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"pipeline" poems
Leg off the table you red face recruit! put on the offensive and break down the bolted door! you are the soul saver the peddle maker the calibrator with colored handbills and front line rhetoric join the masquerade in ivy league style! politicking with cunning guile invisalign smile blackened vile bleeding the funnel with gold plate omega and crocodile shoes get on stage and dance you fool! you are the headline maker the pantomime juggler the compromised closer pull out that 5 page review (bullet points only please) and polish those weathered lines! did you give it your all? the door tags and pleasantries the tidings and clippings the irrevocable claims and postured blames all those impressionable basics put to the test? you know the call (straight from those cold academics) the pie chart gurus and contract killers (complete with bone in finger) whipping their frenzied crew in an all night charade old yellar and the gatekeeper sure seem amused (sharpening their inquest behind closed doors) firing up the shiit storm with those hostile priicks and a slew of insatiable cures there’s laughter from the back room the dripping nose and wavering hand the cut white lines and checkpoint tales the pipeline romance and lacking form (of a basic essential character!) soundboard and narratives for logging time slouching on the steel case over moot points ready to play the 3 weight butter card (if need be) might I remind you it’s only an inquiry (with a slight hint of concern!) surely no malfeasance or deception intended so step back from the melt down and cut to the chase! headlines to breadlines penthouse to outhouse those immoral pursuits have taken their toll (haven’t they?) madman or rogue (you take your pick) for the scores and tabulations are final shame on you for the foul play the bold hypocrisy and order desk games the back stabbing blames and spurious names just sign on the dotted line ~ this banter is killing me
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Jan 4, 2017
Jan 4, 2017 at 1:12 PM UTC
The Recruit
Leg off the table you red face recruit! put on the offensive and break down the bolted door! you are the soul saver the peddle maker the calibrator with colored handbills and front line rhetoric join the masquerade in ivy league style! politicking with cunning guile invisalign smile blackened vile bleeding the funnel with gold plate omega and crocodile shoes get on stage and dance you fool! you are the headline maker the pantomime juggler the compromised closer pull out that 5 page review (bullet points only please) and polish those weathered lines! did you give it your all? the door tags and pleasantries the tidings and clippings the irrevocable claims and postured blames all those impressionable basics put to the test? you know the call (straight from those cold academics) the pie chart gurus and contract killers (complete with bone in finger) whipping their frenzied crew in an all night charade old yellar and the gatekeeper sure seem amused (sharpening their inquest behind closed doors) firing up the shiit storm with those hostile priicks and a slew of insatiable cures there’s laughter from the back room the dripping nose and wavering hand the cut white lines and checkpoint tales the pipeline romance and lacking form (of a basic essential character!) soundboard and narratives for logging time slouching on the steel case over moot points ready to play the 3 weight butter card (if need be) might I remind you it’s only an inquiry (with a slight hint of concern!) surely no malfeasance or deception intended so step back from the melt down and cut to the chase! headlines to breadlines penthouse to outhouse those immoral pursuits have taken their toll (haven’t they?) madman or rogue (you take your pick) for the scores and tabulations are final shame on you for the foul play the bold hypocrisy and order desk games the back stabbing blames and spurious names just sign on the dotted line ~ this banter is killing me
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I'd like to tell you a story It begins in 1492 When dear old Christopher Columbus Sailed the ocean blue He landed on what he thought To be the country of India He stumbled upon a group of people Who appeared to be indigenous Because these native people Happened to be where he thought he was He called them all "Indians" && somehow that name stuck They welcomed his group with open arms Even offered them their feast Unaware that deep inside They were but wolves, dressed as sheep Columbus && his crew Soon ravaged the land They took what they saw Then they took full command Of the people they found On the land where they landed They felt they should rule So they stepped in, heavy handed They murdered the people Who had taken them in Set fire to their villages While the victims watched with their kin Flash forward to the future It's now 2016 It's been over 500 years Since the overtaking by the regime Future settlers decided To let the survivors live on They designated them small areas Of what had not yet been robbed These Native Americans, Generally keep to themselves They get by living off their land But now they need your help The Sioux of Standing Rock Are being horribly mistreated The state of North Dakota Is poisoning them without reason A pipeline has been built That runs through this Native territory When Bismarck residents didn't want it It was rerouted, how discriminatory People from all over the country Are seeming to agree They are making the commute To protest peacefully In defense of an oppressed people Who only want to live But the government is stepping in Even blowing off some limbs "Let them die, they're not like us" the message the administration is sending It seems that after all this time The battle is never-ending What exactly does it take For people to see eye-to-eye? In the end we're all just human   We kiss, we laugh, we cry So if you have a heart at all If you know that this is wrong Please join the Sioux in their mission By coming together, we can be strong
