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Color floods to the spot, dull purple. The rest of the body is all washed-out, The color of pearl. In a pit of a rock The sea ***** obsessively, One hollow thw whole sea's pivot. The size of a fly, The doom mark Crawls down the wall. The heart shuts, The sea slides back, The mirrors are sheeted.
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Contusion
It was golden and splendid, That City of light; A vision suspended In deeps of the night; A region of wonder and glory, whose temples were marble and white. I remember the season It dawn'd on my gaze; The mad time of unreason, The brain-numbing days When Winter, white-sheeted and ghastly, stalks onward to torture and craze. More lovely than Zion It shone in the sky When the beams of Orion Beclouded my eye, Bringing sleep that was filled with dim mem'ries of moments obscure and gone by. Its mansions were stately, With carvings made fair, Each rising sedately On terraces rare, And the gardens were fragrant and bright with strange miracles blossoming there. The avenues lur'd me With vistas sublime; Tall arches assur'd me That once on a time I had wander'd in rapture beneath them, and bask'd in the Halcyon clime. On the plazas were standing A sculptur'd array; Long bearded, commanding, rave men in their day— But one stood dismantled and broken, its bearded face battered away. In that city effulgent No mortal I saw, But my fancy, indulgent To memory's law, Linger'd long on the forms in the plazas, and eyed their stone features with awe. I fann'd the faint ember That glow'd in my mind, And strove to remember The aeons behind; &
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The City
In My Salad Days Salad Days **Wikipedia: Modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a person's heyday when somebody was at the peak of his/her abilities, not necessarily in that person's youth.**                         ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Salad Hints of tints of golden pear skins, combine with ruby'd cranberries each a face, the cheeks of alcoholic old men, each wrinkle, a life's recording. All are mates for the marcona almonds nestling, playing hide n' go seeking tween silk sheeted leaves of butter lettuce. All dressed to the nines, underneath a top hatted, cravatted, Fred Astaire marinade. Coated, bathed, loved, protected by a vinegar of balsams, aged grape must, pressed, a lovely, desirable color, a brown and bronzed rust, pressed, then left, to easy rest for oh so many years, like I do, easy resting, when  you feed me in My Salad Days. The Days Though it was a life,  decades destructed Millenniums of de minimus, Forty plus Seders of exile, of hell, Marked by promises, whispers, horseradish tears of Next Year and Jerusalem, Time steeped in a tradition of patient waiting. Each year, recorded by a spot of red wine Purposely Spilled, By my father on unbleached Passover tablecloth, To example, to symbolize that Messiness in life, Is O.K. The Salad Days Salad served with irony generous, When beard greyed and scraggly, White speckled, wisps of sea salt, All my youthful greenery, long wilted. Yet the words herein writ are my Afikomen, my just dessert, My victory song of Hallelujah Just before we eat, celebrating My Feast of Ascension, marking a Delayed Arrival, yet right-on time of My Salad Days. It was only when I was resurrected as two bodies, A pair of cuffed links coupled, In My Salad Days, With the taste of freedom, A first-born infant survivor, Was I rebirthed, and to the fore, risen. When words fell from smiling lips, and Rain and tears flew upwards, and Each and every breath was an Amen.
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 1:44 PM UTC
In My Salad Days
In My Salad Days Salad Days **Wikipedia: Modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a person's heyday when somebody was at the peak of his/her abilities, not necessarily in that person's youth.**                         ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Salad Hints of tints of golden pear skins, combine with ruby'd cranberries each a face, the cheeks of alcoholic old men, each wrinkle, a life's recording. All are mates for the marcona almonds nestling, playing hide n' go seeking tween silk sheeted leaves of butter lettuce. All dressed to the nines, underneath a top hatted, cravatted, Fred Astaire marinade. Coated, bathed, loved, protected by a vinegar of balsams, aged grape must, pressed, a lovely, desirable color, a brown and bronzed rust, pressed, then left, to easy rest for oh so many years, like I do, easy resting, when  you feed me in My Salad Days. The Days Though it was a life,  decades destructed Millenniums of de minimus, Forty plus Seders of exile, of hell, Marked by promises, whispers, horseradish tears of Next Year and Jerusalem, Time steeped in a tradition of patient waiting. Each year, recorded by a spot of red wine Purposely Spilled, By my father on unbleached Passover tablecloth, To example, to symbolize that Messiness in life, Is O.K. The Salad Days Salad served with irony generous, When beard greyed and scraggly, White speckled, wisps of sea salt, All my youthful greenery, long wilted. Yet the words herein writ are my Afikomen, my just dessert, My victory song of Hallelujah Just before we eat, celebrating My Feast of Ascension, marking a Delayed Arrival, yet right-on time of My Salad Days. It was only when I was resurrected as two bodies, A pair of cuffed links coupled, In My Salad Days, With the taste of freedom, A first-born infant survivor, Was I rebirthed, and to the fore, risen. When words fell from smiling lips, and Rain and tears flew upwards, and Each and every breath was an Amen.
