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"spanned" poems
A halo of transfigured light.      spanned the hills and autumn gold of scores of aspen groves      basking in the morning sun. But what is this thing we call a rainbow?      For all our science talk of vapor, refraction and angle of the sun      we surrender still in willing captivity to its beauty, mystery and myth. Rainbows beguile by their fleeting rarity       as ephemeral as life itself - temporal blessings suspended in time       unintended and undeserved, spectral bridges between here and there -        between what is and what should be.
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Nov 11, 2016
Nov 11, 2016 at 9:11 AM UTC
Morning Rainbow
They drove me across the country, from the busy city where we departed to intimate villages where they recessed, and spent a star filled, moonlit night singing songs, their bodies casting long, wavy shadows from campfires they huddled around. Just as I got too cold and my wheels couldn't turn anymore did they finally turn the spark plugs, revving and igniting my despair and sensitivity producing heat. Sometimes they pushed until I shoved and scraped my rubber on asphalt, on rocks, on sand, on boulders big and small, and I hit a flat-line; the air I could hold in no longer. They rode me into a forest whose undergrowth was as thick as a bears' fur during the winter, and redwood that spanned the horizon you thought it could pat the constellations. A forest teeming with life that one would react like Wendy from Peter Pan-- never wanting to leave Neverland. And I could see it in their soft faces and squinting eyes, bright and lit up with joy, every detail apparent as if I burst my headlights into high-beam, directly on them. It was there I ran out of gas and my engines parched for oil, from the endless adventure that was exhilarating and memorable. One could, as a result, easily forget responsibilities. There was no service or refill station nearby, so I was abandoned where I parked, flat tires, rusty hood, broken chassis, dilapidated suspension. I've proved my worth from when I was brought in and over time it wasn't enough. Only repairing, never maintaining.
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014 at 2:11 AM UTC
The Walking Engine
The gentle reaches of the late afternoon sun I'd bathe in this light abundant reverie Swaying breeze... Caressing the web we've spun In the warmth of this amber coloured spree... Shades of gold, stretch beyond observable measure My vision could only take me so far Shining through between the green and azure As if the window of heaven left slightly ajar. Swathed in the glow... Laying on a bed of green Eyes closed... Under the blue that spanned forever Feast for my senses thus honed keen Relishing the lingering touches of her radiating amber. She's finally dipping, taking all of her light... She'll sink behind the horizon, descending gracefully I'd still remember all through my night That amber...                    Amber is the colour of her energy.
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Nov 17, 2014
Nov 17, 2014 at 5:36 AM UTC
Amber
Hear the bass, grace notes race all over the place Cymbals paced, hi-hats chase, weaving between the bass The piano - chords struck with wide spanned hands Poly-rhythmic, multi-layered sounds in strands The timbre of reed vibrating against warm metal Precision; a sixth, a ninth and an eleventh interval A major, a minor scale; a frantic modal sweat A small sound for mankind; but a truly giant step Each note slices through the eclectic beat-drop Singing and whispering this post-modern be-bop Multi-phonics scream, like controlled feedback The seductive saxophone – this weapon of attack The boundary is stretched, new ground broken The holy saxophone has never thus spoken And I pay homage, all my deepest respects Go to the man who made those giant steps
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Aug 22, 2011
Aug 22, 2011 at 9:25 AM UTC
Giant Steps - dedicated to John Coltrane
where solar lips are parted and crescent ******* hardened cobalt fire licks your name off its oldest breath this ****** hollow bends its neck through thermal skies and sand scarlet waves of heat off your (sweet ancestral) hand come inside, the door is open. the answer's always yes Medusa’s gaze would turn to sand if she knew the stony glories spanned within rock candy walls ablaze flood plains carry hydrogen freight from your abyss' collapsing weight the broken ***** flowers rusting in the haze long stem bows in the cut orchestral steal blood from the times ancestral the ink has spilled and left a stain under folded layers of skin that the mirror reflects from views within your eyes are naked lights, innumerable and plain.
