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Out of a **** he made Great Art It was no ordinary **** no! It was straight from the heart, that    **** It had lain too long in the dark Now was it's time to start To make its bid for freedom... and for stardom. It flew like a dart that **** from the    heart Like an arrow strung from Cupids    bow Little did it know how luminous it'd    glow Becoming one of the Greats in the    Farting Canon. It was probably the greatest **** poem    ever written In my own humble opinion It was very daring and it smelt of    onion It was certainly the fairest fartiest    poem I ever seen If it was one of the three Musketeers It would have to have been    D'artagoine. It inflated like a balloon, blew up like    a great glass bubble Then it popped and headed off    toward England Flying further afield than any ****    had ever flown It touched people's hearts, bewitched    every nation Resounded around the world Yea! was heard in every Kingdom. It flew long, it rounded the Horn Like a Lark, that **** it soared and    sung It was no boring old **** It was far fartier and fruiter than that It was a King of Farts Way above the fartiest of farters and    all the farting Arthurs It was the real King Arthur The King Arthur of all farts and    Farters. A real Belter was that **** that came    from the heart That had all the Angels singing in    their cloisters, A real work of Art just like Mozart Or remember... remember your    Shakespeare "Hark! A **** a **** Whereforth art ?     Thou **** It played its part, that **** yea! it    wielded its Excalibur. O! there's nothing I'd rather do than lie here blowing sweet bubbles next    to you You! on your little flutey flute flute and    Me! on my big Bass Trombone.
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Jul 24, 2020
Jul 24, 2020 at 7:24 PM UTC
Out of a **** he made Great Art
Out of a **** he made Great Art It was no ordinary **** no! It was straight from the heart, that    **** It had lain too long in the dark Now was it's time to start To make its bid for freedom... and for stardom. It flew like a dart that **** from the    heart Like an arrow strung from Cupids    bow Little did it know how luminous it'd    glow Becoming one of the Greats in the    Farting Canon. It was probably the greatest **** poem    ever written In my own humble opinion It was very daring and it smelt of    onion It was certainly the fairest fartiest    poem I ever seen If it was one of the three Musketeers It would have to have been    D'artagoine. It inflated like a balloon, blew up like    a great glass bubble Then it popped and headed off    toward England Flying further afield than any ****    had ever flown It touched people's hearts, bewitched    every nation Resounded around the world Yea! was heard in every Kingdom. It flew long, it rounded the Horn Like a Lark, that **** it soared and    sung It was no boring old **** It was far fartier and fruiter than that It was a King of Farts Way above the fartiest of farters and    all the farting Arthurs It was the real King Arthur The King Arthur of all farts and    Farters. A real Belter was that **** that came    from the heart That had all the Angels singing in    their cloisters, A real work of Art just like Mozart Or remember... remember your    Shakespeare "Hark! A **** a **** Whereforth art ?     Thou **** It played its part, that **** yea! it    wielded its Excalibur. O! there's nothing I'd rather do than lie here blowing sweet bubbles next    to you You! on your little flutey flute flute and    Me! on my big Bass Trombone.
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It is not punishment if you don't feel pain embarrassed humiliated even if there's force anger resounded curses pronounced. Punitive means can come in the form of simplest actions, sometimes without intentions.
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 10:24 PM UTC
Punishment
the october rose is wistful and reticent our defenses dense like sediment and sentences love descends like a fog and we begin as quickly to depart our dialogue takes many turns from staunch to raunchy in a few minutes there is no need to be concerned its only in our heads our needs no longer mean anything love is lost in forms amidst the storms of anger and rage imprisoning our souls dinosaur bones roam the earth i went out in search of chrysanthemums and instead i found you lying on the ground making a pillow out of superconductive fungi to test your theories of interconnectivity what transpired cannot be spoken about all my doubts vanished and the words that were spoken resounded for days in my being as if they echoed from within some part of me that had always longed to hear them
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Apr 15, 2018
Apr 15, 2018 at 11:44 PM UTC
in search of chrysanthemums
The world has ****** you For your three-fold ugliness. ugly personality, ugly appearance, your ugly obsession, Insanely, valiantly, I loved your smile Against the protests that resounded. But you loved your fantasy girls And my love you hated like poison.
