Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
"reconciled" poems
In a loud corridor Full of young people I move slowly, reconciled. I have lived a little longer than they have. And yet I do not know how They recognize my face, They smile at me so calmly. On the walls Reproductions of masters. One calls me, Face distorted, Naked in his suffering. I stop my thoughts. I look. I see his bitten soul. Too many sunsets in blood-red color. He and she, They lost everything And yet they still see so much love. I am already with them, on their portrait. I am part of these colors. I search in a corridor of eclipses, Flashing hopes. To soothe their dignity, To save the bond between them. I take this story in my hands, so gently. Together, we look into earthly wounds. We allow them to scar over, Day after day, Year after year. Until they grow over with life. Until they grow over with green grass. I will be happy. Observing how they grow in true strength Of human fragile beings, Of impatient humanity, longing to be reborn.
0
Sep 17, 2025
Sep 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM UTC
Painting
#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
0
Oct 3, 2025
Oct 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM UTC
On the Macrocosm of Microcosm
#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
Continue reading...
90
In fair Verona where Will set the scene Belle Fortune moves the markers up and down. Two households both alike in dignity Fiercely compete for fear of losing ground. When Juliet saw Romeo at the dance Events were set in motion that, perchance, Would see fair Juliet as our Romeo’s bride but ultimately result in her suicide. With Tybalt and Mercutio both dead, And Capulet and Montague estranged. Young Paris sought fair Juliet to wed not knowing of her loss of maiden-head. Romeo was banished for his crime, a sin for which a peasant would have died Their two households, joined because they wed, remained divided by their foolish pride. Summer’s fierce heat shimmered in the air, oppressive in the absence of a breeze. With Friar Lawrence’s help, Romeo’s girl played dead, as if struck down by some unknown disease Romeo , in Mantua, heard that his Juliet Lay dead amongst the sleeping Capulets. A draught of deadly poison he obtained So they might sleep together once again. When Romeo met Paris at her tomb, Words led to swordplay, leaving Paris dead. Would not the world have been a better place if Romeo had kept it sheathed instead? Unshriven, Romeo drank the poison down- the only son of Montague now dead. Perchance just then fair Juliet revives Bereaved, she took his Dirk to bed instead. Authorities, arriving at the scene, could only mourn a brace of kinsmen lost. Capulet and Montague were reconciled Their amity bought at a fearful cost.
0
May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 7:47 AM UTC
Juliet and Romeo
I think Poetry found me very early, From somewhere in mama's womb. Hooked to her umbilical cord firmly. I heard something like a tiny bomb. It was the sound of the talking drum, Heralding the arrival of another grio. So with gratitude, I said thanks mom, And to the world, I said a very big hello. Of course, I used the language of babies, I cried and breathed in my very first air. This was my first sight of the ladies They smiled as they washed my hair. My very first poem was a sad prayer. It was written when I was very hungry I was hopeless, I had only one dollar, And no real prospect of ever making it. So I took out my old used notepad, UnfortunateIy, I had no pen to write with. I wrote with a charcoal found in the yard, And I wrote many long lines on my wall. I wrote everything I had to tell God Sadly, I couldn't write them all. I cried in anguish to the Lord, Asking If He had forgotten me. Of Course, I got no immediate answer, But years later my answer came. It came in the form of a letter. Addressed to me, ten years later It came later but it felt better, Instantly my struggle was all over! The first love letter I wrote was poetry, It was childish, unstructured and ugly. It was written to a girl, she was pretty, She read it and smiled, I wasn't so lucky. Crushed, yet I pretended to be strong I walked away but ran all the way home. I cried in anguish and wrote a love song. The lines were very sad, I felt all alone. But I knew it was my first real rejection. So I tried writing again, this time to me. I was very focused, I was on a mission. Finally, it finished and I wrote my name. Unfortunately, the answer was the same, There and then I knew I had no game, So I reconciled and just took the blame. Fast forward,and many years later, I found the subject of my love letter. I wrote a note to her on messenger. I was optimistic because I wrote better. I was emboldened by my poetic power. Once again,the reply came to me later, This time it was a resounding yes! It felt so wonderful, thanks to poetry And the universe I didn't make a mess.   #IvanBrooksPoetry© 7/22/2018
0
Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 9:11 PM UTC
How Poetry Found Me.
