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"residential" poems
_...All I remember was Cancer and my hospital room, My green gown, my bed, My white hair and mustache Until suddenly... ...Reality started to stretch… …And flatten into a brief euphoric white… …I felt a cathartic release As I was encapsulated and bathed In a glorious sensation… ...I floated for an eternity… …Until I felt my euphoria lifting…_ …As my eyes reopened I found myself gazing Upon a room of tiny lights, Blue and pink specs Dotting the inner workings Of large wall sized machines… …They lifted me upright In a gray metal chair And with sharp robotic groans, A long arm from the wall Held up a mirror to my face... ...In the reflection was a young man I thought I would never see again… …I had a wife back before, But now I have a new one Everybody in my situation, ("Reborns", as they are called) Has brand new things and people Filling their lives and concerns They bring nothing with them When they make their returns... …Every morning I wake up On the west 402nd floor Of a residential tower Next to my slim, youthful wife And the trails of flying cars That populate our view From our wall-spanning window As they soar through the city… …I was told of technology, Created and discovered That could reawaken people Who, like me, had died In an earlier era and time… …It’s strange that my past, In all its importance and meaning, Memories, friendships and scenery, Seems to no longer be of concern, Now that I have all this… …I love what was, very dearly, But the life I live now is for me. I have new children, knowledge, Friends and technology… …I’m quite sure it’s possible That old family members That passed before me Could exist in the same place That I now live and find myself… …But I can’t be certain, Maybe they live further, Deeper, in an unknown future That I can’t even comprehend…? …All I know is that, like me, They have a new life somewhere So I’ll do what I tried to do My first time around… …I’ll continue to grow and live on In this new, world-spanning cityscape Fueled by the love and memory Of a past life remembered only by me...
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Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 9:01 PM UTC
R E B O R N
_...All I remember was Cancer and my hospital room, My green gown, my bed, My white hair and mustache Until suddenly... ...Reality started to stretch… …And flatten into a brief euphoric white… …I felt a cathartic release As I was encapsulated and bathed In a glorious sensation… ...I floated for an eternity… …Until I felt my euphoria lifting…_ …As my eyes reopened I found myself gazing Upon a room of tiny lights, Blue and pink specs Dotting the inner workings Of large wall sized machines… …They lifted me upright In a gray metal chair And with sharp robotic groans, A long arm from the wall Held up a mirror to my face... ...In the reflection was a young man I thought I would never see again… …I had a wife back before, But now I have a new one Everybody in my situation, ("Reborns", as they are called) Has brand new things and people Filling their lives and concerns They bring nothing with them When they make their returns... …Every morning I wake up On the west 402nd floor Of a residential tower Next to my slim, youthful wife And the trails of flying cars That populate our view From our wall-spanning window As they soar through the city… …I was told of technology, Created and discovered That could reawaken people Who, like me, had died In an earlier era and time… …It’s strange that my past, In all its importance and meaning, Memories, friendships and scenery, Seems to no longer be of concern, Now that I have all this… …I love what was, very dearly, But the life I live now is for me. I have new children, knowledge, Friends and technology… …I’m quite sure it’s possible That old family members That passed before me Could exist in the same place That I now live and find myself… …But I can’t be certain, Maybe they live further, Deeper, in an unknown future That I can’t even comprehend…? …All I know is that, like me, They have a new life somewhere So I’ll do what I tried to do My first time around… …I’ll continue to grow and live on In this new, world-spanning cityscape Fueled by the love and memory Of a past life remembered only by me...
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the garbage truck didn't turn up to-day and the neighborhood trash stunk all day a gross smell drifted across the street it was akin to a rotting pile of peat the council have heard the odd gripe they've been told that the ******* is ripe the residential area is no perfumery our quarter acre blocks are so stinky we'll be forced to vacate the neighborhood as uncollected garbage is far from good the air is heady with stale fish and curry vegetable matter and an assortment of slurry it is hoped that a truck can soon be found as we'll be decamping the area's bounds our noses have had a harrowing time inhaling a stench which isn't sublime
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Nov 24, 2013
Nov 24, 2013 at 7:42 PM UTC
Garbage Truck Blues
I was born a sin. I was born a lesbian. For all you who think I chose to be this way. You made a horrible mistake. You think I would chose to be hated for my ****** orientation? Do you think I would chose to get taunted and threatened more than once a week? Do you think I love the way people stare at me when I so much as wear a button that says tolerance? Do you think I like getting called a ***** and a sin? Getting told I'm an abomination to the lord? Do you think I like reading articals about gay bashing a and hearing from my gay uncle about his expirence growing up gay in nv? He told me once when I first came out that I don't know if I'm lesbian, and if I ever think there is a possibility of being straight that I'd better go take that chance. He knew what I would go through and wanted to protect me. I got taunted and teased at school. Stupid boys didn't leave me alone. I relied on violence to protect myself. Finally I began to get angry. I wasn't okay anymore. I spend more than half of middle school is residential treatment centers fighting depression and bipolar disorder. I got to watch my girlfriend/ best friend turn into nothing due to drugs. So you still think I chose to be this way? Well **** you! I didn't get a choice. It's not like I woke up and thought hey today I think I'll go be lesbian. Go find a girlfriend and just do it despise all the homophobes out there because I like being difficult.