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 11:51 PM UTC
flamingo / vampire
In glorious flight owning daylight You magistrate freedom across An ocean with your own box Of twilight that you share In a land of fish A moonlit wish With wings that Kiss the Sky Throughout your expeditions to ground Your voice is a dynamic sound None can ignore your presence What would Pandora say When you sing that way? Higher you fly Distances Many Won't Instruct us to use our heart compass Open our eyes to perspective Show us potential to live When self-doubt is about Like a grain of sand May our cares be Found without A need For The liberty of our latitude Is the length of our attitude The way the wind blows effects The direction we go Our choices to be Curiously Ebb and flow Waving Lo Behold a new dawn of bright feather Consider the stormy weather Notice how cloud and sun Witness the Mother Nature at play Survey to Coastal Bay May we find our way as you have shown Limitless unbounded and flown So shallow is the worry No longer a fury A calming has come Soaring above With truth in Our hearts Won Riding the currents of emotions Soaring aloft mental oceans Wings spanned in physical worlds Discover us great pearls Of wisdom and poise Joyful in noise Good solid Gifts of Sage Cleansing our spirits of past trifles Being careful not to stifle New growth with every gust gained A quill, a crest, a quest A mountain peaked with Knowledge like the Pier we are Destined To A gate to become the best versions Of our outstanding self-landing Into the stars we have been The fringe dust of pinion Divine with the wind Beginning free And renewed With no End © tHE tERRY tREE
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 9:15 PM UTC
Seagull Spirit
In glorious flight owning daylight You magistrate freedom across An ocean with your own box Of twilight that you share In a land of fish A moonlit wish With wings that Kiss the Sky Throughout your expeditions to ground Your voice is a dynamic sound None can ignore your presence What would Pandora say When you sing that way? Higher you fly Distances Many Won't Instruct us to use our heart compass Open our eyes to perspective Show us potential to live When self-doubt is about Like a grain of sand May our cares be Found without A need For The liberty of our latitude Is the length of our attitude The way the wind blows effects The direction we go Our choices to be Curiously Ebb and flow Waving Lo Behold a new dawn of bright feather Consider the stormy weather Notice how cloud and sun Witness the Mother Nature at play Survey to Coastal Bay May we find our way as you have shown Limitless unbounded and flown So shallow is the worry No longer a fury A calming has come Soaring above With truth in Our hearts Won Riding the currents of emotions Soaring aloft mental oceans Wings spanned in physical worlds Discover us great pearls Of wisdom and poise Joyful in noise Good solid Gifts of Sage Cleansing our spirits of past trifles Being careful not to stifle New growth with every gust gained A quill, a crest, a quest A mountain peaked with Knowledge like the Pier we are Destined To A gate to become the best versions Of our outstanding self-landing Into the stars we have been The fringe dust of pinion Divine with the wind Beginning free And renewed With no End © tHE tERRY tREE
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Seeing we never found gay fairyland (Though still we crouched by bluebells moon by moon) And missed the tide of Lethe; yet are soon For that new bridge that leaves old Styx half-spanned; Nor ever unto Mecca caravanned; Nor bugled Asgard, skilled in magic rune; Nor yearned for far Nirvana, the sweet swoon, And from high Paradise are cursed and banned; -Let's die home, ferry across the Channel! Thus Shall we live gods there. Death shall be no sev'rance. Weary cathedrals light new shrines for us. To us, rough knees of boys shall ache with rev'rence. Are not girls' ******* a clear, strong Acropole? -There our oun mothers' tears shall heal us whole
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A New Heaven
There’s a battle raging through my head, So much that it knocked me off my bed. There’s a war raging through the thoughts; Diverse and dismayed neither I can sort. Haste is the time that spent wasting Entertained by such pacifistic maiming. Ideating the norm and realizing the storm had just started as I shut the squirm. Conscience speaks the threat at hand, the head does not agree the time it spanned. Where there are more things on heaven and earth; there are more dreadforth than my brain sports. The enemy lurks the darkness in me, passing by the realm of my inability. I had to open eyes wide to invite the Light while at the same time shut from plain sight. Recall the Words spoken to me, realize there is much for me to see. The villain emerge from the dark of the moon - the cerebral crater dormant from the day’s form “You – are not – real. You are just a figment; an imagination, a fantasy, one that I let you haunt me.” The One I know died for, Lived and loved me through the core. Lies no longer seem redemptive nor elegant nor sped; Flee not the grace and flee the grave though instead. Jolt to wake myself up, admonition that all along I was held at a stop. The battle becomes the sleep yet decided; settled more for the Love had invited.