I think Poetry found me very early, From somewhere in mama's womb. Hooked to her umbilical cord firmly. I heard something like a tiny bomb. It was the sound of the talking drum, Heralding the arrival of another grio. So with gratitude, I said thanks mom, And to the world, I said a very big hello. Of course, I used the language of babies, I cried and breathed in my very first air. This was my first sight of the ladies They smiled as they washed my hair. My very first poem was a sad prayer. It was written when I was very hungry I was hopeless, I had only one dollar, And no real prospect of ever making it. So I took out my old used notepad, UnfortunateIy, I had no pen to write with. I wrote with a charcoal found in the yard, And I wrote many long lines on my wall. I wrote everything I had to tell God Sadly, I couldn't write them all. I cried in anguish to the Lord, Asking If He had forgotten me. Of Course, I got no immediate answer, But years later my answer came. It came in the form of a letter. Addressed to me, ten years later It came later but it felt better, Instantly my struggle was all over! The first love letter I wrote was poetry, It was childish, unstructured and ugly. It was written to a girl, she was pretty, She read it and smiled, I wasn't so lucky. Crushed, yet I pretended to be strong I walked away but ran all the way home. I cried in anguish and wrote a love song. The lines were very sad, I felt all alone. But I knew it was my first real rejection. So I tried writing again, this time to me. I was very focused, I was on a mission. Finally, it finished and I wrote my name. Unfortunately, the answer was the same, There and then I knew I had no game, So I reconciled and just took the blame. Fast forward,and many years later, I found the subject of my love letter. I wrote a note to her on messenger. I was optimistic because I wrote better. I was emboldened by my poetic power. Once again,the reply came to me later, This time it was a resounding yes! It felt so wonderful, thanks to poetry And the universe I didn't make a mess.   #IvanBrooksPoetry© 7/22/2018
Continue reading...
56
XXXIII Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear The name I used to run at, when a child, From innocent play, and leave the cowslips piled, To glance up in some face that proved me dear With the look of its eyes. I miss the clear Fond voices which, being drawn and reconciled Into the music of Heaven’s undefiled, Call me no longer. Silence on the bier, While I call God—call God!—So let thy mouth Be heir to those who are now exanimate. Gather the north flowers to complete the south, And catch the early love up in the late. Yes, call me by that name,—and I, in truth, With the same heart, will answer and not wait.
0
6k
Sonnet 33 - Yes, Call Me By My Pet-Name! Let Me Hear
Dew Diligence to reap the rewards of a world of magic and appreciation of earning the clouds of doubt and pain must be experienced the piper must be payed the fear of life reconciled with the acceptance of death leaving no stone unturned no path untraveled the mind set free in observation the binds loosened in anticipation maintaining your resilience the tears must fall your dew diligence Gomer LePoet..
0
Apr 3, 2013
Apr 3, 2013 at 1:27 PM UTC
Dew Diligence
The Gospel. Not an easy message to state or hear. Who wants to repent? Hardly anyone these days. Who wants to believe in a God who many believe irrelevant to modern life? Hmmm? A God who preordained a Messiah who tells people they must DIE TO LIVE. Well. That's the message. Luke 14. Look it up. Jesus has attracted thousands of followers. He turns to them and says YOU must hate your mom, dad, sis, bro... everyone! YOU MUST DIE TO THIS WORLD TO LIVE! They must pick up their cross and follow him. Thousands left. All who remained were twelve men. Jesus asked if THEY also wanted to go. They said, NO. You alone hold eternal life. Folks, I LOVE YOU. So i am simply going to say this... REPENT. BELIEVE. TRUST. That's all God asks. He wants to reconcile you, A SINNER, to Himself. YOU ALL ARE NOT RIGHTEOUS. Only Jesus, who was born of a ****** NEVER SINNED IN HIS LIFE, preached the Good News of the Kingdom so boldly he infuriated a lot of self- righteous people, was brutally beaten, then crucified, DEAD. BURIED. ROSE AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY TO A NEW LIFE. He CAN take your place as sinful flesh, so YOU can GAIN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. Only then can you be reconciled to a Righteous God. I'm saying all this because I LOVE YOU. I just died today. Care to join me? ♡ Catherine
0
Sep 1, 2017
Sep 1, 2017 at 3:47 AM UTC
I'm willing to DIE FOR YOU.
There are moments I remember Places I have been, people I have met And then there is the one Who captured my heart and never let it go So long ago, yet still so near to me today Love as the enigma that forever stays As life goes on, time stands still Our fates entwined in a Lost yet lasting love, consigned To forever remembering and Embracing the past Forever together Forever apart Never to be reconciled The hurting heart Moving on Still looking back Caught between yesterday and tomorrow With today in the way Yes, I wonder what would have happened But I know I'll never know And if I did, I would not say
0
Oct 18, 2016
Oct 18, 2016 at 1:38 PM UTC
The Hurting Heart
Mother! whose ****** ***** was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied. Woman! above all women glorified, Our tainted nature’s solitary boast; Purer than foam on central ocean tost; Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon Before her wane begins on heaven’s blue coast; Thy image falls to earth. Yet some, I ween, Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend, As to a visible Power, in which did blend All that was mixed and reconciled in thee Of mother’s love with maiden purity, Of high with low, celestial with terrene!
