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"spotless" poems
have you ever believed in something so blindly so genuinely that the moment you realize it isn't true, something inside you changes forever? i wanna tell you a story, see seldom do i ever go swimming in drinks deep enough to drown in but when i do i speak in tongues about things that none of my memories are allowed to talk about like that christmas at the isthmus where my girlfriend plucked a conch shell whiter than gods teeth out of the sand held it to her ear and stopped time that day she was a shade of blue the could've made the ocean sick see, she loved to play jokes when she held the sea shell to her ear she gasped, called my name and said "i want you to hear this" i said "yeah, right, everybody knows it's just the same old sea" she replied "no. not this one. this one is special. listen. theres music in this one" she handed me the shell like a promise she couldn't keep and i held it to my ear with all the potential of seeing shore after being stranded at sea for years only to hear a tired dirge of silence spill from its emptiness i guess she didn't know how desperately i wanted to hear it too because ever since something inside me snapped now sand pours out of every post card i open i hear seagulls in telephone static sometimes i have dreams where i bury my hands in every beach i've ever been on and exhume this graveyard of noise every time i try to sleep i spit up fishhooks and i guess i'm obsessed but maybe if i hold my ear to enough vacant things then i could have back the time stolen from me since it happened maybe they would get it if they knew what i wanted when i blow out birthday candles maybe they'll find me face down in a wishing well i watch eternal sunshine of the spotless mind every day pretending i can forget too because this sea sickness has followed me for years because yesterday i walked into a music shop and all the pianos broke but the only thing i can think to say is *do you know how bad a memory has to be that you fantasize about forgetting it?*
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Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 2014 at 1:03 PM UTC
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have you ever believed in something so blindly so genuinely that the moment you realize it isn't true, something inside you changes forever? i wanna tell you a story, see seldom do i ever go swimming in drinks deep enough to drown in but when i do i speak in tongues about things that none of my memories are allowed to talk about like that christmas at the isthmus where my girlfriend plucked a conch shell whiter than gods teeth out of the sand held it to her ear and stopped time that day she was a shade of blue the could've made the ocean sick see, she loved to play jokes when she held the sea shell to her ear she gasped, called my name and said "i want you to hear this" i said "yeah, right, everybody knows it's just the same old sea" she replied "no. not this one. this one is special. listen. theres music in this one" she handed me the shell like a promise she couldn't keep and i held it to my ear with all the potential of seeing shore after being stranded at sea for years only to hear a tired dirge of silence spill from its emptiness i guess she didn't know how desperately i wanted to hear it too because ever since something inside me snapped now sand pours out of every post card i open i hear seagulls in telephone static sometimes i have dreams where i bury my hands in every beach i've ever been on and exhume this graveyard of noise every time i try to sleep i spit up fishhooks and i guess i'm obsessed but maybe if i hold my ear to enough vacant things then i could have back the time stolen from me since it happened maybe they would get it if they knew what i wanted when i blow out birthday candles maybe they'll find me face down in a wishing well i watch eternal sunshine of the spotless mind every day pretending i can forget too because this sea sickness has followed me for years because yesterday i walked into a music shop and all the pianos broke but the only thing i can think to say is *do you know how bad a memory has to be that you fantasize about forgetting it?*
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Open your heart paint your dream. Do it in the broad daylight, it’s your colour scheme.   If the twilight falls on your colour plate before you’re done painting the noon, keep drawing down the moon! Breakthrough at the first light. No sunrise is any bird’s sleeping pillow. They are on their wings, out and tweeting, singing on the past night’s dreamscene. Any of the fair duo, the Sun or the Moon, sleek sunny golden or the silver line, neither one of those can you catch. They know their science   like you count your time. You can set your mind any time, pick any number to count your time, but you won’t have the last one. There isn’t one, the mind is spotless fine. But if the solar-lunar duo can count the last: ask them to stop the time.   Be truthful as you speak. Open the heart into your eloquent word. Never think you are alone, you are complete with the complete world!
