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You look at me and you frown in jealousy. Yeah, you secretly know I have swag. Pants a little low, black and red shirt that says “Sit down and learn from the Master,” and a matching hat that states what you already know- “FRESH” You taste the bitterness of your words as you whisper lies to my back. Yeah, you secretly know I don’t care. Pants a little low, red and yellow shirt that says “My swoosh is bigger than yours” and a matching hat of who you think I resemble- Superman You hear the high pitched hissing that I’m doing well and hope that I fail. Yeah, you secretly know I’ll succeed. Pants a little low, black and blue shirt that says “Just Did It” and a matching hat that reminds you of what you need to do- “OBEY” You touch my strong shaped shoulders with yours and utter no apology. Yeah, you’re secretly freaking out with excitement. Pants a little low, blue and red shirt that says “Don’t Bro Me If You Don’t Know Me” and a matching hat with the best known bickering buddies- Tom and Jerry You smell my confidence in the aroma of chocolate axe and you pinch your nose. Yeah, you’re secretly going to buy it later. Pants a little low, black and white shirt that says “Don’t sweat my swag” and a matching hat that proclaims my feelings for you- “I <3 Haters” and under the brim it says why- “MOTIVATION”
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Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 10:17 PM UTC
Ode to Haters
“You are worth more than the marigolds” I am assured by my loving mother as a child I believe her because the beauty in everything flow’rs and flourishes when you’re young The world is yours to take, everyone is yours to meet, everything is yours to do; and I believe her. “You are worth more than the marigolds” My first friend at school proclaims, and I believe them. We’ve tackled ***** training and preschool, now onto the playground and phonics! We run and run together, taking the world like we’ve whispered once before; and I believe them. “You are worth more than the marigolds” The middle school test scores announce, and I believe them. Primary school is in the past and I’m ready for responsibility! I put on makeup to feel pretty, care about my grades more than the teachers believe and flash my smile to the boys who spit “compliments” at my feet; and I believe them. “You are worth more than the marigolds” but.. I don’t believe them anymore. I’ve gained just enough confidence to smile at everyone in the halls in case they are having a bad day. Suddenly my youthful euphoric vision is graffitied with hateful words and violence. I run and constantly chase the innocence of the world, being surrounded by darkness. My self esteem has hit an all time low. Why is the world this way? My friends and I chase what we used to believe and end up in deep holes; and I don’t believe them anymore. “You are worth more than the marigolds” And it doesn’t matter. I have lost all hope of finding that beauty. My heart is an aching mess of “I love you”’s But all I hear is “you are meaningless” Slowly these phrases of deep hate sear into my soul I hear them every day and every night You are meaningless You are not worthy You could not possibly be good enough Until I wake up one dismal morning to realize that I have been defined by the ones around me. “You are worth more than the marigolds” ..and enough! Because even my friends who say I’m worth something turn around and sneer at others like they can’t too be loved. Because while the world screams “I hate people” I whisper “but I don’t”. But that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things because we’ll find someone who loves us, right? No. Our words between just us mean nothing if we spin around and spit in others’ faces. And we know we hurt because we’ve been hurt but we don’t stop, none of us stop. I dream of a world that screams a vulnerable “I love you” out into the world instead of a pulsing “I hate you” And a world that remembers that we are all worthy of love and not only the kind that makes you blush. “You are worth more than the marigolds” The phrase I’ve heard since I was in my mother’s gentle hold can only mean so much when you think you’re crumpled. Stashed away until you’re needed always feeling so defeated but the truth not told enough to our weakened souls We are all worth more than the marigolds
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 11:15 PM UTC
You Are Worth More Than The Marigolds
“You are worth more than the marigolds” I am assured by my loving mother as a child I believe her because the beauty in everything flow’rs and flourishes when you’re young The world is yours to take, everyone is yours to meet, everything is yours to do; and I believe her. “You are worth more than the marigolds” My first friend at school proclaims, and I believe them. We’ve tackled ***** training and preschool, now onto the playground and phonics! We run and run together, taking the world like we’ve whispered once before; and I believe them. “You are worth more than the marigolds” The middle school test scores announce, and I believe them. Primary school is in the past and I’m ready for responsibility! I put on makeup to feel pretty, care about my grades more than the teachers believe and flash my smile to the boys who spit “compliments” at my feet; and I believe them. “You are worth more than the marigolds” but.. I don’t believe them anymore. I’ve gained just enough confidence to smile at everyone in the halls in case they are having a bad day. Suddenly my youthful euphoric vision is graffitied with hateful words and violence. I run and constantly chase the innocence of the world, being surrounded by darkness. My self esteem has hit an all time low. Why is the world this way? My friends and I chase