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Dec 2, 2016
Dec 2, 2016 at 11:30 PM UTC
History's Repeating
I'd like to tell you a story It begins in 1492 When dear old Christopher Columbus Sailed the ocean blue He landed on what he thought To be the country of India He stumbled upon a group of people Who appeared to be indigenous Because these native people Happened to be where he thought he was He called them all "Indians" && somehow that name stuck They welcomed his group with open arms Even offered them their feast Unaware that deep inside They were but wolves, dressed as sheep Columbus && his crew Soon ravaged the land They took what they saw Then they took full command Of the people they found On the land where they landed They felt they should rule So they stepped in, heavy handed They murdered the people Who had taken them in Set fire to their villages While the victims watched with their kin Flash forward to the future It's now 2016 It's been over 500 years Since the overtaking by the regime Future settlers decided To let the survivors live on They designated them small areas Of what had not yet been robbed These Native Americans, Generally keep to themselves They get by living off their land But now they need your help The Sioux of Standing Rock Are being horribly mistreated The state of North Dakota Is poisoning them without reason A pipeline has been built That runs through this Native territory When Bismarck residents didn't want it It was rerouted, how discriminatory People from all over the country Are seeming to agree They are making the commute To protest peacefully In defense of an oppressed people Who only want to live But the government is stepping in Even blowing off some limbs "Let them die, they're not like us" the message the administration is sending It seems that after all this time The battle is never-ending What exactly does it take For people to see eye-to-eye? In the end we're all just human   We kiss, we laugh, we cry So if you have a heart at all If you know that this is wrong Please join the Sioux in their mission By coming together, we can be strong
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Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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Dec 31, 2014
Dec 31, 2014 at 11:14 AM UTC
The fire this time
Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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across the Liverpool plains the gas exploration goes on without being contained drilling is never ending holes sunk which invariable cause in the farming community a disquieting funk Santos cares little for the environment's well being its pipeline must garner all the gas in the stream landholders and those in the green party have banded together to protect the agricultural lands from the rabid abuse which the company will wrought on the water table flora and fauna they cry **** as the company exploits the countryside making of it a harlot to be pillaged and misused the state government is at sixes and sevens so many competing interests must be listened to should it give Santos permits to **** and plunder or will it allow the broad acres to continue without sunder
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 7:35 AM UTC
They Cried ****
I'm trying to meet new people and everything in between. I like to get drunk on patios, porches, tailgates, and float trips, and any outdoor scenario. I have a definite weakness for all things sweet. Pipeline rig welder in the making. Ask me, voted most likely to succeed in highschool. I watch too much netflix and enjoy crying over Frank Ocean. I am going to sue the **** out of you. I'm a guy that sometimes carries a pocket thesaurus. Socially conscious dude who probably drinks too much. Amateur chef. Banjo Jedi. New to this Midwest life.
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Jan 9, 2016
Jan 9, 2016 at 3:19 AM UTC
Tinder Poem
Do we have any idea? Have we even got a clue? Can it be that we don't give a **** what others are going through. Are we so wrapped up in selfish mode? So devoted to our own. That we should sit back and watch as others are gnawed down to the bone. Should it be that our own offspring if they were cast away so far? Would we worry about that pipeline bringing fuel to run our car? Or would we stand aloft in horror as they were thrown unto the ground? Or for fuel thats cheap and plentiful, is it ok to make no sound? We hear about disasters. Tsunami strikes upon Japan. Earthquakes raging out in Haiti Watch death befall our fellow man. Throw donations in a bucket at the supermarket doors, then forget because of shopping. but we have paid towards their cause. Could you ever even fathom? Your children crying as they play, not for Barbies or Play-stations but for the pain to go away. Never asking for the latest made by Hamleys or Mattel rather just an handfull of food to help beat the starvation battle. Wash it down with poison water from a river filled with **** or collect in rusty tin cans from a worn and stagnant pit. If this was the plight of our children things would surely be said. We would try to move a mountain rather than our young be dead. Could you ever really imagine? Could you ever really get, that a million hits on You-Tube turn endangered species into pets? What if someone could ask on face-book about your daughter or your son, saying"It looks so cute and cuddly, "go on e-bay and buy me one." If only we could all be happy, not feel a need to own the place. If we could learn to be contented by a childs smiling face. Treat the world with awe and wonder. Treat its creatures with respect. Treat each other in this same way. Treat nobody with neglect. Then perhaps we may push together, make our Governments do right. Let's lead the World with people power, no more starvation or blight. Let's be less materialistic let us have a life of worh Not by owning all we see, rather sharing this our earth.