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Mar 31, 2017
Mar 31, 2017 at 10:18 PM UTC
Open Your Heart Paint Your Dream
Purity is not just about virginity, It's also about dignity, Purity is not restricted to femininity, but requires the protection of chivalry, and regard for responsibility. Purity is not innocence out of ignorance, It's making a choice that's different. Even when facing a challenge. Purity is not just about hiding behind a white veil, Or donning a white spotless gown. It's about going through a season of waiting, even if it can be tough. Purity is not just a state of being, It's a state of knowing, valuing and protecting... The sacredness of a marriage. The loyalty to one's spouse. The unity of two to form one flesh. Not giving up one's body to all the rest, but leaving it for God's best.
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Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 2:40 AM UTC
Purity.
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned.
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Nov 7, 2014
Nov 7, 2014 at 2:41 AM UTC
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
Once, long ago, An old man took me into his shop And showed me his snowglobe collection. Every one, spotless, No trace of dust lining the rims. I paused to gaze, No, Marvel, At each scene: Two children ice skating, A milkman driving his truck, Ladies reading magazines while having their hair styled. Every one, spotless, Until I lightly shook one, Just enough so the snow sprinkled The ice skating children, The driving milkman, The reading ladies. But each scene was still, frozen in time, Still, perfect. I slumped to the floor, Heartbroken and tears trailing down my cheeks. I wanted their life so bad, But all I could do was marvel, No, Gaze, And lightly sprinkle the tiny figurines.
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Apr 3, 2013
Apr 3, 2013 at 11:56 AM UTC
Perfect Snow
Amazing Grace: your gift for all. So amazing your grace that you would die for us sinners on a cross in shame and agony though sinless yourself. How Sweet the Sound: to hear "your sins are absolved" That Saved a Wretch Like Me: Compared to your perfection and glory we are truly wretched. All blackened by sin, but because of your death on a cross not by water or blood, but by water and blood we are saved and washed clean and white. The only chance we have of getting into heaven is by your gift of Amazing Grace. I Once Was Lost: like a sheep who strays from the flock and wanders off But Now Am Found: I am safe and sound in your arms once again. You rescue me from danger and bring me back safe and sound. Was Blind: because of sin and my faults, wrapped up in a blanket of hurting and lies. But Now I See: the magnitude of this gift you give and because of your death, the pure spotless lamb, and the cleansing blood you shed for me and for many that sins might be forgiven. 'Twas Grace That Taught My Heart To Fear: fear you in a deep respect for your power, fear of not having you always there and fear of satan and the cost of sin. And Grace My Fears Relieved: I used to fear what would happen if I sinned and I still fear as I should always, but I take comfort in the knowledge that when I sincerely repent, do my best to sin no more, and to avoid the things that lead me to sin I will be forgiven. How Precious Did That Grace Appear: It is by Grace and Grace alone that we are saved and indeed how precious, how special Grace was as it appeared to me The Hour I First Believed: The hour I came to believe in you Jesus my Savior who shed your blood, died and rose again that I might live!
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 8:50 PM UTC
Reflections on Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace: your gift for all. So amazing your grace that you would die for us sinners on a cross in shame and agony though sinless yourself. How Sweet the Sound: to hear "your sins are absolved" That Saved a Wretch Like Me: Compared to your perfection and glory we are truly wretched. All blackened by sin, but because of your death on a cross not by water or blood, but by water and blood we are saved and washed clean and white. The only chance we have of getting into heaven is by your gift of Amazing Grace. I Once Was Lost: like a sheep who strays from the flock and wanders off But Now Am Found: I am safe and sound in your arms once again. You rescue me from danger and bring me back safe and sound. Was Blind: because of sin and my faults, wrapped up in a blanket of hurting and lies. But Now I See: the magnitude of this gift you give and because of your death, the pure spotless lamb, and the cleansing blood you shed for me and for many that sins might be forgiven. 'Twas Grace That Taught My Heart To Fear: fear you in a deep respect for your power, fear of not having you always there and fear of satan and the cost of sin. And Grace My Fears Relieved: I used to fear what would happen if I sinned and I still fear as I should always, but I take comfort in the knowledge that when I sincerely repent, do my best to sin no more, and to avoid the things that lead me to sin I will be forgiven. How Precious Did That Grace Appear: It is by Grace and Grace alone that we are saved and indeed how precious, how special Grace was as it appeared to me The Hour I First Believed: The hour I came to believe in you Jesus my Savior who shed your blood, died and rose again that I might live!