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 1:03 PM UTC
Being *****
Carrickfergus (1937) - poem by Louis Macneice. I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries To the hooting of lost sirens and the clang of trams; Thence to Smoky Carrick in County Antrim Where the bottle-neck harbour collects the mud which jams The little boats beneath the Norman castle, The pier shining with lumps of crystal salt; The Scotch quarter was a line of residential houses But the Irish quarter was a slum for the blind and halt. The brook ran yellow from the factory stinking of chlorine, The yarn mill called it's funeral cry at noon; Our lights looked over the lough to the lights of Bangor Under the peacock aura of a drowning moon. The Norman walled this town against the country To stop his ears to the yelping of his slave And built a church in the form of a cross but denoting The list of Christ on the cross in the angle of the nave. I was the rectors son, born to the Anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure. The war came and a huge camp of soldiers Grew from the ground in sight of our house with long Dummies hanging from gibbets for bayonet practice And the sentry's challenge echoing all day long; A Yorkshire terrier ran in and out by the gate-lodge Barred to civilians, yapping as if taking affront; Marching at ease and singing 'Who Killed **** Robin?' The troops went out by the lodge and off to the Front. The steamer was camouflaged that took me to England- Sweat and khaki in the Carlisle train; I thought that the war would last for ever and sugar be always rationed and that never again Would the weekly papers not have photos of sandbags And my governess not make bandages from moss And people not have maps above the fireplace With flags on pins moving across and across- Across the hawthorn hedge the noise of bugles, Flares across the night, Somewhere on the lough was a prison ship for Germans, A cage across their sight. I went to school in Dorset, the world of parents Contracted into a puppet world of sons Far from the mill girls, the smell of porter, the salt-mines And the soldiers with their guns. Louis Macneice
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Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 8:54 AM UTC
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
Carrickfergus (1937) - poem by Louis Macneice. I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries To the hooting of lost sirens and the clang of trams; Thence to Smoky Carrick in County Antrim Where the bottle-neck harbour collects the mud which jams The little boats beneath the Norman castle, The pier shining with lumps of crystal salt; The Scotch quarter was a line of residential houses But the Irish quarter was a slum for the blind and halt. The brook ran yellow from the factory stinking of chlorine, The yarn mill called it's funeral cry at noon; Our lights looked over the lough to the lights of Bangor Under the peacock aura of a drowning moon. The Norman walled this town against the country To stop his ears to the yelping of his slave And built a church in the form of a cross but denoting The list of Christ on the cross in the angle of the nave. I was the rectors son, born to the Anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure. The war came and a huge camp of soldiers Grew from the ground in sight of our house with long Dummies hanging from gibbets for bayonet practice And the sentry's challenge echoing all day long; A Yorkshire terrier ran in and out by the gate-lodge Barred to civilians, yapping as if taking affront; Marching at ease and singing 'Who Killed **** Robin?' The troops went out by the lodge and off to the Front. The steamer was camouflaged that took me to England- Sweat and khaki in the Carlisle train; I thought that the war would last for ever and sugar be always rationed and that never again Would the weekly papers not have photos of sandbags And my governess not make bandages from moss And people not have maps above the fireplace With flags on pins moving across and across- Across the hawthorn hedge the noise of bugles, Flares across the night, Somewhere on the lough was a prison ship for Germans, A cage across their sight. I went to school in Dorset, the world of parents Contracted into a puppet world of sons Far from the mill girls, the smell of porter, the salt-mines And the soldiers with their guns. Louis Macneice
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(Plaster cast at Pompeii)                                     [THE TOUR GUIDE]                 *“Ladies and gentlemen, here we are at Pompeii's                 fabled Thermal Baths where heated water was                 passed through duct work in the walls.  One can                           imagine Nero himself stopping here on one of                             his visits.”* [BONITO] Bonito stepped out of the bathhouse and looked up. Vesuvius rumbled - shaking ash and fire skyward. Breaking into a run he sought the south road, glancing back anxiously at the vast dark cloud billowing down the mountain.                 *"The principal city roads were recessed                 and wagons were required to have standardized                 wheelbases and clearances to fit in channels cut                 into the stone.  Follow me please to the residential                 area.”* He gained the road and his feet pounded the stones of the “via stabiana.” The cloud multiplied and fell on the city. Ever deepening layers of ash clogged Benito’s path. Heart pounding in his chest he lengthened his strides.                 *“Leaving the opulent villas with their spacious                 atria, we now enter the market area where we                 shall see a display of remarkable interest.  During                 excavations, empty spaces were discovered in                 the ash deposits.”* The rising ash captured his left leg. Bonito inhaled the fiery air and ****** forward into a burst of falling soot but was unable to finish his stride.                 *“Archaeologists poured plaster into the voids                 revealing the outlined bodies of Pompeiins                 trapped in their final moments.  Take, for example,                 this man caught in mid-step with no time                 to escape the life choking dust.”* June, 2006
