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#*Can it love you like God loves you, with a love that is better than life? Can it connect you to eternal beauty? Can it save you? Can it redeem you?  Can it lift you out of the miry pit? Can it make you clean enough to finally feel acceptable? Can it delight your soul to the core? Can it take your breath away with its faithfulness to you? Can it paint both sunrise and sunset across the sky to beckon your attention? Can it cause the breeze to blow and gently caress your cheeks? Can it send hummingbirds and wildflowers across your path to romance your heart? Can it parade before you the starry host and call them each by name? Can it probe you to the depths and fill you with itself? Can it rush to your aid riding on the wings of the wind? Can it satisfy your hunger and thirst with bountiful things? Can it give to you feet like a deer that you might dance upon the heights? Can it arrange every detail of your life to draw you and drive you to itself? Can it pursue you with all the resources of the universe? Can it know you through and through and still desire you? Can it raise you up and seat you in the heavenly realms and bless you with every spiritual blessing? Can it supply your every need out of its glorious riches? Can its grace be sufficient for you and its mercy help you in your greatest temptation? Can it pour overflowing comfort into you through all of your troubles? Can it reach down to draw you out of deep waters? Can it set you on an unshakable foundation? Can it bound across the mountains to come to your rescue? Can it make you lie down in green pastures and lead you beside still waters? Can it walk with you through the darkest wilderness and never leave you or forsake you? Can it carry you when you are weak or have fallen? Can it let you rest between its shoulders when you are weary or burdened? Can it escort you to heaven’s banqueting table and spread its banner of love over you? Can it hide you in the shelter of its wing? Can it be your daily portion and immerse you in the boundlessness of itself? Can it clothe you in robes of righteousness and garments of salvation?  Can it give to you praise in exchange for mourning? Can it bestow on you a crown of beauty for ashes? Can it turn your wailing into dancing? Can it flood you with peace like a river? Can it fill your heart with joy in the worst of afflictions? Can it know the way to lead you home? Can it refine you in its fire and bring you forth as gold?  Can it capture you fully even as it sets you fully free? Can it ever truly be your Everything?*#
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Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 12:47 PM UTC
What Can Your Idol Do?
#*Can it love you like God loves you, with a love that is better than life? Can it connect you to eternal beauty? Can it save you? Can it redeem you?  Can it lift you out of the miry pit? Can it make you clean enough to finally feel acceptable? Can it delight your soul to the core? Can it take your breath away with its faithfulness to you? Can it paint both sunrise and sunset across the sky to beckon your attention? Can it cause the breeze to blow and gently caress your cheeks? Can it send hummingbirds and wildflowers across your path to romance your heart? Can it parade before you the starry host and call them each by name? Can it probe you to the depths and fill you with itself? Can it rush to your aid riding on the wings of the wind? Can it satisfy your hunger and thirst with bountiful things? Can it give to you feet like a deer that you might dance upon the heights? Can it arrange every detail of your life to draw you and drive you to itself? Can it pursue you with all the resources of the universe? Can it know you through and through and still desire you? Can it raise you up and seat you in the heavenly realms and bless you with every spiritual blessing? Can it supply your every need out of its glorious riches? Can its grace be sufficient for you and its mercy help you in your greatest temptation? Can it pour overflowing comfort into you through all of your troubles? Can it reach down to draw you out of deep waters? Can it set you on an unshakable foundation? Can it bound across the mountains to come to your rescue? Can it make you lie down in green pastures and lead you beside still waters? Can it walk with you through the darkest wilderness and never leave you or forsake you? Can it carry you when you are weak or have fallen? Can it let you rest between its shoulders when you are weary or burdened? Can it escort you to heaven’s banqueting table and spread its banner of love over you? Can it hide you in the shelter of its wing? Can it be your daily portion and immerse you in the boundlessness of itself? Can it clothe you in robes of righteousness and garments of salvation?  Can it give to you praise in exchange for mourning? Can it bestow on you a crown of beauty for ashes? Can it turn your wailing into dancing? Can it flood you with peace like a river? Can it fill your heart with joy in the worst of afflictions? Can it know the way to lead you home? Can it refine you in its fire and bring you forth as gold?  Can it capture you fully even as it sets you fully free? Can it ever truly be your Everything?*#
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Your smile sets ripples Across the calm waters As my soul takes a plunge Into the sea of feelings Feeling the warmth That embraces me I can see myself in the reflection of your heart Scattering the colors of love Your smile always welcomes me
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 2:17 AM UTC
Your Smile
*Jesus, please set my bound heart free Let not this world my prison be Where fear and shame would pull me down To suffocate and cause me to drown 'Stead loose my soul that it may soar Heavy, fettered, chained no more So You can lead me to the hills Away from where 'perfection' kills In You alone my worth is found What joy immense, this truth profound To know I'm precious in Your sight My strength, my hope, my life's delight Surrendered now to Your control 'Tis love which heals my wounded soul Convinced that I can trust Your heart Toward me, to You my cares I impart And selfish may I no more be But lend me eyes that I might see The wounds which other souls still have To give to them Your healing salve That You might take their tender pain And turn it to eternal gain So suffering may not wasted be But used to set our cold hearts free Then we who in triumphant praise More closely on Your face may gaze Beholding all Your beauty vast Held tight to You, content at last!*
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Aug 3, 2017
Aug 3, 2017 at 11:49 PM UTC
~ Whom the Son Sets Free ~
The lily has a smooth stalk, Will never hurt your hand; But the rose upon her brier Is lady of the land. There's sweetness in an apple tree, And profit in the corn; But lady of all beauty Is a rose upon a thorn. When with moss and honey She tips her bending brier, And half unfolds her glowing heart, She sets the world on fire.