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a dark place, dingy and cobwebbed: the forlorn basement below an unfinished house; there is no hope of an HGTV house-flip or a makeover or the sort of boring/heartwarming story where some nice white family —or conveniently diverse— sets up shop, smash-cuts through a renovation and gets their dream home. no, the house will remain gloomy, this basement filled with emptiness; no one desires to come through the door, no one except the tweakers and the vagabonds and the runaways, the ****** and the pimps, the celebrities and psychiatrists, the demons and the ghosts, the preachers and their seething congregations of judgmental ****** that live across the street, and the ***** teenagers hunting for a place to try out *** no cleaning crew or maid service or organize-your-life guru or even the most experienced of all the world’s janitors could enter this house and clean it or beautify this basement or disenfranchise the squatters within; the neighbors just try and demolish it every chance they get, to rid their sparkling, spotless community of this disgusting eyesore.
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 10:15 AM UTC
the perfect neighborhood
The mirrior is my adversary. My eyes variance, what others don't see. To the word I'm adequate, crowning , spotless, and skilled Every morning I wake up, get ready and cover my lips in red majestic mac Red lipstick seems to illuminate confidence in the eyes of many, but to me it is merely a pigmented shield of secrets. Humorous isn't it? Every unmarred life, seeks to relive its pigments Fears, self-doubt, imperfection. Mirror, mirror, mirror on the wall.. Who's the thinnest of them all... The sound of battle rumbles Conscious at wrists ends Bawling in me Fat, Fat, Fat, Yours tricks are foul, you tauntful mind Vision is blurred from reality, Oh mind how you love to frolic Your sheer joys leave me unpieced, The snickering of my mirror, Damages my frame. Sorrowing fades my red lipstick Pigments revealed, Vulnerable, Unworthy, Marred to the bone Quickly I learned that the mind is the enemy, filled with con Staring in my mirror and all I see is fat. Red lipstick always seems to fade by the end of the night.
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 10:16 PM UTC
Red Lipstick
At Ellis Lake, an overcast Sunday afternoon. A lake divided into two, oddly shaped bowls in the middle of the city, surrounded by a constant stream of birds, wind, and traffic. A spotless white swan cleaning herself on a grassy knoll, ferretting out whatever filth lurked deep within her feathers, then smoothly sweeping her sideways bent head across her back, as if to remember the long forgotten affectionate touch of an absent lover. A gaggle of four grey geese combing the lawn for food, waddling in unison side-by-side. A line of five mallards barreling down the hill into the water. A multilateral crescent of black and white pigeons receiving harsh dictation from a trio of angry snow geese strutting before them. A red-faced duck slowly approaching in the quiet expectation of food, then the arrogant acceptance of the lack thereof.
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 11:13 AM UTC
At Ellis Lake
Write as flawless as the river, as spotless as the mirror. The sky can’t take its eyes off it because it’s so clear. If you ever spare a word or two so pure. Never wonder how it might look: simply, it would be just like you.
