Even if we are to be apart, I will always love you. So much so, that nothing can ever replace, The warmth of your presence, your candid embrace.
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May 30, 2015
May 30, 2015 at 4:09 AM UTC
Candid Embrace
As i stood under the moon’s and stars’ and planets’ light, i checked my watch, but felt distant from the time of day, or time at all. For i connected to these outlying rocks not as lights in the skies, but distant eternities outlasting i.
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Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 7:45 PM UTC
Stargazing
He was climbing a mountain. There was, but a moment ago, the soft sound of summer thunder, And the tender drift of curling winds. A voice, that knew no constraint of time or place. It spoke as if it had always done so, as if it were all at once memory and potential. Its sentence had no end, its syllables outlasting empires. It made him pang for the world he once new. But it was far away, for now, He was climbing a mountain. Upon the way,  one traveler found another One took refuge from the climb, his hands bloodied, his will broken The other sat perched on a cliff edge, never facing his cohort, never truly meeting The climb is far from easy, called the ****** man. Come, let us eat together and tend our wounds. The man of the cliff did not answer, not immediately. His gaze was fixed upon the implacable horizon, Its forms were grains of reality, blowing across the plains of perception To look at one was to see no other, for this is how it is. "We do not wound," he answered at the last. Will you not face me, called the man with bandaged hands That shifting sky is nothing but the wastes of life The knowledge it holds is not for us to know For we are the ones who climb. The cliff's man remained silent, for he grew weary of climbers You are not the first he thought, and you surely will not be the last For the climbers had minds for not but the mountain They are born to seek its peak. Before him were the storms of life Where beings of light roared across the world Their lives ended within a blink Each one, shimmering like unclouded stars against the silky black of night Each a triumph of failure, for even in death no fall awaited them They knew only ascent Perhaps that was what the climbers sought? Perhaps they wished to be as they? But the cliff, he knew, was the end of all things Its precipice, the boundary of the divine It was the only true ascent, it was all that he could crave. The climber had lingered here long enough And it was time to send him on his way "We do not hear the Nightingale." The man with the mended will had no time for puzzles To the sands with you, may the winds take you to your beloved rifts of chance There's a mountain that needs climbing, for why else is it here? Whilst you are betroth to destiny's stir, to the sky's delight, I have known the beauty of her touch, the loving warmth of her breath She is not to be watched, she is to be held, to be kissed, to be yours. He turned his back to the cliff and its watchman He had been sated by his stay, but it would be folly to remain He was climbing a mountain
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 6:23 AM UTC
Ascent
He was climbing a mountain. There was, but a moment ago, the soft sound of summer thunder, And the tender drift of curling winds. A voice, that knew no constraint of time or place. It spoke as if it had always done so, as if it were all at once memory and potential. Its sentence had no end, its syllables outlasting empires. It made him pang for the world he once new. But it was far away, for now, He was climbing a mountain. Upon the way,  one traveler found another One took refuge from the climb, his hands bloodied, his will broken The other sat perched on a cliff edge, never facing his cohort, never truly meeting The climb is far from easy, called the ****** man. Come, let us eat together and tend our wounds. The man of the cliff did not answer, not immediately. His gaze was fixed upon the implacable horizon, Its forms were grains of reality, blowing across the plains of perception To look at one was to see no other, for this is how it is. "We do not wound," he answered at the last. Will you not face me, called the man with bandaged hands That shifting sky is nothing but the wastes of life The knowledge it holds is not for us to know For we are the ones who climb. The cliff's man remained silent, for he grew weary of climbers You are not the first he thought, and you surely will not be the last For the climbers had minds for