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The Rose
In swirling clouds of silver lace The disk of Luna lies concealed Across the Autumn skies they race Over this shadow realm surreal. On evening shadows now, I gaze A gentle wind swirls through the trees From depths of sleep, I watch half-dazed Thin branches stirring in the breeze. Lights flickering neath mystic skies Through gaps in trees, they shine within Entranced, my mind, I watch surprised This spectral beauty in the wind. In these dark shadows, spirits drift Translucent ghosts and dryads old From this meadow, I sense their gift Strange stories from the wood untold. Oh let me join thy sylvan fest Pale spirits of this Solstice night Before the Moon sets in the west We'll revel neath her misty light.
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 12:04 AM UTC
Spirits of the Night
I live in a forest of fallen sunflowers, old and wise, they speak to me of the days gone by When the sun sets among the wilderness blaze, they tell me night is befalling, and I must make my departure They tell of decades ago, how they’ve watched as humans lived their lives, most rotten in nature They spoke of the one that used to tend to them, how gracious and kind, how pure and warm For the sunflowers spoke with melancholy, for they knew that their former caretaker was well gone So for a moment they wept their tears of seeds, and sung soft melodies of their former caretaker They spoke to me and warned of the evils of humanity, how they were too once the victim of the evil They asked why humans destroyed what’s beautiful around them, why they wish to sabotage what keeps them breathing But they spoke to me and said I was a rare human, one that had good intention, and a sensitive heart As night began to fall, I left the forest of sunflowers, carrying their tearful seeds To spread as I walked away, to maybe rejoice and create life once more The forest I hope will remain tomorrow, that it stands the test of time
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May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015 at 2:46 PM UTC
The Forest of Sunflowers
As the sun slowly sets The precursor to the week With deadlines,                             Orders,                                            Oh so bleak The calm before the storm   Too restless to enjoy For everybody knows      It's sunday's melancholy ploy     Responsibilities loom overhead      Our heart as heavy as the air       The world has now gone silent               We sit in subtle fear
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 4:44 PM UTC
sunday evening omnipresence
As the sun does rise your life begins. As you grow older it slowly decends, and when it sets, your life does end.
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Jun 12, 2012
Jun 12, 2012 at 4:19 AM UTC
Life
This is the easy time, there is nothing doing. I have whirled the midwife's extractor, I have my honey, Six jars of it, Six cat's eyes in the wine cellar, Wintering in a dark without window At the heart of the house Next to the last tenant's rancid jam and the bottles of empty glitters ---- Sir So-and-so's gin. This is the room I have never been in This is the room I could never breathe in. The black bunched in there like a bat, No light But the torch and its faint Chinese yellow on appalling objects ---- Black asininity. Decay. Possession. It is they who own me. Neither cruel nor indifferent, Only ignorant. This is the time of hanging on for the bees--the bees So slow I hardly know them, Filing like soldiers To the syrup tin To make up for the honey I've taken. Tate and Lyle keeps them going, The refined snow. It is Tate and Lyle they live on, instead of flowers. They take it. The cold sets in. Now they ball in a mass, Black Mind against all that white. The smile of the snow is white. It spreads itself out, a mile-long body of Meissen, Into which, on warm days, They can only carry their dead. The bees are all women, Maids and the long royal lady. They have got rid of the men, The blunt, clumsy stumblers, the boors. Winter is for women ---- The woman, still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanis walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think. Will the hive survive, will the gladiolas Succeed in banking their fires To enter another year? What will they taste of, the Christmas roses? The bees are flying. They taste the spring.