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Jun 4, 2017
Jun 4, 2017 at 8:10 PM UTC
Just Like You
they're spotless, no room for human flaws here. with faultless sense of selves and fragile attributes are silver stars, whose homes are cold glittered spotlights pressured, battered and bruised. look away dear, they're "fine" they're fine, scared and composed until the next plot twist rarely, ever so rarely - a perfect one slips a miscalculation on a regular day phenomena, wasn't supposed to be that way perfectionism drove them faultlessly insane when the known consistent road, shatters to eggshells "ever so rarely", they reason to the mirrors with guilt mixing in the blood of walking in fear inner madness unleashing, black swans reappearing the wrongs, how cruel that it doesn't let them go on "this is only once in a blue moon", they echo deep breathes, clutching close, the past's panic they can't let go
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Jul 25, 2021
Jul 25, 2021 at 11:46 AM UTC
black swans
Fatima Latima I had wished I had no gift of sight That the worst I could endure is hear you speak And not snapshot the footfall of your gradation You may not be a thief Nor **** daughter of the dayspring But definitely my heart you stole I speak of the daughter of Arabia Aesthetically, she rocks The queen of the pilgrim sands And aeonian desert stones Beyond the hijab Artistically knead with consummate craft Like the relics of Mecca Blest by the prophet’s bones The blessed I see torches Beaming with intelligence Within those mascaras Exquisitely trimmed and vibrant A lulu class botany She fixes a searching gaze As she saunters close And the stride and tread Beats a drum entrancing Soothed in her solacing spell I give in, to her lullaby She halts her perambulation Stands magniloquent and stupefy Like some pop diva magazine pose Or Victorian secret shot A tactical derangement of her gluteals As she rests her palm in its cleft I feel contractions, my dartos muscles The blew of summertime Gently beats her exceptional form Her belt submerge her thigh crevice Cleft by the sundered rift of fleshy fat Built by the dainties and delicacies Seasoned by the finest Arabian chef As her silken dress slithers and gowns Under the breeze bulging and blooming Like a rose blossom or sunflower fore As she bends down To assuage the burlesque The sun specula lilts her sensational Her smile apologetic bids me stillness I am caught staring Guzzling down her scent and Feasting on empty imaginations Of What If that accentuate the mind and Speed a hormone And I pray I sin no more Next time we meet and I see her again For I am but a writer Learning to use my pen and paper And hope you but forgive My linguistic impotence When I make my confession Employing too plain a language When I say thus; Her smile is classical Her walk magical Her beauty celestial Her stride sensational Her religion ethical Her character spotless And that leaves me breathless And forgive if I step on broken toe And try speak of the unspoken Her ****** is sacred Her being a type that dresses up In the milliards of brutes dressing down And shamelessly style it fashion I must see a priest One confession I ought to utter And even vociferate abroad For once I had fallen in love With an Arabian Beautie A ****** of Mecca.
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Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 9:12 AM UTC
Fatima Latima
Fatima Latima I had wished I had no gift of sight That the worst I could endure is hear you speak And not snapshot the footfall of your gradation You may not be a thief Nor **** daughter of the dayspring But definitely my heart you stole I speak of the daughter of Arabia Aesthetically, she rocks The queen of the pilgrim sands And aeonian desert stones Beyond the hijab Artistically knead with consummate craft Like the relics of Mecca Blest by the prophet’s bones The blessed I see torches Beaming with intelligence Within those mascaras Exquisitely trimmed and vibrant A lulu class botany She fixes a searching gaze As she saunters close And the stride and tread Beats a drum entrancing Soothed in her solacing spell I give in, to her lullaby She halts her perambulation Stands magniloquent and stupefy Like some pop diva magazine pose Or Victorian secret shot A tactical derangement of her gluteals As she rests her palm in its cleft I feel contractions, my dartos muscles The blew of summertime Gently beats her exceptional form Her belt submerge her thigh crevice Cleft by the sundered rift of fleshy fat Built by the dainties and delicacies Seasoned by the finest Arabian chef As her silken dress slithers and gowns Under the breeze bulging and blooming Like a rose blossom or sunflower fore As she bends down To assuage the burlesque The sun specula lilts her sensational Her smile apologetic bids me stillness I am caught staring Guzzling down her scent and Feasting on empty imaginations Of What If that accentuate the mind and Speed a hormone And I pray I sin no more Next time we meet and I see her again For I am but a writer Learning to use my pen and paper And hope you but forgive My linguistic impotence When I make my confession Employing too plain a language When I say thus; Her smile is classical Her walk magical Her beauty celestial Her stride sensational Her religion ethical Her character spotless And that leaves me breathless And forgive if I step on broken toe And try speak of the unspoken Her ****** is sacred Her being a type that dresses up In the milliards of brutes dressing down And shamelessly style it fashion I must see a priest One confession I ought to utter And even vociferate abroad For once I had fallen in love With an Arabian Beautie A ****** of Mecca.