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Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 12:39 AM UTC
The Battlefield of the Pacifists
Before I begin, let me make one thing perfectly clear: Everything I’ve ever given a **** about, I’ve been unabashedly critical of. So believe me when I say that I appreciate ever word out of your mouth I’ve spanned the distance to hear. You have all these years that you hang over my head, dangling them, subtly mocking from the end of a thread. Yes, darling, you’re well aged and well-read but I’ll be ****** if I will let my experiences be invalidated by a few years and your fiery, well-meaning arrogance, let that be heard as it’s said. It’s true that you know me better than most but don’t get it twisted. You sure as hell don’t know me better than me. Pretend all you like that I’m buttered-up and convinced that your life lessons and late night calls have set me free, but you know as well as me that’s a lie fed through your precious mind’s teeth. I boil and I freeze so I know I can stand the heat, but just remember one thing: You’re intense and addictive but baby, the scorpion still stings. And one twin will **** well bite while of your praises the other sings.
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Jul 29, 2013
Jul 29, 2013 at 3:45 AM UTC
Scorpio
Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep, And shall my soul that lies within your hand Remember nothing, as the blowing sand Forgets the palm where long blue shadows creep When winds along the darkened desert sweep? Or would it still remember, tho’ it spanned A thousand heavens, while the planets fanned The vacant ether with their voices deep? Soul of my soul, no word shall be forgot, Nor yet alone, beloved, shall we see The desolation of extinguished suns, Nor fear the void wherethro’ our planet runs, For still together shall we go and not Fare forth alone to front eternity.
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Love And Death
I lost myself once upon a time in a place that was only whispered to me in dreams. Where the fog is thick and threads through the seams of street lights and street cars with *** fights and brillo bars.   I tell you I lost myself on the tongue of insanity who swallowed my soul to feed its humanity. I lost myself in a city that found me; San Francisco, 2013 Let me extend two points like two bridges that begin in separate places but lead to the same thing. I’m talking the people in both hands with countless art in between. The people, the people, the people. What can’t be said about the near million faces sleeping on warm pillows or cold stones, wearing top hats or traffic cones because not every night are people thriving. But they’re still surviving, getting busy living or getting busy dying. In their eyes are stories being told once you wipe those windows into their souls, deep. You see it all, Just like every star in the fall when the sun goes to sleep. I gave a homeless man a dollar who gave it to another homeless man who then gave it back to me Like we were passing a love note that said, “You need this more than me.” So which of us was the one without the home? Home I soon found in the art of every step taken, one foot in front of the next. I can’t walk through that city discounting the side effects. I was drunk, but not from bottles or cans I was drunk from the hands that told tales with graffiti art to camera pans. and countless other melodies massaging bricks into the landmarks that spanned. Culture sprinkling up and down the hills and between the cracks Painting colors in the sky as the rainbows stacked, Finding pots of gold by merely lifting my eye lids back. There is so much to say about this city in the bay, that is held in place by the people of race and the vessels of art that encompass in its space like stories and attitude, survival and gratitude, muse and expression in delight or depression. I tell you I lost myself in that city. But I know now that being lost is sometimes the only way to be truly found.