not but the mountain They are born to seek its peak. Before him were the storms of life Where beings of light roared across the world Their lives ended within a blink Each one, shimmering like unclouded stars against the silky black of night Each a triumph of failure, for even in death no fall awaited them They knew only ascent Perhaps that was what the climbers sought? Perhaps they wished to be as they? But the cliff, he knew, was the end of all things Its precipice, the boundary of the divine It was the only true ascent, it was all that he could crave. The climber had lingered here long enough And it was time to send him on his way "We do not hear the Nightingale." The man with the mended will had no time for puzzles To the sands with you, may the winds take you to your beloved rifts of chance There's a mountain that needs climbing, for why else is it here? Whilst you are betroth to destiny's stir, to the sky's delight, I have known the beauty of her touch, the loving warmth of her breath She is not to be watched, she is to be held, to be kissed, to be yours. He turned his back to the cliff and its watchman He had been sated by his stay, but it would be folly to remain He was climbing a mountain
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a dead trumpet, resting on the desiccated lips of a fallen angel, a desolate scorch of hemispheres blasted and puerile... primal dross from the furnace of all agonies and heaps of time, hoarding hours in pain to multiply the bias to ill fates as a happiness, her madness has never known [ on the inside ] a dread comet, branding the optic nerve of a blank stare into oblivion in a closed loop of integrals of self hatred outlasting the venom of god's scorn, by an order of magnitude her blight, dwarfing the locust swarm of dead suns bleeding black ink in journals that document her heart's delirium, in crude states -of silent rage at a billion decibels [ on the white page ] a barn door, torn from the hinges of a tempest and marble goats, chiseled from a monolith of dark thoughts to be sacrificed on the altar of pitch dark there are sigils that burn in the dense fog, and everywhere a banshee of rogue hope and a siren of fine dreams.... and here there be oceans [ and no map ] legions of invisible hornets living in every atom of two red lips lips that would kiss and be kissed but seldom disembark from tar pits and windswept tragedies and fell words that plunder her true thoughts for anything toxic enough to **** the conversation with a lost god... bilious fountains of lost joy sterilize a pregnant pause. and yes aborts the spirit [ from no throne ]
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Jan 5, 2013
Jan 5, 2013 at 11:50 AM UTC
SILENT RAGE AT A BILLION DECIBELS
I know love not as an arm around a waist, nor fingers teasing hair and running down a neck-- but as a temporary tattoo, and the fleeting taste of Zebra Fruit Stripe Gum. And just like Da Vinci never slept, but took several naps a day-- So do I fall in love daily, but tenfold! The deep yearning that wells within my soul and sits as the lump lodged within my aching throat, I stumble through the day tripping over my enamoredness towards any kind soul who dares to look my way, or speak my name, or touch my hand-- and I want to set up a kissing booth in the middle of a shopping center or my college campus, and solicit others to grant me a taste of their humanity in the holiest of ways, man or woman, young or old, to but press their lips against mine for a second and I would become illuminated, rejuvenated, and I would leap from my weary mental confines like a grasshopper springing out of tall grass, and love would well up within me-- Not as a transient fix, but an anchor in these uncharted waters, a cool glass of milk to a parched throat in a late night hour, outlasting any cheap ****** or content stomach, and shying away the facade of complacency. I would burst forth like a battering ram through the prison cell doors I weep and wallow behind, and I'd have a skip in my step that would ferry me across every pond and great lake. For these hands do not pray, but they tremble, and they ache. And these lips do as hands do, as they rest upon a placid face that looks in the mirror and reads of the anguish seeping out of inflamed pores and burrowing between the creases alluding a furrowed brow, and if but a kiss could render one free from such odious palpations, then I'll gladly set mine to the liberator, whomever it may be-- And how many lips does it take to get to the center of my frozen aching heart? The world may never know.