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By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule— From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE—out of TIME. Bottomless vales and boundless floods, And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods, With forms that no man can discover For the dews that drip all over; Mountains toppling evermore Into seas without a shore; Seas that restlessly aspire, Surging, unto skies of fire; Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters—lone and dead, Their still waters—still and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily. By the lakes that thus outspread Their lone waters, lone and dead,— Their sad waters, sad and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily,— By the mountains—near the river Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,— By the gray woods,—by the swamp Where the toad and the newt encamp,— By the dismal tarns and pools Where dwell the Ghouls,— By each spot the most unholy— In each nook most melancholy,— There the traveller meets aghast Sheeted Memories of the past— Shrouded forms that start and sigh As they pass the wanderer by— White-robed forms of friends long given, In agony, to the Earth—and Heaven. For the heart whose woes are legion ’Tis a peaceful, soothing region— For the spirit that walks in shadow ’Tis—oh, ’tis an Eldorado! But the traveller, travelling through it, May not—dare not openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed; So wills its King, who hath forbid The uplifting of the fringed lid; And thus the sad Soul that here passes Beholds it but through darkened glasses. By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only. Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have wandered home but newly From this ultimate dim Thule.
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Dreamland
By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule— From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE—out of TIME. Bottomless vales and boundless floods, And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods, With forms that no man can discover For the dews that drip all over; Mountains toppling evermore Into seas without a shore; Seas that restlessly aspire, Surging, unto skies of fire; Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters—lone and dead, Their still waters—still and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily. By the lakes that thus outspread Their lone waters, lone and dead,— Their sad waters, sad and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily,— By the mountains—near the river Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,— By the gray woods,—by the swamp Where the toad and the newt encamp,— By the dismal tarns and pools Where dwell the Ghouls,— By each spot the most unholy— In each nook most melancholy,— There the traveller meets aghast Sheeted Memories of the past— Shrouded forms that start and sigh As they pass the wanderer by— White-robed forms of friends long given, In agony, to the Earth—and Heaven. For the heart whose woes are legion ’Tis a peaceful, soothing region— For the spirit that walks in shadow ’Tis—oh, ’tis an Eldorado! But the traveller, travelling through it, May not—dare not openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed; So wills its King, who hath forbid The uplifting of the fringed lid; And thus the sad Soul that here passes Beholds it but through darkened glasses. By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only. Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have wandered home but newly From this ultimate dim Thule.
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At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An ****** vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top, Steals drowsily and musically Into the universal valley. The rosemary nods upon the grave; The lily lolls upon the wave; Wrapping the fog about its breast, The ruin moulders into rest; Looking like Lethe, see! the lake A conscious slumber seems to take, And would not, for the world, awake. All Beauty sleeps!—and lo! where lies (Her casement open to the skies) Irene, with her Destinies! Oh, lady bright! can it be right— This window open to the night! The wanton airs, from the tree-top, Laughingly through the lattice-drop— The bodiless airs, a wizard rout, Flit through thy chamber in and out, And wave the curtain canopy So fitfully—so fearfully— Above the closed and fringed lid ’Neath which thy slumb’ring soul lies hid, That, o’er the floor and down the wall, Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall! Oh, lady dear, hast thou no fear? Why and what art thou dreaming here? Sure thou art come o’er far-off seas, A wonder to these garden trees! Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress! Strange, above all, thy length of tress, And this all-solemn silentness! The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep Which is enduring, so be deep! Heaven have her in its sacred keep! This chamber changed for one more holy, This bed for one more melancholy, I pray to God that she may lie For ever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by! My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep; Soft may the worms about her creep! Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault unfold— Some vault that oft hath flung its black And winged panels fluttering back, Triumphant, o’er the crested palls, Of her grand family funerals— Some sepulchre, remote, alone, Against whose portal she hath thrown, In childhood many an idle stone— Some tomb from out whose sounding door She ne’er shall force an echo more, Thrilling to think, poor child of sin! It was the dead who groaned within.