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Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 6:55 AM UTC
City in the bay
I lost myself once upon a time in a place that was only whispered to me in dreams. Where the fog is thick and threads through the seams of street lights and street cars with *** fights and brillo bars.   I tell you I lost myself on the tongue of insanity who swallowed my soul to feed its humanity. I lost myself in a city that found me; San Francisco, 2013 Let me extend two points like two bridges that begin in separate places but lead to the same thing. I’m talking the people in both hands with countless art in between. The people, the people, the people. What can’t be said about the near million faces sleeping on warm pillows or cold stones, wearing top hats or traffic cones because not every night are people thriving. But they’re still surviving, getting busy living or getting busy dying. In their eyes are stories being told once you wipe those windows into their souls, deep. You see it all, Just like every star in the fall when the sun goes to sleep. I gave a homeless man a dollar who gave it to another homeless man who then gave it back to me Like we were passing a love note that said, “You need this more than me.” So which of us was the one without the home? Home I soon found in the art of every step taken, one foot in front of the next. I can’t walk through that city discounting the side effects. I was drunk, but not from bottles or cans I was drunk from the hands that told tales with graffiti art to camera pans. and countless other melodies massaging bricks into the landmarks that spanned. Culture sprinkling up and down the hills and between the cracks Painting colors in the sky as the rainbows stacked, Finding pots of gold by merely lifting my eye lids back. There is so much to say about this city in the bay, that is held in place by the people of race and the vessels of art that encompass in its space like stories and attitude, survival and gratitude, muse and expression in delight or depression. I tell you I lost myself in that city. But I know now that being lost is sometimes the only way to be truly found.
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October winds, they came at last Across the hills and ponds, they passed And strewed bright autumn leaves around So wonderful, their stirring sound Relentlessly, they lured my mind Down ancient paths that ever wind So forthwith I sped through my door Toward Massapoag's long sandy shore And to the windy beach, I came As waters glowed with twilight's flame I felt your love on me enfold As I gazed out on waters gold So movingly, our hearts were one Neath crimson rays of setting sun Though far across the land, you dwelt Eternal was the love I felt That spanned the mountains and the seas And rode the wild Autumn breeze Now Autumn days to Winter, turn This vision will, in my heart, burn.
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Jul 9, 2015
Jul 9, 2015 at 6:02 PM UTC
A Vision on the Autumn Breeze
Across the ice a baritone Projects his notes of steel, A tenor’s harmonizing Adds that melancholy feel And the glory of the voices Flows out through alders bare And the listeners weep for Russia’s soul And the tragedy found there. The tragic melancholy Found in every Russian heart Liberated by the sadness A fine harmony can impart. Of the monolithic yesterdays, Those forgotten fields of dead And that fire within the ***** Which numbs the agony of the head. Dark stains along the timber wall Wood fire’s stones make steam It fills the room with stifling heat Which sweats the bodies clean. Red wheals raised on shoulders Birch branches whip the back Whilst companion tones of maleness Speak in vectors women lack. Red larches in the foothills Gold lantern light on snow, The vastness of ancient steppes Of Central Asia grow. A viola’s velvet passion Sighs beneath a cottage door And the sadness in sensation Brings grown men to weep once more. The vastness of the terrain The hardness of the land, The bitter cold of northern wind, Each freezing winter spanned By Siberia’s lashing gales, White snow is metres deep And turquois ice as hard as steel Beneath which... rivers creep. Dostoyevsky,Kruschev, Rasputin and the Tsars, Great Lenin, Marx and Trotsky And the swords of Horse Hussars. Gorbachev the great redeemer, Poor Yeltsin’s pale white skin And the ****** found in Stalin's smile Span the politics of sin. This great Russian melancholy Lies deep within the soul It’s a legacy of yesterday Of her history's brutal goal. It’s a product of the suffering Inherent in the past Endured by legions of the people Then dispensed with… With a laugh! Marshalg @theBach Mangere Bridge 13 April 2009