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Sep 13, 2016
Sep 13, 2016 at 11:12 PM UTC
Kissing Booth
I know love not as an arm around a waist, nor fingers teasing hair and running down a neck-- but as a temporary tattoo, and the fleeting taste of Zebra Fruit Stripe Gum. And just like Da Vinci never slept, but took several naps a day-- So do I fall in love daily, but tenfold! The deep yearning that wells within my soul and sits as the lump lodged within my aching throat, I stumble through the day tripping over my enamoredness towards any kind soul who dares to look my way, or speak my name, or touch my hand-- and I want to set up a kissing booth in the middle of a shopping center or my college campus, and solicit others to grant me a taste of their humanity in the holiest of ways, man or woman, young or old, to but press their lips against mine for a second and I would become illuminated, rejuvenated, and I would leap from my weary mental confines like a grasshopper springing out of tall grass, and love would well up within me-- Not as a transient fix, but an anchor in these uncharted waters, a cool glass of milk to a parched throat in a late night hour, outlasting any cheap ****** or content stomach, and shying away the facade of complacency. I would burst forth like a battering ram through the prison cell doors I weep and wallow behind, and I'd have a skip in my step that would ferry me across every pond and great lake. For these hands do not pray, but they tremble, and they ache. And these lips do as hands do, as they rest upon a placid face that looks in the mirror and reads of the anguish seeping out of inflamed pores and burrowing between the creases alluding a furrowed brow, and if but a kiss could render one free from such odious palpations, then I'll gladly set mine to the liberator, whomever it may be-- And how many lips does it take to get to the center of my frozen aching heart? The world may never know.
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Im gone Mami! And I won’t be back. Tie me to your hip driving up the strip Like a strap stab me Into Alrvarius’ brain Extract like a syringe, Mental sirens slip-slap Fabricate below the cap, I feel, metal outlasting Clashing the nevera of my lower back. I’m gone Mami! And I won’t be back, ‘Til the heavens send me a message Of the sins in my souls possession Mixed with gusts of Ninole’s winds And my “why” I say farewell to our memories, Now, scoundrels of immense value, Lost in the cracks of our times together. Now, I say goodbye, And hello to where the sun sets.         My mother wrapped her arms around me,            Kissed                                   My      Cheek, And told me I’ll be back. Who knew the hardest goodbye Would be in disguise, Who knew the hardest goodbye Would be in disguise.
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Jan 3, 2023
Jan 3, 2023 at 12:28 AM UTC
Who Knew the Hardest Goodbye Would be in Disguise
no creativity, accepting to resolve structure, as fitting inside this pattern of no distractions and no instructions and the promise of a plan tomorrow no affection, except in the fruitless domestic ambitions of making love look like it is outlasting the neighbors and saving the children from our future
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Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 8:26 PM UTC
We find
There stands an important man, Made immortal by the bronze and gold that laces his structure. Firm, aged and full of intellect, He stands pointing toward the western sun. Tie worn tight as his suit lays motionless in the wind. Crass, hopeful, he is not without scandal, A man who lives with his past open for all interpretation. Those who stroll past look up, Thoughts lingering on his works. Eternal, when all else crumbles to Dust and scatters the raging sea, He will stand steady, pointing, outlasting All he should be remembered for.
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 2:03 AM UTC
An Important Man
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed... over soft new grass          like strands of green gemstone, as delicate as humming-bird tongues teasing nectar from a titan, in the sky                          triumphant in the void, a golden bead in the baffling blue ! cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface of a myriad fertilities. as if nature itself had known, one day a poet would come ~ to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts in awesome humility ~ and so prepared a path afflux that ambled near and yes ! an anonymous nomad with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills would indeed stumble in    as if returning home to a mansion restored to glory and seraphic randomness.... a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before dark-fall and so... there amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 1:04 AM UTC
Humming-Bird Tongues, Teasing Nectar From A Titan
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed... over soft new grass          like strands of green gemstone, as delicate as humming-bird tongues teasing nectar from a titan, in the sky                          triumphant in the void, a golden bead in the baffling blue ! cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface of a myriad fertilities. as if nature itself had known, one day a poet would come ~ to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts in awesome humility ~ and so prepared a path afflux that ambled near and yes ! an anonymous nomad with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills would indeed stumble in    as if returning home to a mansion restored to glory and seraphic randomness.... a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before dark-fall and so... there amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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Peace in emptiness The pale scope this circle is, Like a shawl draped tightly on my neck The sky hangs with intimacy And yet so distant and emotionally raw Its biting breath attests Confined to converse with a babbling stream And speak so vapidly One can see, so peacefully Thin veins, they creep on water’s top Its vitals miserably languid, slow And the fish condemned to stop The sounds, the scene consume in silence And make the world one Because I sit here in defiance To its outside I am numb. Is this Peace? Perhaps, perhaps. If it’s all alone Because this is kind of lovely peace The world does bemoan I wish its concrete impermanence Their busy lives atone, For subtle sanctuary and plot for one’s high throne I say to you, that you can find Here, with me, all alone. The leaves can be our wallpaper The grass, exquisite rug These stones, china of antiquity Carved in Orient fashion The moss will be our bedding The hills our occupation The fields will be our sustenance The pond, couples' libation I’ll christen this house, and you my bride With gems of pretty ether We’ll be each other’s sole possession My hand will rest beneath her Love the world, our home, our home You and I, our love outlasting Here, at Peace, and all alone.