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Jun 21, 2014
Jun 21, 2014 at 11:08 AM UTC
Mr. Otaku
I can still remember. That burning feeling of inspiration, bubbling up through my body. It dominated me, defined me, led me to believe that I was my own hero. A protagonist on a quest, a road to travel on, certainty in my bones. Driven by love through the narration of my world, my story. Words overflowed from my heart. Staining the tracks, pages, and lilies of my life with my fire. Every heartbeat resounded like the clanging of a tower's bells. Each ring dictating time, order, purpose, place. I can still remember. The lingering taste of coffee on my tongue, my face sore from smiling. Hours spent talking and listening. The content of my life summarized like chapters of a book. The way my heart vaulted when your eyes met mine. It was like the moon pulling at the tides. Giving the waves motion and momentum. So I spilled my ink and blood, writing you into the story. I can still remember. What it was like when it was over. I hadn't realized I had been living in a cell. Scrawling my visions of the world onto every inch of those four walls. Diagrams and diatribes, the things I considered to be myself. Going mad in the most wonderful fashion. As I left I saw them for what they were. Mosaics and memorials. Poison and poetry. The passionate magic of first and finals, the ****** taste of loss. But **** it was beautiful all the same. I can still remember. What it felt like to move on. The taste of freedom and fresh air, an urge to defy what was. And become something more again. But suddenly, the bleeding in my heart slowed. The resounding clangs of my inner bells softly faded. It took years, But one day I reached inside myself Expecting to feel the fire burning inside me. I can still remember. The dread that came with the lack of heat. The soul of myself, the definition of me as the hero. Was only embers now. The easy numbness that washed over me. The determination and inspiration that was me had left. I was broken, as I always was. But I no longer knew myself as beautiful. I was not a protagonist. I had written myself out of my own story, slowly but surely. There was no quest, no journey, no one to save or be saved by. Just whatever I have become. I hope one day to remember. My clumsy and earnest return to form. When my heart again bled ink and crackled with flame.
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May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017 at 3:21 PM UTC
Embers
I can still remember. That burning feeling of inspiration, bubbling up through my body. It dominated me, defined me, led me to believe that I was my own hero. A protagonist on a quest, a road to travel on, certainty in my bones. Driven by love through the narration of my world, my story. Words overflowed from my heart. Staining the tracks, pages, and lilies of my life with my fire. Every heartbeat resounded like the clanging of a tower's bells. Each ring dictating time, order, purpose, place. I can still remember. The lingering taste of coffee on my tongue, my face sore from smiling. Hours spent talking and listening. The content of my life summarized like chapters of a book. The way my heart vaulted when your eyes met mine. It was like the moon pulling at the tides. Giving the waves motion and momentum. So I spilled my ink and blood, writing you into the story. I can still remember. What it was like when it was over. I hadn't realized I had been living in a cell. Scrawling my visions of the world onto every inch of those four walls. Diagrams and diatribes, the things I considered to be myself. Going mad in the most wonderful fashion. As I left I saw them for what they were. Mosaics and memorials. Poison and poetry. The passionate magic of first and finals, the ****** taste of loss. But **** it was beautiful all the same. I can still remember. What it felt like to move on. The taste of freedom and fresh air, an urge to defy what was. And become something more again. But suddenly, the bleeding in my heart slowed. The resounding clangs of my inner bells softly faded. It took years, But one day I reached inside myself Expecting to feel the fire burning inside me. I can still remember. The dread that came with the lack of heat. The soul of myself, the definition of me as the hero. Was only embers now. The easy numbness that washed over me. The determination and inspiration that was me had left. I was broken, as I always was. But I no longer knew myself as beautiful. I was not a protagonist. I had written myself out of my own story, slowly but surely. There was no quest, no journey, no one to save or be saved by. Just whatever I have become. I hope one day to remember. My clumsy and earnest return to form. When my heart again bled ink and crackled with flame.
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She and I exchanged disdainful glances across the parking lot. The verbally brash invitation she gave me at 10:30 two nights earlier from a low-riding car resounded in my brain. She wanted our graduating class to get together and sit awkwardly around a campfire while a few reminisced of homeroom and half days back in high school. And as the last few embers glowed like residence halls, she would clear her throat and bash college. She’d denounce the curriculum, professors, and parking spaces then praise the days of hurrying through carpeted hallways and freshmen traffic. To see our classmates laughing with hands outstretched to the flames would bring a smile to her summer-chapped lips. But we’re no longer classmates. We’re just seventeen people trying to live our lives outside the confines of Galeton High School. Sure, we’ll bite our tongues and fake smiles every now and then, but we’ll never be more than superficial.
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 2:36 PM UTC
We'll Never Be More Than Superficial
This tongue broadcasts hushed tones of satanic nature And strange snickers resounded throughout the canyons Chanting nocturnes as irking as a rhino horn against a chalkboard yet the prophecy remained clear I had to find this beast
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Sep 7, 2012
Sep 7, 2012 at 10:59 PM UTC
The ****** Diaries II
The day had been set, And we were all ready-- The crunchy snow was waiting too— The frigid sky watched us overhead. Anticipation was building like steam in the pit of my stomach We leapt out of the truck And sunk right into the snow. After a few kids slid down The rollercoastering hill, I went down screaming, Blurred colors rushed into my eyes. My tube detached from my **** Snow went everywhere: In my face, down my back My cheeks were frozen in place. I arrived at the bottom, Quicker than I expected, And waited in the powder For a snowmobile boy The contraption roared and sped I dropped the tube, And held on for my life, Then dropped myself too. We tried again, With the tube around my middle, The tube a giant donut I was the creamy center. I made up to the top, Triumphantly soaked from my outside in, Cheers resounded and bounced In the valley and off the frozen lake.