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The Sleeper
At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An ****** vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top, Steals drowsily and musically Into the universal valley. The rosemary nods upon the grave; The lily lolls upon the wave; Wrapping the fog about its breast, The ruin moulders into rest; Looking like Lethe, see! the lake A conscious slumber seems to take, And would not, for the world, awake. All Beauty sleeps!—and lo! where lies (Her casement open to the skies) Irene, with her Destinies! Oh, lady bright! can it be right— This window open to the night! The wanton airs, from the tree-top, Laughingly through the lattice-drop— The bodiless airs, a wizard rout, Flit through thy chamber in and out, And wave the curtain canopy So fitfully—so fearfully— Above the closed and fringed lid ’Neath which thy slumb’ring soul lies hid, That, o’er the floor and down the wall, Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall! Oh, lady dear, hast thou no fear? Why and what art thou dreaming here? Sure thou art come o’er far-off seas, A wonder to these garden trees! Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress! Strange, above all, thy length of tress, And this all-solemn silentness! The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep Which is enduring, so be deep! Heaven have her in its sacred keep! This chamber changed for one more holy, This bed for one more melancholy, I pray to God that she may lie For ever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by! My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep; Soft may the worms about her creep! Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault unfold— Some vault that oft hath flung its black And winged panels fluttering back, Triumphant, o’er the crested palls, Of her grand family funerals— Some sepulchre, remote, alone, Against whose portal she hath thrown, In childhood many an idle stone— Some tomb from out whose sounding door She ne’er shall force an echo more, Thrilling to think, poor child of sin! It was the dead who groaned within.
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The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise) Summoned for to break the fast of sleep-and-dreams that can no longer last, As the clock to noon draws nigh, I happily paddle off to the cabinet Where the cereals that I CHOSE, Since I am now a grownup, faithfully await, calm and in repose. The refrigerator, in nearby proximity, sources a Stony-field yogurt,, A yogurt that I CHOSE, light and sweet with processed fruit, due to the miracle of Aspartame. Distracted, back to the kitchen for Some multi-grain slices to hail and toast, Which I prefer dry (no butter) and ready for anointing with oils of Strawberry jelly. To the table return ready to sound The horn of plenty, When I see the **** Breakfast Fairies have struck yet again! Cousins first to those that reside in nearby dishwasher* The nefarious fairies guard my health tho nobody asked them too! My Crispix, with its malty sweetness, And the ***** aftertaste of sprayed-on "enriched vitamins," has been smothered neath layers of Granola, with cranberries and nuts, Contaminated with a hint of cinnamon. My processed yogurt, vanished, without a trace, replaced by their bacterial cousins from Thrace, which is in Greece, who, tho white, taste like plain yogurt sourpusses, Even when littered with blueberries, Nothing can replace the taste of my Artificial Sweetener! Dry toast has been sheeted and shined neath A tribute of fattening butter, rationalized by a commonality, "Everything is better with butter..." The last indignity is that my coffee, Not the light brown I cherish When kissed by whole milk, Now muddled and muddied by skim milk, so named, Cause they skim off all the taste. Because they are fairies, With fluttering wings, Hasty retreat they beat, But I know where they hide. The next time it be for the morning meal, I will eat it in bed, far from their kitchen hiding places, And celebrate my heroics with original Frosted Flakes and milk, And extra sugar just for spite! The bedroom fairies, living under the pillow, Emerge to beg in iambic pentameter, Won't get nary a bite, Until they they return the poems they stole From my midnight dreams.