0
2.8k
The ******
When we prefer the narrow gate And tire of busy highways We see the Kingdom come When the master is the servant And kneels to wash our feet We see the Kingdom come When the straggler is given preference And the first steps to the back We see the Kingdom come When we serve the poor, the hungry And take the stranger in We see the Kingdom come. When children are given pride of place And followed as an example We see the Kingdom come When brother and sister are reconciled While our offering is left to wait We see the Kingdom come When the temples are cleared of commerce And prayer takes it rightful place We see the Kingdom come When the Sabbath serves the worshipper Not the worshipper the Sabbath We see the Kingdom come When fragrant extravagance is applauded And noses put out if joint We see the Kingdom come When the Creator's light is lifted up And the Son is no longer hidden We see the Kingdom come
0
Jul 7, 2018
Jul 7, 2018 at 9:31 AM UTC
Kingdom come
Your kindness will light up the dark caverns of my heart bring to mind my warring thoughts and I will buckle under the weight of myself until mercy once again is in the ascendant, and love welcomes me home, the prodigal and faithful personalities torments, reconciled once again.
0
Dec 20, 2015
Dec 20, 2015 at 11:57 AM UTC
Prodigal And Faithful Siblings
healing: *verb (used with object) 1. to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment. 2. to bring to an end or conclusion, as conflicts between people or groups, usually with the strong implication of restoring former amity; settle; reconcile: They tried to heal the rift between them but were unsuccessful.   3. to free from evil; cleanse; purify: to heal the soul.   verb (used without object) 4. to effect a cure. 5. (of a wound, broken bone, etc.) to become whole or sound; mend; get well (often followed by up  or over  ).* reconciliation: *verb (used with object), rec·on·ciled, rec·on·cil·ing.   1. to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.   2. to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable: to reconcile hostile persons.   3. to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.). 4. to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements; to reconcile accounts.   5. to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, cemetery, etc.).* The task painful and cumbersome is to decide if both can be.
0
Mar 31, 2014
Mar 31, 2014 at 2:13 PM UTC
mutual exclusion
As a teenage boy I used to fall asleep at night listening to the graveled voice of Ernie Harwell fashion for me word-images of the exploits by a band of superheroes called the Detroit Tigers. In those semi-lucid moments before slumber, I could see the shimmering outline of my destiny: you see all American boys are meant to be Tigers. So imagine my confusion, when I fractured the right talus bone my Junior year of high school, even putting on weight around the middle, where no athlete worth his pin stripes would gain. My karma had begun to take on mass. I began to acquire knowledge, as the only perceived defense against some parallel universe impinging upon reality. Oh, I had everyone convinced, even my keenest teachers believed I was destined to make my mark in scholarly pursuits. But no one saw the crying ego of one meant to be a Tiger, nor how that bottled up the emergence of the Man. Never reconciled, the Man curled up in fetal dormancy. Lifespan became synonymous with interstellar drift. And every encountered star of knowlege was dwarfed, having long ago collapsed of its own gravity. Still the heavens of knowledge are auspicious, so I looked outward, when all the answers lay concealed within. Only as my life left the outskirts of occluded reality did I then begin to inherit from my instinctual id, begin to listen to disconsolate internal voices, who had known me all along, perhaps better than myself. The thing is ... the stage has long been set on middle-age, what props lie about are encrusted with patina, laden with a dust impossible to gauge or preempt, made worse by the lack of cast, save one. Neither Beckett, nor Pinter, could have absurded this. So, when my acts strike you as quixotic, when I cut with a penknife through propriety, it's because I finally remember what it meant to be a Tiger.
0
Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 7:15 PM UTC
We All Die Unhealed
As a teenage boy I used to fall asleep at night listening to the graveled voice of Ernie Harwell fashion for me word-images of the exploits by a band of superheroes called the Detroit Tigers. In those semi-lucid moments before slumber, I could see the shimmering outline of my destiny: you see all American boys are meant to be Tigers. So imagine my confusion, when I fractured the right talus bone my Junior year of high school, even putting on weight around the middle, where no athlete worth his pin stripes would gain. My karma had begun to take on mass. I began to acquire knowledge, as the only perceived defense against some parallel universe impinging upon reality. Oh, I had everyone convinced, even my keenest teachers believed I was destined to make my mark in scholarly pursuits. But no one saw the crying ego of one meant to be a Tiger, nor how that bottled up the emergence of the Man. Never reconciled, the Man curled up in fetal dormancy. Lifespan became synonymous with interstellar drift. And every encountered star of knowlege was dwarfed, having long ago collapsed of its own gravity. Still the heavens of knowledge are auspicious, so I looked outward, when all the answers lay concealed within. Only as my life left the outskirts of occluded reality did I then begin to inherit from my instinctual id, begin to listen to disconsolate internal voices, who had known me all along, perhaps better than myself. The thing is ... the stage has long been set on middle-age, what props lie about are encrusted with patina, laden with a dust impossible to gauge or preempt, made worse by the lack of cast, save one. Neither Beckett, nor Pinter, could have absurded this. So, when my acts strike you as quixotic, when I cut with a penknife through propriety, it's because I finally remember what it meant to be a Tiger.