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Feb 27, 2012
Feb 27, 2012 at 11:51 PM UTC
Snowday
Oh! mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos. VIRGIL. Ye scenes of my childhood, whose lov’d recollection Embitters the present, compar’d with the past; Where science first dawn’d on the powers of reflection, And friendships were form’d, too romantic to last; Where fancy, yet, joys to retrace the resemblance Of comrades, in friendship and mischief allied; How welcome to me your ne’er fading remembrance, Which rests in the ***** though hope is deny’d! Again I revisit the hills where we sported, The streams where we swam, and the fields where we fought; The school where, loud warn’d by the bell, we resorted, To pore o’er the precepts by Pedagogues taught. Again I behold where for hours I have ponder’d, As reclining, at eve, on yon tombstone I lay; Or round the steep brow of the churchyard I wander’d, To catch the last gleam of the sun’s setting ray. I once more view the room, with spectators surrounded, Where, as Zanga, I trod on Alonzo o’erthrown; While, to swell my young pride, such applauses resounded, I fancied that Mossop himself was outshone. Or, as Lear, I pour’d forth the deep imprecation, By my daughters, of kingdom and reason depriv’d; Till, fir’d by loud plaudits and self-adulation, I regarded myself as a Garrick reviv’d. Ye dreams of my boyhood, how much I regret you! Unfaded your memory dwells in my breast; Though sad and deserted, I ne’er can forget you: Your pleasures may still be in fancy possest. To Ida full oft may remembrance restore me, While Fate shall the shades of the future unroll! Since Darkness o’ershadows the prospect before me, More dear is the beam of the past to my soul! But if, through the course of the years which await me, Some new scene of pleasure should open to view, I will say, while with rapture the thought shall elate me, “Oh! such were the days which my infancy knew.”
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On A Distant View Of The Village And School Of Harrow On The Hill, 1806
Oh! mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos. VIRGIL. Ye scenes of my childhood, whose lov’d recollection Embitters the present, compar’d with the past; Where science first dawn’d on the powers of reflection, And friendships were form’d, too romantic to last; Where fancy, yet, joys to retrace the resemblance Of comrades, in friendship and mischief allied; How welcome to me your ne’er fading remembrance, Which rests in the ***** though hope is deny’d! Again I revisit the hills where we sported, The streams where we swam, and the fields where we fought; The school where, loud warn’d by the bell, we resorted, To pore o’er the precepts by Pedagogues taught. Again I behold where for hours I have ponder’d, As reclining, at eve, on yon tombstone I lay; Or round the steep brow of the churchyard I wander’d, To catch the last gleam of the sun’s setting ray. I once more view the room, with spectators surrounded, Where, as Zanga, I trod on Alonzo o’erthrown; While, to swell my young pride, such applauses resounded, I fancied that Mossop himself was outshone. Or, as Lear, I pour’d forth the deep imprecation, By my daughters, of kingdom and reason depriv’d; Till, fir’d by loud plaudits and self-adulation, I regarded myself as a Garrick reviv’d. Ye dreams of my boyhood, how much I regret you! Unfaded your memory dwells in my breast; Though sad and deserted, I ne’er can forget you: Your pleasures may still be in fancy possest. To Ida full oft may remembrance restore me, While Fate shall the shades of the future unroll! Since Darkness o’ershadows the prospect before me, More dear is the beam of the past to my soul! But if, through the course of the years which await me, Some new scene of pleasure should open to view, I will say, while with rapture the thought shall elate me, “Oh! such were the days which my infancy knew.”
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Once thin skinned like orchid petals all frustration was mistaken for tears. Then resilience took over so to cry only having the feeling of no amend. So far bones resounded metal cold, lack of nearness is not about fears but to save weeping for better times, trying to roll over any sign of dead-end. Whether eyes or not drops come from They're salty stories and may reveal promises made to oneself but unkept in life like the notion tears fall not at our command.