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM UTC
Vesuvius (Bonito and the Tour Guide)
(Plaster cast at Pompeii)                                     [THE TOUR GUIDE]                 *“Ladies and gentlemen, here we are at Pompeii's                 fabled Thermal Baths where heated water was                 passed through duct work in the walls.  One can                           imagine Nero himself stopping here on one of                             his visits.”* [BONITO] Bonito stepped out of the bathhouse and looked up. Vesuvius rumbled - shaking ash and fire skyward. Breaking into a run he sought the south road, glancing back anxiously at the vast dark cloud billowing down the mountain.                 *"The principal city roads were recessed                 and wagons were required to have standardized                 wheelbases and clearances to fit in channels cut                 into the stone.  Follow me please to the residential                 area.”* He gained the road and his feet pounded the stones of the “via stabiana.” The cloud multiplied and fell on the city. Ever deepening layers of ash clogged Benito’s path. Heart pounding in his chest he lengthened his strides.                 *“Leaving the opulent villas with their spacious                 atria, we now enter the market area where we                 shall see a display of remarkable interest.  During                 excavations, empty spaces were discovered in                 the ash deposits.”* The rising ash captured his left leg. Bonito inhaled the fiery air and ****** forward into a burst of falling soot but was unable to finish his stride.                 *“Archaeologists poured plaster into the voids                 revealing the outlined bodies of Pompeiins                 trapped in their final moments.  Take, for example,                 this man caught in mid-step with no time                 to escape the life choking dust.”* June, 2006
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In August, 1977, My wife, Karen, and son Russ, moved back to Texas after eight years of being away. Back to Dallas, Karen's hometown. A house which just happened to be next door to her parents was going up for sale. However, the owners decided to rent it to us, with an offer no sane person could refuse. Now the neighborhood was a long- established residential area. The majority of the residents, like my in-laws, had been there from its inception, which made the move easier, for we knew most of them. But, there is always one, whose antics over time, become legendary. Joe, a Scotsman to the nth degree. Every new years eve, at the stroke   of midnight, he would appear on his front porch dressed in his kilt, with his bagpipes, heralding in the coming year with supposedly, "Auld Lang Syne ". At least that's what it was supposed to be, but with bagpipes, how does anyone really know.  He didn't stop there; never ceasing to take  advantage to publicly play that over-sized vacuum bag, he would often welcome newborn children, puppies, kittens, etc. The day the moving van arrived, there he was, out on his porch wearing that plaid kilt, bagpipes clutched against his chest. Except, there was an unexpected "twist." After every two or three bars he would stop and yell out, "Stay away from the moors! Stay away from the moors!" Some of the neighbors stepped out on their porches just to see what was going on now. Even the crew unloading the van seemed to enjoy the entertainment and it helped the time seem to go faster. Within ten days after somewhat settling in to our new place, Karen and I realized that the "moors" of which Joe spoke, actually were the "Moore's" who were our next door neighbors. Needless to say, it was an interesting neighborhood. That could be "another story." copyright: richard riddle-august 03, 2015
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 4:29 PM UTC
The Bagpipes
In August, 1977, My wife, Karen, and son Russ, moved back to Texas after eight years of being away. Back to Dallas, Karen's hometown. A house which just happened to be next door to her parents was going up for sale. However, the owners decided to rent it to us, with an offer no sane person could refuse. Now the neighborhood was a long- established residential area. The majority of the residents, like my in-laws, had been there from its inception, which made the move easier, for we knew most of them. But, there is always one, whose antics over time, become legendary. Joe, a Scotsman to the nth degree. Every new years eve, at the stroke   of midnight, he would appear on his front porch dressed in his kilt, with his bagpipes, heralding in the coming year with supposedly, "Auld Lang Syne ". At least that's what it was supposed to be, but with bagpipes, how does anyone really know.  He didn't stop there; never ceasing to take  advantage to publicly play that over-sized vacuum bag, he would often welcome newborn children, puppies, kittens, etc. The day the moving van arrived, there he was, out on his porch wearing that plaid kilt, bagpipes clutched against his chest. Except, there was an unexpected "twist." After every two or three bars he would stop and yell out, "Stay away from the moors! Stay away from the moors!" Some of the neighbors stepped out on their porches just to see what was going on now. Even the crew unloading the van seemed to enjoy the entertainment and it helped the time seem to go faster. Within ten days after somewhat settling in to our new place, Karen and I realized that the "moors" of which Joe spoke, actually were the "Moore's" who were our next door neighbors. Needless to say, it was an interesting neighborhood. That could be "another story." copyright: richard riddle-august 03, 2015