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Wintering
This is the easy time, there is nothing doing. I have whirled the midwife's extractor, I have my honey, Six jars of it, Six cat's eyes in the wine cellar, Wintering in a dark without window At the heart of the house Next to the last tenant's rancid jam and the bottles of empty glitters ---- Sir So-and-so's gin. This is the room I have never been in This is the room I could never breathe in. The black bunched in there like a bat, No light But the torch and its faint Chinese yellow on appalling objects ---- Black asininity. Decay. Possession. It is they who own me. Neither cruel nor indifferent, Only ignorant. This is the time of hanging on for the bees--the bees So slow I hardly know them, Filing like soldiers To the syrup tin To make up for the honey I've taken. Tate and Lyle keeps them going, The refined snow. It is Tate and Lyle they live on, instead of flowers. They take it. The cold sets in. Now they ball in a mass, Black Mind against all that white. The smile of the snow is white. It spreads itself out, a mile-long body of Meissen, Into which, on warm days, They can only carry their dead. The bees are all women, Maids and the long royal lady. They have got rid of the men, The blunt, clumsy stumblers, the boors. Winter is for women ---- The woman, still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanis walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think. Will the hive survive, will the gladiolas Succeed in banking their fires To enter another year? What will they taste of, the Christmas roses? The bees are flying. They taste the spring.
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Lost in your arms, for years at a time your touch was my grace, our grind was my pace, way made love, like tongues make taste I feel in love with your paste it likes your body was laced. between your legs, inside your body, became my favorite place. Hand at my sides, my gripping your waist. One look in your eyes, giving passion a new face. Touching your body, emotions erupting, Adrenalin gives race. I can hear your heart beating, as your blood starts to race. our bodies interlaced from the inside, You can feel me inside I'm so deep, your fingers dig in as your brace. Pleasure is pain, and its writing across your face, the slower we grind, the further your mind goes, to that distant place. As your hips whine, my waist line sets the pace, as my mind plays rewind I press forward, like the present is time and I'm living it in real-time still amazed by your grace.
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Mar 19, 2016
Mar 19, 2016 at 7:35 PM UTC
rReminisce
ang ngiti mo ang sumunog sa puso ko ang ngiti mo ang umalipin sa kaluluwa ko at kapag ikaw ay tumititig sa akin napapaso ako, mgpakailanman (C)2012, Christos Rigakos * (Translation: my first poem for my Zera, in Tagalog your smile sets fire to my heart your eyes enslave my soul and when you stare at me i burn in your gaze for eternity)*
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Aug 9, 2012
Aug 9, 2012 at 11:33 AM UTC
una tula ko para zera ko, sa tagalog (revised)
She’s more fun when she is drunk At least…until she’s not Because she’s puking in the toilet And regretting her last shot She’s more confident when she’s drunk Gorgeous and ready to score Until she looks in a mirror And feels even uglier than before She likes herself more when she is drunk Until that feeling goes away When she is so far beyond gone That her self-hatred comes out to play She’s happier when she’s drunk All her issues leave her brain But they all come crashing back at once And cause her so much pain She likes the world more when drunk It’s filled with so much good Until one little thing sets her off And she hates it all more than she should She likes life more when she’s drunk Her mind for once feels still Terrified of losing that feeling She soon wants to end things with a pill But she can stop any time she wants Or so she’d have you believe Because alcohol makes her seem so happy That is, until all her friends leave
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Mar 8, 2017
Mar 8, 2017 at 3:21 AM UTC
Alcoholism
#*When all of worldly beauty's lost When form and face have borne the cost Of life's sojourn upon this earth A greater glory then springs forth When vanity is cast aside With long-dashed dreams and fallen pride At last a better hope I see One anchored in eternity When no one gives a second glance Or offers promise of romance I know the One whose love is true Who looks beyond what most men do When wit and charm have fled from thought And company's no longer sought There's still One friend who longs to hear My every word, desire and fear When awkwardness is more the rule Than competence and being cool His words I hear so gently spoken, "Come, poor in spirit and all who are broken." When those around me criticize With disapproval in their eyes He spreads His arms with full embrace And wears acceptance on His face When kindred spirit can't be found And understanding's wayward bound The One who knows me best will be Thinking precious thoughts toward me When foot is slipping, mind astray From trying to fix things my own way He rescues me with hourly grace And sets me in a spacious place When all my naught attempts at fame Lie crushed beneath a weight of shame I seek the fame of Him instead Who calls my name and lifts my head When youth and vigor fade away And triumph seems an ancient day My strength can rest in One who brings Fresh power to soar on eagle's wings When my last breath some day I take Death's shadowed crossing, hence, to make Upon Christ's nail-scarred feet I'll fall To kiss that One who is my ALL*#
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Dec 31, 2015
Dec 31, 2015 at 5:56 PM UTC
A Greater Glory
#*When all of worldly beauty's lost When form and face have borne the cost Of life's sojourn upon this earth A greater glory then springs forth When vanity is cast aside With long-dashed dreams and fallen pride At last a better hope I see One anchored in eternity When no one gives a second glance Or offers promise of romance I know the One whose love is true Who looks beyond what most men do When wit and charm have fled from thought And company's no longer sought There's still One friend who longs to hear My every word, desire and fear When awkwardness is more the rule Than competence and being cool His words I hear so gently spoken, "Come, poor in spirit and all who are broken." When those around me criticize With disapproval in their eyes He spreads His arms with full embrace And wears acceptance on His face When kindred spirit can't be found And understanding's wayward bound The One who knows me best will be Thinking precious thoughts toward me When foot is slipping, mind astray From trying to fix things my own way He rescues me with hourly grace And sets me in a spacious place When all my naught attempts at fame Lie crushed beneath a weight of shame I seek the fame of Him instead Who calls my name and lifts my head When youth and vigor fade away And triumph seems an ancient day My strength can rest in One who brings Fresh power to soar on eagle's wings When my last breath some day I take Death's shadowed crossing, hence, to make Upon Christ's nail-scarred feet I'll fall To kiss that One who is my ALL*#