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Jan 27, 2010
Jan 27, 2010 at 10:46 PM UTC
Melancholy Russia
Across the ice a baritone Projects his notes of steel, A tenor’s harmonizing Adds that melancholy feel And the glory of the voices Flows out through alders bare And the listeners weep for Russia’s soul And the tragedy found there. The tragic melancholy Found in every Russian heart Liberated by the sadness A fine harmony can impart. Of the monolithic yesterdays, Those forgotten fields of dead And that fire within the ***** Which numbs the agony of the head. Dark stains along the timber wall Wood fire’s stones make steam It fills the room with stifling heat Which sweats the bodies clean. Red wheals raised on shoulders Birch branches whip the back Whilst companion tones of maleness Speak in vectors women lack. Red larches in the foothills Gold lantern light on snow, The vastness of ancient steppes Of Central Asia grow. A viola’s velvet passion Sighs beneath a cottage door And the sadness in sensation Brings grown men to weep once more. The vastness of the terrain The hardness of the land, The bitter cold of northern wind, Each freezing winter spanned By Siberia’s lashing gales, White snow is metres deep And turquois ice as hard as steel Beneath which... rivers creep. Dostoyevsky,Kruschev, Rasputin and the Tsars, Great Lenin, Marx and Trotsky And the swords of Horse Hussars. Gorbachev the great redeemer, Poor Yeltsin’s pale white skin And the ****** found in Stalin's smile Span the politics of sin. This great Russian melancholy Lies deep within the soul It’s a legacy of yesterday Of her history's brutal goal. It’s a product of the suffering Inherent in the past Endured by legions of the people Then dispensed with… With a laugh! Marshalg @theBach Mangere Bridge 13 April 2009
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We were sitting in a restaurant Table set for two One of those single couple booths Perfect for me and you We spoke of money and I refused to let you pay for me Maybe I have too much pride But I’m not who your ex used to be The overhead lights reflected perfectly and I was sure that you were not a mistake Your ocean eyes vibrated my soul And then I spilled my milkshake Blood rushed to my face And I looked away in shame But then I heard you laughing And something in my heart changed Somehow you weren’t embarrassed Or uncomfortable with my lack of grace But instead that heart-shattering smile Was plastered across your gorgeous face And then you surprised me yet again As you opened up your soul out of the blue And though you spoke nonchalantly I knew those thoughts were haunting you I painted versions of your stories Across the walls of my mind as you spoke Memorizing the imagery and your feelings About your insufficient social support And while I know I can’t be everything for you I can try to be better than the last So you have somewhere safe to run When you need to escape your broken past Because although the table spanned miles between us And we were connected only by our fingertips I could feel our souls grazing one another As they tangled together in electric riffs At that very moment Staring into your eyes, gold and blue I felt the first real chance That I might truly love you
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Aug 21, 2017
Aug 21, 2017 at 3:42 PM UTC
Dinner for Two
A carpenter was given task; nobody thought it could be done.  A bridge that spanned eternity  was priority number one.  This carpenter, he had no tools; materials he had so few. Yet without doubt he set to work-  he knew just what he had to do.  With two great beams of solid wood,  fastened in a criss-cross fashion, and three old nails, wrought of iron, completed his fateful mission.  He had worked with a crew of twelve,  but in the end, he toiled as one.  Regardless, he had kept the course, and labored til the bridge was done..  He never had union backing,  and was never properly paid.  Where other workers would have quit,  this carpenter would not be swayed.  Now, in the end, his blood and sweat,  the bridge's strong foundation made.  The final sacrifice of  life  made sure its timeless glory stayed. There is no toll to cross this bridge;  the price was paid in blessed blood.  Who'd have thought a bridge to heaven  could be made from a cross of wood?