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May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 at 5:16 AM UTC
Notion
# ***The twilight clouds went scudding past like witches on their brooms. The sound of laughter filled the night as ghouls departed tombs. "Trick or treat!" resounded as menageries filed by... Filling up their bags with loot while candy stores ran dry. Dentists filled appointments books in brisk anticipation... Knowing that enamel would not stand such laceration. Zombies stagger down the street and vampires trip on capes. Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Frankenstein escapes! Princesses and knights with swords, mummies by the score... Ghosts and goblins saunter by and darkened homes ignore. Masks of every shape and type monsters and the like... Arriving via motor pool on foot, skateboard and bike. Kids of every age invade demanding tribute thus... (Oh dear... here comes another group arriving on a bus.) People donning hobo clothes adorned in eye-holed sheets... Wearing out the doorbells on the darkened, porch lit streets. Jack o lanterns hiss and spit as candles soon expire. Children head back home to count their swag and then retire. At last the tempest peters out. The pageantry is gone. I look out at the candy wrappers littering the lawn. Another Halloween is done. I hope they had their fill. "Trick or treat!" still resonates I hear its echoes still. But... just around the corner as Thanksgiving season nears... We hear the spiels and ads of all the rabid marketeers. Turkeys gobble restlessly at axes sharp and keen... For them... this is a nightmare... just another Halloween.*** #
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 9:43 AM UTC
Just Another Halloween
# ***The twilight clouds went scudding past like witches on their brooms. The sound of laughter filled the night as ghouls departed tombs. "Trick or treat!" resounded as menageries filed by... Filling up their bags with loot while candy stores ran dry. Dentists filled appointments books in brisk anticipation... Knowing that enamel would not stand such laceration. Zombies stagger down the street and vampires trip on capes. Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Frankenstein escapes! Princesses and knights with swords, mummies by the score... Ghosts and goblins saunter by and darkened homes ignore. Masks of every shape and type monsters and the like... Arriving via motor pool on foot, skateboard and bike. Kids of every age invade demanding tribute thus... (Oh dear... here comes another group arriving on a bus.) People donning hobo clothes adorned in eye-holed sheets... Wearing out the doorbells on the darkened, porch lit streets. Jack o lanterns hiss and spit as candles soon expire. Children head back home to count their swag and then retire. At last the tempest peters out. The pageantry is gone. I look out at the candy wrappers littering the lawn. Another Halloween is done. I hope they had their fill. "Trick or treat!" still resonates I hear its echoes still. But... just around the corner as Thanksgiving season nears... We hear the spiels and ads of all the rabid marketeers. Turkeys gobble restlessly at axes sharp and keen... For them... this is a nightmare... just another Halloween.*** #
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i. Thitherward to Corinth, Thus wherein mine Grandfather's dad Was from. To seeith The bards of old, Legends of agora Soul, mingling With the Aegean Sea. O' the natural spring's Of healing properties, a place Of new testament biblical fact And history. How I wouldst hath Adored to seeith the apostle Paul, First known as Saul of tarsus; eye's Once sealed, then opened; By the son Of God. Fain were the Grecians, in Yesteryear's thought. The turquoise foam Betwixt their homes, the beauty was told And taught. Hither the Mediterranean center I want to be, scribbling-scrawling, prophetically. Breathing in the aura, mine ancestors once did. Spirit-floating the isle's, of pious hymn's for mankind's sin. Rendering the prognostication's, told in God's own word's, Rouse a sleeping nation, that once resounded the laureates shores. ©Brandon Nagley ©Lonesome poets poetry ©Prophetic poetry
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Mar 18, 2016
Mar 18, 2016 at 12:01 AM UTC
Ypómnima tis Agorás psychís ( Legend's of agora soul) greek tongue