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We are hands, and eyes, and feet, and ears, lumps of skin, and bone. We are puddles of blood filling the cracks on the side of the road. We are mush, and porcelain teeth knocked out and embedded where the steering wheel used to be. We are hearts, and veins, arteries clogged up with a midnight treat. We are alcohol in the blood stream. We are 60 miles per hour, on a residential street. We are a corpse, Limbs thrown out like a compass, Guts spilled out like a teenage poet. But what we are not, Is a soul. We are objects, We are play things. For higher species, Godly beings. To smile like kids crashing toy cars. We are empty, We are just vessels in a blood stream, Giving life . We are white noise, screaming for our mothers. We are a name in a notepad. A statistic in a book, Passed out at clever Christian fundraisers, For old ladies who like sugar cookies. We are a pop punk song With memorable lyrics And a catchy hook . -Kevin T. 6/16/10
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Apr 5, 2011
Apr 5, 2011 at 5:01 PM UTC
Abstractions and Fractions
Augur well, on a left ward spirral. I never meant to ignore the residential Wren or lazy Cat, who always knew better than my list of dreams. In the alleyway with dahlias, I wanted to think as my own, a perchance a symbol! now there's sacks of pebble stone and sand, no rub of green builders mucking in for someone's joy to settle, side gate entrance into a little abode no longer possibly mine.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 6:54 PM UTC
Ars Nova
How many has it been, One, 2, Three? How Many Outpatients More Than 9. How many hospitalizations Like 2 How many therapist 7 Phycatrist, counselors, etc ? So So many. Here I am going once again for the Fourth time To residential rehab. They say I need more time For a mind so ill like mine. 6 months or a year To be fine. The frustration that I get from not able to do right Tournaments me I kust want to be set free and fly
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Jan 25, 2015
Jan 25, 2015 at 5:58 AM UTC
Rehab Again
what were you doing near my house Coyote? were the poachers chasing you off? Did the rumbles of trucks scare you inland? I have an arroyo as my neighbor with jack rabbits and snakes with crickets the size of urban cockroaches barely any humans only the ones true to nature walk the rocky trail but you... I am confused Mr Coyote why were you not coming from the arroyo? You cannot buy food at the Albertsons and the gas stations dont let you in The village inn wont serve you and the campus is sealed by skunks and their ghastly---wind Fast food makes no sense to you all your food is fast so I'm lost in where youre coming from old friend the native spirit of my soul has come once again Old coyote As if you had been lost in the residential homes of El Chuco and simply searching for me.
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 3:13 PM UTC
The Coyote
Today I saw a girl She was walking On a residential street She looked out of place But I knew her face It’s a small town So, of course, I knew her face Of course, I know her name She’s the Jones girl She’s a teenager I don’t know what she was doing Probably doing whatever it is Teenagers do On a Sunday afternoon In a small town Platinum white hair Piercings up her ear Future up in the air Scene and emo wristbands And a graphic tee Probably not from Hot Topic Because Hot Topic ain’t so hot here Here’s the thing She’d be the It Girl If it weren’t for her acne If it weren’t for her height If it weren’t for her weight If it weren’t for her interests If it weren’t for her hobbies If it weren’t for everything about her But her name And her age She deserves better I don’t like her Not personally But she does deserve better She deserves the city streets There, and only there, Can she can be who she wants to be And if she can’t? Then there’s no place I want to be Not one at all Because I want to be Where she, Where we all can be, Who we want to be
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Feb 19, 2018
Feb 19, 2018 at 5:08 AM UTC
Untitled 96
Eleanor Jun 29 - Eleanor Aug 20 Residential Eating Disorder hospital, No outside love[rs], Mere minutes in the garden with the tall, tall fence, Reminding me of a book of fairies, read once, And not 14 years, could create an easy life for her, Words, water-like, floated awkwardly, speaking "Oh this disorder? It's not hurting.", Heaven made you this way- I cannot believe in religion anymore, it sends my mind murderously bare, Your hair thinning quite badly, Your blood beats up and down, Your bones, brittle, And your smile drowning in a frown, I'll wait for our reunion, A kiss upon your mouth, Tell me that you're certain. Tell me that you'll still be around. \\
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 12:38 AM UTC
A return to the mind and the hospital
I heard someone whisper "he's such an arrogant ***** as I entered. Those crooked sons of ******* don't have any idea, I'm the kind you hardly ever come across except in winters, when all the street rats are begging for heat. I command attention at the head of the table, I am the head of the table, and sever the head to **** the municipal body. The wigs and robes and gavels I accessorize command it too. When I sign things I do it haughtily, I carefully etch each and every ********* letter onto writs of demand. I stand! A hush lingers, I catch the eyes of Walter Weiss, he lies with every breath and did you know he is unfaithful to his wife? I heard. the shudders are shut, my druthers. Oh, Walter! notarize my forms of annexation, please. and take down this: To whom it may concern: You have 7 days to remove yourself from the premises as you are aware of the edict that preexists and preempts your residence and your squalor misrepresents your laziness. Signed: The holding powers, in eminence. Oh Walter Weiss, address it to yourself! I pride myself on tact. And package with the writ this evidence form sent to my office following a secret examination conducted by the Department of Residential Safety and Heath. Do not bother me with demoralizations, Walter! Due to discourse with the Act of Discontinuation, (which of course is subject to broad generalizations) the lien sector of the Savings and Loan Association have concluded you are found in violation of, through reasoning by generalization, failing to pay duties on your mortgage issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Oh, Walter, how distressing! Don't falter, acquiescing is always the way. Just never, ever forget to pay.