what we used to believe and end up in deep holes; and I don’t believe them anymore. “You are worth more than the marigolds” And it doesn’t matter. I have lost all hope of finding that beauty. My heart is an aching mess of “I love you”’s But all I hear is “you are meaningless” Slowly these phrases of deep hate sear into my soul I hear them every day and every night You are meaningless You are not worthy You could not possibly be good enough Until I wake up one dismal morning to realize that I have been defined by the ones around me. “You are worth more than the marigolds” ..and enough! Because even my friends who say I’m worth something turn around and sneer at others like they can’t too be loved. Because while the world screams “I hate people” I whisper “but I don’t”. But that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things because we’ll find someone who loves us, right? No. Our words between just us mean nothing if we spin around and spit in others’ faces. And we know we hurt because we’ve been hurt but we don’t stop, none of us stop. I dream of a world that screams a vulnerable “I love you” out into the world instead of a pulsing “I hate you” And a world that remembers that we are all worthy of love and not only the kind that makes you blush. “You are worth more than the marigolds” The phrase I’ve heard since I was in my mother’s gentle hold can only mean so much when you think you’re crumpled. Stashed away until you’re needed always feeling so defeated but the truth not told enough to our weakened souls We are all worth more than the marigolds
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you ‘why’ her. While she is thrilled & happily beside you, Telling you when she’s up to something new. Your pre-existing notion of setting a “ya” for her limits, Persistent "no" to her wishes, She grows up to know that, if she got to do something new She got to fight over the, 5 Ws & 1 H! Ow! & you convince it’s out of distress not mistrust! And by the Indian parenting manual, questionnaire weighs heavier at a girl. ultimately, “This time”, “That day”, " This place", “Those people” Would impregnate her! Sons of yours - Son of nights! freely hatching eggs past curfew. Not foreseeing the evenings his sister would come crying. Parents when you talk on equality & empowerment, Let broad mind not hit the very ceiling of your house Let rest mindset that proclaims gender roles, The differential idea you set on them, From who uses broom to who chooses groom. If misogyny is permeated in the roots of society Cleansing and changing begins in the family, Before there in your minds, first.
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May 16, 2017
May 16, 2017 at 12:39 AM UTC
When you 'Why' her
Well let’s peek into the kitchen of Lucy and Ethel to see the baking of this 7 Layer Cake On cue in take Ricky is having a party in his home regarding his 10th Anniversary in managing the Night Club called “A little bit of Cuba” He wanted something fancy Did he say fancy? There’s no telling what Lucy has baked into that cake Lucy and Ethel are busy baking away But somehow that cake is going to cause people to make a quick getaway Now remember, this is not the Pillsbury bake off, but should say “Revenge with back off” At this point, you are allowed to cough The cake is in the pan and ready for the oven As the cake is baking, Lucy and Ethel are entertaining the guest This is not at any one’s request While Lucy talks about Hollywood and show business, do you smell something burning? Luc y shouts, “My cake!” But was it too late? Lucy and Ethel rushed to the oven The cake was half burned and didn’t rise Why am I not surprised? Meanwhile, what is Lucy and Ethel going too serve for dessert? Lucy says, “I have a plan” Let’s open a can of fruit cocktail and add it inside the burned cake But Ethel stats with, “How will the guest respond?” Lucy proclaims, “Who cares, they can’t know the cake was burned Well the dessert will be served Think on eat at your own risk being observed As Lucy and Ethel serve the cake, suddenly one of the guest get sick from eating the cake Lucy of course starts to cry Yet the baking that cake was a good try Eat at your own risk said I.
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Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 6:32 PM UTC
EAT AT YOUR OWN RISK
Well let’s peek into the kitchen of Lucy and Ethel to see the baking of this 7 Layer Cake On cue in take Ricky is having a party in his home regarding his 10th Anniversary in managing the Night Club called “A little bit of Cuba” He wanted something fancy Did he say fancy? There’s no telling what Lucy has baked into that cake Lucy and Ethel are busy baking away But somehow that cake is going to cause people to make a quick getaway Now remember, this is not the Pillsbury bake off, but should say “Revenge with back off” At this point, you are allowed to cough The cake is in the pan and ready for the oven As the cake is baking, Lucy and Ethel are entertaining the guest This is not at any one’s request While Lucy talks about Hollywood and show business, do you smell something burning? Luc y shouts, “My cake!” But was it too late? Lucy and Ethel rushed to the oven The cake was half burned and didn’t rise Why am I not surprised? Meanwhile, what is Lucy and Ethel going too serve for dessert? Lucy says, “I have a plan” Let’s open a can of fruit cocktail and add it inside the burned cake But Ethel stats with, “How will the guest respond?” Lucy proclaims, “Who cares, they can’t know the cake was burned Well the dessert will be served Think on eat at your own risk being observed As Lucy and Ethel serve the cake, suddenly one of the guest get sick from eating the cake Lucy of course starts to cry Yet the baking that cake was a good try Eat at your own risk said I.
