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<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 4:15 PM UTC
the common place... (for Kim Johanna Baker & Edmund Black)
<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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I The successive suns of summers swim in me like a balcony of heat I glow with the sol of sols the pine cone of lava that makes my cheeks full, white the sun-drop of diamonds have petrified in my heart and I am creation rushing down ii On all that is below, these stars know me and I among them we are like water in water ocean creatures of great adventure vertigoes of light, layers of softness suns of paradise, legends of golden noons revolutions of princely sunspots cliff of mortality, planets revolving iii Around a center, galaxies revolving around a black-hole that was once a great sun, time has pink candle-like veins but she knows the sun, the sparkling rocks the matter and energy of our destinies caught up in a seabed of lights the successive suns of summers swim in me like an ode to sun-religions iv but I am here, drinking sun-wine in the surreal view of full eyes with a body of silver for the kaleidoscope and a naked face dismantled by another eclipse another wonder, another design of day.
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Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 9:19 PM UTC
An Ancient Mayan Poem
3 X 5 index card poems 3 smallish poems in five minutes ~ reheating honey can I make you something to eat? ***no babe, you know I hate to see you cooking, frying standing over pots and stirring sauces trying to brush wisps of bangs from your eyes   while wearing kitchen mitts*** What I would prefer is something leftover, reheated served with a smiling grin from my ear to wayover down under there, next to you <•> old words are better than than new ones hey, hi! how you doing, old friend? “yo, out of the hospital feeling so much better; had some kind of ‘itis’ which they cured with an ‘yisis’!” ***glad to hear; impressed by all those new big scientific words; frankly preferred your old ones,  that were rediscovered and reoriented in new ways in your poems verses; me? never better cause to hear from a man whose optimism has yet to meet a match that he can’t best,*** heals all our wounds <|> if you told me ***that I could spend three successive rainy days in almost all silence, perfectly contented by myself, i’d said you crazy,*** isn’t that true babe?
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Aug 11, 2018
Aug 11, 2018 at 12:53 PM UTC
3 X 5 index card poems
I have been forced, Out of domicile, And now **** bored, With sojourners' world worthwhile. I used to love phones, It's versatility in functioning, Obeying instructions  at all zones, I loved making calls and chatting . That was long ago , When it made me feel at home, Simply chatting could let go , Steam and heartbreak loom. Not now at this century , Where them need airtime to pick  a call, Where successive missed  calls arouse no worry, When they no bother reply at all. I won't lower my self -esteem, Not because of them dissaproval, That I aint  classy and fit for hymn, Its okey if u take me for a mall. Needless fight a loosing battle anymore , You won't torture me again as u laugh, Beaming is me at nirvana jaw, I declare enough is enough.
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Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 4:10 PM UTC
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Do you ever get frustrated? Tired of the fight. You're sick of wobbling at the edge, with nothing going right. The moon is tugging you once more and you feel you must take flight. Even if it means your fall to doom. Oh God, let me find freedom soon. The freedom to scream, as loud and as pained as blood, dripping freely from the chest, the successive scratch marks of my mind free to air their wounds at last. There you go everyone, there is my real past. It's disgusting and it's vile, and still has the ability to rip the smile from my face. I feel like I'm in a constant race. Who can reach her brain first? Can she really keep reign the bad, when we provoke the beasts of her destruction? Can we quicken her heartbeat and limit her air? How about, if we tie her hair to spiders? Watch them scuttle closer in, wriggling and spinning, trying to reach inside her. Let's watch her play "find the sin" The sins we hid within, which are not hers but others. We know she won't want to cause a bother, she won't dob us in. She'll hide them like she does her soul. Honestly, she sometimes wonders if it's worth it after all. She feels enclosed, compressed, constricted, a claustrophobic who finds solace in small spaces fears suppression of emotion, the heavy tread of life, can sometimes be quite weary. But it'll be alright, she'll always find the energy to do that which is right. She'll once more start to fight She'll find solace where she can, and cradle ***** of light, she'll find a way to free herself by flying like a kite; string holding her down, but wind taking her high. She'll dance and laugh and twist and turn and dive high up in the sky Free as a bird, but secret silent as a sigh, not the least offended, if people pass her by. If they can't accept her, she'll happily flip them off with a cry of contentment, that she can finally be free of living with resentment. Her Girl, Lady, Woman firmly by her side, together they will glide and ride the tides of life. "We're flying!" They will cry, laugh and love forever eternally. Their quirks in constant harmony And when they lie to rest together, the girl will whisper: "We will never die I'll live so safe in your heart and you will be in mine" "I promise, and I know, our love can only grow" So I'll never give up. Ever Because, I love you so.