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Jun 27, 2010
Jun 27, 2010 at 4:43 PM UTC
Illustration on the Reaffirmation of Perpetual Disputation
I heard someone whisper "he's such an arrogant ***** as I entered. Those crooked sons of ******* don't have any idea, I'm the kind you hardly ever come across except in winters, when all the street rats are begging for heat. I command attention at the head of the table, I am the head of the table, and sever the head to **** the municipal body. The wigs and robes and gavels I accessorize command it too. When I sign things I do it haughtily, I carefully etch each and every ********* letter onto writs of demand. I stand! A hush lingers, I catch the eyes of Walter Weiss, he lies with every breath and did you know he is unfaithful to his wife? I heard. the shudders are shut, my druthers. Oh, Walter! notarize my forms of annexation, please. and take down this: To whom it may concern: You have 7 days to remove yourself from the premises as you are aware of the edict that preexists and preempts your residence and your squalor misrepresents your laziness. Signed: The holding powers, in eminence. Oh Walter Weiss, address it to yourself! I pride myself on tact. And package with the writ this evidence form sent to my office following a secret examination conducted by the Department of Residential Safety and Heath. Do not bother me with demoralizations, Walter! Due to discourse with the Act of Discontinuation, (which of course is subject to broad generalizations) the lien sector of the Savings and Loan Association have concluded you are found in violation of, through reasoning by generalization, failing to pay duties on your mortgage issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Oh, Walter, how distressing! Don't falter, acquiescing is always the way. Just never, ever forget to pay.
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In a secret chamber mine love- novel to other's, we shalt repose. Thought's to not only be understood In the physical, but in the kingdom Wherein living water floweth From ourn soul's. Pinnacle's Defying scientific theory of Time and space. For where We shalt be there art sea's Eternally unspoken; Only By God shalt one seeith the Glimmering turnstile, none trespass allowed there, none agápi to be defiled. Here, this Place we shalt floshtarize in unbarring liberty; a cordillera Aloft the breeze we shalt ascend. Ourn spirit's wilt twist and bend To the notes of saintly chord's. O' Anon mine girl, anon; we shalt sip From the grip of turquoise pond's. As The treasures we wilt collect, shalt be providential, ourn residential abode- white as snow, O'er the Show of the most essential. ©Brandon Nagley ©Lonesome poet's poetry ©Earl Jane Nagley ( àgapi mou) dedication
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Apr 16, 2016
Apr 16, 2016 at 8:04 PM UTC
Floshtarize in the light
Oh ferocious angels, lionesque children of Eden on narrow streets and polluted alleyways whispering cruel things to each other, you're radiant in your belligerence and as my enemies you are virtuous. Beside me in this carpeted rectangle room a faint glow exhales from the tall alpine ivory lamp illuminating firefly wings of blossoms alluringly exuberant in the afternoon sun-ray diamond shine and shimmer. Dusty tin roofs billow firewood smoke in the thick violet shade fog over-top cabin potted mountains and hills sprouting firs and rose bushes abounding. Spectrum cast chandeliers echo staircases which jot up and up arduous ruby landings, hardwood floor cracked and stacks of novels ballast the senescent hallways of bookshops where poets works and journals diaries and memoirs blur the serpentine walls with memories. Angelic the soul which is too often contaminated with avarice rebellious to concord living harmonious midst dew grass and calm waters in residential lakes empathy equanimity, far from Bodhisattva. Few kinds of darkness transcendental subduing other darkness to a weak shadow. There's an importance to admiring the delirium of metropolitan roads on roads this intricate unspoken connection to those who rest by stoplights and crawling traffic metallic molten aura of cars in July heat. Paying attention to the open window of adjacent apartments where Mr. Norris waters his tulips and shares this moment modern meditations practiced finding a balance in such an anxious volatile world like this. Oh ferocious angels, impetuous forlorn seraphs, sing! sing and soar! Boundless is our ardor and our passion. Unenclosed is the lion in it's bloom.