The Lady Mary took to her bed On the last of the mad March days, She’d strained her constitution, she said At that upstart, Shakespeare’s plays, The ruffians at the Globe were known To be often rotten with fleas, ‘I must have been bitten,’ Milady said With her skirt drawn up to her knees. The footman fastened a painted sign ‘No Visitors’ up at the door, While one of the maids got down on her knees And scrubbed at the parquet floor, Milady took to her poster bed By a window out to the square, ‘You’d best get down to the Fleet,’ she said, ‘Lord Orton is working there.’ The doctor came with his physic Carried a nosegay close to his face, The cane that he prodded Milady with Would leave her with little grace, ‘The swellings down in Milady’s groin Will have to be truly bled, A mixture of clay and violets then Applied to the sores,’ he said. The mist swept in and the night came down As the fever grew apace, And dark black pustules grew and swarmed At the Lady Mary’s face, A shadow fell on the window pane Of a man stood out in the square, ‘Who is that nightly visitant, And what is he doing there?’ She couldn’t make out his features for His hat was broad of brim, Shading his face and hawk-like nose Though he kept on looking in, ‘I have a terrible feeling that I’ve seen that man before, He’s come from the coffin-maker, and He waits outside my door.’ She slipped off into unconsciousness So the footman let him in, To measure her with a piece of twine From her head to below her shin, They waited then for an hour or two While the doctor had her bled, She cried aloud at a fancied shroud And she shrank from it, in dread. Late on the second day she woke Lord Orton at her side, Holding a faded nosegay to Protect him from his bride, She heard the clatter of wheels pull up Outside in the darkened court, And cried, ‘My Lord, will you leave me now That my time is running short?’ She lapsed back into a coma, but She could feel the tremors start, And something strange had begun to change In the beating of her heart, A rattle deep in her throat began And resounded through her head, Just as a voice, it seemed to her, Called out, ‘Bring out your dead!’ David Lewis Paget
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Jul 28, 2013
Jul 28, 2013 at 9:32 PM UTC
As You Like It
The Lady Mary took to her bed On the last of the mad March days, She’d strained her constitution, she said At that upstart, Shakespeare’s plays, The ruffians at the Globe were known To be often rotten with fleas, ‘I must have been bitten,’ Milady said With her skirt drawn up to her knees. The footman fastened a painted sign ‘No Visitors’ up at the door, While one of the maids got down on her knees And scrubbed at the parquet floor, Milady took to her poster bed By a window out to the square, ‘You’d best get down to the Fleet,’ she said, ‘Lord Orton is working there.’ The doctor came with his physic Carried a nosegay close to his face, The cane that he prodded Milady with Would leave her with little grace, ‘The swellings down in Milady’s groin Will have to be truly bled, A mixture of clay and violets then Applied to the sores,’ he said. The mist swept in and the night came down As the fever grew apace, And dark black pustules grew and swarmed At the Lady Mary’s face, A shadow fell on the window pane Of a man stood out in the square, ‘Who is that nightly visitant, And what is he doing there?’ She couldn’t make out his features for His hat was broad of brim, Shading his face and hawk-like nose Though he kept on looking in, ‘I have a terrible feeling that I’ve seen that man before, He’s come from the coffin-maker, and He waits outside my door.’ She slipped off into unconsciousness So the footman let him in, To measure her with a piece of twine From her head to below her shin, They waited then for an hour or two While the doctor had her bled, She cried aloud at a fancied shroud And she shrank from it, in dread. Late on the second day she woke Lord Orton at her side, Holding a faded nosegay to Protect him from his bride, She heard the clatter of wheels pull up Outside in the darkened court, And cried, ‘My Lord, will you leave me now That my time is running short?’ She lapsed back into a coma, but She could feel the tremors start, And something strange had begun to change In the beating of her heart, A rattle deep in her throat began And resounded through her head, Just as a voice, it seemed to her, Called out, ‘Bring out your dead!’ David Lewis Paget
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Shepard in a field, crucified upon  a wooden fence Your grieving flock was scattered worldly Liberty's book was swiftly plunged into the blood of bigotry Fascism laughed in tones of red, white and blue Land where our fathers died Land where our bigots hide I say to you Amen... I love Jesus; you must too resounded these hollow words Hate is now the doctrine intertwined morph-boiled into fear and hate, being poured over enlightenment in destruction of green lands engulfing youthful sprouts in destructive steamy waters The book of Leviticus is the demise of reason fractured from critical thinking; allocated to the current pulped-swine, swaying in hypnosis listeners of these pulpit-swine-beasts; they embark with twisted trepidation's disdain Shepard in other fields of life into brute submissions you will succumb being baptised in your own red pools, being smitten by the pulpit-swine-listners of ancient prophets The dirge, the slow dirge is heard throughout our delicate land Ooh sweet brilliant Oscar, we still suffer as you had my brilliant Irish lad I love Jesus you must too My country tis not for me sweet land of bigotry to thee I sing, to thee I sing...