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Jun 20, 2017
Jun 20, 2017 at 11:52 AM UTC
The Carpenter
Later, there are tears, a sorrow slender as a bellflower at first, and opening its slow & delicate way to grief, fluent as the soul falling toward you, wet and gasping, an agony of willows, late in August & hemlock, tear strung, haunted, in the deep blue scythe of hours you carve out of our secret, a totem fossil of wild horses, abandoned & impaled upon a carousel, that bear a garland of snapdragons for reign and bridle, as they open their tiny pink throats to the night, the calyx trill of tree frogs, with their penchant for silk & pink ribbons, pigtails & sequin dreams, I am desolate now, my body a bramble tangled in its curfew of snow, upon the window pane, the incessant thump, thump of these **** ivory moths, on each wing, a word I speak in dream, returns to me, cleft of blue light, scissor in darkness, fierce to extinguish the stars with their vehement lash of wing to glass, to glass, your pain is my familiar, my envy, my assurance, and I am calmed solely with the lace of spanned hands at the throats small and fluttered vessel, come, to besiege the innocence of Summers stray tears....
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Jan 8, 2013
Jan 8, 2013 at 3:13 PM UTC
Stray Tears:
In the calm still moonlit night       she silently wove a silken tapestry -           spinnerets spewing slender strands       light as air but strong as Kevlar. A silvery armature spanned the trail     clinging to trunks and branches.           Rappelling down from its pinnacle,       she fixed radii to her deadly wheel. Spiraling in from the outer ring       she knitted her way to the center           to await the tell-tale shudder     of a fly or moth flown into her snare. She took no note of the hiker       paused alone on the trail -           transfixed by the dew laden spiral     shimmering in the rose-glow sun. It mattered not to the spider       that a man would find her work pleasing           and it mattered not to the man     that the web was not woven for art.
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Aug 2, 2013
Aug 2, 2013 at 12:47 AM UTC
The Master Weaver
I Believe . I believe a butterfly Can stop a baseball game I know, because I've seen it And it really was a shame, I believe a simple housefly Can stop a moving train, I believe single piece of dust Can also make it rain I believe in every mountain There's a pebble on it's own I believe that every grain of sand Is a pearl that hasn't grown I believe that Father Christmas Is quite real and in your heart I believe that you can finish Every task, if you just start I believe, like Charlie Bucket There's a golden ticket to be found I believe that a tree that's in the forest When it falls, will make a sound I believe in every mountain There's a pebble on it's own I believe that every grain of sand Is a pearl that hasn't grown I believe that love's forever But the one thing about this I believe forever's infinite And it may just last a kiss I believe to stay together That one's trust, it must be earned I believe you jump into the fire Before you know if you'll get burned I believe in every mountain There's a pebble on it's own I believe that every grain of sand Is a pearl that hasn't grown I believe that a strong handshake Will seal a contract, so I've heard I believe one's reputation Should be based on a mans' word I believe that there is wonder In everything that we may find I believe that life is better When you can have an open mind I believe we're just a heartbeat In the timeline life has spanned I believe that every person Is an ungrown grain of sand I believe in every mountain There's a pebble on it's own I believe that every grain of sand Is a pearl that hasn't grown I believe....
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 10:48 AM UTC
I Believe (reposted after deletion)
I Believe . I believe a butterfly Can stop a baseball game I know, because I've seen it And it really was a shame, I believe a simple housefly Can stop a moving train, I believe single piece of dust Can also make it rain I believe in every mountain There's a pebble on it's own I believe that every grain of sand Is a pearl that hasn't grown I believe that Father Christmas Is quite real and in your heart I believe that you can finish Every task, if you just start I believe, like Charlie Bucket There's a golden ticket to be found I believe that a tree that's in the forest When it falls, will make a sound I believe in every mountain There's a pebble on it's own I believe that every grain of sand Is a pearl that hasn't grown I believe that love's forever But the one thing about this I believe forever's infinite And it may just last a kiss I believe to stay together That one's trust, it must be earned I believe you jump into the fire Before you know if you'll get burned I believe in every mountain There's a pebble on it's own I believe that every grain of sand Is a pearl that hasn't grown I believe that a strong handshake Will seal a contract, so I've heard I believe one's reputation Should be based on a mans' word I believe that there is wonder In everything that we may find I believe that life is better When you can have an open mind I believe we're just a heartbeat In the timeline life has spanned I believe that every person Is an ungrown grain of sand I believe in every mountain There's a pebble on it's own I believe that every grain of sand Is a pearl that hasn't grown I believe....