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 7:25 PM UTC
[Peace in emptiness]
Floating through the ocean of life a Tale at times to be a ferocious Journey through a turbulent current Filled with pain and strife Mariners who I thought would always Be with me have not survived Times of weakness my heart wanders and loses faith That one day I too will be where they have arrived The Seafarer is who I became Feeling lost in the choppiness of life's shifting ocean The waves swell through the night To and fro with immense commotion Realization hits me, I have no control, I fall to my knees and give The Lord my devotion Waking after outlasting the tumultuous waves Sun glistening, oceanic seabirds squawking in praise A restful, serene state The stream now has become a quiet, vision of peacefulness Preparation to guide me through life's immeasurable distress Next time I know I will never again be alone He is always with me Through the tempestuous waters To calm my storms
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Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 at 10:25 PM UTC
TEMPESTUOUS WATERS
I'm smoking solid cancer. Wind in an uproar. Enraged. I vowed to never let anything push me. I lied. Eyes travel from branch to trunk. Veins run up the bark and collide. Solid forms of nature, far outlasting Her prime predator. I'm convinced memories are incomprehensible. How does it work? I'm intrigued by an object of no relevance, and suddenly you're smile confronts me. Strange. Inhale. Exhale. Unimportant reveries is what they seem. One who thinks the world is black and white is colorblind. Ignorant. Standing here, on this plateau. How many lives have walked across it? Rust - like skids paint the ground where I stand. Butts scattered and running into the grass. Predator? Of violent and malicious intent.
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Nov 14, 2014
Nov 14, 2014 at 5:00 PM UTC
Plateau
Do you feel the desert sun As it pulls All the moisture from your skin You barter for each breath Lest it escape between your lips There is smoke in the night It stings your eyes Full bodied in your chest The sand is warm between your toes It burns with the heat of the day Although the sun Barely laid to rest In her bashfulness Looking for her stamina To wear tomorrow One would not think Gravity would pull so hard It does not seem fair When the stars Look so beautiful Call so close I shudder in the dunes Oh that dreams were a grain of sand That they were as weightless It is not such I cannot bury the tears Even still they fall into the earth A kiss that becomes a vapor I will water the earth Pouring into her My pores vacant My spirit follows She makes me toil I am not above my humanity It humbles me Staircase of pride Stumbling block How does one face a new day I bite my tongue To spit in the face of destiny Is a fools errand Yet she has done me no favors I owe her no respect A token slipped between hand A bet and a wager That will not be paid Unless blood is spilt Earth claims all, as she bore all Sand in the desert, burying secrets The ground knows so much She does not taste But swallows up She is a scholar of sinners Outlasting the shudders of your spine Patient is she It costs her nothing to wait
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Nov 15, 2018
Nov 15, 2018 at 1:03 AM UTC
Desert
Take this seeing with thee-- paw it over...the beau-tifying Void. Capable magick--drop... of daub-n-be...beau-tifyingly so. Note to All: what's outlasting coasts... to still the aesthetical shock o' yore. Biding a time driven out of itself... for the valiance of life-swap...so pronounced with open arms... Oneness, and all that jazz. Bid you as I do...form's due...adieu... beau-tifying The Void. Konstantinos Mark
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 12:50 PM UTC
The Beau-tifying Void