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It was not, by any means, a loss of faith; Indeed, her devotion was a boundless, unfettered thing Beyond proscription, beyond rote chant and catechism, And what she found as a novitiate Were shuttered gates and gossipy confessionals, Standoffish priests, pig-eyed and pinch-lipped Sisters who thought life’s commerce No more than mechanical prayer and spotless linens, The whole enterprise Smacking of the exclusion of Heaven’s bounty. So she demurred when the time came to take her orders, And she returned to the world of pavements and lesser pieties, Free to seek God on park swings and barstools, In pleasures of the pastoral and the profane, Though her faith is no Dionysian walkabout, As she is passionate to the cusp of maniacal When it comes to the Book of James’ admonition upon works; She is often found among the sisters she once tiptoed alongside At food pantries and clothing drives (She is scrupulous about ministering to only secular needs, As the Bishop is not happily disposed towards those Who choose not to take the veil, And the specter of excommunication is a prospect Too awful to contemplate) Afterwards clambering onto some vaguely roadworthy MTA bus Back to her studio apartment in Green Island, Where she often walks down to the Erie Canal lock nearby, Praying for those who have travelled  near and upon the water, Convenience store clerks and ragged Irishmen fleeing famine, Feral kittens and insufficiently mourned mules.
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Nov 16, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 at 10:39 AM UTC
the thursday nun
To behold the daybreak! -Walt Whitman, Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass In days like this one, when rain drops so light & everything dips into weeping grey my sanity longs for memories. My sanity longs like impulsive recalling of plummeting sadness in greying day sashaying mournful recollects from sunrise to daybreak. Remembering vanishes in the joyful marrow of life. There, forgetting lives. Tell me the last time bliss comforts your soul. It is a transient tick too stiff to evoke. What about the last time pain feigns your saneness. Memories turned into bullets slitting shrapnel warping into my soul. Happiness lasts for a second. Sadness, a lifetime. Tell me how to get rid the hurting clout of ache existing as a blunt fragment benign yet reminisced. Daybreak pours so hard and my sanity like a waning light crawls back in a miasmatic cave along the river known to be a home of a witch & her cursing narrative of throwing silver saucers making her a spotless shadow through vestal times never again a thriving spirit. Forget Blake. Forget Whitman. Only in daybreak where everything churns into life, my sanity shrinking back collapsing into surreal gaps. Here & there, my sanity longs for memories.
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Dec 9, 2016
Dec 9, 2016 at 10:31 PM UTC
The Day my Sanity Longs for Memories
Mary queen of heaven be a calm for every storm we face, Mary queen of heaven be a constant reminder of God's grace. Mary queen of heaven be a soothing peace for all our fears, Mary queen of heaven be a source of joy through the years. Mary queen of heaven be our strength against demonic foes, Mary queen of heaven be emotional salve for all our woes. Mary queen of heaven be the love that guides us day by day, Mary queen of heaven be the voice that shows us how to pray. Mary queen of heaven be in oppression our quick relief, Mary queen of heaven be the shining beacon of our belief. Mary queen of heaven be the kindness we must pass along, Mary queen of heaven be the heartstrings  playing our soul's sweet song. Mary queen of heaven be present in our daily prayers, Mary queen of heaven be advice and counsel for our cares. Mary queen of heaven be our cooling breeze and gentle rain, Mary queen of heaven be the spotless place for all our stains. Mary queen of heaven be the joy whenever we rejoice, Mary queen of heaven be our ears to hear your sacred voice. Mary queen of heaven be in the sky our rising star, Mary queen of heaven be a constant presence never far. Mary queen of heaven be here beside us everyday, Mary queen of heaven be our sunshine when the skies are gray. Mary queen of heaven be our protector, fortress, shield, and shade, Mary queen of heaven be love's foundation forever laid. Mary queen of heaven be the brilliant colors nature brings, Mary queen of heaven be the beauty of a butterfly's wings. Mary queen of heaven be the subtle whisper of dawn's first light, Mary queen of heaven be the velvet silence of the night. Mary queen of heaven be the reason that we celebrate, Mary queen of heaven be our perfect patience as we wait. Mary queen of heaven be our comfort now and reward to come, Mary queen of heaven be our duly noted job well done. Mary queen of heaven be our map to everlasting grace, Mary queen of heaven be our swift feet to finish the race. Mary queen of heaven be the goodness we can clearly see, Mary queen of heaven be our guide into eternity.