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 3:07 PM UTC
Falling, to get back up again.
Do you ever get frustrated? Tired of the fight. You're sick of wobbling at the edge, with nothing going right. The moon is tugging you once more and you feel you must take flight. Even if it means your fall to doom. Oh God, let me find freedom soon. The freedom to scream, as loud and as pained as blood, dripping freely from the chest, the successive scratch marks of my mind free to air their wounds at last. There you go everyone, there is my real past. It's disgusting and it's vile, and still has the ability to rip the smile from my face. I feel like I'm in a constant race. Who can reach her brain first? Can she really keep reign the bad, when we provoke the beasts of her destruction? Can we quicken her heartbeat and limit her air? How about, if we tie her hair to spiders? Watch them scuttle closer in, wriggling and spinning, trying to reach inside her. Let's watch her play "find the sin" The sins we hid within, which are not hers but others. We know she won't want to cause a bother, she won't dob us in. She'll hide them like she does her soul. Honestly, she sometimes wonders if it's worth it after all. She feels enclosed, compressed, constricted, a claustrophobic who finds solace in small spaces fears suppression of emotion, the heavy tread of life, can sometimes be quite weary. But it'll be alright, she'll always find the energy to do that which is right. She'll once more start to fight She'll find solace where she can, and cradle ***** of light, she'll find a way to free herself by flying like a kite; string holding her down, but wind taking her high. She'll dance and laugh and twist and turn and dive high up in the sky Free as a bird, but secret silent as a sigh, not the least offended, if people pass her by. If they can't accept her, she'll happily flip them off with a cry of contentment, that she can finally be free of living with resentment. Her Girl, Lady, Woman firmly by her side, together they will glide and ride the tides of life. "We're flying!" They will cry, laugh and love forever eternally. Their quirks in constant harmony And when they lie to rest together, the girl will whisper: "We will never die I'll live so safe in your heart and you will be in mine" "I promise, and I know, our love can only grow" So I'll never give up. Ever Because, I love you so.
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A patriotic fervor producing fealty A noble cause compelling loyalty Paired with a callous indignity Brash enlistee plunges toward destiny Honor's badge worn with impunity Duty's moniker embossed with magnanimity Insatiable bloodlust quelshing all insecurity Unbridled ego clamoring a garrulous enmity Toward the villains who shattered blithe serenity First skirmish, pageantry displaced by gravity Mettle varnished with aura of invincibility First battle, fallen comrades question mortality Successive battles, severed limbs, caustic wounds challenge credulity Fragile mind being conditioned to atrocity War's heavy mantle now shorn of indemnity Threatening mind's sanity, hearth's perpetuity Once faceless foes now scream their humanity Once noble leaders brim with insincerity Supportive countrymen now fickle, distant entity Cheering press now rank with duplicity Only solace, hardened comrades equanimity
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Jul 25, 2012
Jul 25, 2012 at 6:03 PM UTC
Civil War Soldier's Mantra
Dance, an expression of the mind. Multiple steps in successive movements, bringing life, love and laughter. Self-fulfilment and self-worth. Dance, an expression of the body. Creative display of energies, inducing a seismic shift emotionally. Self-discovery and self-confidence. Dance, an expression of the soul, communicating in its artistic qualities. Messages, movements and mystery. Self-expression and self-realization.