Continue reading...
36
I explained. You understood. We reconciled.
0
Feb 22, 2015
Feb 22, 2015 at 9:37 PM UTC
Reconciliation (6 W)
A confinement to the street, I likened it to a bliss of pain. Not extended like an overrun episode, But the anxiety is sleepless, When yesterday approaches, I wrap myself in the ignorance, Homeless, timeless, It grows and defines, Coarses through my fundamental Lapses, A boy becomes an atitude, I wish i had these experiences in youthful insurgencies. Its someday in the week, I lose the raptured schedules, To hunger is life. To thirst is life. The misled winter wraps itself On my frozen life. A faint emergence of time Resumes, There in the shadows I once knew a man, The visions of him asking to feed My souless self. Stretched by insistent graces, In a road of certain contrasts, Gentle into the street, I laugh; the revolving doors, I cry; what or who i never was, A certain kind of grace to be Within the containment, the poor, the  restless, bleeding my facades, Shredding the faces I once knew Destroying my world. Once I sat upon a throne Lost in the decimations, I dont know who I am. Keep walking. Telling myself as the night freezes I will be just fine. Keep walking Telling myself in minced Thoughts as hope flutters against Nowhere to go. Keep walking, The sun rises And blisters on my feet Calm the night as the safety Of day lets me rest. I will bounce back tomorrow, And the streets become a ripened spring fruit, Losing myself And the art of loss Is no disaster, Not unlike losing my keys, Not unlike losing places, Not unlike losing names, Until i reconciled myself At the fork of the river, Losing myself is not an art: The beauty was in finding who I was meant to be.
0
Mar 6, 2019
Mar 6, 2019 at 6:09 PM UTC
Homeless, Who I Am
A confinement to the street, I likened it to a bliss of pain. Not extended like an overrun episode, But the anxiety is sleepless, When yesterday approaches, I wrap myself in the ignorance, Homeless, timeless, It grows and defines, Coarses through my fundamental Lapses, A boy becomes an atitude, I wish i had these experiences in youthful insurgencies. Its someday in the week, I lose the raptured schedules, To hunger is life. To thirst is life. The misled winter wraps itself On my frozen life. A faint emergence of time Resumes, There in the shadows I once knew a man, The visions of him asking to feed My souless self. Stretched by insistent graces, In a road of certain contrasts, Gentle into the street, I laugh; the revolving doors, I cry; what or who i never was, A certain kind of grace to be Within the containment, the poor, the  restless, bleeding my facades, Shredding the faces I once knew Destroying my world. Once I sat upon a throne Lost in the decimations, I dont know who I am. Keep walking. Telling myself as the night freezes I will be just fine. Keep walking Telling myself in minced Thoughts as hope flutters against Nowhere to go. Keep walking, The sun rises And blisters on my feet Calm the night as the safety Of day lets me rest. I will bounce back tomorrow, And the streets become a ripened spring fruit, Losing myself And the art of loss Is no disaster, Not unlike losing my keys, Not unlike losing places, Not unlike losing names, Until i reconciled myself At the fork of the river, Losing myself is not an art: The beauty was in finding who I was meant to be.
Continue reading...
62
Finding peace in this life Takes effort and strain Feelings of hopelessness Lead to the place That it is kept In a clearing, beneath the sky Far away from the city The gravestones The gravel’s edge Left behind And the sun warms your skin As the rain clouds gather Dust swirling in anticipation Plugging your nose Despite the lovely smell Your lungs deflate Reconciled That is peace
0
Apr 18, 2010
Apr 18, 2010 at 1:57 PM UTC
Plug Nose
Southern Icarus by Michael R. Burch Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace you climb, skittish kite ... What do you know of the world’s despair, gliding in vast solitariness there so that all that remains is to                                               fall? Only a little longer the wind invests its sighs; you stall spread-eagled as the canvas snaps and ***** its white rebellious wings, and all the houses watch with baffled eyes. Originally published by Poetry Porch. Keywords/Tags: Icarus, flight, flying, hang-gliding, kite, glider, wind, canvas, South, southern, truck, unspooled Note: The following poem unites Icarus with Tom O'Bedlam in a final, magical quest ... Finally to Burn (the Fall and Resurrection of Icarus) by Michael R. Burch I. Athena takes me sometimes by the hand and we go levitating through strange Dreamlands where Apollo sleeps in his dark forgetting and Passion seems like a wise bloodletting and all I remember —upon awaking— is: to Love sometimes is like forsaking one’s Being—to glide heroically beyond thought, forsaking the here for the There and the Not. II. O, finally to Burn, gravity beyond escaping! To plummet is Bliss when the blisters breaking rain down red scabs on the earth’s mudpuddle... Feathers and wax and the watchers huddle... Flocculent sheep, O, and innocent lambs! I will rock me to sleep on the waves’ iambs. III. To Sleep, that is Bliss in Love’s recursive Dream, for the Night has Wings pallid as moonbeams— they will flit me to Life, like a huge-eyed Phoenix fluttering off to quarry the Sphinx. IV. Riddlemethis, riddlemethat, Rynosseross, throw out the Welcome Mat. Quixotic, I seek Love amid the tarnished rusted-out steel when to live is varnish. To Dream—that’s the thing! Aye, that Genie I’ll rub, soak by the candle, aflame in the tub. V. Riddlemethis, riddlemethat, Rynosseross, throw out the Welcome Mat. Somewhither, somewhither aglitter and strange, we must moult off all knowledge or perish caged. VI. I am reconciled to Life somewhere beyond thought— I’ll Live in the There, I’ll Dream of the Naught. Methinks it no journey; to tarry’s a waste, so fatten the oxen; make a nice baste. I’m coming, Fool Tom, we have Somewhere to Go, though we injure noone, ourselves wildaglow.