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May 7, 2016
May 7, 2016 at 8:27 AM UTC
Queen of Heaven
Mary queen of heaven be a calm for every storm we face, Mary queen of heaven be a constant reminder of God's grace. Mary queen of heaven be a soothing peace for all our fears, Mary queen of heaven be a source of joy through the years. Mary queen of heaven be our strength against demonic foes, Mary queen of heaven be emotional salve for all our woes. Mary queen of heaven be the love that guides us day by day, Mary queen of heaven be the voice that shows us how to pray. Mary queen of heaven be in oppression our quick relief, Mary queen of heaven be the shining beacon of our belief. Mary queen of heaven be the kindness we must pass along, Mary queen of heaven be the heartstrings  playing our soul's sweet song. Mary queen of heaven be present in our daily prayers, Mary queen of heaven be advice and counsel for our cares. Mary queen of heaven be our cooling breeze and gentle rain, Mary queen of heaven be the spotless place for all our stains. Mary queen of heaven be the joy whenever we rejoice, Mary queen of heaven be our ears to hear your sacred voice. Mary queen of heaven be in the sky our rising star, Mary queen of heaven be a constant presence never far. Mary queen of heaven be here beside us everyday, Mary queen of heaven be our sunshine when the skies are gray. Mary queen of heaven be our protector, fortress, shield, and shade, Mary queen of heaven be love's foundation forever laid. Mary queen of heaven be the brilliant colors nature brings, Mary queen of heaven be the beauty of a butterfly's wings. Mary queen of heaven be the subtle whisper of dawn's first light, Mary queen of heaven be the velvet silence of the night. Mary queen of heaven be the reason that we celebrate, Mary queen of heaven be our perfect patience as we wait. Mary queen of heaven be our comfort now and reward to come, Mary queen of heaven be our duly noted job well done. Mary queen of heaven be our map to everlasting grace, Mary queen of heaven be our swift feet to finish the race. Mary queen of heaven be the goodness we can clearly see, Mary queen of heaven be our guide into eternity.
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You black and white beasts From the far east, Oh, how I long to be invited to your panda feasts. I put on my panda hat with my panda suit, Tie my panda tie and my panda shoes. I arrive at your gate with all my panda bling, But you say, for me to enter, I must wear your panda ring. That doesn’t sound so bad if that’s all I need to do To be allowed to enter and eat bamboo with you. I’ve waited for this moment, longed to be accepted. But, to be honest, it’s not what I expected. Although I am so close, and the ring looks nice, I hesitate for a second, take a moment to think twice. Is this what my life has come to, debating a “panda ring”? Enslaved to every whim of the panda king, Doing what he wants me to, just to be approved, Once I put that ring on, it cannot be removed. No, I will not stoop to a panda ring, I have my own bear song to sing. As I say goodbye, waving my bare hand, I notice panda rings on all their bear hands. Spotless I return, back home to the ice, Ready to chill out and live a polarized life.
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May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017 at 7:50 PM UTC
Panda Ring
1010 Up Life’s Hill with my my little Bundle If I prove it steep— If a Discouragement withhold me— If my newest step Older feel than the Hope that prompted— Spotless be from blame Heart that proposed as Heart that accepted Homelessness, for Home—
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Up Life’s Hill with my my little Bundle
there was a little ladybird she was very sad she had lost her spots the only ones she had noticed by an hedgehog who was walking by he had seen the ladybird as she began to cry then he asked the ladybird what was the reason why i have lost my spots she said and dont know what to do hedgehog said dont worry i will find your spots for you so they started looking in the forest ground when hedgehog saw a leaf and on it something round i have found your spots he said now you can have them back then of they walked together down the forest track.