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Sep 4, 2014
Sep 4, 2014 at 6:57 PM UTC
A Shepherd's Plea
A vehicle rumbled along a sorry excuse for a road, A convoy trailing behind it A soldier looked out his window Watching the dust swirl up in clouds beneath the Heavy vehicle's tires He said nothing to his partner and they rode in silence He, thinking of his perfect baby Whom he had not yet gotten to feel the warmth of In his arms And his partner, he was sure Had nothing but the image of his fiancée racing through his mind She was all he ever talked about They were close As close as a pair of friends could possibly be But rides were becoming increasingly more solemn Unspoken yearning for home had become almost unbearable These days the soldier missed home so much And longed so badly for his wife's warm embrace That he swore he could feel his heart aching The solemn silence was broken as something caught the soldier's eye "Stop!" The convoy came to a halt The soldier jumped from his vehicle His boots making a hard thud on the ground below He called to a group of Afghani children who had been Collecting shell casings they would later exchange for food In the middle of the convoy's path The children looked up, alarmed And scurried away The rumble of the military vehicles again resounded Through the desert And the convoy continued on its way Looking back At the men in the strange uniforms With the huge trucks, A little Afghani girl Caught a glimpse of the sunlight Bouncing off of something In the middle of the road She rushed into the street to collect it Thinking only of how pleased Her mother would be With all the money they would earn From her painstaking hunt The soldier saw the young girl Dart into the path of the convoy He shouted And leapt from the vehicle The girl looked up in terror As she saw the big trucks Getting closer And closer The soldier leapt into The path Of the oncoming sixteen-ton vehicle Toppling the girl to the ground As she sat up, out of the path of the convoy Dusting her self off and Trying to comprehend What had just taken place She looked into the road searching for her Treasure And saw it Reflecting the desert sunlight Just inches from the still form Of the soldier Who had just Given her His life
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May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 12:00 AM UTC
Hero
A vehicle rumbled along a sorry excuse for a road, A convoy trailing behind it A soldier looked out his window Watching the dust swirl up in clouds beneath the Heavy vehicle's tires He said nothing to his partner and they rode in silence He, thinking of his perfect baby Whom he had not yet gotten to feel the warmth of In his arms And his partner, he was sure Had nothing but the image of his fiancée racing through his mind She was all he ever talked about They were close As close as a pair of friends could possibly be But rides were becoming increasingly more solemn Unspoken yearning for home had become almost unbearable These days the soldier missed home so much And longed so badly for his wife's warm embrace That he swore he could feel his heart aching The solemn silence was broken as something caught the soldier's eye "Stop!" The convoy came to a halt The soldier jumped from his vehicle His boots making a hard thud on the ground below He called to a group of Afghani children who had been Collecting shell casings they would later exchange for food In the middle of the convoy's path The children looked up, alarmed And scurried away The rumble of the military vehicles again resounded Through the desert And the convoy continued on its way Looking back At the men in the strange uniforms With the huge trucks, A little Afghani girl Caught a glimpse of the sunlight Bouncing off of something In the middle of the road She rushed into the street to collect it Thinking only of how pleased Her mother would be With all the money they would earn From her painstaking hunt The soldier saw the young girl Dart into the path of the convoy He shouted And leapt from the vehicle The girl looked up in terror As she saw the big trucks Getting closer And closer The soldier leapt into The path Of the oncoming sixteen-ton vehicle Toppling the girl to the ground As she sat up, out of the path of the convoy Dusting her self off and Trying to comprehend What had just taken place She looked into the road searching for her Treasure And saw it Reflecting the desert sunlight Just inches from the still form Of the soldier Who had just Given her His life
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Mirthful sunlit chimes spoke of fondness Ever they'd enmesh in love's binding tress   Streams of joy did gurgle with much delight   Their hearts according in rapture's notes Bright news resounded through these totes They'd professed to each other love's tie Twas a pairing which would ne'er fade or die Heavens arrayed in spangling starlight The twosome combined so divinely A sweet syrup bliss ringing sublimely Love's declaration pleasantly pealing Throughout the continents both near and wide The turtle doves love ever to reside These gladdest tidings truly appealing
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Sep 13, 2014
Sep 13, 2014 at 1:15 AM UTC
Appealing (Rosarian Sonnet)
I walked alone that afternoon, the middle of December an unusually warm winter                 65 degrees, I shed my jacket with memories of shivers                 On the playground, with the taste of slides, and foursquare, on my tongue, I                 Ran through the swings and monkey bars and laughing children, I                 Laughed into the wind, chest forward, hair flying, eyes invincible Eyes like fire Rain came without warning and your footsteps caught up with mine, In rhythm with the beat of the drops Our hearts beat in rhythm with the drops on the asphalt                 I walked alone, but you crowded my thoughts Brother, you haunt my mind with memories of when we fought                 I’m running again, to shake off the wetness I’m shaking off tears, I swear I’m doing my best                 It’s the only thing left I can do is to cry                 And breathe, sometimes, without knowing why This moment is silly I’m thinking A private moment like this, how Invades this feeling of sand, it’s sinking                 And I’m waist-deep, in my own wasting speeches                 And your voice is caught in between, like leeches On my skin in the places I can’t reach I remember orchards, and peaches, and sweetness I am the feeling of