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Apr 1, 2015
Apr 1, 2015 at 3:09 AM UTC
Modern Harmonies
Oh ferocious angels, lionesque children of Eden on narrow streets and polluted alleyways whispering cruel things to each other, you're radiant in your belligerence and as my enemies you are virtuous. Beside me in this carpeted rectangle room a faint glow exhales from the tall alpine ivory lamp illuminating firefly wings of blossoms alluringly exuberant in the afternoon sun-ray diamond shine and shimmer. Dusty tin roofs billow firewood smoke in the thick violet shade fog over-top cabin potted mountains and hills sprouting firs and rose bushes abounding. Spectrum cast chandeliers echo staircases which jot up and up arduous ruby landings, hardwood floor cracked and stacks of novels ballast the senescent hallways of bookshops where poets works and journals diaries and memoirs blur the serpentine walls with memories. Angelic the soul which is too often contaminated with avarice rebellious to concord living harmonious midst dew grass and calm waters in residential lakes empathy equanimity, far from Bodhisattva. Few kinds of darkness transcendental subduing other darkness to a weak shadow. There's an importance to admiring the delirium of metropolitan roads on roads this intricate unspoken connection to those who rest by stoplights and crawling traffic metallic molten aura of cars in July heat. Paying attention to the open window of adjacent apartments where Mr. Norris waters his tulips and shares this moment modern meditations practiced finding a balance in such an anxious volatile world like this. Oh ferocious angels, impetuous forlorn seraphs, sing! sing and soar! Boundless is our ardor and our passion. Unenclosed is the lion in it's bloom.
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In life where you faded away And I think of every day With your smile so bright You still linger near and In my heart forever you'll stay. Do not believe the corporate media about Israel hitting nuclear sites. They are intentionally targeting residential buildings killing innocent people (like always). A child killed this beautiful young Poet killed Israel owns the media.
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Jun 14, 2025
Jun 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM UTC
Parnia Abbasi Iranian Poet
Yale’s friday “spring fling” was a soggy success - both as a concert and super spreader event. My groove-spirit was dampened by weather and a final I had the next morning. I pose here tonight, in the chill residential courtyard, on my green sport-brella beach chair, like Canova’s Pauline Borghese, relaxed, canned dirty-martini in hand, still untouched by the covid menace - as if I’d taken sagacious care in avoiding it. The waxing crescent moon is strutting its familiar runway, like a vague, ambient night-light, but what should we expect for free? Maybe it’s saving itself for warm, clear summer skies. I can relax tonight and binge on the moon because the school year is over (for me). I’d been in a coffee-fueled study-trench for over a week, finishing my last assignment paper with my last gasp of academic energy. It illustrated what could be crafted in a vacuum void of originality. I filled it with ideas, gathered like runoff-water, from deeper sources and tailored the paragraphs with care, weaving by sleight, the 3D illusions of depth, breadth and substance. It was very well received. taking a bow I love the feeling of being done with finals but still living on campus. It’s casual, adult and relaxed - close to life as I dreamed it as a kid. My room is disassembled and I’m living out of my suitcase. Movers will come and cart off our stuff Monday. Leong and I will head south - like wrong way birds. I hate goodbyes but knowing these are temporary helps. Most of my summer will be like one continuous sleepover. Happy Mother's Day!
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May 8, 2022
May 8, 2022 at 11:04 AM UTC
finish lines
Yale’s friday “spring fling” was a soggy success - both as a concert and super spreader event. My groove-spirit was dampened by weather and a final I had the next morning. I pose here tonight, in the chill residential courtyard, on my green sport-brella beach chair, like Canova’s Pauline Borghese, relaxed, canned dirty-martini in hand, still untouched by the covid menace - as if I’d taken sagacious care in avoiding it. The waxing crescent moon is strutting its familiar runway, like a vague, ambient night-light, but what should we expect for free? Maybe it’s saving itself for warm, clear summer skies. I can relax tonight and binge on the moon because the school year is over (for me). I’d been in a coffee-fueled study-trench for over a week, finishing my last assignment paper with my last gasp of academic energy. It illustrated what could be crafted in a vacuum void of originality. I filled it with ideas, gathered like runoff-water, from deeper sources and tailored the paragraphs with care, weaving by sleight, the 3D illusions of depth, breadth and substance. It was very well received. taking a bow I love the feeling of being done with finals but still living on campus. It’s casual, adult and relaxed - close to life as I dreamed it as a kid. My room is disassembled and I’m living out of my suitcase. Movers will come and cart off our stuff Monday. Leong and I will head south - like wrong way birds. I hate goodbyes but knowing these are temporary helps. Most of my summer will be like one continuous sleepover. Happy Mother's Day!