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I am from a dreamland. My great land was diverse yet so grand as the food and words were never bland. The hands were rich with bands and rands, built from working the same ground upon which we stand. I am from a home that once spanned prosperity itself; such a lovely thing was a gift to our health. The sands, skies, and seas could even hold the Heavens. The trees used to dance in the breeze with ease. I am from a dwelling of past envy, but not of a hating feeling, in the purest form, this was just only beauty. But I am from broken societies. Our hearts were bled dry as we were taken overseas. We prayed, begged, cried why ever so loudly, but it was in vain. I am from a place where our veins still course with a saddened passion, as a lack of love is our new fashion. With sorrow, I am still from a life of death, as their malice has never left. Yet they still set us so carelessly upon the trees; despite our screams and pleas, we become the strangest fruits you have ever seen. We have no identity and we have no names. yet they still set us so harshly upon the pyre; the painful extermination of desire is a freedomless and killing fire. Even our look for love is seen as theft, and sadly, I am from where they even have my last breath.
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Mar 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2021 at 12:26 PM UTC
Noir Nature IV
At night I dream of a cityscape, vast and bright across a lake. A breeze blows soft across my face as heart and mind did celebrate, the city which spanned a thought horizon, and bridged the night for old Orion. This moonlit causeway- that splits the sky, Traversed by stars that walk the night. For Luna did smile upon grey streets, and lit grey towers of pure concrete. Illuminated the dark, and pale, and cold, She bathed the raw night in a blanket of gold. This city of dreams that I wander alone, becomes a home and a place of my own, however, even this city can not hide nor run, from the eventual coming of the rising sun. Sleep, my mistress, hold onto me tight, and stay with me, till the crack of first light. We'll meet once more under night's dark drape, as I dream once more of a cityscape.
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 7:15 AM UTC
City 'Scape
Wake: the silver dusk returning Up the beach of darkness brims, And the ship of sunrise burning Strands upon the eastern rims. Wake: the vaulted shadow shatters, Trampled to the floor it spanned, And the tent of night in tatters Straws the sky-pavilioned land. Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying: Hear the drums of morning play; Hark, the empty highways crying "Who'll beyond the hills away?" Towns and countries woo together, Forelands beacon, belfries call; Never lad that trod on leather Lived to feast his heart with all. Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber Sunlit pallets never thrive; Morns abed and daylight slumber Were not meant for man alive. Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
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Reveille
My hand, a little raised, might press a star-- Where I may look, the frosted peaks are spun, So shaped before Olympus was begun, Spanned each to each, now, by a silver bar. Thus to face Beauty have I traveled far, But now, as if around my heart were run Hard, lacing fingers, so I stand undone. Of all my tears, the bitterest these are. Who humbly followed Beauty all her ways, Begging the brambles that her robe had passed, Crying her name in corridors of stone, That day shall know his weariedest of days-- When Beauty, still and suppliant at last, Does not suffice him, once they are alone.
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Sonnet On An Alpine Night
The Circus gongs excite the Throngs in nighttime Never Land – They swarm to see the destiny of Freaks at their command, While Acrobats step pitapat above the shifting sands And Lady Fat sits down to chat and oozes charm unplanned. The Dwarfs in suits, so small and cute when marching with the Band, Ask crimson Clowns with frozen frowns, to hold a mutant hand, While Tamers’ whips with withered tips, throughout the winter land, Lure Cats entranced through hoops enhanced with flames of fires fanned. White Elephants in big-top tents boast black-tusk contraband To regiments of Sycophants who overflow the stands, But No One sees anomalies, and No One understands. At night’s demise, the dither dies, the lonesome Crowd disbands, Down dead-end streets the Horde retreats, their tattered rags in strands, And Janes and Joes reweave their woes, for thoughts of change are banned. To play a part in Three-Ring Art, I thought I’d try my hand – I mastered skills, I felt the thrills, I breathed and seethed firsthand – But destiny denied to me to taste a lifetime spanned With tightrope walks and trapeze chalks ... excepting second-hand... For alcohol provoked a fall, as if a reprimand, And now, a heap, I sometimes keep the ticket office manned...