On THIS day, Without regret, Without fear, Paying my debt, To the universe or destiny, Whichever saw fit, To have me like your comment, As I sat to **** (Lol. Not really, but needed rhyme bahahaha;) I give thanks, To whatever it be, That allowed me to view, And actually see, Your most beautiful soul, Built from the stars, Outlasting relationships And materialistic cars. I am not a poet. These words are not mine; But left upon my being Across all space and time. To send out to you, To confirm you know well, There is only the heavens, There is no fiery hell. Only the one ****** upon us, On this rock we now stand, Fashioned by ignorance, Of a far lesser man. Whom can't see your beauty, Your sparkle, your shine. Whom fate has put in the distance Kissing his own behind. You'll stretch now. You'll glow. You'll see what I see. You'll fashion your future With support and "yippie's" from me. Dr Suess, another ENTP, Will be quite jealous Of our friendship, and me. He'll yell "What is THIS; That I see? As The Cat in the Hat goes flat splat Wondering of you and me. "How CAN this BEEEEEE??!?!?? That from 100 INFJs, He chose only YOU To build a friendship And build you less blue?" We will not answer, But leave it to the stars, To light our paths, Raising our bars; To not accept, Less than we deserve, To remind each other of that, When life throws us curves. I'll be your shoulder, From this day own, To love you as you'll allow, While your off the **** I'll be your support, If only as friend, That is my promise Until the very end. Until the stars burn out, with a kiss, goodnight.
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Feb 8, 2016
Feb 8, 2016 at 12:54 AM UTC
On THIS Day
On THIS day, Without regret, Without fear, Paying my debt, To the universe or destiny, Whichever saw fit, To have me like your comment, As I sat to **** (Lol. Not really, but needed rhyme bahahaha;) I give thanks, To whatever it be, That allowed me to view, And actually see, Your most beautiful soul, Built from the stars, Outlasting relationships And materialistic cars. I am not a poet. These words are not mine; But left upon my being Across all space and time. To send out to you, To confirm you know well, There is only the heavens, There is no fiery hell. Only the one ****** upon us, On this rock we now stand, Fashioned by ignorance, Of a far lesser man. Whom can't see your beauty, Your sparkle, your shine. Whom fate has put in the distance Kissing his own behind. You'll stretch now. You'll glow. You'll see what I see. You'll fashion your future With support and "yippie's" from me. Dr Suess, another ENTP, Will be quite jealous Of our friendship, and me. He'll yell "What is THIS; That I see? As The Cat in the Hat goes flat splat Wondering of you and me. "How CAN this BEEEEEE??!?!?? That from 100 INFJs, He chose only YOU To build a friendship And build you less blue?" We will not answer, But leave it to the stars, To light our paths, Raising our bars; To not accept, Less than we deserve, To remind each other of that, When life throws us curves. I'll be your shoulder, From this day own, To love you as you'll allow, While your off the **** I'll be your support, If only as friend, That is my promise Until the very end. Until the stars burn out, with a kiss, goodnight.
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See by Michael R. Burch See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem like hair at all, but like the airy moult of emus who outraced the wind and left soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes are gentler now; see how each wrinkle laughs, and deepens on itself, as though mirth took some comfort there, then burrowed deeply in, outlasting winter. See how very thin her features are—that time has made more spare, so that each bone shows, elegant and rare. For life remains undimmed in her grave eyes, and courage in her still-delighted looks: each face presented like a picture book’s. Bemused, she blows us undismayed goodbyes. Keywords/Tags: Elderly, woman, grandmother, thin, thinning, hair, airy, emu, moult, soft, plumage, wrinkles, laugh lines, frail, gaunt, bones, winter, grave, eyes, courage, laughter, family, gathered, bedside, kisses, hugs, goodbyes, farewells, life, death, photo album, pictures, photos, photographs Published by The Eclectic Muse, Love Me Knots (an anthology of the top 100 contemporary love poems), Nutty Stories (South Africa), Black Medina, The New Formalist, Better Than Starbucks, Potcake Chapbooks, Strange Roads, Sonnetto Poesia, Litera (UK), Poems About, Poetry Life & Times, MahMag (in a Farsi translation by Dr. Mahnaz Badihian), Somewhere Along The Beaten Path (Anthology), Freshet, Life & Legends, Famous Poets & Poems, Short Quotes & Poems (listed in the top 10 short poems) and Victorian Violet Press. “See” won 3rd place in the 2003 Writer’s Digest Rhyming Poetry contest, out of over 18,000 overall entries, and was published in Writer’s Digest’s The Year’s Best Writing.