0
Apr 14, 2020
Apr 14, 2020 at 3:57 AM UTC
Southern Icarus
Southern Icarus by Michael R. Burch Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace you climb, skittish kite ... What do you know of the world’s despair, gliding in vast solitariness there so that all that remains is to                                               fall? Only a little longer the wind invests its sighs; you stall spread-eagled as the canvas snaps and ***** its white rebellious wings, and all the houses watch with baffled eyes. Originally published by Poetry Porch. Keywords/Tags: Icarus, flight, flying, hang-gliding, kite, glider, wind, canvas, South, southern, truck, unspooled Note: The following poem unites Icarus with Tom O'Bedlam in a final, magical quest ... Finally to Burn (the Fall and Resurrection of Icarus) by Michael R. Burch I. Athena takes me sometimes by the hand and we go levitating through strange Dreamlands where Apollo sleeps in his dark forgetting and Passion seems like a wise bloodletting and all I remember —upon awaking— is: to Love sometimes is like forsaking one’s Being—to glide heroically beyond thought, forsaking the here for the There and the Not. II. O, finally to Burn, gravity beyond escaping! To plummet is Bliss when the blisters breaking rain down red scabs on the earth’s mudpuddle... Feathers and wax and the watchers huddle... Flocculent sheep, O, and innocent lambs! I will rock me to sleep on the waves’ iambs. III. To Sleep, that is Bliss in Love’s recursive Dream, for the Night has Wings pallid as moonbeams— they will flit me to Life, like a huge-eyed Phoenix fluttering off to quarry the Sphinx. IV. Riddlemethis, riddlemethat, Rynosseross, throw out the Welcome Mat. Quixotic, I seek Love amid the tarnished rusted-out steel when to live is varnish. To Dream—that’s the thing! Aye, that Genie I’ll rub, soak by the candle, aflame in the tub. V. Riddlemethis, riddlemethat, Rynosseross, throw out the Welcome Mat. Somewhither, somewhither aglitter and strange, we must moult off all knowledge or perish caged. VI. I am reconciled to Life somewhere beyond thought— I’ll Live in the There, I’ll Dream of the Naught. Methinks it no journey; to tarry’s a waste, so fatten the oxen; make a nice baste. I’m coming, Fool Tom, we have Somewhere to Go, though we injure noone, ourselves wildaglow.
Continue reading...
94
Transnational capitalism is a gluttonous preoccupation of the aristocrat. Although Simone De Beauvoir nailed her colors to the metaphorical mast of equality, it is reasonable to acknowledge that our perimeter lies beyond intra-personal vistas of gender identity and ****** preference. The Lord of the Manor will grant entry to your greasy soul, if you embrace the common denominator of anthropological affiliation. So, weary pilgrim, on this treacherous journey of presumed arrival: I urge you to identify that spiritual lobotomy of the majority where ontological convenience jeopardises the rich tapestry of our planet’s pulse. Collectivism has a cosmological duality which will never be reconciled as long as parliamentary ridicule insults the intelligence of equilibrium. Whatever happened to democracy? And, why do you simply conform to dictatorial messages which sink their teeth into the very flesh of community existence? We may not be able to alter the direction of the wind, but we can truly adjust our sails.