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Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 10:51 AM UTC
Material World
Do we have any idea? Have we even got a clue? Can it be that we don't give a **** what others are going through. Are we so wrapped up in selfish mode? So devoted to our own. That we should sit back and watch as others are gnawed down to the bone. Should it be that our own offspring if they were cast away so far? Would we worry about that pipeline bringing fuel to run our car? Or would we stand aloft in horror as they were thrown unto the ground? Or for fuel thats cheap and plentiful, is it ok to make no sound? We hear about disasters. Tsunami strikes upon Japan. Earthquakes raging out in Haiti Watch death befall our fellow man. Throw donations in a bucket at the supermarket doors, then forget because of shopping. but we have paid towards their cause. Could you ever even fathom? Your children crying as they play, not for Barbies or Play-stations but for the pain to go away. Never asking for the latest made by Hamleys or Mattel rather just an handfull of food to help beat the starvation battle. Wash it down with poison water from a river filled with **** or collect in rusty tin cans from a worn and stagnant pit. If this was the plight of our children things would surely be said. We would try to move a mountain rather than our young be dead. Could you ever really imagine? Could you ever really get, that a million hits on You-Tube turn endangered species into pets? What if someone could ask on face-book about your daughter or your son, saying"It looks so cute and cuddly, "go on e-bay and buy me one." If only we could all be happy, not feel a need to own the place. If we could learn to be contented by a childs smiling face. Treat the world with awe and wonder. Treat its creatures with respect. Treat each other in this same way. Treat nobody with neglect. Then perhaps we may push together, make our Governments do right. Let's lead the World with people power, no more starvation or blight. Let's be less materialistic let us have a life of worh Not by owning all we see, rather sharing this our earth.
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how we dress up the imperfect parts of ourselves presentable flowered smile. lies cracked porcelain good morning in a broken jaw breakfast line barefoot pipeline running the secret underfoot the railroad's coming and ain't nobody talking no, ain't nobody telling a soul sell off the parts of you that you have no use for but where does it stop sticking to you? memories, residual dew of choices and transitions clarity of the third person, but who is that? wandering the sleeping shores of Sunday on cracked feet and torn sails flowing strong in the strange wind blowing through the trees. sail my ship to shore by candlelight reflected endlessly across the water cavernous echoes echoes in the depth don't lose your heart in the caves of tomorrow searching for sunshine again with a lingering song in my heart
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 6:50 PM UTC
Caves of Tomorrow
There just below the surface,   more present than you know A prophetic Jeremiah,   tracks leading through the snow His message serves to buttress,   those standing in the light A pipeline to eternity, —his vision gifting sight (Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
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Mar 4, 2017
Mar 4, 2017 at 11:24 AM UTC
Gifting Sight
Standing Rock The pipeline is the bloodline, of an Empirical Two Headed Dragon, The Divided States of America used to be united, can someone please tell me what the heck happened, Standing Rock just might be the last stand for anyone that’s still standin’, Standing Rock, is not a photo op, it’s not a festival, it’s Indians and Cops, more correctly, it’s Native Americans and Corporate Hitmen, it’s the crossroads, where environmental defense intersects with big business interests, it’s getting intense, water cannons and flash grenades, mock democracy and a Trump presidency, military disguised as cops, and cops disguised as military, as the original defenders of this land, continue to make a stand, at Standing Rock this is not a photo op, this is indirect imperial tactics meets Direct Action, highly ironic, that I write this on Thanksgiving, the day before Black Friday, tell me what you do that’s worth livin’, Quite fitting, that I’m writing this on Thanksgiving, a “holiday” in a way, but really just a heist by villains disguised as pilgrims, well then, where does that leave us now, several hundred years later, at Standing Rock having a powwow, how, have we gotten here, and how, as so little changed we’re, still in this sticky situation, battling hearts that are as black as oil, still ******* the blood out of Mother Earth, still battling Two Headed Serpent Dragon as it coils, the pipeline is the bloodline, of an Empirical Two Headed Dragon, The Divided States of America used to be united, can someone please tell me what the heck happened, Standing Rock just might be the last stand for anyone that’s still standin’. Defendin’, the Sacred, with Love, over Hatred. Water Is Life. ∆ Aaron La Lux ∆ www.amazon.com/Aaron-La-Lux/e/B00ODPJAOK