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To me, I see Further than he, but he, Sees his own seas; Soft, innocent fleece Circled under a veil Of creativity, sets sail, Wondered aimlessly, but well, An answerless well, you fell
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 3:58 AM UTC
Vanity Tidal Waves
maybe all i need to stop this pain is a little motrin. maybe all i need to stop this bleeding is a band-aid. maybe all i need to stop this screaming are some ear plugs. maybe all i need to stop this drowning is a life raft. maybe all i need to stop this agony is a little numbness. numbness... it wears off,  doesn't stop the pain only holds back the flood gates of sleepless nights and screaming hearts, bloodshot eyes and rejections knife. just long enough for me to catch a glimmer of hope, a mirage in the Sahara, so beautiful yet so cruel.   just as i get close enough to taste a sweet tomorrow, the desert sun sets. and i'm still bleeding, and you're still gone. maybe all i need to stop this searching is a little less hope.
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Jul 11, 2015
Jul 11, 2015 at 10:50 PM UTC
numbness
#*The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want I dwell in fields of green Led by His hand I may drink my fill From streams where few have been Though I may walk through death's shadowed vale His presence calms every fear Through the dark dangers He sets a feast Whenever my foe comes near His goodness and mercy shall follow me Throughout my days here on earth Then take me home where forever my eyes Shall behold all His glorious worth!*#
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Apr 3, 2016
Apr 3, 2016 at 10:55 PM UTC
Psalm 23 (adapted)
He is the tumultuous ocean, The twisting, rolling sea That feigns a certain gentleness Until its rage breaks free So vast and so unending And limitless in worth I took him once for granted As I wandered through the surf. Without the tumulus ocean Without its rolling seas Without the tide that tosses me And never sets me free The arid, fallow earth would crack Beneath my burning feet Reminding me of which I lost And dried up with the heat But salt leaves me to languish No sweetness he can quench Time will only tell from here If love can fill this trench.
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 11:47 PM UTC
He is the Sea.
The globalization   Once thought to be an important aspect To connect the world To diverse the world Has been only a part success And of course, a success to be In a way people are connected In the enchanting world of ours Rising the common world consciousness Rising and rising and rising A day by day and day The knowledge domain, a gigantic trip Profoundly majestic experience uplifting people Remarkably All over the world diminishing the differences Differences humans suppose to believe Differences that drew humanity backwards The differences mostly set by identitities Identities in terms of nationality In terms of religion, caste and creed As we observe, differences softening them boundaries A good thing as seen Manifested due to globalization Only possible due to global reach Just possible due to connection in large scale Diminishing are those differences as they don’t fit Don't fit to the consciousness of the world To the rising consciousness of the world now More the fire it sets the plank to burn faster Happening for good for sure, I believe On the contrary differences too In the verse of diminishing the truth It contradicts the positivity As see in the world today is extremism Yes extremism happens to exist If it exists for a long period A whole long period of time In the years to come Is definately calling for absurdity Which humans may not want to percieve The adversities of the impact of globalization Leading a chance for the high level corporates To the world to have access to the marketplace All over the world Leading to a state of consumerism To the people People becoming more and more consumers They are being brainwashed For them to buy goods That global industries produce People are running after the products ****** consumers ****** sheeps Those multinationals And shark headed corporates Are producing and manufacturing The high headed corporates The pigs are manipulating Are brainwashing people The sheeps are diverted towards it The people The only agenda is to gain more And more profit only By making the people slaves of themselves And slaves of their products And believe it Coke and Pepsi may be Right hand and a left hand But the Coke and Pepsi both are the same The very debate which is better is Helping the corporates to sale By making their brains washed away Consumers Sheeps Brainwashed In a sense they are enjoying The debate they argue upon And they are unaware And they are manipulated Knowingly and unknowingly More often knowingly ****** sheep slaves Another adjoining thing most of the governments in the world Are being run by the aid Of the corporates Only have a selfish agenda And strategy to sale Products, thoughts and  philosophy More and more and more ****** pigs Brainwashing minds of the people The sheeps Having a streak of global consumerism Selfish bunch of pigs And the brainwashed sheeps Say hell ya F***king hell ya F***k off Get out'a here ****** freaks Pigs and Sheeps
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Jan 29, 2019
Jan 29, 2019 at 11:01 AM UTC
Pigs and Sheeps