0
Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 3:55 PM UTC
Revolting Modernity
Love, faith and forgiveness principal are in Christian school. Torrid anger thou must flay While it's still displaying on the eastern tray Ere its set on the *** laude of thy sterling Prize. The other meek cheek of thine turn-- Though tough--to him that seek thy burn. Gladly go not one but twain miles with Him that bid thee. Distribute cheerfully To widows cream bread and wine; the needy And orphans--whether you're rolling in it-- Never neglect, and make no open show Of thy charity: its trumpet do not blow. Make mammon thy master nay. Believe The Bible though you cannot It fathom Out--the Spirit thy heart will guide. Kingdom Eternal chiefly pursue; to goodness cleave. Both parents and priests honour, and men In authority obey. Keep the Lord's pen. Fast and pray, playing not to the gallery. In heaven's safe thy treasure store, where Robbers and rust have no access nor share. For worldly wants, soul, never you worry-- Jehovah-Jireh above knows thy very need, Who gives in season due to the sower seed. Salt and light on earth be. Thy righteousness The Pharisees' must exceed. All differences Reconciled, lest thy balance draws offence By heaven's audit. Loincloth of faithfulness Wrap. At a lady be weary to leer, and thy ***** bridle. To God thy heart wholly tie. The log in thine own eyes first remove Afore thy brother's speck you see. Grudge Not but ask, seek and knock. Don't judge. Such measure from others expect to them give-- Golden rule. Strive to enter in at the narrow Gate: the rough, rugged road to the end follow.
0
Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 7:34 AM UTC
Sermon on the Mount: the Christian Syllabus
Love, faith and forgiveness principal are in Christian school. Torrid anger thou must flay While it's still displaying on the eastern tray Ere its set on the *** laude of thy sterling Prize. The other meek cheek of thine turn-- Though tough--to him that seek thy burn. Gladly go not one but twain miles with Him that bid thee. Distribute cheerfully To widows cream bread and wine; the needy And orphans--whether you're rolling in it-- Never neglect, and make no open show Of thy charity: its trumpet do not blow. Make mammon thy master nay. Believe The Bible though you cannot It fathom Out--the Spirit thy heart will guide. Kingdom Eternal chiefly pursue; to goodness cleave. Both parents and priests honour, and men In authority obey. Keep the Lord's pen. Fast and pray, playing not to the gallery. In heaven's safe thy treasure store, where Robbers and rust have no access nor share. For worldly wants, soul, never you worry-- Jehovah-Jireh above knows thy very need, Who gives in season due to the sower seed. Salt and light on earth be. Thy righteousness The Pharisees' must exceed. All differences Reconciled, lest thy balance draws offence By heaven's audit. Loincloth of faithfulness Wrap. At a lady be weary to leer, and thy ***** bridle. To God thy heart wholly tie. The log in thine own eyes first remove Afore thy brother's speck you see. Grudge Not but ask, seek and knock. Don't judge. Such measure from others expect to them give-- Golden rule. Strive to enter in at the narrow Gate: the rough, rugged road to the end follow.
Continue reading...
36
"What's wrong with you?" he asked through a chuckle, and then it hit me. I knew exactly what was wrong with me. I was passionate about things, and never about people. I had loved people, but always platonically, or platonic and gilded with a crush or wrapped in lust that I always brushed off with innuendos and flippancy. I had never loved another person the way I loved twisting my brain around a calculus problem or constructing a flame chart. I had thought of people in a romantic sense more than I had evaluated people for science bowl, but lust and love had never consumed me as the issue of organizing practice and evaluation and cuts within the handspan of a month. I always fell in love with things, and never with people, and that's why already, not even 16 yet, I've reconciled myself to die alone.
0
Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013 at 6:01 PM UTC
9/18
Robins scurry, heads askew listening to an underground frequency smooth rasp of worm skin slipping through subterranean mazes. The ever-changing pond mirrors varied green and clouds mythical beasts reflect and rest weary from endless migration. Eagles ride the wind fingered wings minutely adjusting as the current rockets them aloft on a thermal through the blue. The heron balanced on a spine of rock cares only if the tiny fish silver under the surface skin will soon belong to him. Each in tune effortlessly on earth, in air never regretting being here or there. While earthbound creature, I am reconciled to a grounded fate as winter rain lashes the edges of my ragged, useless wings.
0
Feb 4, 2016
Feb 4, 2016 at 11:04 AM UTC
Frequency
I got to the point where I didn’t have enough self-respect to get out of it for myself. But I did it for my daughter. Let me explain. I loved a guy. More than I’ve ever loved anyone. And I’m not sure if it’s one of those loves that can be replicated. But like most crazy loves we were toxic and our highs were in the clouds and our lows were in hell. We did things. We both did things. That were not ok. After we ended it. He slut-shamed me. He called me easy. Worthless. A notch on a belt. It was awful. It was cruel. It was All said in anger. After time went on we reconciled. He apologized for what he said. He tried to make amends. He’d call me and say things to **** me back into this chaos of us. I wanted to go back. I still want to go back sometimes so ******* bad that it eats at my soul. But I don’t. And I don’t do it because of my fierce self-love. I wish I could say I do. I wish I dig my heels in and look into the mirror and give myself a fierce talk and I’m good. But sometimes that’s not enough. When it’s not. I do it for my daughter. Because I will not allow her to have a father who has slut-shamed her mom. I will not allow her to have a sexist father, who thought less of a woman because of the number of people she chose to have *** with. I will not sit on her bedside when she’s crying over a boy and tell her she deserves to be treated better when I know I chose I did not. I will not be the coward that tells her to be strong while gritting my teeth to suppress the memories of abuse I have endured. I will sit on her bedside. Look her dead in the eye and tell her, honestly. I have been there before. I left. I’m better for it. I decided to raise the bar for all women when I took a stand for what was unacceptable and she can and should continue to raise that bar. In that moment. It will be worth it.