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Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016 at 10:47 AM UTC
Standing Rock
Standing Rock The pipeline is the bloodline, of an Empirical Two Headed Dragon, The Divided States of America used to be united, can someone please tell me what the heck happened, Standing Rock just might be the last stand for anyone that’s still standin’, Standing Rock, is not a photo op, it’s not a festival, it’s Indians and Cops, more correctly, it’s Native Americans and Corporate Hitmen, it’s the crossroads, where environmental defense intersects with big business interests, it’s getting intense, water cannons and flash grenades, mock democracy and a Trump presidency, military disguised as cops, and cops disguised as military, as the original defenders of this land, continue to make a stand, at Standing Rock this is not a photo op, this is indirect imperial tactics meets Direct Action, highly ironic, that I write this on Thanksgiving, the day before Black Friday, tell me what you do that’s worth livin’, Quite fitting, that I’m writing this on Thanksgiving, a “holiday” in a way, but really just a heist by villains disguised as pilgrims, well then, where does that leave us now, several hundred years later, at Standing Rock having a powwow, how, have we gotten here, and how, as so little changed we’re, still in this sticky situation, battling hearts that are as black as oil, still ******* the blood out of Mother Earth, still battling Two Headed Serpent Dragon as it coils, the pipeline is the bloodline, of an Empirical Two Headed Dragon, The Divided States of America used to be united, can someone please tell me what the heck happened, Standing Rock just might be the last stand for anyone that’s still standin’. Defendin’, the Sacred, with Love, over Hatred. Water Is Life. ∆ Aaron La Lux ∆ www.amazon.com/Aaron-La-Lux/e/B00ODPJAOK
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There’s a crack along this pipeline dream it’s a line still small but the memories leak and our friendship crumbles with every bleed I’ll try to fix it if you’ll try with me. I am nearly vanquished yet but my hope keeps me forging forth though my wick is low. Resilience lays down; her weapons broke She compels the fates to take me home. This plot was once ruled by you and me when I was king and you my queen but the wage of time changed our motif to a bitter fate which choked our seed. In the face of consequence and life comes the very moment to decide do we stop our breath from pushing sighs and in turn we let our history die? There’s a crack along this pipeline dream it’s a fracture large and the memories leak now our friendship crumbles from all the bleed but it can still be fixed if you’ll just believe…
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Nov 18, 2010
Nov 18, 2010 at 11:46 AM UTC
Bleeding
Across the street, Live the community of the old. a network of inbreeding left the branches of the family tree entwined like a pipeline of too many years that swim through the convoluted paths forever, sealing in the contents, preserving the past. Long bedraggled tresses brush close to the latticework ground Not a comb has come close To break the wild knots that weave. Nets buoy their authenticity Forever wild, Even though, the world survives on bowls brimmed with metal screws The phantoms of depletion rise, They are weightless, until Pulverized and they tumble, Like hostages They get caught between The wisps of eternity. Backlit sunset, Illuminates the evergreen leaves, The bulky necklace of frozen memories Decorate my stiff neck I am a victim of too many days spent Watching screen protected versions of nature that I forgot how thin skinned leaves really are How the nervous system of enigmatic veins hold DNA of their ancestors Now, bathed in evening light When heat from the stars erode from the sky They are nothing but silhouettes of the past Faceless, like torn out pages of a history book shunned for its omniscient wisdom so that the ashes can be planted burying the past in the ground standing still in the present but reminding me, the future is always as high as the sky.