The globalization   Once thought to be an important aspect To connect the world To diverse the world Has been only a part success And of course, a success to be In a way people are connected In the enchanting world of ours Rising the common world consciousness Rising and rising and rising A day by day and day The knowledge domain, a gigantic trip Profoundly majestic experience uplifting people Remarkably All over the world diminishing the differences Differences humans suppose to believe Differences that drew humanity backwards The differences mostly set by identitities Identities in terms of nationality In terms of religion, caste and creed As we observe, differences softening them boundaries A good thing as seen Manifested due to globalization Only possible due to global reach Just possible due to connection in large scale Diminishing are those differences as they don’t fit Don't fit to the consciousness of the world To the rising consciousness of the world now More the fire it sets the plank to burn faster Happening for good for sure, I believe On the contrary differences too In the verse of diminishing the truth It contradicts the positivity As see in the world today is extremism Yes extremism happens to exist If it exists for a long period A whole long period of time In the years to come Is definately calling for absurdity Which humans may not want to percieve The adversities of the impact of globalization Leading a chance for the high level corporates To the world to have access to the marketplace All over the world Leading to a state of consumerism To the people People becoming more and more consumers They are being brainwashed For them to buy goods That global industries produce People are running after the products ****** consumers ****** sheeps Those multinationals And shark headed corporates Are producing and manufacturing The high headed corporates The pigs are manipulating Are brainwashing people The sheeps are diverted towards it The people The only agenda is to gain more And more profit only By making the people slaves of themselves And slaves of their products And believe it Coke and Pepsi may be Right hand and a left hand But the Coke and Pepsi both are the same The very debate which is better is Helping the corporates to sale By making their brains washed away Consumers Sheeps Brainwashed In a sense they are enjoying The debate they argue upon And they are unaware And they are manipulated Knowingly and unknowingly More often knowingly ****** sheep slaves Another adjoining thing most of the governments in the world Are being run by the aid Of the corporates Only have a selfish agenda And strategy to sale Products, thoughts and  philosophy More and more and more ****** pigs Brainwashing minds of the people The sheeps Having a streak of global consumerism Selfish bunch of pigs And the brainwashed sheeps Say hell ya F***king hell ya F***k off Get out'a here ****** freaks Pigs and Sheeps
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The distant hollow of the high mountain pass swallows the setting sun as it steals away southbound behind the coastal mountain's tangerine sunset hued silhouettes Mulberry plashed shadows pointing northward across the evergreens outstretched dimming, beneath the waning fade of each fleeting eventide Sundown ebbing asunder the wafting daylight, each gloaming of the day, helplessly a moment sooner past, transfixed further south beyond yesterday's passing azure The lazy days of summer escape unbounded, nomadic as the sea I've seen sail away before; evanescent as the beauty of the bloom summer days beheld and the memory of the fragrance they exhale The nebulous weight of the gravity is consciously denied by the truths a human heart beholds A moment’s epiphany afflicts like a rogue wave in a calm sea; the only thing my heart ever wanted remains out of reach Everything my heart needs consciously surrendering to the poignant passing moment's beauty, the falling sun at distance sets more suddenly now Lost in the undeniable certainty life's imminent season's change Eyes drawn stubbornly from presence to a sky so far away, knowing there'll be no restitution for the welling sense of loss... A bitter sweet song mummers in the silence of the absorbing spell, summer's sun stained pages of watermarked soul scribbles, time tattooed reparation for the indelible ache of a harsh grey winter loneliness Perhaps too familiar, this whelming Déjà vu that tears my soul;     that tugs at these roots but cannot sever their sacred grasp But for now, eyes fixed to the sun's inevitable tightening tether hence — to wear weary each fraying thread's  impending break Each sunset leans a deeper angle southward as it slips down through the firwood shadows; illuminating other faraway latitudes far beyond the distant horizon skies The preordained continuum unfolding what will be ... someone you used to know ... September 11, 2017 ... 7:30 PM
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Sep 14, 2017
Sep 14, 2017 at 11:41 AM UTC
Each Sunset Leans Farther Southward
The distant hollow of the high mountain pass swallows the setting sun as it steals away southbound behind the coastal mountain's tangerine sunset hued silhouettes Mulberry plashed shadows pointing northward across the evergreens outstretched dimming, beneath the waning fade of each fleeting eventide Sundown ebbing asunder the wafting daylight, each gloaming of the day, helplessly a moment sooner past, transfixed further south beyond yesterday's passing azure The lazy days of summer escape unbounded, nomadic as the sea I've seen sail away before; evanescent as the beauty of the bloom summer days beheld and the memory of the fragrance they exhale The nebulous weight of the gravity is consciously denied by the truths a human heart beholds A moment’s epiphany afflicts like a rogue wave in a calm sea; the only thing my heart ever wanted remains out of reach Everything my heart needs consciously surrendering to the poignant passing moment's beauty, the falling sun at distance sets more suddenly now Lost in the undeniable certainty life's imminent season's change Eyes drawn stubbornly from presence to a sky so far away, knowing there'll be no restitution for the welling sense of loss... A bitter sweet song mummers in the silence of the absorbing spell, summer's sun stained pages of watermarked soul scribbles, time tattooed reparation for the indelible ache of a harsh grey winter loneliness Perhaps too familiar, this whelming Déjà vu that tears my soul;     that tugs at these roots but cannot sever their sacred grasp But for now, eyes fixed to the sun's inevitable tightening tether hence — to wear weary each fraying thread's  impending break Each sunset leans a deeper angle southward as it slips down through the firwood shadows; illuminating other faraway latitudes far beyond the distant horizon skies The preordained continuum unfolding what will be ... someone you used to know ... September 11, 2017 ... 7:30 PM
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Black Rose sweet Demon bud A kiss from a Vamp with taste of blood Emotionless heart infused with desire Intoxicating lust sets us on fire Exposed skin Reveals our sin As we dig in Tie you up You go down Feel my whip wrap around Call me Dom You my Sub Wear your body like a glove Drop disguise Reflection in your eyes Watch this devil rise No surprise Angels cry as I enter your thighs In realm of our imagination together we flow ****** stroke Mental poke entering slow Is there Beauty in the Darkness? I suppose As you bloom Under moon my Black Rose..