remorse, my hands are coarse, My throat is numb, my God, I’m done, I’m done, I’m done – But I can’t stop Sometimes The walls are magnetic and they dictate my moves Keep pulling me back and forth, back and forth, It’s no wonder we have such problems of self-worth and the kids these days Have such problems with shame                 I have such problems with shame I threw your picture out the window to stop my madness Were you serious when you said my voice meant less? It resounded and warped “I am meaningless” It’s replaying now, sanding down the most vulnerable places in me- The places I told you how to reach- to be unrecognizable                            I’m wondering what will happen when I can’t recognize myself The room is shrinking Make a decision, says the sun Crawl away, says the moon The stars can’t tell you what to do Swoon Throw a tantrum Throw a large, heavy object into something precious Throw away everything material Save your memories, and your body Jump – somewhere beautiful Claim your stakes somewhere uncharted Write, write, write, write, write, write something nonsensical Write something perplexing Something annoying Something you can come back to in the times you need space (Welcome) Feel safe; this moment is whatever you make it
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Feb 13, 2012
Feb 13, 2012 at 1:31 AM UTC
No Marbles
I walked alone that afternoon, the middle of December an unusually warm winter                 65 degrees, I shed my jacket with memories of shivers                 On the playground, with the taste of slides, and foursquare, on my tongue, I                 Ran through the swings and monkey bars and laughing children, I                 Laughed into the wind, chest forward, hair flying, eyes invincible Eyes like fire Rain came without warning and your footsteps caught up with mine, In rhythm with the beat of the drops Our hearts beat in rhythm with the drops on the asphalt                 I walked alone, but you crowded my thoughts Brother, you haunt my mind with memories of when we fought                 I’m running again, to shake off the wetness I’m shaking off tears, I swear I’m doing my best                 It’s the only thing left I can do is to cry                 And breathe, sometimes, without knowing why This moment is silly I’m thinking A private moment like this, how Invades this feeling of sand, it’s sinking                 And I’m waist-deep, in my own wasting speeches                 And your voice is caught in between, like leeches On my skin in the places I can’t reach I remember orchards, and peaches, and sweetness I am the feeling of remorse, my hands are coarse, My throat is numb, my God, I’m done, I’m done, I’m done – But I can’t stop Sometimes The walls are magnetic and they dictate my moves Keep pulling me back and forth, back and forth, It’s no wonder we have such problems of self-worth and the kids these days Have such problems with shame                 I have such problems with shame I threw your picture out the window to stop my madness Were you serious when you said my voice meant less? It resounded and warped “I am meaningless” It’s replaying now, sanding down the most vulnerable places in me- The places I told you how to reach- to be unrecognizable                            I’m wondering what will happen when I can’t recognize myself The room is shrinking Make a decision, says the sun Crawl away, says the moon The stars can’t tell you what to do Swoon Throw a tantrum Throw a large, heavy object into something precious Throw away everything material Save your memories, and your body Jump – somewhere beautiful Claim your stakes somewhere uncharted Write, write, write, write, write, write something nonsensical Write something perplexing Something annoying Something you can come back to in the times you need space (Welcome) Feel safe; this moment is whatever you make it
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And how did I slip, Into the ecstasy of your arms; Enveloping security, All around me… And how did it hypnotize me, Into the pools of your eyes; Piercing beyond the limits, Of my black pupil… And how did I learn, A new pink shade of lips; Feeling over mine, Could be softer than feather… And how did I feel, The texture of your stubble; Burning over my bare skin, Could be a talisman, Of my fantasy’s frontiers… And how could my fingers, Do all the talking; Unleashing the strength, That mesmerized me, In an awe; Resounded by gasping, Pleasure… And how did I loose, All my way, In the loops of sweet talk; Until eyes took refuge, Of sweet dreams; I pray they shall awake true, And be alive, Until eternity at last!
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Feb 25, 2013
Feb 25, 2013 at 7:19 AM UTC
Fantasy
We live in times of innovation. Winds of change affront the nation; wind most welcome – by a few (the masses know not what to do with engineered progressive change, their morals slow to rearrange). And thus, in ornithology we find an apt analogy… Phoenix-like the vulture rose in rainbow raiment, from repose Its plumage all askew – a freak: a mutant with a painted beak borne of winds but lately blown. This strange new hybrid (yet unflown) did twitter forth an avian boon. It preened its plumes and croaked a tune: “I represent that rarest fowl, far wiser than outmoded owl… A dazzling swan of change am I brought forth to liberate the sky!” (Yet more appeared a fractured emu; fair is fowl post-op… they tried to cross said emu with an ostrich! (What the hell – the surgeon got rich changing apples into – mangos; altering the twos to tangos…) Fresh from gender suicide he moulted into she. Beside herself (itself?) with grief, regarded previous selves as false: discarded Sir for Madam overnight; fixed it, mixed it, made it right. Since God was wrong the first time ‘round, Man (or something) thus is bound hormonally to tweak and mutate, hastening rebirth’s freakish due-date. A manly bass – and yet the face was poorly paired in his/her case Soprano ought to have resounded – yet the voice left one confounded. Rainbow bracelets notwithstanding this was clearly modern branding (on the forehead – like a beast?) well, Jesus said the truth at least: that angels are of neither gender (hence no need to check the member.) Lest we offend endangered species I commend transgendered theses – paired with warning and a fable as they turn the feathered table: We may nurture fair to foul while nature shrieks a hideous howl but foul to fair cannot return; thus trapped, both Eve and Adam burn.