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Sep 14, 2013
Sep 14, 2013 at 10:31 AM UTC
The Banyans
What if I just like reading better? Can one even be a professional reader? Im so full, pouring from a creative tap Yet I can barely write, or create a starting draft My heart is flooding like a pipeline: one poorly designed Can someone help me make sense of these dreams of mine? Thinking with all my might but there’s no glimmer, no light Hard, Im struggling to keep sustaining this fight with my Self, I keep my mind in decent health but im still Drowning, under the weight of this creative wealth
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Feb 22, 2022
Feb 22, 2022 at 9:30 PM UTC
Perfectionist living
Paddle Paddle Paddle Up and on my feet Falling, thrill of the initial fall To catch the ride Colliding currents crash waves Into mental deadlock days Winter swells come at shore break Building momentum and grind Like breaks at homesick Pipeline Ride, curl and slide Rip Sweep the sides Slick Don’t choke this good vibe Stay on this wave
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Dec 14, 2018
Dec 14, 2018 at 10:39 PM UTC
Heʻe Roa
To say the least, I am lost and confused. Lost and confused in a city that is changing. A city that is growing. And I know it is, because I can feel it is. Some days, sometimes even several times within the same day, I want to be at the center of the action. I want to be plugged into the social pipeline. A pipeline that leads straight from and directly to the gutter. I think I just want fun. I know I want meaning. I think I know I want camaraderie. Friendship. Love? At some points, I feel like all of this is pointless. It drags me down and creates a groove in which I neither fight to get out of, nor have to fight to continue on in. It's resistless and easy. It's not warm or cozy, but it becomes familiar and what's to be expected. The lines between reality and imagination are ever-increasingly blurred to me. I do not know whether these people are pretending, or trying to hide, or pretending to try and hide who they are appearing to be. Are these walls really rotting and peeling or was it painted like this to look grunge? I can no longer determine, cliche as it may be, if art imitates reality or vice versa. Is the music these people play directly resulting from and representative of them and their lives, or are they pursuing a highly regarded, in the hep world, a less fortunate and haggard lifestyle or "scene"? Is the music and its energy a force, a presence, a power, an entity of its own? Inhabiting the body, possessing the mind, and flowing forth from the mouth of those without an identity of their own? I don't know who I am. I know who I am to myself, as when I'm alone. But I do not know who I am to be or who I am to others. I have always found myself being drawn to mystics, magic, and power. But this is dangerous, weird, odd, foreign stuff. This is not stuff to be dealt with lightly nor to be done out in the light. It is shameful and secret and dark. I am afraid. I am afraid of myself. I am afraid of the power I may possess, and I am afraid of the power that may possess me.
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Jan 26, 2013
Jan 26, 2013 at 6:06 PM UTC
Poetics
To say the least, I am lost and confused. Lost and confused in a city that is changing. A city that is growing. And I know it is, because I can feel it is. Some days, sometimes even several times within the same day, I want to be at the center of the action. I want to be plugged into the social pipeline. A pipeline that leads straight from and directly to the gutter. I think I just want fun. I know I want meaning. I think I know I want camaraderie. Friendship. Love? At some points, I feel like all of this is pointless. It drags me down and creates a groove in which I neither fight to get out of, nor have to fight to continue on in. It's resistless and easy. It's not warm or cozy, but it becomes familiar and what's to be expected. The lines between reality and imagination are ever-increasingly blurred to me. I do not know whether these people are pretending, or trying to hide, or pretending to try and hide who they are appearing to be. Are these walls really rotting and peeling or was it painted like this to look grunge? I can no longer determine, cliche as it may be, if art imitates reality or vice versa. Is the music these people play directly resulting from and representative of them and their lives, or are they pursuing a highly regarded, in the hep world, a less fortunate and haggard lifestyle or "scene"? Is the music and its energy a force, a presence, a power, an entity of its own? Inhabiting the body, possessing the mind, and flowing forth from the mouth of those without an identity of their own? I don't know who I am. I know who I am to myself, as when I'm alone. But I do not know who I am to be or who I am to others. I have always found myself being drawn to mystics, magic, and power. But this is dangerous, weird, odd, foreign stuff. This is not stuff to be dealt with lightly nor to be done out in the light. It is shameful and secret and dark. I am afraid. I am afraid of myself. I am afraid of the power I may possess, and I am afraid of the power that may possess me.