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Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 12:15 AM UTC
Black Rose
Imagine that I could write a salve, compose an ointment of verbal herbs to heal, even mere protect the already-torn-so-easy mental flesh, just to disguise/hide the multi-colored bruising our fickle mistress-in-common provides when you are down so far another bruise joining the cast like a  floodplain subsuming one more feeding creek bed into the shapelessness of indistinguishability imagine that where atoms hide eternal between creation and destruction, borrow brief the set exact you require to restore the taken years from fathers/mothers/brothers/sisters, children, return that which went unused by the uninvited, unseemly human whim of war and lies for no gain imagine that the deep sinkhole of despair that ***** one in, years in the formation, appearing in instance, and worse does not drowns but leaves helpless, unable to climb out, and all our scratching digs us in deeper until we cannot be, seen or heard or just be imagine that a check comes in the mail, payable left open for filling-in, in the amount of full restoration, with no additional fees of guilt needed for deposit and cashing/caching out: and you wake up and the stony chest is breathing lungs free imagine that and I do; for I am the smoke of return and rest, sky inscribing, knowing precise needs and the screams and the years unfair taken, they are screened through the five perceptions, and the word weaver sets the loom for each peculiar requisition, no imagination needed imagine that you lament and anger demand verifiable proofs mathematical, cursing the knights of false hopes with untethered regret I do not imagine that; hear it and accept; my task, imagine that, making you imagine that, thus commencement of repair begins when we imagine that for this how new healthy cells  are born quiet-now,  go, imagine-that, now*
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Aug 18, 2018
Aug 18, 2018 at 1:02 PM UTC
imagine that
Imagine that I could write a salve, compose an ointment of verbal herbs to heal, even mere protect the already-torn-so-easy mental flesh, just to disguise/hide the multi-colored bruising our fickle mistress-in-common provides when you are down so far another bruise joining the cast like a  floodplain subsuming one more feeding creek bed into the shapelessness of indistinguishability imagine that where atoms hide eternal between creation and destruction, borrow brief the set exact you require to restore the taken years from fathers/mothers/brothers/sisters, children, return that which went unused by the uninvited, unseemly human whim of war and lies for no gain imagine that the deep sinkhole of despair that ***** one in, years in the formation, appearing in instance, and worse does not drowns but leaves helpless, unable to climb out, and all our scratching digs us in deeper until we cannot be, seen or heard or just be imagine that a check comes in the mail, payable left open for filling-in, in the amount of full restoration, with no additional fees of guilt needed for deposit and cashing/caching out: and you wake up and the stony chest is breathing lungs free imagine that and I do; for I am the smoke of return and rest, sky inscribing, knowing precise needs and the screams and the years unfair taken, they are screened through the five perceptions, and the word weaver sets the loom for each peculiar requisition, no imagination needed imagine that you lament and anger demand verifiable proofs mathematical, cursing the knights of false hopes with untethered regret I do not imagine that; hear it and accept; my task, imagine that, making you imagine that, thus commencement of repair begins when we imagine that for this how new healthy cells  are born quiet-now,  go, imagine-that, now*
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For centuries philosophers have speculated the role sleep plays in society But it was not until the 1950s that sleep woke up in academia And today sleep studies show what dormant minds really look like Information about our rest we've never seen before However, I've always understood the importance of bedtime You see my parents taught me that sleep and love are soul mates My mom She's the sleeper She loves to sleep She cuddles up on any piece of furniture in my house and snoozes for hours Never views a sitcom past the first commercial break when she's tired And she's okay with that Dad never lets her drive on road trips when night falls Preferring his sleeping beauty tucked safely in the passenger seat Their hands meet as she lets the stars serenade her to slumber While he anchors his left hand on the steering wheel Thanking his lucky stars for his real life princess My dad He's the snorer He loves to snore He roars like a lion on his love seat and naps for hours Never views a sitcom past the second commercial break when he's tired And he's okay with that Mom never lets him sleep alone too long though Keeping his nose plugged strong enough to signal for bedtime They both stand together as he lets her guide him to slumber While she ushers her left hand around his back Thanking her lucky stars for her own prince charming Now my parents call me the dreamer And I sure do love to dream It seems my parents are textbook role models for me Because when you live inside a fairytale for far too long Your reality becomes an endless stream of fantasies Your expectations