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Mar 6, 2020
Mar 6, 2020 at 4:44 AM UTC
See
See by Michael R. Burch See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem like hair at all, but like the airy moult of emus who outraced the wind and left soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes are gentler now; see how each wrinkle laughs, and deepens on itself, as though mirth took some comfort there, then burrowed deeply in, outlasting winter. See how very thin her features are—that time has made more spare, so that each bone shows, elegant and rare. For life remains undimmed in her grave eyes, and courage in her still-delighted looks: each face presented like a picture book’s. Bemused, she blows us undismayed goodbyes. Keywords/Tags: Elderly, woman, grandmother, thin, thinning, hair, airy, emu, moult, soft, plumage, wrinkles, laugh lines, frail, gaunt, bones, winter, grave, eyes, courage, laughter, family, gathered, bedside, kisses, hugs, goodbyes, farewells, life, death, photo album, pictures, photos, photographs Published by The Eclectic Muse, Love Me Knots (an anthology of the top 100 contemporary love poems), Nutty Stories (South Africa), Black Medina, The New Formalist, Better Than Starbucks, Potcake Chapbooks, Strange Roads, Sonnetto Poesia, Litera (UK), Poems About, Poetry Life & Times, MahMag (in a Farsi translation by Dr. Mahnaz Badihian), Somewhere Along The Beaten Path (Anthology), Freshet, Life & Legends, Famous Poets & Poems, Short Quotes & Poems (listed in the top 10 short poems) and Victorian Violet Press. “See” won 3rd place in the 2003 Writer’s Digest Rhyming Poetry contest, out of over 18,000 overall entries, and was published in Writer’s Digest’s The Year’s Best Writing.
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our cry of war; peace the streets, O, how they testify accused of false prophecy. but a people's truth known best by them who walk it. weapons, bluebird hashtags, palm portals broadcast high definition. hands of pacifism write a play of sunken morals a stage—the world capturing heart; caging it beside mind no longer abiding forced compliance to the dollar, and the jester king's control making mockery of the throne they sit— unrighteous fools. we refuse a subject's posture. they deem a mask cowardice, fickle and shallow understanding an insult of fear. a brotherhood of belief to represent— uniformity together by rank and by file, stalwart to stem the loss of blood; against greed. independence from them—from one another, from the cookie cutter's imposition advertisement imprisonment once thought killed succeeding only, they made his cause indefinite made message immortal. forever grinning, lips curled across porcelain visage on asphalt battleground a rose outstretched, the bearer beaten with sticks put in chains. soaring cans noxious, tears not their result, but of sorrow for them, and their acceptance of bribe white picket, the Judas price. hypocritical perpetrators betray hollow oath, smashing split fingers the unspoken message portrayed outlasting beating's bruises heftier and more distant in reach, than strike. hands cut by thorn whilst seeking to tear down rose regretful tears of power's illusion wash the ground but freed of blood impossible. power's impotence seen, the world's future bearing witness to false truth. a promise greater a seed planted generations to grow, in time shading all mankind when children lead men, the mask removed unveiling equality in our difference
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 11:21 PM UTC
Hashtag Weaponry
our cry of war; peace the streets, O, how they testify accused of false prophecy. but a people's truth known best by them who walk it. weapons, bluebird hashtags, palm portals broadcast high definition. hands of pacifism write a play of sunken morals a stage—the world capturing heart; caging it beside mind no longer abiding forced compliance to the dollar, and the jester king's control making mockery of the throne they sit— unrighteous fools. we refuse a subject's posture. they deem a mask cowardice, fickle and shallow understanding an insult of fear. a brotherhood of belief to represent— uniformity together by rank and by file, stalwart to stem the loss of blood; against greed. independence from them—from one another, from the cookie cutter's imposition advertisement imprisonment once thought killed succeeding only, they made his cause indefinite made message immortal. forever grinning, lips curled across porcelain visage on asphalt battleground a rose outstretched, the bearer beaten with