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The Girl from Coronado Dark brown eyes the brownest hair the most captivating was the faraway look in her eyes the painter Searches for her in lost dreams she materializes on the sharp trumpet blast then she lingers as it turns Softly as the street in front of the Saint Louis cathedral in New Orleans she was as wistful she was the Bleeding torment held in battle field shadows her way had the razor sharp that cut through pretense to The real the meaningful what was that certain something that held you in awe was it the southern sea Breeze that was absorbed the enfolding touches that were exuded from her depths there are still Waters then there is Gloria is it fondly promised like flowers floating on the tide the sweet smile that Cuts and divides the waves like a surfer coming out of the Banji pipeline her brown hair blows softly it Has enlightened on the breeze as fragrance unspoiled unidentifiable it enthralls as she walks the sandy Sea swept beach in the distance she passes as a spirit cast improperly in a human role to disturbing to Fetching she makes appearances in Celtic dreams of misfortune she brings trouble as a winged wonders Those that are not for evil but hidden in them are clandestine secrets that open new corridors of Simplicity that brim with honor they are the culminations of promises long deferred now they are at The door to restore she possesses powers that are seemingly strange but they are beholding the Glimpses she allows trigger eager disruptions the common falls before her gaze you find establishments That seemed impossible could she be Isis presumably not but just bearer of her traits one who gives gifts Of the natural world to artisans from normal items joy is in them as fluid emotions they suppress but Only for the pure cause of making greater results occur the tiresome is abolished the clay is gold even Though it be hidden from many to the few it is cherished sought and redeemed by love in a sea side Town on the southern coast of California her alluring beauty you too can possess this just open yourself seek the opportunity to give to others your name will be favorably spoken like the graceful girl from Coronado
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May 12, 2012
May 12, 2012 at 3:00 PM UTC
The Girl from Coronado
The Girl from Coronado Dark brown eyes the brownest hair the most captivating was the faraway look in her eyes the painter Searches for her in lost dreams she materializes on the sharp trumpet blast then she lingers as it turns Softly as the street in front of the Saint Louis cathedral in New Orleans she was as wistful she was the Bleeding torment held in battle field shadows her way had the razor sharp that cut through pretense to The real the meaningful what was that certain something that held you in awe was it the southern sea Breeze that was absorbed the enfolding touches that were exuded from her depths there are still Waters then there is Gloria is it fondly promised like flowers floating on the tide the sweet smile that Cuts and divides the waves like a surfer coming out of the Banji pipeline her brown hair blows softly it Has enlightened on the breeze as fragrance unspoiled unidentifiable it enthralls as she walks the sandy Sea swept beach in the distance she passes as a spirit cast improperly in a human role to disturbing to Fetching she makes appearances in Celtic dreams of misfortune she brings trouble as a winged wonders Those that are not for evil but hidden in them are clandestine secrets that open new corridors of Simplicity that brim with honor they are the culminations of promises long deferred now they are at The door to restore she possesses powers that are seemingly strange but they are beholding the Glimpses she allows trigger eager disruptions the common falls before her gaze you find establishments That seemed impossible could she be Isis presumably not but just bearer of her traits one who gives gifts Of the natural world to artisans from normal items joy is in them as fluid emotions they suppress but Only for the pure cause of making greater results occur the tiresome is abolished the clay is gold even Though it be hidden from many to the few it is cherished sought and redeemed by love in a sea side Town on the southern coast of California her alluring beauty you too can possess this just open yourself seek the opportunity to give to others your name will be favorably spoken like the graceful girl from Coronado
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Bring about a second war, or pack up - and go home. We can't accept apologies from Sicily or Rome. We can't impart cartography to mayors without maps. And no one wades the rivers here, and water fills the cracks. And water, liquid power naps, repels us at the coast, But draws us in at pipeline ends and haunts us like Dad's ghost. I died sometime, the future came, and everybody smirked and asked me, while we waited for my casket, if it hurt.