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I'll keep tip-toeing the tar strips of the residential labyrinths of this suffocating suburbia until I'm dancing in a modern field with flowing pants and forever winds.
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Jul 5, 2012
Jul 5, 2012 at 9:32 PM UTC
Tightrope
Three early birds broke the flying record today, Under a ball of yellow light and sky of white cobwebs, Uphill, amidst a godforsaken town, At the far end of the deserted residential area, In front of our binned and bagged house, On the peach tiles of our topsy-turvy garage, Inside a scroungy cardboard box, Between the wasted space and rotten nest made of broom, Where they left their bodies mushy and misshapen, Where a colony of red ants now celebrate for a carrion feast. They flew higher than any in their kind could ever reach, That they went straight to heaven, Early for their embellished feathers and wings, Early for their final cartilages, Early for their full-grown beak and claws, Early for their black, beady eyes, Early for their last rites, Yet for us to forecast the bad news, Yet for us to get off of our plastic chairs of indifference, Yet for us to drop our glasses of lemon juice and inattention, Yet for us to fumble outdoor and crash the ceremony, Yet for us to solve the mystery, Of whether the ball of yellow light radiated enough to fry, That the three early birds had to fly the coop to oasis; Of whether our mother's frenzy gave a cold welcome, That the three early birds had to say goodbye when she tossed the box out; Of whether I am to blame for yesterday's miracle Of finding their home attached to the open bottom of our air-conditioner, Which turned into a tragedy of a falling baby out of excitement, That the three early birds felt like it was time to join their fourth sibling once again. Indeed, too early For the three siblings endowed with a mother and a father, For mankind is blessed enough to have such a thing as family, Who claimed the three early ones before the garbage does, Who could've been proud parents in the future, For witnessing the becoming of their three youngs Who came out too soon, Who were traceless of eggshells, Who never knew a father, Who were ****** enough to even be abandoned by a mother, Who never knew if she even came back for them, Who broke the flying record. Indeed, too early. After days of packing up sentiments, Donating valuables, Throwing away memories, And leaving behind possessions, I thought, for a moment, We could save something But we couldn't.
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Jun 3, 2013
Jun 3, 2013 at 10:15 AM UTC
Elegy for the Premature
Three early birds broke the flying record today, Under a ball of yellow light and sky of white cobwebs, Uphill, amidst a godforsaken town, At the far end of the deserted residential area, In front of our binned and bagged house, On the peach tiles of our topsy-turvy garage, Inside a scroungy cardboard box, Between the wasted space and rotten nest made of broom, Where they left their bodies mushy and misshapen, Where a colony of red ants now celebrate for a carrion feast. They flew higher than any in their kind could ever reach, That they went straight to heaven, Early for their embellished feathers and wings, Early for their final cartilages, Early for their full-grown beak and claws, Early for their black, beady eyes, Early for their last rites, Yet for us to forecast the bad news, Yet for us to get off of our plastic chairs of indifference, Yet for us to drop our glasses of lemon juice and inattention, Yet for us to fumble outdoor and crash the ceremony, Yet for us to solve the mystery, Of whether the ball of yellow light radiated enough to fry, That the three early birds had to fly the coop to oasis; Of whether our mother's frenzy gave a cold welcome, That the three early birds had to say goodbye when she tossed the box out; Of whether I am to blame for yesterday's miracle Of finding their home attached to the open bottom of our air-conditioner, Which turned into a tragedy of a falling baby out of excitement, That the three early birds felt like it was time to join their fourth sibling once again. Indeed, too early For the three siblings endowed with a mother and a father, For mankind is blessed enough to have such a thing as family, Who claimed the three early ones before the garbage does, Who could've been proud parents in the future, For witnessing the becoming of their three youngs Who came out too soon, Who were traceless of eggshells, Who never knew a father, Who were ****** enough to even be abandoned by a mother, Who never knew if she even came back for them, Who broke the flying record. Indeed, too early. After days of packing up sentiments, Donating valuables, Throwing away memories, And leaving behind possessions, I thought, for a moment, We could save something But we couldn't.