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Home is where the heart is but the heart is a broken place.           I hate how loud I must barely scream so that people can see my face:           I am dark and this is a time of shadows. Sometimes what worries me most about us is not that we are forced to carry guns and **** our own mothers is not that we are pulled from our classrooms back into our homesteads is not that some of our leaders feast while we become skinny UNICEF models is not that if only one molecule of my DNA was different I could have lived without ever knowing how to read even a single word is not even that the smallest of things can wipe out entire villages in an instant- mosquitoes, viruses, locusts; slave ships. Sometimes what worries me most is that my headphones carry more sounds of strange places than my heart will ever know-  that not even my brothers and sisters sold off to those strange places ever knew, as their children are hung off the trees of Jim Crow and we call them strange fruit, and that maybe our first president didn't marry a white lady; the white lady might have married him. Sometimes what worries me most is that for just over eighteen years of seeing thinking feeling breathing being I couldn't have ever told you what Africa meant to me past the occasional 'dumela' to my mother's mother but never, never did I know or now know or will know my mother's mother's mother's mother's mother because she can't fit inside the cellular America that I hold in my palm. And this is why they call us lost. Because home is where the heart is but the heart is a broken place. One time, my five year old cousin said matter-of-factly that black is ugly. In my Primary School days everyone said I should stay out of the sun lest I get darker. But I'm here to tell you that I don't even bother wearing a sun-hat anymore. I'm here to tell you that I don't cut my hair because to do so would feel like oppression. I'm here to tell you how vivid and lovely and blessed I do feel to have been born in broken-heart home because at least it has soul. I'm here to tell you that, yes, I do remember that time when the whole world knew what to do about ****** and Bin Laden but never could get round to talking about Cecil John Rhodes. I'm here to tell you that Today, that conversation starts with a toppled statue. Today, that conversation starts with my voice. Today, this conversation starts with a poem which proclaims- child I am, child I am, child I am, child I am, child I am- that this is my day. This is my day. The Day of the African Child.
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Jun 16, 2015
Jun 16, 2015 at 1:38 PM UTC
June 16th.
Home is where the heart is but the heart is a broken place.           I hate how loud I must barely scream so that people can see my face:           I am dark and this is a time of shadows. Sometimes what worries me most about us is not that we are forced to carry guns and **** our own mothers is not that we are pulled from our classrooms back into our homesteads is not that some of our leaders feast while we become skinny UNICEF models is not that if only one molecule of my DNA was different I could have lived without ever knowing how to read even a single word is not even that the smallest of things can wipe out entire villages in an instant- mosquitoes, viruses, locusts; slave ships. Sometimes what worries me most is that my headphones carry more sounds of strange places than my heart will ever know-  that not even my brothers and sisters sold off to those strange places ever knew, as their children are hung off the trees of Jim Crow and we call them strange fruit, and that maybe our first president didn't marry a white lady; the white lady might have married him. Sometimes what worries me most is that for just over eighteen years of seeing thinking feeling breathing being I couldn't have ever told you what Africa meant to me past the occasional 'dumela' to my mother's mother but never, never did I know or now know or will know my mother's mother's mother's mother's mother because she can't fit inside the cellular America that I hold in my palm. And this is why they call us lost. Because home is where the heart is but the heart is a broken place. One time, my five year old cousin said matter-of-factly that black is ugly. In my Primary School days everyone said I should stay out of the sun lest I get darker. But I'm here to tell you that I don't even bother wearing a sun-hat anymore. I'm here to tell you that I don't cut my hair because to do so would feel like oppression. I'm here to tell you how vivid and lovely and blessed I do feel to have been born in broken-heart home because at least it has soul. I'm here to tell you that, yes, I do remember that time when the whole world knew what to do about ****** and Bin Laden but never could get round to talking about Cecil John Rhodes. I'm here to tell you that Today, that conversation starts with a toppled statue. Today, that conversation starts with my voice. Today, this conversation starts with a poem which proclaims- child I am, child I am, child I am, child I am, child I am- that this is my day. This is my day. The Day of the African Child.
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Eternal flame burning bright for me, A beacon of hope across life’s great sea, A symbol of faith for wandering ways, A guiding light for darker days. The symbol of life that burns so quick, That tall proud candle, with unspent wick, My life it holds within its flame, Either good or bad, it burns the same. As life grows long, the candle grows short, For a life lived carefree, or one of thought, The candle cares not one jot, It lives to burn, that is its lot. Through time the candle grows so frail, Just like myself, through time I’ll ail, And just like I, oxygen gives it life, To cope with all our daily strife. Our time on earth, is fleeting, brief, If time is tree, then I am leaf, My faith proclaims life’s heaven sent, But ends when my candles wick is spent. All I ask from the life I live, Is people appreciate all I give, I care not for fame, nor even wealth, Life is good if there is health. I have the greatest gift of all, I have my children, I love them all, The gift I’ll leave hides in my words, To me as melodic as the song of birds. My candle of life continues to burn, I have so much I've still to learn, Until the day I give that final choke, And my candle itself shows only smoke. When time has passed, please don’t be sad, Think of me with memories glad, My candles flame, extinguished, gone, Deep in your hearts, will still burn on. © Cinco Espiritus Creation 2012