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 10:57 AM UTC
The Acrobat
is carpeted with snowdrops. did you see them at 60mph, overtaking. did you slow later to see the next drift. did you reach your destination safely. did you stop for coffee there, have a chat, look at the meat and biscuits. did you see the rainbow that spanned the empty house. did you ever wonder, what happened next? it is a small life, treat it gently. sbm,
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 2:01 AM UTC
62. rhug.
Nothing but water. Millions of chemical bonds that sever bonds of the heart, infinitesimally small, but they amount to canyons of separation. On the edges of the canyon stand pieces of a whole, tied through chance equally as small that grew into something beautiful. The ties that spanned this fluid canyon are stressed by the howling winds of uncertainty, and crashing waves of dire futures lap at this fragile twine, but it holds fast and firm. He won’t let the bond break. He stands ashore of his continent framed by ignorance of what lies beyond its coral shoals, knowing nothing of the ocean that spans his affection, or of the island where his affection finds a home. And through the storms that threaten to rip the rope that binds him to his adoration from his blistered fingers, he can see the light that keeps his grip fast and strong. He has read Gatsby and knows the perils of ominous lights that cast shadows on placid waters, but Fitzgerald knows nothing of the tangibility of this boy’s shining beacon. She stands, not as a faint reminder of what once was, but of a blaring beacon of all that could be, and her light pierces through the cynical fog that tries to ***** out her light. You are my beacon. You are my light through the fog of my daily struggles, the beacon that guides me through these rocky waters, holding my hand so as not to run aground on the sandbars of doubt below me. I stay strong, and I stay hopeful, for one day the bonds of this watery divide will break, and this distance will be lessened, and as easy as folding a map to span miles, I will be there with you. So as I stand on this shore, ignorant of the island across this canyon, I hold fast in my grip, and I would sooner be pulled into the sea than let this go, hold onto the ties that bind your heart to mine.
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Sep 6, 2013
Sep 6, 2013 at 12:35 AM UTC
Untitled (A Throwback to February of 2012)
Nothing but water. Millions of chemical bonds that sever bonds of the heart, infinitesimally small, but they amount to canyons of separation. On the edges of the canyon stand pieces of a whole, tied through chance equally as small that grew into something beautiful. The ties that spanned this fluid canyon are stressed by the howling winds of uncertainty, and crashing waves of dire futures lap at this fragile twine, but it holds fast and firm. He won’t let the bond break. He stands ashore of his continent framed by ignorance of what lies beyond its coral shoals, knowing nothing of the ocean that spans his affection, or of the island where his affection finds a home. And through the storms that threaten to rip the rope that binds him to his adoration from his blistered fingers, he can see the light that keeps his grip fast and strong. He has read Gatsby and knows the perils of ominous lights that cast shadows on placid waters, but Fitzgerald knows nothing of the tangibility of this boy’s shining beacon. She stands, not as a faint reminder of what once was, but of a blaring beacon of all that could be, and her light pierces through the cynical fog that tries to ***** out her light. You are my beacon. You are my light through the fog of my daily struggles, the beacon that guides me through these rocky waters, holding my hand so as not to run aground on the sandbars of doubt below me. I stay strong, and I stay hopeful, for one day the bonds of this watery divide will break, and this distance will be lessened, and as easy as folding a map to span miles, I will be there with you. So as I stand on this shore, ignorant of the island across this canyon, I hold fast in my grip, and I would sooner be pulled into the sea than let this go, hold onto the ties that bind your heart to mine.
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