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Jun 1, 2013
Jun 1, 2013 at 12:08 PM UTC
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise)
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise) Summoned for to break the fast of sleep-and-dreams that can no longer last, As the clock to noon draws nigh, I happily paddle off to the cabinet Where the cereals that I CHOSE, Since I am now a grownup, faithfully await, calm and in repose. The refrigerator, in nearby proximity, sources a Stony-field yogurt,, A yogurt that I CHOSE, light and sweet with processed fruit, due to the miracle of Aspartame. Distracted, back to the kitchen for Some multi-grain slices to hail and toast, Which I prefer dry (no butter) and ready for anointing with oils of Strawberry jelly. To the table return ready to sound The horn of plenty, When I see the **** Breakfast Fairies have struck yet again! Cousins first to those that reside in nearby dishwasher* The nefarious fairies guard my health tho nobody asked them too! My Crispix, with its malty sweetness, And the ***** aftertaste of sprayed-on "enriched vitamins," has been smothered neath layers of Granola, with cranberries and nuts, Contaminated with a hint of cinnamon. My processed yogurt, vanished, without a trace, replaced by their bacterial cousins from Thrace, which is in Greece, who, tho white, taste like plain yogurt sourpusses, Even when littered with blueberries, Nothing can replace the taste of my Artificial Sweetener! Dry toast has been sheeted and shined neath A tribute of fattening butter, rationalized by a commonality, "Everything is better with butter..." The last indignity is that my coffee, Not the light brown I cherish When kissed by whole milk, Now muddled and muddied by skim milk, so named, Cause they skim off all the taste. Because they are fairies, With fluttering wings, Hasty retreat they beat, But I know where they hide. The next time it be for the morning meal, I will eat it in bed, far from their kitchen hiding places, And celebrate my heroics with original Frosted Flakes and milk, And extra sugar just for spite! The bedroom fairies, living under the pillow, Emerge to beg in iambic pentameter, Won't get nary a bite, Until they they return the poems they stole From my midnight dreams.
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I pace the sounding sea-beach and behold How the voluminous billows roll and run, Upheaving and subsiding, while the sun Shines through their sheeted emerald far unrolled, And the ninth wave, slow gathering fold by fold All its loose-flowing garments into one, Plunges upon the shore, and floods the dun Pale reach of sands, and changes them to gold. So in majestic cadence rise and fall The mighty undulations of thy song, O sightless bard, England’s Mæonides! And ever and anon, high over all Uplifted, a ninth wave superb and strong, Floods all the soul with its melodious seas.
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Milton
beluga whales surfaced, floating ghostly white ferocious tides ripped, sands sinking cowslip tripped the cloud's crashing sky sunbursts cracked storm walls, with fire yellow light rain far-off sheeted, poured - hillsides weeping fireweed bowed, bent heavily sleeping the rutted road curved swerving narrowly upward leading me to the sweet summer of Girdwood
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Jul 3, 2012
Jul 3, 2012 at 9:35 PM UTC
Girdwood
Let us fall, Fall into a satin-sheeted bed, As our passions push us into an intertwine, As each touch waivers away our ornaments, That are nothing but a bother, So that our skins may kiss, Let my lips caress upon you, And caress I shall, Till the roses of desire that blossom on your cheeks, Grows and spread to all points intimate, As the garnered juices of intimacy between your thighs, Waterfalls down your legs, Shall our hearts pound as hard as the bed rattles, As we feast upon our lusts, as if there were no more morrows.
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Feb 26, 2021
Feb 26, 2021 at 12:12 AM UTC
Insatiable Hunger
His name lingers on my tongue's tip..... Striking passion like flint, tossing sparks like fireworks Into the ink black sky; Stirring emotions like the leaves That scuttle around my feet; Autumn walks, stealing light from the moon, Her tendrils spiral, lingering..and the colours fall In words that flutter from my tongue... My eyes whisper, ache, A timeless want, feeding in the hunger of his tender wrap.. And Morning undresses inhibitions in anticipation Of having him see me naked and unashamed.. My deepest secrets shared, With the slivers and shards of what once resembled A heart falling like rain about my feet.. The curve of his back trails toward a path Unknown, shadowed within my stare; Finding solace in the rising storm, As it lays sheeted beneath satin layers of gentle; A hush of soft, stirs, Caressing the edge of sapphire whispers; The sweet of first blush, laces fever in the swallow of rushing rivers Liquored with moonshine sprinkles, and Swooning as Autumn winds Surge... and dance, syllables that speak for our tongues Holding on tight, limb to limb Not afraid to let go Just not ever wanting to........