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Apr 30, 2016
Apr 30, 2016 at 6:21 AM UTC
Candle of Life
One day Woke up feeling randy No one else was handy What's to do? Get dressed Satisfy the horn With badly acted **** On pay per view Hopes sink Cable's on the blink But twitter lends a helping hand Bang, bang, come and have a gang bang Gain entrance on demand Have a gang bang Come and have a gang bang It's a gang bang Come and have a gang bang Went out Followed the directions Battling erections All the while Red cheeks Granny at the bus stop Let her vision drop Then cracked a smile Half four Knocking at the door It opens and a voice proclaims "Bang, bang, come and have a gang bang We've far too many dames" The host was a sight to see Not far over seventy And wrapped in a silk dressing gown I thought I would walk away But saw that the sky was grey And it star- -ted ******* It down Stepped in Blinded by a deep gloom Ushered to a dark room Curtains shut Deep breath Air is old and musty Carpet feeling crusty Underfoot Sprawled there Women lying bare And fellas with their organs free Bang, bang, cover up your **** **** Regain your decency Pretty gang bang Pretty ****** gang bang ****** gang bang Pretty ****** gang bang Look round Writhing on the ground With squishy little sounds But something's odd Fat lass Itching at her *** crack Isn't that a ball sack? Oh my god! Jaw drops Granny from the bus stop Wearing nothing but a grin Bang, bang, pretty ****** gang bang What ******* let her in? She's nothing but skin and bone With ribs like a xylophone At least several decades too old To use the vernacular It's like bumming Dracula She's wiry She's wizened She's cold Oh (pretty) no ****** Rasping on my **** With fingers like a sock Filled up with ice No (scary) chance (hairy) Giving her the slip My todger's in a grip Just like a vice It (saggy) seems (baggy) Like she's in a dream While scraping with her ancient hand Bang, bang, ****** ****** gang bang My sore and swollen gland Granny bang bang Granny granny gang bang Granny gang bang Granny ***** gang bang Knock, knock Coppers at the door Go crawling on the floor And off at speed What fun Looking at the punters Myriad of munters As they flee'd Cold, wet Drowning in regret With trousers round my knees I stand Bang bang ****** ****** gang bang Next time I'll use my hand Bang bang ****** ****** gang bang Next time I'll use my haaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!
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Feb 22, 2013
Feb 22, 2013 at 3:00 AM UTC
Pretty ****** Gang Bang
One day Woke up feeling randy No one else was handy What's to do? Get dressed Satisfy the horn With badly acted **** On pay per view Hopes sink Cable's on the blink But twitter lends a helping hand Bang, bang, come and have a gang bang Gain entrance on demand Have a gang bang Come and have a gang bang It's a gang bang Come and have a gang bang Went out Followed the directions Battling erections All the while Red cheeks Granny at the bus stop Let her vision drop Then cracked a smile Half four Knocking at the door It opens and a voice proclaims "Bang, bang, come and have a gang bang We've far too many dames" The host was a sight to see Not far over seventy And wrapped in a silk dressing gown I thought I would walk away But saw that the sky was grey And it star- -ted ******* It down Stepped in Blinded by a deep gloom Ushered to a dark room Curtains shut Deep breath Air is old and musty Carpet feeling crusty Underfoot Sprawled there Women lying bare And fellas with their organs free Bang, bang, cover up your **** **** Regain your decency Pretty gang bang Pretty ****** gang bang ****** gang bang Pretty ****** gang bang Look round Writhing on the ground With squishy little sounds But something's odd Fat lass Itching at her *** crack Isn't that a ball sack? Oh my god! Jaw drops Granny from the bus stop Wearing nothing but a grin Bang, bang, pretty ****** gang bang What ******* let her in? She's nothing but skin and bone With ribs like a xylophone At least several decades too old To use the vernacular It's like bumming Dracula She's wiry She's wizened She's cold Oh (pretty) no ****** Rasping on my **** With fingers like a sock Filled up with ice No (scary) chance (hairy) Giving her the slip My todger's in a grip Just like a vice It (saggy) seems (baggy) Like she's in a dream While scraping with her ancient hand Bang, bang, ****** ****** gang bang My sore and swollen gland Granny bang bang Granny granny gang bang Granny gang bang Granny ***** gang bang Knock, knock Coppers at the door Go crawling on the floor And off at speed What fun Looking at the punters Myriad of munters As they flee'd Cold, wet Drowning in regret With trousers round my knees I stand Bang bang ****** ****** gang bang Next time I'll use my hand Bang bang ****** ****** gang bang Next time I'll use my haaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!
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Beautiful Swan, head held in high esteem Beautiful baby gracefully stroking down the stream Ugly Duckling, with head held down in the pond Lesser creature who really wants desperately to be the Swan For nobody notices the inferior kind, who cannot delight they eye With the others ahead of the way but can't keep up the pace it tries Beautiful Swan rudely splashes water in the face of the desperate Duck Smug Swan proudly proclaims "Too bad, Ugly Duck, you're out of luck!" With one last fighting stroke, Ugly Duckling catches up to push on Ugly Duckling looks back and answers ***** you, you Beautiful Swan!"