sticks put in chains. soaring cans noxious, tears not their result, but of sorrow for them, and their acceptance of bribe white picket, the Judas price. hypocritical perpetrators betray hollow oath, smashing split fingers the unspoken message portrayed outlasting beating's bruises heftier and more distant in reach, than strike. hands cut by thorn whilst seeking to tear down rose regretful tears of power's illusion wash the ground but freed of blood impossible. power's impotence seen, the world's future bearing witness to false truth. a promise greater a seed planted generations to grow, in time shading all mankind when children lead men, the mask removed unveiling equality in our difference
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A response is what he needed To rest serenely Strong-minded as if He called her constantly, Texted ceaselessly Formulated a poem To portray what he discerned Desiring to identify her "Tell me your name so I can thank you how you deserve." Her sight wandered all over her dorm Was she really thinking of Unveiling her storm? Her lips arched straight-up "There's nothing to lose" Is what she naively thought Her name now appearing on screen Along with her heart, mind and peace She knew it was the end To a never being fairy dream "A friend would of been great back then" Who said there's nothing We can do nowadays Now her secret is out Million questions pending He knows her name now The shield is now below her vow He seemed thrilled at first He's no longer captivated He didn't like what it displayed "Thank you for the poem" That's all he said No more texts were sent He used to reply without saying mer Now he's no longer immediate Nodding he lowered his sight Deciding not to move forward But to leave all this situation burried Along with her light He ached to find someone who cared She was available at all hours of the day What made him so blind What prevented him to realize She was someone to confide She didn't shed a single tear She knew there were risks Not a propitious ending But at least she now knows He wasn't worth it Outlasting her thoughts She pursued a goodbye Their houses not being faraway She requested a meeting to amalgamate Unbiased to encounter his neighbor He elected to party out She waited for him all night Counted every single star Drank her pain aside Until her stinging expired She can now move on She is now determined She now knows affection isn't eternal Closing her eyes she guaranteed Never letting her feelings Slip off her finger tips She's not allowing anybody into Her now coldhearted spirit
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Mar 12, 2018
Mar 12, 2018 at 12:15 PM UTC
For Him (4/4)
A response is what he needed To rest serenely Strong-minded as if He called her constantly, Texted ceaselessly Formulated a poem To portray what he discerned Desiring to identify her "Tell me your name so I can thank you how you deserve." Her sight wandered all over her dorm Was she really thinking of Unveiling her storm? Her lips arched straight-up "There's nothing to lose" Is what she naively thought Her name now appearing on screen Along with her heart, mind and peace She knew it was the end To a never being fairy dream "A friend would of been great back then" Who said there's nothing We can do nowadays Now her secret is out Million questions pending He knows her name now The shield is now below her vow He seemed thrilled at first He's no longer captivated He didn't like what it displayed "Thank you for the poem" That's all he said No more texts were sent He used to reply without saying mer Now he's no longer immediate Nodding he lowered his sight Deciding not to move forward But to leave all this situation burried Along with her light He ached to find someone who cared She was available at all hours of the day What made him so blind What prevented him to realize She was someone to confide She didn't shed a single tear She knew there were risks Not a propitious ending But at least she now knows He wasn't worth it Outlasting her thoughts She pursued a goodbye Their houses not being faraway She requested a meeting to amalgamate Unbiased to encounter his neighbor He elected to party out She waited for him all night Counted every single star Drank her pain aside Until her stinging expired She can now move on She is now determined She now knows affection isn't eternal Closing her eyes she guaranteed Never letting her feelings Slip off her finger tips She's not allowing anybody into Her now coldhearted spirit
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