0
Jan 23, 2018
Jan 23, 2018 at 1:36 AM UTC
For My Daughter
I got to the point where I didn’t have enough self-respect to get out of it for myself. But I did it for my daughter. Let me explain. I loved a guy. More than I’ve ever loved anyone. And I’m not sure if it’s one of those loves that can be replicated. But like most crazy loves we were toxic and our highs were in the clouds and our lows were in hell. We did things. We both did things. That were not ok. After we ended it. He slut-shamed me. He called me easy. Worthless. A notch on a belt. It was awful. It was cruel. It was All said in anger. After time went on we reconciled. He apologized for what he said. He tried to make amends. He’d call me and say things to **** me back into this chaos of us. I wanted to go back. I still want to go back sometimes so ******* bad that it eats at my soul. But I don’t. And I don’t do it because of my fierce self-love. I wish I could say I do. I wish I dig my heels in and look into the mirror and give myself a fierce talk and I’m good. But sometimes that’s not enough. When it’s not. I do it for my daughter. Because I will not allow her to have a father who has slut-shamed her mom. I will not allow her to have a sexist father, who thought less of a woman because of the number of people she chose to have *** with. I will not sit on her bedside when she’s crying over a boy and tell her she deserves to be treated better when I know I chose I did not. I will not be the coward that tells her to be strong while gritting my teeth to suppress the memories of abuse I have endured. I will sit on her bedside. Look her dead in the eye and tell her, honestly. I have been there before. I left. I’m better for it. I decided to raise the bar for all women when I took a stand for what was unacceptable and she can and should continue to raise that bar. In that moment. It will be worth it.
Continue reading...
36
Kick me Eat me Laugh me Impale me I am dust And smoke I am mere fragments of who She used to be I have assumed to be This body which I am using And abusing With my purges And my urges Because nothing is perfect But regret, ah regret Now that I can feast upon And Lost faith? Now that is just a buffet of emotion That was once good but is now discarded Thrown away like your empty stomach and your yellowing fingers AH and the remembrance of HIS fingers. The way no matter how hard you try, His touch still lingers All the way up your thighs. You can’t escape it; for you didn’t escape it then now did you? You didn’t even scream! You LET him make a home in your mind And pulverize your childhood With one hand! You LET him give you years of disgrace And an unrelenting NEED for cleanliness For purity that can never be found! So you scrub and you rub Your hands till their red, Why not give up and leave your mind To me instead? You are not strong You are not bold Always doing whatever you’re told! You think I’m ruining you? I’m helping you, helping you go exactly Where you should’ve gone the minute you betrayed yourself By not helping yourself. So you see I’m here because You can’t face a mirror You can’t face your own TOUCH There’s just so much I can watch without recoiling in disgust You make me sick! So ill make you sick. And now you see, I am everywhere inside you Let me invade you It shouldn’t be so hard You’ve been stepped on before, On that day, And it seems only fair You should leave this world In the very same way. Because your gravestone is marked all That’s needed is your final date Don’t try and deny it You know it’s too late. You can’t hide your despise For all you see Behind the redness of your eyes IS ME! Does that scare you? It should I’ve done everything All that I could To lead you here. For you hold TOO MUCH fear. And that’s not acceptable. That’s what makes you so forgettable. So you see, Everyone knows They know you’re a coward And they see right through you. So ill smoke this body And pop it And blister it And cut it And mutilate And supply it Yet never satisfy it But I will always comply To my will And I will purge every ounce of you that is left Until there’s nothing left. Ill throw you into the gutter, Where you will splatter And eventually... Yes eventually the whole of you will be reconciled Flushed down the same way your life went, Because this is where you belong It shouldn’t be very long Your time is up All hail Mia!