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Jul 6, 2010
Jul 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM UTC
Beautiful Swan
1. Eyes, eager fish, in deep Himalayan blue, splash and swim the ultramarine sky of the mind, gets color coordinated, in resonance wind from across the ranges, incessantly chant  guttural "Öm" gently spreads waves, that on ears, vibrate as music,divine our feet get liberated from mind's control,  the trek becomes us. 2. Eyes now, turn swifts, fly to the valley extending to horizon, teeming with flowers of every hue, profusion of orchids, rolling white clouds above,create *tantric patterns of grace, swirls, swoops,scoops, somersaults,the trek goes on. 3. Melting ice, fits well on the conical brown mountain tops, a white bodice, perfect cover for her lovely peaks, angular mounts gleam in the limitless avalanche of light, an impulse for benediction is palpable. 4. Simple folks of village, on the way side in flowing colorful dresses ***** tall poles festoons of bright colors, joyous prayer flags   flutter in wind proclaims festive spirit, they vigorously wave. 5. Now heart overwhelms, sings the paeans of a sky that changes it's face from blue to white and sometimes, a hue so bleak, deep gloom, on red brown earth, sun light prances around. 6. The grass bed then transforms quick, mind drinks the dense benediction peace brings that coils inside the soft blue waves, beating within and out 7. Himalayan blue has taken us in to it's embrace bird songs ring along the path of ancient sages, who went in to the forest abode to contemplate, never returned, became one with the hum of cosmos, they walk within us.
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Mar 25, 2015
Mar 25, 2015 at 6:05 AM UTC
Himalayan blue
1. Eyes, eager fish, in deep Himalayan blue, splash and swim the ultramarine sky of the mind, gets color coordinated, in resonance wind from across the ranges, incessantly chant  guttural "Öm" gently spreads waves, that on ears, vibrate as music,divine our feet get liberated from mind's control,  the trek becomes us. 2. Eyes now, turn swifts, fly to the valley extending to horizon, teeming with flowers of every hue, profusion of orchids, rolling white clouds above,create *tantric patterns of grace, swirls, swoops,scoops, somersaults,the trek goes on. 3. Melting ice, fits well on the conical brown mountain tops, a white bodice, perfect cover for her lovely peaks, angular mounts gleam in the limitless avalanche of light, an impulse for benediction is palpable. 4. Simple folks of village, on the way side in flowing colorful dresses ***** tall poles festoons of bright colors, joyous prayer flags   flutter in wind proclaims festive spirit, they vigorously wave. 5. Now heart overwhelms, sings the paeans of a sky that changes it's face from blue to white and sometimes, a hue so bleak, deep gloom, on red brown earth, sun light prances around. 6. The grass bed then transforms quick, mind drinks the dense benediction peace brings that coils inside the soft blue waves, beating within and out 7. Himalayan blue has taken us in to it's embrace bird songs ring along the path of ancient sages, who went in to the forest abode to contemplate, never returned, became one with the hum of cosmos, they walk within us.
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I see a golden autumn landscape. All that remains is the black sun. Its light extinguished, yet it illuminates the land with luscious fullness. Withered leaves trickle down like golden rain, falling in deep devotion. The gold-veiled goddess, her face black as shadow, proclaims the prayer of abomination — that which remains beyond spirit, eternal lust, the driving force of all being. She who walks the forbidden lands of knowing. Who has ever touched her mystery? Who has dared to see her fully? Who has dared to praise her divinity?
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May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM UTC
Forbidden grace
Did any flower bloom, in your garden today, check out now Love alone is the flower with fragrance, don't water the rest. An year reigned is dead, the overcast sky clearly proclaims A dark shroud covers the sky, hiding the good cheer we need. Alone, I climb up the winding road to the hilltop, to view The sunset, it reminds the past year of painful events The skyline looks blood smeared, from a corner fire erupts Making hate the recurring motif, what's happening to the world? Technologies to share information is no good, if we aren't sane. If we use that to sow evil seeds of hatred, poison spreads. Life turns a mess, all the wealth has no meaning without peace. Are we not ashamed to be vengeful like barbarians, **** each other? Didn't Gandhi prove, nonviolence is the weapon against brute force?
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Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014 at 11:04 AM UTC
Weeding out evil flowers from the garden
*In the slug-fest between Ego’s Love is knocked out of the heart’s arena What remains, is the bruised and bloodied individual Where the referee proclaims the two, ‘Defeated’ by ‘Knock-out’* © Amitav (Radiance)
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May 11, 2014
May 11, 2014 at 1:55 AM UTC
Ego Clashes
in ashes hidden, smoulders god of love from matted dancer's focus conflagration purely come continues still perhaps in empty homage of a sa ta na ma personage of ((Shiva)) white bones pierce the sky in upward curtain-seethes of heat beyond imagined burning hells... the triad ventures into zero-zones of anti-life, sands of absolute defeat. shadow trust imparts a silent teacher's mantras; soothing psychic words, "Bala" and "Adi-Bala" carry over dunes of morbid thirst-- the gape of ancient serpent-maws choking dust of frightened, elephantine skeletons fissured by immobile sun-- their inner sound become cool water of a summer stream in timeless desert, traverses strain of royal line: god-fated tutelage of seedling savior, lightning skill with bow and virtue sinew shining arms horizon's arid form: despite begrudging honor kings expect when offspring given after years in hard-earned sacrificial grace: yet still obeisance ends in facing demonaic rage to which is pitted youth to slay-- despite allay by symbol feminine, as if to question her abode would conjure her in dire storm and quake announce gigantic step and hairy gulf-- with arrow sprays destroy Thataka's trident, curdling throat the slitting of, rejoicing pantheon proclaims heroic, forever railing under epic breath of tacit page theodical: "we gave you progeny, now grant us our theocracy; before your son our asthras lay their weaponry" .