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Aug 30, 2012
Aug 30, 2012 at 4:14 PM UTC
Solace:
Our house in Brooklyn Groaning with the heavy sheeted winds Car doors and answering machines A windy, winding tunnel of deep seated hatred Vaulting towards you and me Deep down in our tunnel of love The black ice is slippery Several more years til this kills me Sipping cherry coke and ***** Sitting playfully on the carpeted floor Playing with your fingers while Maury screams on TV Screaming with some unknown rage in his eyes A rage that has come from deep psychological problems The rats in our walls stir again Dark clouds form overhead Making shadow puppets in the dark Brooklyn streets And they boxed in the Avenues of the Brooklyn rain Triumphant in their arrival Several more years now Several more years. The rain streaks the windows Water drops form vertical lines They race. The dogs barking again and I can’t control this situation The sirens are singing again and they won’t quit Every year this house stays up We waste it on gin and cheap TV Watching the cable from the house two blocks down They watch the ********* stuff. The Brooklyn smog hangs in the air Dismal and clear. The sirens won’t quit But the dogs have given up Their sheltered under the porch Whining, whining. The cable cuts out The static on the radio is clear And then the dogs howl.
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Oct 16, 2012
Oct 16, 2012 at 12:43 AM UTC
Brooklyn can't **** me
I'll write and say same words I've said      ten thousand times before Until I don't believe      that I believe them anymore Because riding on this carousel means spinning one's wheels into moist ground      thought I had some traction      but it seems I thought too soon-- So I am off of the rails Off the wagon. Off to nowhere. 'Cuz it's, "Onward, lads, to one more night spent covering ground's familiar footsteps and sheeting snowy sidewalks in the dollars we don't have." And we'll lay 'em kinda thick      press our prints in Presidents pro bono comes advice from the corners we can't heed, but por argento comes the cure we choose to **** our heads with I'll pick a place, polish my boots      get far as my front steps where I'll sit until the summer rolls around      and sweat rolls down in sheets Short sheeted best hopes, shortened thank-you notes and lists of ****** quotes lay around and resonate on floors and facebooks, tabletops in summertime,           when it rolls around But, now, it's winter and we're all 364 1/4 resolutions older      --at 33 revolutions per minute,      and 16 ounces at a time,      we can almost cope. Now, it's winter and the sheets are           still too warm Now, it's winter and we sheet the           snowy sidewalks in Presidential faces in the dollars we don't have and the cure we **** our heads with keeps us safely insane 'Cuz in a world built by psychopaths, the sane don't always last. And, if I'm the last one out? I'll sing a song and **** the lights before I go.
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Feb 16, 2013
Feb 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM UTC
Sheets
I'll write and say same words I've said      ten thousand times before Until I don't believe      that I believe them anymore Because riding on this carousel means spinning one's wheels into moist ground      thought I had some traction      but it seems I thought too soon-- So I am off of the rails Off the wagon. Off to nowhere. 'Cuz it's, "Onward, lads, to one more night spent covering ground's familiar footsteps and sheeting snowy sidewalks in the dollars we don't have." And we'll lay 'em kinda thick      press our prints in Presidents pro bono comes advice from the corners we can't heed, but por argento comes the cure we choose to **** our heads with I'll pick a place, polish my boots      get far as my front steps where I'll sit until the summer rolls around      and sweat rolls down in sheets Short sheeted best hopes, shortened thank-you notes and lists of ****** quotes lay around and resonate on floors and facebooks, tabletops in summertime,           when it rolls around But, now, it's winter and we're all 364 1/4 resolutions older      --at 33 revolutions per minute,      and 16 ounces at a time,      we can almost cope. Now, it's winter and the sheets are           still too warm Now, it's winter and we sheet the           snowy sidewalks in Presidential faces in the dollars we don't have and the cure we **** our heads with keeps us safely insane 'Cuz in a world built by psychopaths, the sane don't always last. And, if I'm the last one out? I'll sing a song and **** the lights before I go.