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*Some friends think they are so important. . . Essential They aim to be very close to you. . . Residential They take total control of your life. . . Presidential They ride over your decisions. . . . Influential And claim they deserve the merit. . . Credential Then disappear when problems result. . . Consequential*
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 5:36 AM UTC
Friends?
President **** A massive old grump Talks like a garbage dump. Throws the country into a slump. Has no heart to go thump. Gave racism a big jump. Gathered fascists into a clump. Now we all have to **** He should be inconsequential As he has no credentials. Nothing presidential. Statesmanship? Purely residential. He’s mostly pestilential. No morals evidential. Facts ruled non-essential To mindless millennials. Suddenly he has at hand The highest office in the land. Confetti and a brass band. No ceremony is too grand. The laws he doesn’t understand With money ostentatiously fanned He showed he had the winning hand But still can’t spell words like ampersand. Now we’ve made him king of all Among villains he will stand tall. We should give Ghostbusters a call. This **** has us against a wall. A wall to be built that will surely fall But for now he is having a ball With American bigots in full thrall, Their white God has heard their call.
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Jan 10, 2017
Jan 10, 2017 at 2:45 PM UTC
ORANGE JULIUS CAESAR
Sophy’s mom sent her a giant case of “Fun dip” - a thousand packets of sour, fruit-flavored sugar. Is there anything more junkavore a parent can buy a child - well, ok, an 18 year old? She LOVES them and so does Leong who’s from China where, apparently, you can’t get useless, non-nutritional snacks. The two of them are running around, all sugar hyped with their emo-grape-chemical-lips, sticking out phosphorescent-green-tongues and threatening to tickle everyone with cherry-red-fingers. It has me wondering, should I switch to dentistry? Our college prep has moved to a new phase - with just 16 days until we move back into our residential college. We’re suddenly sleeping-in. It’s nothing we planned or even discussed, it just started happening. We go to sleep around 10pm and sleep until 10am - or later. I think we all subconsciously realized that soon we’ll be back to sleeplessness. I’m peachy - in a great mindspace - these days. I’m well rested (see above), we’re killing our sophomore prep - even the physics, my period was a nothing, we spent over two hours in Ulta sampling perfumes, I have a new Macbook M2 (see below) and I painted my nails in tropical colors. The FedEx man rolled up yesterday. “Anyone expecting something?” Anna asked the crowd of roommates attracted by the driver bringing packages to the door, two at a time. No one was expecting anything. Eventually he’d delivered 8, back to school, M2-Macbooks (2 in each color) - one for everyone - from my Grandmère. If that sounds needlessly ostentatious, then you’re thinking she went to the mall and paid full price, but she probably just traded Tim Cook a half ton of lithium or something - one of her companies mines it - in Chili - I think. But still, my roommates were blagabloo. I picked a starlight one. An odd thing about the new, flat Macbook Air design is that you can’t pick it up with one hand - unless you hook it underneath with a long fingernail - what are guys going to do?
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Aug 9, 2022
Aug 9, 2022 at 2:28 PM UTC
junkavore
Sophy’s mom sent her a giant case of “Fun dip” - a thousand packets of sour, fruit-flavored sugar. Is there anything more junkavore a parent can buy a child - well, ok, an 18 year old? She LOVES them and so does Leong who’s from China where, apparently, you can’t get useless, non-nutritional snacks. The two of them are running around, all sugar hyped with their emo-grape-chemical-lips, sticking out phosphorescent-green-tongues and threatening to tickle everyone with cherry-red-fingers. It has me wondering, should I switch to dentistry? Our college prep has moved to a new phase - with just 16 days until we move back into our residential college. We’re suddenly sleeping-in. It’s nothing we planned or even discussed, it just started happening. We go to sleep around 10pm and sleep until 10am - or later. I think we all subconsciously realized that soon we’ll be back to sleeplessness. I’m peachy - in a great mindspace - these days. I’m well rested (see above), we’re killing our sophomore prep - even the physics, my period was a nothing, we spent over two hours in Ulta sampling perfumes, I have a new Macbook M2 (see below) and I painted my nails in tropical colors. The FedEx man rolled up yesterday. “Anyone expecting something?” Anna asked the crowd of roommates attracted by the driver bringing packages to the door, two at a time. No one was expecting anything. Eventually he’d delivered 8, back to school, M2-Macbooks (2 in each color) - one for everyone - from my Grandmère. If that sounds needlessly ostentatious, then you’re thinking she went to the mall and paid full price, but she probably just traded Tim Cook a half ton of lithium or something - one of her companies mines it - in Chili - I think. But still, my roommates were blagabloo. I picked a starlight one. An odd thing about the new, flat Macbook Air design is that you can’t pick it up with one hand - unless you hook it underneath with a long fingernail - what are guys going to do?
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Nov 5, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 at 3:37 AM UTC
that may be well worth discussing
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