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Aug 12, 2012
Aug 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM UTC
Rama's inauguration, facing the murderous gluttony of Thataka
The creator of the universe Our whole existence Our tradition and way of life The beginning and the end The divination and religion Of our people Odu Ifa our literary corpus The grand priest of Ifa The mantle of Olodumare The builder of the Ifa Oracle Ile-Ife your city of abode Orunmila, Orirun ile Yoruba The master of Aseda and Akoda The Aalafin of Yoruba land The Ooni of the Yoruba mantle Our spiritual system of existence Orunmila, The supreme being The Orisa of all orisas Esu bows at your feet Obatala trembles at your voice Ogun makes an obeisance at your sight Osun lays down at your coming Yemonja proclaims your might The divination of Ifa The prophecy of the Yoruba heritage The founder of earthly beings The Ese Ifa Orunmila The principal Odu Written by Tosan Oluwakemi Thompson
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Mar 18, 2020
Mar 18, 2020 at 12:26 PM UTC
Orunmila
I'd like to meet the man who is never afraid Listen to him tell the life he has made How he became the man he proclaims And how he has lied to stay that way I have never known an unafraid man Or one without scars on his hands I have never known one to be true For I am just as afraid as you
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Jan 3, 2016
Jan 3, 2016 at 5:58 PM UTC
Afraid
If I crossed the street I would've been in the district with all the black kids I begged my mom to take me there. If I crossed the street I wouldn't have gotten IB I wouldn't have gotten the prestige That I thought everyone deserved Saving me almost a year of college And money like a scholarship. If I crossed the street I wouldn't, as much, question my identity. I wouldn't be single and question my beauty through white eyes I would learn how to answer questions in class without feeling my white peers lying their eyes on me to see if the black girl could get it. If I crossed the street I wouldn't be the only black girl in my classes. If I crossed the street I wouldn't have to feel like MLK day was my job to announce according to my substitute teacher. Because you know what week it is! Well of course you know girl. If I crossed the street I would've been with my black brothers and sisters Rather than trying to find my black experience in my white friends But I didn't cross the street. Maybe it took a bit longer to learn to love my black because of that. But today I love myself No matter what border I reach And who disclaims or proclaims my authenticity. I love my black self. Maybe I wasn't supposed to cross the street
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Jan 31, 2016
Jan 31, 2016 at 2:46 AM UTC
If I crossed the street
*Oh.. on this festivities My illumination of LOVE My Noor - my Belovedz Become my LOVER & BELOVEDz* Among millions of stars in the sky The one star that I saw By the grace of your glow In the darkest nights YOU sparkle your colors Soaring wings in flight Within unknown celestial cosmos Touching my dark oceanic shores Oh my Noor - my BELOVEDz This is the purest blessing I beg from YOU Just let one sparkle of your LOVE Fall in my lap - inside my womb Let me give birth to YOU Create a replica of YOU within me This is the prophecy of Nature The truest word of Mother nature Every God/dess proclaims in scriptures A golden commandment of AGAPE LOVE For the future of the world To survive and sustain on LOVE That is the reason I've been chosen for For your light to pierce in my SOUL My Noor - my BELOVEDz My existence is touched by your LOVE I seek inner LOVE with your illuminations YOU are the first passion of my LOVE YOU remain the last obsession of my LIFE Humans life-time is too minuscule Compared to LOVE's immortality YOU illuminate YOU are present in every breath Of my birth to death - darkness to light YOU remain my North-Star, I remain YOUR LOVE's navigator YOUR SOUL is my destination, I remain your LOVER - a LOVE seeker My Noor - My BELOVEDz Just show little charity By dropping your LOVE energy Inside my womb of creation Please forgive... My obsession of YOU My passionate LOVE for YOU My intimate talks on LOVE My showing YOU - my joyful tears I am mere human - seeking your LOVE I may not be PERFECT - My Noor - My BELOVEDz Light my imperfections with your illuminations Just give me a space in your inner being Let me touch that Source of LOVE's light within YOU I just ask one thing from your sparkle Annihilate me, dissolve me, absorb me Within your darkness forever Where I can unite with your LOVE The ultimate LOVE source - Illumination *Oh.. on this festivities My illumination of LOVE My Noor - my Belovedz Become my LOVER & BELOVEDz*
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Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018 at 1:09 AM UTC
My Noor - My BELOVEDz