0
Aug 16, 2013
Aug 16, 2013 at 4:16 AM UTC
All Hail Mia
Kick me Eat me Laugh me Impale me I am dust And smoke I am mere fragments of who She used to be I have assumed to be This body which I am using And abusing With my purges And my urges Because nothing is perfect But regret, ah regret Now that I can feast upon And Lost faith? Now that is just a buffet of emotion That was once good but is now discarded Thrown away like your empty stomach and your yellowing fingers AH and the remembrance of HIS fingers. The way no matter how hard you try, His touch still lingers All the way up your thighs. You can’t escape it; for you didn’t escape it then now did you? You didn’t even scream! You LET him make a home in your mind And pulverize your childhood With one hand! You LET him give you years of disgrace And an unrelenting NEED for cleanliness For purity that can never be found! So you scrub and you rub Your hands till their red, Why not give up and leave your mind To me instead? You are not strong You are not bold Always doing whatever you’re told! You think I’m ruining you? I’m helping you, helping you go exactly Where you should’ve gone the minute you betrayed yourself By not helping yourself. So you see I’m here because You can’t face a mirror You can’t face your own TOUCH There’s just so much I can watch without recoiling in disgust You make me sick! So ill make you sick. And now you see, I am everywhere inside you Let me invade you It shouldn’t be so hard You’ve been stepped on before, On that day, And it seems only fair You should leave this world In the very same way. Because your gravestone is marked all That’s needed is your final date Don’t try and deny it You know it’s too late. You can’t hide your despise For all you see Behind the redness of your eyes IS ME! Does that scare you? It should I’ve done everything All that I could To lead you here. For you hold TOO MUCH fear. And that’s not acceptable. That’s what makes you so forgettable. So you see, Everyone knows They know you’re a coward And they see right through you. So ill smoke this body And pop it And blister it And cut it And mutilate And supply it Yet never satisfy it But I will always comply To my will And I will purge every ounce of you that is left Until there’s nothing left. Ill throw you into the gutter, Where you will splatter And eventually... Yes eventually the whole of you will be reconciled Flushed down the same way your life went, Because this is where you belong It shouldn’t be very long Your time is up All hail Mia!
Continue reading...
100
Content, with a tinge of love, I repent All I've given up. Realize what I've surmised Is a traversed trial of fire. Higher, higher; The atmosphere you admire: Lighter breathing, Muscles beating, Entreating my desire. A pyre, The phoenix feeling renaissance: The lover's having --- Once the want to be satisfied --- Which was, while shattered, reconciled --- Compiled a mile-long list To mist the ever-flowering tree Of prospect, Respecting past Opinion. Your dominion over my Ever-subjugating heart (Pulsating a Morse message) Belittles meaning in Stockholm Syndrome, For I am no Shackled drone; And, forever, This you've known. We are symbiotic. We are psychotic. Celeritous symbols Sampling this: Extended metaphor. Extempore, we entertain and Adore each other, The world we are to each. So: teach me how you look With beseeching reach Into deep territory in sleep; Incept directly And affect me Romantically. Augment what is meant and true.
0
Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 11:20 PM UTC
Meantality
I couldn't be silent as the train I was on sped all the way to a station I didn't recognize, I had no control over the engines screaming to be replaced, I couldn't catch up any longer, and the more I ran, the less I knew the speed to stop at. How could I just stand there as the hands of time continued to swing, hurling me from one strange and unpleasant page to another? I'm not sure when everything will be finished, on which page this story will end in a long epilogue, or in whose hands this turmoil will be reconciled. How could I be fine when my head was hit by blunt objects, my limbs were entangled by the weak and helpless, my heart was pumping nonstop, the heart was drained and empty space was left, my mouth was locked, and as much as I tried to free myself, I only increased the grip on my body, and the wound was getting worse? the situation will deteriorate How can I just stand there and stare? While stomachs demand that they be filled, notes demand that they be cleared, and people want that they be scheduled. The days torment me relentlessly; during the day, I am dark and color blind; at night, I stutter, and all colors beg to be painted tomorrow. How can I be like this when the sky is endless, the rain falls on any cheek, other flowers grow and new buds form, the chess horse continues to gallop, or the pen and paper have reached the abyss of the book? How am I supposed to... Oh **** it! I'm sick of sentences; I'm no longer strong. This story has concluded.
0
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 26, 2022 at 2:54 PM UTC
Crisis
I couldn't be silent as the train I was on sped all the way to a station I didn't recognize, I had no control over the engines screaming to be replaced, I couldn't catch up any longer, and the more I ran, the less I knew the speed to stop at. How could I just stand there as the hands of time continued to swing, hurling me from one strange and unpleasant page to another? I'm not sure when everything will be finished, on which page this story will end in a long epilogue, or in whose hands this turmoil will be reconciled. How could I be fine when my head was hit by blunt objects, my limbs were entangled by the weak and helpless, my heart was pumping nonstop, the heart was drained and empty space was left, my mouth was locked, and as much as I tried to free myself, I only increased the grip on my body, and the wound was getting worse? the situation will deteriorate How can I just stand there and stare? While stomachs demand that they be filled, notes demand that they be cleared, and people want that they be scheduled. The days torment me relentlessly; during the day, I am dark and color blind; at night, I stutter, and all colors beg to be painted tomorrow. How can I be like this when the sky is endless, the rain falls on any cheek, other flowers grow and new buds form, the chess horse continues to gallop, or the pen and paper have reached the abyss of the book? How am I supposed to... Oh **** it! I'm sick of sentences; I'm no longer strong. This story has concluded.
Continue reading...
10