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I lost my first love, For the millionth time Then I woke up It still hurts, like the first time, even in dreams Wiping the cold out my eyes Or are they dried up tears From emotional scar tissue Built up year after year As I rise from bed So do the suppressed memories of her Like the raising of a purposely sunken ship Buried deep, deep in the Mariana Trench Then she follows me until the afternoon Like a ghost in mourning, with unfinished business of this earth A plague on my mind, like rain on recess I can still see the layout of her fathers apartment Perfectly laid out in my mind Her and I, laying in her adolescent, orange sheeted silk bed Quietly spelunking each others bodies As to not sound the protective alarm in her fathers head I can still smell her Hear her Feel her touch, in bed, whilst I When I sleep, I can't control her Time isn't linear After we close our eyes and turn in In my dream state We'll still date Jumping around from July 2005 to May 2008 But never again with eyes open For I see a different person Then when my eyes are closed Skin pressed, rubbing of the nose Our naked bodies and clenched toes
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Sep 1, 2013
Sep 1, 2013 at 5:12 PM UTC
Envisioned Images, Sounds, Sensations During Sleep
There is at all times A soup boiling In the plains of the Savannah. As the wind presses its large and small hands Into the course straw grass To smooth the wrinkles- But also to make more. And falling slowly, fluxing, Between the waves—creatures, All of them strange, Blending. And from time to time, a sickening red, But only for a while, Until it is swirled once more into the soup, Or steeping into the earth as tea. There is sometimes a stacking of skies; Amber On top of pink, On top of blue, With pyrite flecks- But not yet indigo. And one form rises up out of them; A baobab moving slowly, Mushrooming monster, Exploding exponentially outward. And at its calloused feet Are porcelain painted zebras And soft clay elephants, Who reshape themselves in the gray murk Of the water hole- Which is sometimes blue, And sometimes sheeted mica shimmering. Watching quietly, the prince. Who is still, (But not exempt!) Unable to be, but becoming. Exhausted and exhausting, Around his furrowed face is a mane Of technicolor flames.
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Feb 12, 2014
Feb 12, 2014 at 6:00 PM UTC
Dream Doctrine
; climb incidentally a towering flat at struggling veneration's rawest berry so scarlet a holly droplet in manifolds of sage a sundered drooping door i'm carefully falling porcelain sheeted hammers languid health a protein remarkably nascent fronds spun g,Ol den denting vine
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Dec 21, 2010
Dec 21, 2010 at 3:28 PM UTC
climb incidentally a towering flat
Globally dense, our ailing nation makes one weep for sheer frustration thoughts and dreams grow numb. Tech-addled students scroll on phones, ‘midst scent of android pheromones, wafting digital dumb. Pop-culture, narcissist unkind dispenses with the human mind which, failing further, falls behind the grimly global curve. We read, in writing on the wall arithmetic’s impending fall while numbers loiter in the hall to get what they deserve. ENQUIRY, tagged as D.O.A, a sheeted stiff, is wheeled away her mourners left to grieve. entitled maiden, full of sass, LIBERTY begs a bathroom pass her bladder to relieve. When zit-faced rebels run the show the dismal ratings plummet low; a vulgarized cartoon. Descending to unfathomed levels, Ignorance applauds her devils calling out their tune. PATRIOTISM, tarred and feathered headless, claws its cage untethered foul, unloved, unfree: Another casualty of time which fell for want of noble rhyme; to water FREEDOM’s tree. CURIOSITY, half asleep, now stirs and murmurs from the deep uninterested, untaught. She grows yet duller in her ways returning to her ocean daze, (her schools of fish uncaught). HISTORY, dormant, lies in dust a narrative no man can trust a book no scholar reads. Events unstudied as designed wherein the heart of humankind for want of context, bleeds. DEMOCRACY degenerates until God wills and activates a nation’s drive to learn. Curricula will be made void; disheartened teachers unemployed, their wisdom fit to burn. You think the past was less obtuse? Less prone to youthful thought-abuse? Perhaps… back in the day. And though it may have been the same. this poet opts to place the blame on digital delay.