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Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 1:17 AM UTC
Irrigation
You see I am a silent Tao more words count less especially in this letter, And when you're finished reading it you can laugh at me if it makes you feel any better.   Which is okay with me but what's not is that you all just get to keep on living, Without me with you during all of your tomorrows so this note is my forgiving; To my family and friends who have hurt me and treated me wrong... But maybe no fault of yours but still it hurt and didn't even make me strong. To all except my daughter who needs no forgiveness from me she's done to me nothing wrong, Unlike I did to her her whole life but it's like I said...because I'm not very strong. A coward really!  But I'm not gay, a ****** or flamboyant, It doesn't really matter though anyway I still am a dissapointment. So I deserve your ridicule I'm no good to others and in my life it has shown, I don't expect you to except me to forgive me or to even to condone... This "Pipeline Boy" who in my youth which is how I was raised and I thought it was right, From behind closed doors was I taught to be feminine and ladylike. I tried to live my life straight marrying three lovely ladies..."myself" I tried to convert, I helped to make a little girl (it was my crowning achievement in life) my marriages didn't work. Attempting to ask for forgiveness I was rushed and sorta fell, Falling fifty-five feet breaking twenty-one bones and on my way to hell. Trying to forgive myself in front of God on my way down... "I'm Still Falling!" were my very last thoughts just before my body hit the ground. You see I've been treated like a ***** all my life by most these men, I don't know if it's theirs or mine to own...this unforgivable sin. So now I partake in the world's oldest profession, Woman don't do what's done to me being a women's the only way for me to get to Heaven! So now I am Robin Ashley and hope for as long as I am you'll be my friend, Because It no longer feels right for me to go around living life just to pretend. My last name stays the same so she won't feel I abandoned her again, For she's the only one in this world that I do not want to offend. So I'll live my life in cognito causing you all no consequence nor strife, When you're apalled by this letter remember it's not yours-but it's "My" life! I apologize for posting such an obscene  'b l of distaste, I'm just so **** tired of living my life with a mask on my face. I don't know how my family found me here on facebook I guess it really doesn't matter, My name is now Robin Ashley Latham and its because it makes me less sadder!      Robin Ashley
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Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015 at 5:45 PM UTC
"The Silent Tao"
You see I am a silent Tao more words count less especially in this letter, And when you're finished reading it you can laugh at me if it makes you feel any better.   Which is okay with me but what's not is that you all just get to keep on living, Without me with you during all of your tomorrows so this note is my forgiving; To my family and friends who have hurt me and treated me wrong... But maybe no fault of yours but still it hurt and didn't even make me strong. To all except my daughter who needs no forgiveness from me she's done to me nothing wrong, Unlike I did to her her whole life but it's like I said...because I'm not very strong. A coward really!  But I'm not gay, a ****** or flamboyant, It doesn't really matter though anyway I still am a dissapointment. So I deserve your ridicule I'm no good to others and in my life it has shown, I don't expect you to except me to forgive me or to even to condone... This "Pipeline Boy" who in my youth which is how I was raised and I thought it was right, From behind closed doors was I taught to be feminine and ladylike. I tried to live my life straight marrying three lovely ladies..."myself" I tried to convert, I helped to make a little girl (it was my crowning achievement in life) my marriages didn't work. Attempting to ask for forgiveness I was rushed and sorta fell, Falling fifty-five feet breaking twenty-one bones and on my way to hell. Trying to forgive myself in front of God on my way down... "I'm Still Falling!" were my very last thoughts just before my body hit the ground. You see I've been treated like a ***** all my life by most these men, I don't know if it's theirs or mine to own...this unforgivable sin. So now I partake in the world's oldest profession, Woman don't do what's done to me being a women's the only way for me to get to Heaven! So now I am Robin Ashley and hope for as long as I am you'll be my friend, Because It no longer feels right for me to go around living life just to pretend. My last name stays the same so she won't feel I abandoned her again, For she's the only one in this world that I do not want to offend. So I'll live my life in cognito causing you all no consequence nor strife, When you're apalled by this letter remember it's not yours-but it's "My" life! I apologize for posting such an obscene  'b l of distaste, I'm just so **** tired of living my life with a mask on my face. I don't know how my family found me here on facebook I guess it really doesn't matter, My name is now Robin Ashley Latham and its because it makes me less sadder!      Robin Ashley
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Big Oil the kid at the birthday party who smashed the cake with a stubborn fist, cause he didn’t get enough. Environmentalists nerds studying ants with magnifying glasses radical methods to peaceful madness. Meanwhile webbed chains splash like tired confetti light steeps a seeping cast, sun-blind eyes fret liquid darkness, shadows whisper poison. a necessary evil, when fingers of ink strangle ice puzzles? we say it was not intentional          but selfish risks under laser lights for sonic boomers that will soon die, leave a deaf horizon.
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 4:42 PM UTC
pipeline
Let's master the pipeline Billabong brands my chest Let me ride my dreams On my board and your ******* No plans past tomorrow Gonna live loud today Put on that wet suit And let's make love to the waves.