are exceptionally out of context Strictly written for poetic lines in picture books Never meant to be held Never meant to be felt Only meant for spines stuck on rosewood shelves My parents call me the dreamer And boy I love to dream I believe in creating the unthinkable And when you live inside a fairytale for far too long Nothing is fictional You picture a life with storybook endings Praying the author never runs out of ink You crown each syllable the king of the moment Treating each page like royalty And I've always been okay with that So when I asked my mom when she knew she fell in love She spoke of an instant of unadulterated emotion She said she knew instantly She didn't need to sleep on it When I asked my dad when he knew he fell in love He just smiled back at me He must have known instantly He didn't even speak on it So when I ask myself when I might fall in love I can't help but smile Think of fairytale titles Mile wide love notes in all shapes and styles And a moment where my reality sets my hopes on fire And I won't need to dream about it anymore
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Feb 4, 2014
Feb 4, 2014 at 2:35 PM UTC
Dreamer
For centuries philosophers have speculated the role sleep plays in society But it was not until the 1950s that sleep woke up in academia And today sleep studies show what dormant minds really look like Information about our rest we've never seen before However, I've always understood the importance of bedtime You see my parents taught me that sleep and love are soul mates My mom She's the sleeper She loves to sleep She cuddles up on any piece of furniture in my house and snoozes for hours Never views a sitcom past the first commercial break when she's tired And she's okay with that Dad never lets her drive on road trips when night falls Preferring his sleeping beauty tucked safely in the passenger seat Their hands meet as she lets the stars serenade her to slumber While he anchors his left hand on the steering wheel Thanking his lucky stars for his real life princess My dad He's the snorer He loves to snore He roars like a lion on his love seat and naps for hours Never views a sitcom past the second commercial break when he's tired And he's okay with that Mom never lets him sleep alone too long though Keeping his nose plugged strong enough to signal for bedtime They both stand together as he lets her guide him to slumber While she ushers her left hand around his back Thanking her lucky stars for her own prince charming Now my parents call me the dreamer And I sure do love to dream It seems my parents are textbook role models for me Because when you live inside a fairytale for far too long Your reality becomes an endless stream of fantasies Your expectations are exceptionally out of context Strictly written for poetic lines in picture books Never meant to be held Never meant to be felt Only meant for spines stuck on rosewood shelves My parents call me the dreamer And boy I love to dream I believe in creating the unthinkable And when you live inside a fairytale for far too long Nothing is fictional You picture a life with storybook endings Praying the author never runs out of ink You crown each syllable the king of the moment Treating each page like royalty And I've always been okay with that So when I asked my mom when she knew she fell in love She spoke of an instant of unadulterated emotion She said she knew instantly She didn't need to sleep on it When I asked my dad when he knew he fell in love He just smiled back at me He must have known instantly He didn't even speak on it So when I ask myself when I might fall in love I can't help but smile Think of fairytale titles Mile wide love notes in all shapes and styles And a moment where my reality sets my hopes on fire And I won't need to dream about it anymore
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I. Time passes, another batch of refugees and migrants. Cities turn into new houses of gambling and vicious cycles. Some say only machines can speak clearly and most humans have lost what they have earned throughout all this time, just right on schedule. To own our language, and the relationships it sets into motion, we learn painfully, repeatedly like sunrise and sunsets. Claiming our own spaces and demons hidden in our conveniences and reflex routines, and learning the tricks that has kept peoples from fully healing from broken promises and betrayals throughout time. We own up to our language and its demons every day and night that we toss and turn into something feasible, edible, livable. II. Iba ibang uri ng digma. duguang kasaysayang binabaong buhay binubura ang lakas at memorya tulad ng siyudad ng Songdo sa South Korea na ang ibig sabihin ay "city with no memory". Ito din ang isa sa mga modelo para sa New Clark City na tinatayo sa Luzon. Sa dalawahang mga pamamaraan ng mga naghahari-harian, nakikibaka ang anakpawis, nakikibaka ang kamalayan ng pagpapasya at pagwasto sa mga pagkakamali, na paulit-ulit na sinusubukang patayin sa iba ibang mukha. Mula pa sa panahon ng mga lolo at lola noong 1940s hanggang ngayon, patuloy ang mga pag-eexperimento nila at paggamit ng panlilinlang  at dahas, sa ngalan ng kalusugan, edukasyon at batas, upang ipain ang buhay sarili, lasunin ang lupang kinakain ang sarili. Kung hindi tayo mag-aaral at mag-iingat din, tayo mismo ang papatay sa mga sinisimulan. #
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 2:58 AM UTC
Owning our language, facing its demons