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May 1, 2017
May 1, 2017 at 6:55 AM UTC
Low Definition Digital Delay
Globally dense, our ailing nation makes one weep for sheer frustration thoughts and dreams grow numb. Tech-addled students scroll on phones, ‘midst scent of android pheromones, wafting digital dumb. Pop-culture, narcissist unkind dispenses with the human mind which, failing further, falls behind the grimly global curve. We read, in writing on the wall arithmetic’s impending fall while numbers loiter in the hall to get what they deserve. ENQUIRY, tagged as D.O.A, a sheeted stiff, is wheeled away her mourners left to grieve. entitled maiden, full of sass, LIBERTY begs a bathroom pass her bladder to relieve. When zit-faced rebels run the show the dismal ratings plummet low; a vulgarized cartoon. Descending to unfathomed levels, Ignorance applauds her devils calling out their tune. PATRIOTISM, tarred and feathered headless, claws its cage untethered foul, unloved, unfree: Another casualty of time which fell for want of noble rhyme; to water FREEDOM’s tree. CURIOSITY, half asleep, now stirs and murmurs from the deep uninterested, untaught. She grows yet duller in her ways returning to her ocean daze, (her schools of fish uncaught). HISTORY, dormant, lies in dust a narrative no man can trust a book no scholar reads. Events unstudied as designed wherein the heart of humankind for want of context, bleeds. DEMOCRACY degenerates until God wills and activates a nation’s drive to learn. Curricula will be made void; disheartened teachers unemployed, their wisdom fit to burn. You think the past was less obtuse? Less prone to youthful thought-abuse? Perhaps… back in the day. And though it may have been the same. this poet opts to place the blame on digital delay.
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White are the far-off plains, and white The fading forests grow; The wind dies out along the height, And denser still the snow, A gathering weight on roof and tree, Falls down scarce audibly. The road before me smooths and fills Apace, and all about The fences dwindle, and the hills Are blotted slowly out; The naked trees loom spectrally Into the dim white sky. The meadows and far-sheeted streams Lie still without a sound; Like some soft minister of dreams The snow-fall hoods me round; In wood and water, earth and air, A silence everywhere. Save when at lonely intervals Some farmer's sleigh, urged on, With rustling runners and sharp bells, Swings by me and is gone; Or from the empty waste I hear A sound remote and clear; The barking of a dog, or call To cattle, sharply pealed, Borne echoing from some wayside stall Or barnyard far a-field; Then all is silent, and the snow Falls, settling soft and slow. The evening deepens, and the gray Folds closer earth and sky; The world seems shrouded far away; Its noises sleep, and I, As secret as yon buried stream, Plod dumbly on, and dream. Archibald Lampman
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Dec 8, 2013
Dec 8, 2013 at 11:46 AM UTC
Snow - by Archibald Lampman
I am delirious, lingering from days frayed at both ends, especially the head and knotted in the middle, a rope tightened round the heart, squeezing beats out in stops and starts, oh but this is how we play the game, it's sweaty palmed, brow furrowed fun, with far too many clocks cold halls to walk, amongst holy ghosts tearing through white sheeted rooms, they haunt or sometimes they bring invisible healing placing flowers in colorful rings and garlands circling round the bed and in the night, only blue white light to fill a room, basked in love a tattered heart to mend
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Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014 at 11:59 PM UTC
Heart surgery
Your words seem often sheeted by waves of mystique Like sand by the ocean out on the beach. They pour over your lips like waterfalls in your head They come crashing into pools of what's already been said I'd love to dive in deeper submerged in sadness and lies To bathe in your holy spirit like an infant first baptized  Your eyes are like white wine they help to calm my nerve Your nerves are like explosions they catch my eyes as they deserve Your skin sets my skin on fire whenever we don't touch I feel the flame encase me like a casket forged in rust Your frame holds the painting that is your beautiful soul Your hands, unlike my burdens could only be mine to hold Your assets only intrigue me you carry yourself so well You drape yourself in clothes to cover your beautiful self Your modesty is mesmerizing your humbleness deserves merit You carry your lust inside you like a bomb waiting to be lit The words you've whispered to me shoot contradictions like a gun Contradictions like my ability to write love poems to no one
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Jan 9, 2012
Jan 9, 2012 at 12:20 AM UTC
Beauty in the Least
Falls of the liquid clear rushing and crashing transparency diamond sheeted beyond a glimmer of another world lies hope of an eye seen Bewildering beat within skips in song thirsty I lavishly drink it in beauty perceived in a moment quenched as I survey the tumbling tears of creations cries