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 9:57 AM UTC
spotless ladybird
I am ragged and Dismembered In velveteen splendour. Assembled by a drunk, Who couldn't remember What loveliness Looked like. I'm too tall for my height. You are pulpy and bright Like today's magazines. Your eyes are spotless like Ironed jeans, And they fold and crease in smiles at me. You find me funny. I am sterile and naked And aching with Tension. I'll bend into positions to Get your attention. I am fixed in the curb, and you gather the nerve to cope with my most unnerving dimensions. (I love you. I forget to mention.) You've never indulged in petty *** You wrap my arms around Your neck, like I'm a scarf. I make you laugh. You've never been out on the scene. You've never found yourself between two strangers in a darkened room. Bedroom theatre's not for you. Nor costume. You've never smoked. You've never drank so much You've choked on hot-bodied ***** and collapsed in the road. You had four pints of beer and I watched you explode. From your skin I lick atoms of the sky and shampoo. You are dripping with hygiene, You are clear, you are blue. In mirrors you stand and watch me watching you.
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Sep 19, 2013
Sep 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM UTC
hygiene
A lion’s mane would’ve been permed, zebra would be all white, spotted leopard would’ve been spotless, an orangutan would have blonde hair, an elephant’s tusk would’ve been whiter, rhinoceros would’ve had smooth skin, hippos would’ve been skinny, raccoons wouldn’t have had dark circles. Need I go on?
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Nov 26, 2019
Nov 26, 2019 at 6:08 PM UTC
If beauty standards ever existed in the animal world.
There's a middle aged woman; she's dragging her feet. She carries baskets of clothes to the laundromat while the Mexican children kick rocks into the street; and they laugh in a language I don't understand, but I love them. Why do I love them? So the neighborhood is dimming as I smoke on the porch and watch the people as they pass, enclosed by their cars; on their faces just anger or disappointment. I start wishing there was something I could offer them. A consolation, what could I offer them? And they are sad in their suburbs; robots water their lawn and everything they touch gets dusted spotless, and so they start to believe they've not touched anything at all and the cars in the driveway only multiply. They are lost in their houses. I have heard them sing in the shower, making speeches to their sister on the telephone saying, "You come home. Woman, you come here." Don't stay so far away from me. This weather has me wanting love more tangible. Something I can hold 'cause it's getting cold. I say, "Hold up our fists to the flame in the sky. to block out the light that's reaching for our eyes." 'Cause it... 'cause it would blind us. Yeah, it will blind us. Well, I've locked my actions in the grooves of routine. So I may never be free of this apathy, but I wait for a letter that is coming for me. She sends me pictures of the ocean in an envelope so there is still hope. Yes, I can be healed. There is someone looking for what I've concealed in my secret drawer, in my pockets deep. You will find the reasons I can't sleep and you will still want me. But will you still want me? Will you still want...? Well, I say come for the week. You can sleep in my bed, and pass through my life like a dream in my head. It will... it will be easy. I will make it easy. But all I have for the moment is a song to pass the time; a melody to keep me from worrying. Oh, some simple progression to keep my fingers busy, and words that are sure to come back to me and they'll be laughing, and they'll be laughing. My mediocrity. My mediocrity. (and they'll be laughing.)
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Sep 11, 2012
Sep 11, 2012 at 11:52 PM UTC
A Song to Pass the Time
There's a middle aged woman; she's dragging her feet. She carries baskets of clothes to the laundromat while the Mexican children kick rocks into the street; and they laugh in a language I don't understand, but I love them. Why do I love them? So the neighborhood is dimming as I smoke on the porch and watch the people as they pass, enclosed by their cars; on their faces just anger or disappointment. I start wishing there was something I could offer them. A consolation, what could I offer them? And they are sad in their suburbs; robots water their lawn and everything they touch gets dusted spotless, and so they start to believe they've not touched anything at all and the cars in the driveway only multiply. They are lost in their houses. I have heard them sing in the shower, making speeches to their sister on the telephone saying, "You come home. Woman, you come here." Don't stay so far away from me. This weather has me wanting love more tangible. Something I can hold 'cause it's getting cold. I say, "Hold up our fists to the flame in the sky. to block out the light that's reaching for our eyes." 'Cause it... 'cause it would blind us. Yeah, it will blind us. Well, I've locked my actions in the grooves of routine. So I may never be free of this apathy, but I wait for a letter that is coming for me. She sends me pictures of the ocean in an envelope so there is still hope. Yes, I can be healed. There is someone looking for what I've concealed in my secret drawer, in my pockets deep. You will find the reasons I can't sleep and you will still want me. But will you still want me? Will you still want...? Well, I say come for the week. You can sleep in my bed, and pass through my life like a dream in my head. It will... it will be easy. I will make it easy. But all I have for the moment is a song to pass the time; a melody to keep me from worrying. Oh, some simple progression to keep my fingers busy, and words that are sure to come back to me and they'll be laughing, and they'll be laughing. My mediocrity. My mediocrity. (and they'll be laughing.)