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Nov 11, 2014
Nov 11, 2014 at 9:20 AM UTC
Soul Surfers
When the darkness spreads and the screaming penetrates even my dreams The seduction of empty space calls at me It’s attraction is undeniable My daydreaming naturally becoming more visual The flavour of death An ecstasy like no other My strongest and last ****** So many options but only one to be my sinful romance Will it be: My tanned yellow appearance if I take too much The chalk outline if I take a nudge The rose stained bath if I dig a bit more My neck ornament when I hit the floor The gruesome distance a burst pipeline will go The sweating and shaking from a hypo Or simply a collision with a glare of light Or maybe the ground was never my right And I would prefer the pull from my lungs’ weight or the heat off my skin as it ablates Or maybe you would prefer an accident Maybe that will help you cover your names Don’t worry I won’t leave a note I’ll let your guilt engross you And when it gets too much you can use your sorry excuses to help suit you You can blame my unstable personality My weak mental health My poverty of speech But at least you’ll think twice the next time you speak This will be my sweet everlasting revenge
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Jun 28, 2021
Jun 28, 2021 at 5:11 PM UTC
My Revenge Note
i brushed the tips of her fingers amidst the PVC pipe as we sat linked together in lock-down. our forearms stained blue from the paint and tar plastered to plastic, holding down the chicken-wire purposefully designed to make sawing us out more difficult. water protectors chained together, risking arrest, the shackles a symbol that we were willing to trade our freedom to save planet earth from the 6th extinction. sweat glued garments to skin as the sun baked down from the heavens. even if we failed today to throw a wrench in the works, still we rage against the machine, still we sing our refrain endlessly: *the people gonna rise like the water. we're gonna face this crisis now. i hear the voice of my great granddaughter singing, "shut this pipeline down." it's bigger than a paycheck. it's bigger than a job. if you won't respect our Mother, we won't respect your laws.*
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Jan 15, 2017
Jan 15, 2017 at 9:58 PM UTC
monkey-wrench
Back in my fundie days, Anyone could be happy, if They really wanted to. If you tried hard enough, all Your wishes would come true. Love was forever and divorces weren't possible, unless You were selfish. Kids didn't disappoint their parents, if You raised them right. People had addictions because they chose them, and They could quit if they'd just stop. Depression was a sign that You weren't relying upon God enough. Back in my fundie days. Back in my fundie days, I had a fish on my car, an index finger in the air, and a pipeline to God. I was going to heaven and I knew how you could too. There was only one name for the Almighty, and It was “God,” and God was a HE. Prayers were always answered, if You had enough faith. All solutions were found in the Good Book, and You could look them up for yourself. Back in my fundie days. Back in my fundie days, I lived in a country founded on Christian principles, the ten commandments and the twelve apostles. People were poor, because They were lazy and didn't want to work. My country was right, and If you disagreed, you could move away. Protesters were communists, who were Trying to tear this country down. English was the undisputed language, Both here and abroad. Back in my fundie days. Back in my fundie days, I knew the difference between right and wrong, With no shades of confusing gray. There was a place for everything. You, me, us, them, God, family, country, life... It was much simpler, when There were more answers Back in my fundie days.
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Jul 22, 2010
Jul 22, 2010 at 7:22 AM UTC
Back in my fundie days
Back in my fundie days, Anyone could be happy, if They really wanted to. If you tried hard enough, all Your wishes would come true. Love was forever and divorces weren't possible, unless You were selfish. Kids didn't disappoint their parents, if You raised them right. People had addictions because they chose them, and They could quit if they'd just stop. Depression was a sign that You weren't relying upon God enough. Back in my fundie days. Back in my fundie days, I had a fish on my car, an index finger in the air, and a pipeline to God. I was going to heaven and I knew how you could too. There was only one name for the Almighty, and It was “God,” and God was a HE. Prayers were always answered, if You had enough faith. All solutions were found in the Good Book, and You could look them up for yourself. Back in my fundie days. Back in my fundie days, I lived in a country founded on Christian principles, the ten commandments and the twelve apostles. People were poor, because They were lazy and didn't want to work. My country was right, and If you disagreed, you could move away. Protesters were communists, who were Trying to tear this country down. English was the undisputed language, Both here and abroad. Back in my fundie days. Back in my fundie days, I knew the difference between right and wrong, With no shades of confusing gray. There was a place for everything. You, me, us, them, God, family, country, life... It was much simpler, when There were more answers Back in my fundie days.
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Why is it that I post two writes - my common practice - and don't begin to see any likes for up to 2 weeks. Do writes stay in Limbo? Yesterday and today I see comments on "Purpose" which I posted 2 weeks ago. What's going on? I have 2 more in the pipeline - where are they? When will anyone see them? Is this just my writes, or does everyone encounter the same delay? And how soon will you see THIS one? Posted 5/21.
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May 21, 2023
May 21, 2023 at 4:16 PM UTC
QUESTION FOR ALL