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 9:12 PM UTC
The Fowl is Fair
We live in times of innovation. Winds of change affront the nation; wind most welcome – by a few (the masses know not what to do with engineered progressive change, their morals slow to rearrange). And thus, in ornithology we find an apt analogy… Phoenix-like the vulture rose in rainbow raiment, from repose Its plumage all askew – a freak: a mutant with a painted beak borne of winds but lately blown. This strange new hybrid (yet unflown) did twitter forth an avian boon. It preened its plumes and croaked a tune: “I represent that rarest fowl, far wiser than outmoded owl… A dazzling swan of change am I brought forth to liberate the sky!” (Yet more appeared a fractured emu; fair is fowl post-op… they tried to cross said emu with an ostrich! (What the hell – the surgeon got rich changing apples into – mangos; altering the twos to tangos…) Fresh from gender suicide he moulted into she. Beside herself (itself?) with grief, regarded previous selves as false: discarded Sir for Madam overnight; fixed it, mixed it, made it right. Since God was wrong the first time ‘round, Man (or something) thus is bound hormonally to tweak and mutate, hastening rebirth’s freakish due-date. A manly bass – and yet the face was poorly paired in his/her case Soprano ought to have resounded – yet the voice left one confounded. Rainbow bracelets notwithstanding this was clearly modern branding (on the forehead – like a beast?) well, Jesus said the truth at least: that angels are of neither gender (hence no need to check the member.) Lest we offend endangered species I commend transgendered theses – paired with warning and a fable as they turn the feathered table: We may nurture fair to foul while nature shrieks a hideous howl but foul to fair cannot return; thus trapped, both Eve and Adam burn.
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On a brisk autumn evening I became aware of the chorus Of leaves as I dumped Another bag of grass Onto my compost pile. The changing colors above me Resounded like waves Crashing on the ocean shore. Looking at those branches Swaying in the breeze ****** my mind to the months ahead. I will see these same trees Bare as a skeleton in the frigid air, Clacking and clicking in the wind. With that thought I realized: Even in the dead of winter, As long as she has breath, Nature sings her thankful song.
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Sep 29, 2016
Sep 29, 2016 at 1:41 PM UTC
Winter Song
Order is shattered in a strange guttural tone that resounded among the walls of the houses, which seemed dead and deserted. Behind the closed shutters, eyes watched the conquerors, who, by right of war, were not masters of the city and of the lives and fortunes of its people. In their darkened ruins the inhabitants have given way to the same feeling of panic which is aroused by the natural cataclysmns. Their wisdom and strength alike are of no avail for those devastating upheavals of the earth. Though the same feeling is experienced whenever the established order of things is upset, when security ceases to exist.  When all that was previously protected by the laws of man and nature is suddenly placed at the mercy of brutal unreasoning force.  This feeling of panic and confusion, this allowance of ourselves to become dazed in the whirlwind of abusing senses that is in its own right invasion. An earthquake buries a whole people beneath the ruins of their houses. The river, over-flowed by the unforgiving rains which seemed destined to never end, runs in spite; sweeping away the bodies of drowned peasants together with the carcasses of cattle and rafters forn from roofs.  The victorious army; slaughtering all who resist, making prisoners of the rest, looting by right of the sword, and thanking their god to the sound of canon.
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Feb 11, 2010
Feb 11, 2010 at 6:13 AM UTC
Invasion
Guinevere and Lazarus, hiking down the forest, following the torrential rain. A humble squirrel makes eye contact initiates touch love crumbs. Days go by, he can't stop thinking about the humble squirrel. What did he give him? Lazarus, alone. Bearing the torrential rain. Minute by minute by minute, searching for the squirrel of love. A green mist clouds a lonely house on the hill. Who better to inhabit it, than the love squirrel. He's there, he's there, he's there. He knew. Closer and closer he came, he heard tiny steps, a scratch of wood. He felt his gaze on him. But where did it come from? Lazarus' in all grey, His sweatshirt sticking to his skin. He glanced forward for a second smoothing his hair back as rain dripped off, down to his face. Their eyes met. Passionately. Closer and closer they became, the sound of le mal du pays resounded in Lazarus' heart. Did he feel it too? he wondered. magnetic, touch. only music to fill the space between them. Lasting only a second, as he opened his eyes, the grass where the squirrel stood to hug him had left a shape. Not knowing his name, he went back home. To Guinevere.
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May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 at 8:50 PM UTC
Lazarus Love
"She's gone." I remember the time when you said that the day she left you. That was the first time that I saw you cry that hard, that loud, Your voice resounded the four corners of the bathroom cubicle that it's as if it killed me— the sight of seeing you die partly. *I was overjoyed and a little disappointed.* And as you pour your heart out, on my shoulder, your bitter sweet tears, i knew exactly that the moment she left you, she took your soul with her. "She's gone." but my love, so were you. You were gone from me too.
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Jul 4, 2015
Jul 4, 2015 at 9:16 AM UTC
She's gone