I. Time passes, another batch of refugees and migrants. Cities turn into new houses of gambling and vicious cycles. Some say only machines can speak clearly and most humans have lost what they have earned throughout all this time, just right on schedule. To own our language, and the relationships it sets into motion, we learn painfully, repeatedly like sunrise and sunsets. Claiming our own spaces and demons hidden in our conveniences and reflex routines, and learning the tricks that has kept peoples from fully healing from broken promises and betrayals throughout time. We own up to our language and its demons every day and night that we toss and turn into something feasible, edible, livable. II. Iba ibang uri ng digma. duguang kasaysayang binabaong buhay binubura ang lakas at memorya tulad ng siyudad ng Songdo sa South Korea na ang ibig sabihin ay "city with no memory". Ito din ang isa sa mga modelo para sa New Clark City na tinatayo sa Luzon. Sa dalawahang mga pamamaraan ng mga naghahari-harian, nakikibaka ang anakpawis, nakikibaka ang kamalayan ng pagpapasya at pagwasto sa mga pagkakamali, na paulit-ulit na sinusubukang patayin sa iba ibang mukha. Mula pa sa panahon ng mga lolo at lola noong 1940s hanggang ngayon, patuloy ang mga pag-eexperimento nila at paggamit ng panlilinlang  at dahas, sa ngalan ng kalusugan, edukasyon at batas, upang ipain ang buhay sarili, lasunin ang lupang kinakain ang sarili. Kung hindi tayo mag-aaral at mag-iingat din, tayo mismo ang papatay sa mga sinisimulan. #
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and i am eleven again feeling like tomorrow is a couple yesterday's ago smothered in cayenne pepper hot enough to take off taste buds and tonight i am eating a meal only worth burning it tastes like my parents anniversary it tastes like a zinfandel left on the counter too long it's a bad story, see there's no silverware 'cause my mom sold it to keep the lights on and somewhere in heaven somebody in a suit doing commentary on this fiasco is telling someone else in a suit that "you have to eat love with your hands" so we sit, four plates on the table for the two of us my brother's long gone dad's even further away & he's not the one who's buried i carry both their names like anchors that i cannot unmoor from while she looks at the empty table and says something about the news she says something else but she's not talking we aren't proud of this, see my dad likes to wax his car he's proud of it and my mom says she sees a lot of him in my hands says, i touch the things i find like they didn't belong to people sleeping in the ground she says i touch photo albums the same way- you know, i never used to believe that history could repeat itself not until i could fast forward seventeen years and still wake up to smoke alarms how i would go into our kitchen to find it empty and the dinner smoldering & my mother in her bedroom looking through family photos like it's a just another summer day and the sirens are just the birds i don't ask, i never say a word in this moment i am an archeologist afraid to dig up the past cause history repeats itself- you see my brother is dead and my father is gone they have been for some years now and my mother sometimes forgets and sets their place at the table like they're still here and in the confusion ends up ankle deep in pictures of how it used to be she let's dinner burn and douses it in red pepper hoping i won't know the difference
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 6:42 PM UTC
jamais vu
and i am eleven again feeling like tomorrow is a couple yesterday's ago smothered in cayenne pepper hot enough to take off taste buds and tonight i am eating a meal only worth burning it tastes like my parents anniversary it tastes like a zinfandel left on the counter too long it's a bad story, see there's no silverware 'cause my mom sold it to keep the lights on and somewhere in heaven somebody in a suit doing commentary on this fiasco is telling someone else in a suit that "you have to eat love with your hands" so we sit, four plates on the table for the two of us my brother's long gone dad's even further away & he's not the one who's buried i carry both their names like anchors that i cannot unmoor from while she looks at the empty table and says something about the news she says something else but she's not talking we aren't proud of this, see my dad likes to wax his car he's proud of it and my mom says she sees a lot of him in my hands says, i touch the things i find like they didn't belong to people sleeping in the ground she says i touch photo albums the same way- you know, i never used to believe that history could repeat itself not until i could fast forward seventeen years and still wake up to smoke alarms how i would go into our kitchen to find it empty and the dinner smoldering & my mother in her bedroom looking through family photos like it's a just another summer day and the sirens are just the birds i don't ask, i never say a word in this moment i am an archeologist afraid to dig up the past cause history repeats itself- you see my brother is dead and my father is gone they have been for some years now and my mother sometimes forgets and sets their place at the table like they're still here and in the confusion ends up ankle deep in pictures of how it used to be she let's dinner burn and douses it in red pepper hoping i won't know the difference
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