*Oh.. on this festivities My illumination of LOVE My Noor - my Belovedz Become my LOVER & BELOVEDz* Among millions of stars in the sky The one star that I saw By the grace of your glow In the darkest nights YOU sparkle your colors Soaring wings in flight Within unknown celestial cosmos Touching my dark oceanic shores Oh my Noor - my BELOVEDz This is the purest blessing I beg from YOU Just let one sparkle of your LOVE Fall in my lap - inside my womb Let me give birth to YOU Create a replica of YOU within me This is the prophecy of Nature The truest word of Mother nature Every God/dess proclaims in scriptures A golden commandment of AGAPE LOVE For the future of the world To survive and sustain on LOVE That is the reason I've been chosen for For your light to pierce in my SOUL My Noor - my BELOVEDz My existence is touched by your LOVE I seek inner LOVE with your illuminations YOU are the first passion of my LOVE YOU remain the last obsession of my LIFE Humans life-time is too minuscule Compared to LOVE's immortality YOU illuminate YOU are present in every breath Of my birth to death - darkness to light YOU remain my North-Star, I remain YOUR LOVE's navigator YOUR SOUL is my destination, I remain your LOVER - a LOVE seeker My Noor - My BELOVEDz Just show little charity By dropping your LOVE energy Inside my womb of creation Please forgive... My obsession of YOU My passionate LOVE for YOU My intimate talks on LOVE My showing YOU - my joyful tears I am mere human - seeking your LOVE I may not be PERFECT - My Noor - My BELOVEDz Light my imperfections with your illuminations Just give me a space in your inner being Let me touch that Source of LOVE's light within YOU I just ask one thing from your sparkle Annihilate me, dissolve me, absorb me Within your darkness forever Where I can unite with your LOVE The ultimate LOVE source - Illumination *Oh.. on this festivities My illumination of LOVE My Noor - my Belovedz Become my LOVER & BELOVEDz*
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In a world of laughter I was apart of at a time Now glides with sadness As the refugees shine And there in the darkness I can see someone's face Wholesome with fear In deliberate disgrace Find the world's end And summon the flees Through the fires and cries Lies this appealing disease Of rotten flesh And from human, to be born Crucified, embodied, concealed And still so adorn Notify the states Address them assured To be swept with the scars In a world unsecured With the memories of a beast White flesh and teeth In written disconcert And so, whom would I bequeath? Of decayed discontent In a black path of a rose filled garden Hides the wishes of a ****** Broken by the pervading Janardhan And where the blood may spill I may not be for real And in this nightmare I place myself But where I stand my eyes congeal Broken faces, smiles depart So much love, ruled by lust So much hate, driven by anger Asphyxiate my disgust My repel of this utter evil Where a ****** proclaims The absence of virtues And the murderer of William James For the only unseen And the utterly disturbed Comes a vision alive And they're truly perturbed Where their own flesh dilapidate With their minds running amuck And at everyone they will berate And in my cage of silent betrayal I will commence to cleanse my soul My solid trust, broken, forever damaged I can only hope for extol And yet my own deceit Will lead me to my fall I still await this day And truly bury my appall
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Dec 11, 2011
Dec 11, 2011 at 5:19 PM UTC
Demonic Virgins
I sit still As I listen to a few songs Mayer, Mraz and so on I listen to their wise Their empathic words I wish I could talk To someone, anyone That I could trust I wonder why I can't As someone proclaims They'll fight for me Get to the root of it for me I am nearly brought to tears How long has it been Since someone did that Not simply ran away Because they saw That I was in a difficult A terrible situation How long have I begged for Someone to do for me That I did for them How long? As I sit quietly and ponder I start talking To the only one I trust - My laptop My words are hitching In between With silent sobs My eyes have lost their Ability to cry Have grown cold No longer have the Strength to cry I want to break down But only in the arms Of someone who cares I look around There's no one Of course What else did I expect What else could I expect What else dare I expect I crouch down Cover my face As I start laughing I am so torn apart That I can't even see The point of it all What I would do To simply last till Tomorrow morning Not just give in Tonight, tonight.
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 9:17 AM UTC
The Tears of The Joker Run, Unseen, Unheard
Maybe in another universe are we all free Maybe in another universe do we have our own will Maybe in another universe do we tame sin and advocate prosperity Maybe in another universe do we encourage diversity Maybe in another universe do we differentiate based on morals and not plain ethnic variety Maybe in another universe are we in control of our own minds, and bodies Maybe in another universe do we think for ourselves rather than follow others' paths Maybe in another universe are we not in denial of invisible surrounded hierarchy That divides us. That feeds us. That maneuvers us. That disables us. That obtains us. And proclaims us theirs. Maybe in another universe...
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Aug 21, 2016
Aug 21, 2016 at 1:10 PM UTC
Maybe in another universe
Day breaks on Doubletop Mountain, shadowing villages below. Three-thousand eight hundred feet tall, it captures the eye! And standing at attention there in front of me, a battalion of Sugar Maples in full…. Fall…. Regalia! Cascading tones of Crimsons, Burgundy, scarlet reds and Golden Hue. Gazing over Dunk Hill as farmer’s plow fields, turn again for fertility, There are only brief streams of life giving sunlight, and now the sky turns to a pale grey. Me, well I live for this time of year….enjoying the evening autumn constellations, Or Moms dining table adorned with Indian corn and blackberry canes! Bessie's Margaretville home begins the fall ritual of canning and drying. Breaking out winter clothes…as she proclaims "no whites after Labor Day"! The last bit of warmth now dwells just behind the Catskill’s Harvest Moon, And the V of geese honk their good-byes to the summer sun.