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Almost everything in the fairytales turned out to be true: Horrible witches, nasty curses, dark demons, and guarded fortresses. But princesses? I thought they were figments of our imaginations. And yet little girls read storybooks religiously, dreaming of winning over the Prince Charming. Well ladies, you can keep your pristine and spotless princes. I know where love and honour truly lies. It is in the dragon's keep, Where she is locked away and hidden. The walls of her own heart blocking everyone out, Burning everyone down who dared face her inner dragon. But there is determination running through his veins, Bravery in every bead of sweat, A fighter's honour gleaming in his eyes. Breaking down the barriers to find a damsel in distress, he did the strongest thing: Held the wretch in his arms. A soldier with the ability to find perfection in the weakest of souls. My knight in ***** turnout gear, The firefighter who discovered a princess. My love who proved the reality of fairytales, And found our happily ever after.
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Apr 18, 2013
Apr 18, 2013 at 10:16 AM UTC
Fairytales
Eyes open Upon the silent abode Marvel at me The heavens echoed Predicaments dissolve into the trivial The mind is spotless You forget the greed, the hate You remember only the love which intoxicates Their watchful eyes Shining upon us since antiquity Embedded into the skies An ever lasting source of serenity Their melody decipherable to wanderers Providing solace to the adrift A message from our ancestors Whispering that clear will be the mist
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Jun 1, 2017
Jun 1, 2017 at 10:57 AM UTC
ARCHITECTS OF LUX
Lazily, a boy with silvery hairs muttering requiem aeternam lifts his neck at the piercing radiance skimming off the eyeglasses rim, and there looms the glory, the spotless sea of blue, varnishes of spring gloss fuming out of the French coronation robe. The still-brisk branches hung bent at the weight of vivacity, sight of maidens whose eyes and grace bath in the full warmth of light, the kisses on the face of the river by the shower of half-bloomed petals, just as the stillborn thrills of the beating heart to the splintered fingers of Moirae. The time of adieu, the season of life. The mourning procession amidst the lustily caressing May breeze. -Primavera, thou name be the sweet irony of the dying flowers The evening wades in, and the coy face of the mountain blushes; Thence strides away the man whose gaze speaks of premature nostalgia Here the wind whispers the rosy delirium from the sakura tree at the far side, the faintness lushly hazed away by the cloudy veil of bittersweet grey.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 7:13 AM UTC
A Maytide Funeral
I wrote this poem just for you With my mind racing and my heart beating Among amorous feelings and thoughts of you My love for you is and always will be true You are my eternal sunshine of the spotless mind You are the one I can never leave behind When I first met you I knew it was a sign   You are so implausibly beautiful to my eyes You deserve the world's grandest jewels Emeralds, diamonds, sapphires, amethysts And anything else that money can buy When we met each other some time ago From the first time we said 'Hello' I knew you’d be the one To bestow my life with love and fun My words forever fail to express What I felt when you said ‘Yes’ To a Taco Bell hot sauce packet That said ‘Will You Marry Me?’ And when I held you near On the coldest day of the year When we both said ‘I Do’ And you became my wife I knew that our love was true That we’d always be together To see this movie we call life All the way thru We’ve had our ups and downs But eternal bliss is where we’re bound Together in each other’s embrace Everything we long for will come around   You are the only thing I need I’d sell my words, my talents, and me If you’d agree to proceed To be mine everlasting And never sever our affection And always retain This one piece of information: No matter what comes our way I will always love you Each and every day
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Oct 11, 2011
Oct 11, 2011 at 9:22 AM UTC
I Wrote This Poem Just For You