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 1:41 AM UTC
The Art
cackle sublime savagery in domineering supremacy a knee repletes successive concussions and by viscous absurd petulance crack this gourd, thought bearing toothed i evol ot hurt uoY,,,;
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Nov 27, 2010
Nov 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM UTC
cackle sublime savagery
my face shaped hearty I only see you partly as you join my nocturnal party I heard you miles away your sounds as clear as day birds of a feather I cannot figure whether humans are trusty when they ruin my forestry swoop towards your arm in dead silent charm my evolutionary armory are truly my 'viving beauty I claw down my goal in aerodynamic prowl feasting on successive bowl my ornithologic growl is my greet to you any howl.
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Jun 30, 2016
Jun 30, 2016 at 4:05 PM UTC
The Owl
Communion of Soft Fingertips speak, modern world we are sketched in languages of digital bits, parity shading certainty with probabilities of truth giving us form and existence across distance, distilled to series of warm, invisible numbers frequencies divided step-wise, as Fourier found them in noise amalgamated as information heterodyned, left to be separated out, reordered by advanced statistical protocols that trace our borders with delicate, unseen fingertips   a description of new beings, relationships between them uncertain at first in the short trails of data they create but there eventually - by the law of large numbers or acts of successive approximation we'll find them revealed, like a pointilist painting or seemingly random collection of string whose elements are alone meaningless unless we step back to see an entirety of mass which we recognize immediately as true love and intimacy
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Dec 1, 2011
Dec 1, 2011 at 8:57 AM UTC
Communion with Soft Fingertips
Thou tangle the mortality And seek the mourning of its course, With an outrageous cloak  that falls adrift To have its custom afloat. The decorations,  thereof flatters this turmoil That has its doubts and moments, A longevity beheld upon the chores of the subject, Never cognizes its everlasting trials, For those of which handles the elation Of successive falsification. I know not of the clumsiness of hymns, That sighs the mourning of a course, The chaotic iteration of single pauses And the faltering of a mere slope. I know not of the turmoil That bedecks the frostbitten clavicles, Onto which no sigh wavers A petition of no faze and any dome. I know not of the cloak That nestles around a haze; Bringing confusion that betrays every vivid sense. Let it be the matter, ‘tis a matter of time(!) Would it morph itself around the mourning mould, When it dries away with the mud?
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Oct 7, 2018
Oct 7, 2018 at 6:17 PM UTC
The Cloak
A dozen years, the length of feline days: compared to human lives it may appear the cats lose out. To be a human pays. I think on this, and on companions dear: Successive cats whose whiskered lives touched mine Have lain upon my lap— do you suppose Their tiptoe through the years is but a sign? I measure out my life with kitten toes. As they and I pursue the hilly ways that fill our lives, "Beware! The end is near!" "Your death is nigh!" or some such friendly phrase will tell me that it's all downhill from here. And soon the slope more steeply will incline, And drop away as quickly as it rose. You trace the arc? My life is on the line: I measure out my life with kitten toes. Though now, my cat, we feel the sunshine's blaze— your windowsill is warm, the skies are clear— yet still I feel the sun's all-seeing gaze remind me of the coming day, I fear— the coming day I cannot feel it shine, and on my face the smiling daisy grows. I only have the one, where you have nine: I measure out my life with kitten toes. Prince, lord of cats, may endless meat be thine! O grant that thine immortal princely doze may evermore upon my lap recline! I measure out my life with kitten toes.