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Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017 at 3:02 PM UTC
Delaware County October
I get scared easily. And I always have persisted to allow my mind to be torn out when I let it affect me. They say, "Worst case scenario is rare." in most situations. I have yet to seek why they ignore worst case, become it, leaving nothing left for the worst. Habitually it creates an aggression with associates: replacement and correlation. Without me noticing inevitably. Behind. This shadow that follows, desires its personification; Consequently the main man must fall, He will dissipate towards the rock where the one before him stood. Rather take a spot of one greater, it is that of less higher. A demotion of sort. In order for it to transpose into progression, a compromise is of order. The compromise of time, itself, playing the waiting game - (let us back step) …replacement…correlation… The understanding of this is of which I no longer feel that emotion; It is configured by the other, making a statement which is unrecognizable. So much, not even I, the speaker, can do anything to prove to you what I mean. --For keeps sake-- This is no where near a poor pardon for my actions. They are far from a credible stature. Far from a pity fete; Indeed a fare apology is in par. Yet this is a means of report to say in far value: worry. It is of pure arrogance that I state this claim. Keep this in mind. That I fear the replacement emotion shall take place in fair time once more. As the tail is coming back again, second time to be specific. And your steps in self-fulfillment climaxes, The steps to which I take are mimicked to that of the first tail. (The apex forms and your entitlement proclaims its spot.) I wish it not, to be furthered in my rut. As of the annum before, was explained by dis-valued ties. This is not to which I think. It is your confidence which speaks and separates your feet. Placing one foot in one path, far ahead from the other. As I stay with the other, while the other one is altered. Being free as it walks along with out I. I wish for an ignoring of replacement, and to this I will forcibly try. For you, my love.
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Jun 29, 2012
Jun 29, 2012 at 5:48 PM UTC
Adapt.
I get scared easily. And I always have persisted to allow my mind to be torn out when I let it affect me. They say, "Worst case scenario is rare." in most situations. I have yet to seek why they ignore worst case, become it, leaving nothing left for the worst. Habitually it creates an aggression with associates: replacement and correlation. Without me noticing inevitably. Behind. This shadow that follows, desires its personification; Consequently the main man must fall, He will dissipate towards the rock where the one before him stood. Rather take a spot of one greater, it is that of less higher. A demotion of sort. In order for it to transpose into progression, a compromise is of order. The compromise of time, itself, playing the waiting game - (let us back step) …replacement…correlation… The understanding of this is of which I no longer feel that emotion; It is configured by the other, making a statement which is unrecognizable. So much, not even I, the speaker, can do anything to prove to you what I mean. --For keeps sake-- This is no where near a poor pardon for my actions. They are far from a credible stature. Far from a pity fete; Indeed a fare apology is in par. Yet this is a means of report to say in far value: worry. It is of pure arrogance that I state this claim. Keep this in mind. That I fear the replacement emotion shall take place in fair time once more. As the tail is coming back again, second time to be specific. And your steps in self-fulfillment climaxes, The steps to which I take are mimicked to that of the first tail. (The apex forms and your entitlement proclaims its spot.) I wish it not, to be furthered in my rut. As of the annum before, was explained by dis-valued ties. This is not to which I think. It is your confidence which speaks and separates your feet. Placing one foot in one path, far ahead from the other. As I stay with the other, while the other one is altered. Being free as it walks along with out I. I wish for an ignoring of replacement, and to this I will forcibly try. For you, my love.
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Pacing the entire night In my thoughts hold images Burning right before me Lasting a short period into time A remedy proclaims,but folly What have I done? In this state of affairs My resistance has increase To a vision so blurry Forbidden are the boundaries For each other domain diminish A longing appetite with no food To one's touch Pathetic living by far Shows a different hunger Shall we end This masquerade of games? To devour is not a crave,but a capture For it's gain
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Oct 2, 2009
Oct 2, 2009 at 11:23 PM UTC
Hunger!!!
(Ezekiel, xxxvi. 25-28) The Lord proclaims His grace abroad! "Behold, I change your hearts of stone; Each shall renounce his idol-god, And serve, henceforth, the Lord alone. "My grace, a flowing stream, proceeds To wash your filthiness away; Ye shall abhor your former deeds, And learn my statutes to obey. "My truth the great design ensures, I give myself away to you; You shall be mine, I will be yours, Your God unalterably true. "Yet not unsought or unimplored, The plenteous grace I shall confer; No -- your whole hearts shall seek the Lord, I'll put a praying spirit there. "From the first breath of life divine Down to the last expiring hour, The gracious work shall all be mine, Begun and ended in my power."
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The Covenant
*My voice is in the falling rain A crashing rolling weeping realm My song of storms proudly proclaims These clouded skies are falling down Back to the earth from whence they came A moist collection careening down To crash into the waterways And sing my song clear and aloud Into your ears I whisper rain And share my secrets so profound As droplets cleanse the concrete stains They sweep away the sorrow sounds So here I sits by window panes To smell the sky and taste the clouds Though thunder rolls and storms berates My song remains like falling sounds*
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Apr 1, 2017
Apr 1, 2017 at 10:46 PM UTC
Falling Rain