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Jul 9, 2020
Jul 9, 2020 at 1:28 PM UTC
Beyond The Waterfall
To Garryowen upon an ***** ground Two girls are jigging. Riotously they trip, With eyes aflame, quick bosoms, hand on hip, As in the tumult of a witches' round. Youngsters and youngsters round them prance and bound. Two solemn babes twirl ponderously, and skip. The artist's teeth gleam from his bearded lip. High from the kennel howls a tortured hound. The music reels and hurtles, and the night Is full of stinks and cries; a naphtha-light Flares from a barrow; battered and obtused With vices, wrinkles, life and work and rags, Each with her inch of clay, two loitering hags Look on dispassionate--critical--something 'mused. *** The gods are dead? Perhaps they are! Who knows? Living at least in Lempriere undeleted, The wise, the fair, the awful, the jocose, Are one and all, I like to think, retreated In some still land of lilacs and the rose. Once high they sat, and high o'er earthly shows With sacrificial dance and song were greeted. Once . . . long ago. But now, the story goes, The gods are dead. It must be true. The world, a world of prose, Full-crammed with facts, in science swathed and sheeted, Nods in a stertorous after-dinner doze! Plangent and sad, in every wind that blows Who will may hear the sorry words repeated:-- 'The Gods are Dead!'
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In The Dials
Failure Illuminates And plagues Our accomplishments "The first bullet To **** by your head Is the scariest," The general said. "All the rest Are just like Old girlfriends You might catch sight of At the bar." When we take our own life Into our own hands and Rely on the sincerity of others, We are playing a game More dangerous Than Russian Roulette. I take for granted What I have I dare not to see my Many blessings For fear of feeling Unworthy The walls here Do not leak and There are no cockroaches Scurrying underneath My one sheeted bed The air I breath Is not nuclear and There is no Secret Police Pounding on my door I am alone To do What I please When I please The only rapping That echoes around me Are from the hand's of An unknown creativity Who put This desire In me? Who cursed me To never be Satisfied or Free? How long have the shackles - Rusted and red orange in the sun - Been strapped to my wrists and Gripped around the bases of my ankles? But To abandon my irons Would be to abandon Myself Leave myself In the desert sun - The soul begging for Water, for food, for Shelter from the beating flares of sunlight Where there are questions There are answers Where there are answers There is rest for some For others They dutifully Choose not To recognize Outside my windows the Street workers with their hammers And their sledgehammers pound away To the mad rhythm of this hustling city. History has not forgotten them, But it wants to. History wants to forget us all. History wants to re-write itself. We want to write ourself to be The divinely chosen Men of the World. We will never be, We will forever be human. To reach the heavens Would mean death. And death Lasts longer Than a lifetime
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May 29, 2012
May 29, 2012 at 2:35 AM UTC
A Historical Miscalculation
Failure Illuminates And plagues Our accomplishments "The first bullet To **** by your head Is the scariest," The general said. "All the rest Are just like Old girlfriends You might catch sight of At the bar." When we take our own life Into our own hands and Rely on the sincerity of others, We are playing a game More dangerous Than Russian Roulette. I take for granted What I have I dare not to see my Many blessings For fear of feeling Unworthy The walls here Do not leak and There are no cockroaches Scurrying underneath My one sheeted bed The air I breath Is not nuclear and There is no Secret Police Pounding on my door I am alone To do What I please When I please The only rapping That echoes around me Are from the hand's of An unknown creativity Who put This desire In me? Who cursed me To never be Satisfied or Free? How long have the shackles - Rusted and red orange in the sun - Been strapped to my wrists and Gripped around the bases of my ankles? But To abandon my irons Would be to abandon Myself Leave myself In the desert sun - The soul begging for Water, for food, for Shelter from the beating flares of sunlight Where there are questions There are answers Where there are answers There is rest for some For others They dutifully Choose not To recognize Outside my windows the Street workers with their hammers And their sledgehammers pound away To the mad rhythm of this hustling city. History has not forgotten them, But it wants to. History wants to forget us all. History wants to re-write itself. We want to write ourself to be The divinely chosen Men of the World. We will never be, We will forever be human. To reach the heavens Would mean death. And death Lasts longer Than a lifetime
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