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May 22, 2010
May 22, 2010 at 8:14 PM UTC
I measure out my life with kitten toes
Burning The fire is glowing set against the chill of autumn’s night wind the chimney discharges the inner being of The wood truly the spirit of the wood rises ghostly it breaks out of the chimney and is welcomed by the Wayward wind lessoned of its density but an exchange occurred for its value memories it took while the Elderly mother set close for its comfort and warmth as the shadows played on her face of age it told Many stories of struggle and triumph father earned the money by back breaking work in a dark coal Mine mother took it thanked the good lord then raised it to masterful heights with skill and cooking Lessons learned from her mother time draws definitive measures in each life now having reached a Seasoned long life milestone her tender heart was the capstone walls and windows a sturdy life looking Like beams as the shadows of the fire danced on the wall below what mellow note it struck and she it’s Center piece buy the night with her humility and genteel ways the rush of power still evident in her frail Frame life glowing in the midst of the fire’s own showing strength her wisdom the families guide hard to Believe that a personality so affable and giving could coil as steel if the need arose pushed to a point but No further you don’t raise a family and see them succeed without having a store house of individualism In reserve now all that shows on the service is a profound goodness displayed in weak frailty the body Slows its tempered power subsides but within the spirit still can be counted on for feats and exploits as The demand calls for them even a fire dies down but all it needs is the stoking some of the wood has Been turned from the flame within short time it will roar with new glory old age isn’t a total defeat You can change the pace and years of experience will give control with less effort the fire plays on Mother’s breath softens as she drifts in dreams to grand times when all was collectively connected Honor and glory told over successive years now they are harbored and restored to a degree by the burning
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Nov 24, 2011
Nov 24, 2011 at 1:59 PM UTC
Burning
Burning The fire is glowing set against the chill of autumn’s night wind the chimney discharges the inner being of The wood truly the spirit of the wood rises ghostly it breaks out of the chimney and is welcomed by the Wayward wind lessoned of its density but an exchange occurred for its value memories it took while the Elderly mother set close for its comfort and warmth as the shadows played on her face of age it told Many stories of struggle and triumph father earned the money by back breaking work in a dark coal Mine mother took it thanked the good lord then raised it to masterful heights with skill and cooking Lessons learned from her mother time draws definitive measures in each life now having reached a Seasoned long life milestone her tender heart was the capstone walls and windows a sturdy life looking Like beams as the shadows of the fire danced on the wall below what mellow note it struck and she it’s Center piece buy the night with her humility and genteel ways the rush of power still evident in her frail Frame life glowing in the midst of the fire’s own showing strength her wisdom the families guide hard to Believe that a personality so affable and giving could coil as steel if the need arose pushed to a point but No further you don’t raise a family and see them succeed without having a store house of individualism In reserve now all that shows on the service is a profound goodness displayed in weak frailty the body Slows its tempered power subsides but within the spirit still can be counted on for feats and exploits as The demand calls for them even a fire dies down but all it needs is the stoking some of the wood has Been turned from the flame within short time it will roar with new glory old age isn’t a total defeat You can change the pace and years of experience will give control with less effort the fire plays on Mother’s breath softens as she drifts in dreams to grand times when all was collectively connected Honor and glory told over successive years now they are harbored and restored to a degree by the burning
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BANG! up to action BANG! rising panic adrenalin BANG! swiftly to the window BANG! fluorescent yellow jackets they're here BANG! its the back door set the barricade BANG! will it hold? not for long BANG! they've come later than usual BANG! we'd thought not today BANG! we'd dropped our guard prepared food BANG! a meal cooked in vain BANG! the barricade starts to fail BANG! our bodies flung at the metal door BANG! summon strength hold it closed BANG! successive impacts rattle our bones BANG! screaming now rage and pain BANG! "open the door!" **** you!!" BANG! we wont make it easy for them BANG! but we know how this ends BANG! our home in chaos frantic packing BANG! save the tools we'll need them BANG! they're our keys to a new home BANG! our foes advance on another door BANG! they're determined so are we BANG! it breaks the door opens SLAM! somehow we kick it back shut SILENCE they've stopped why? VOICES the other door they're in.
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 5:24 AM UTC
Eviction
In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name; But now is black beauty’s successive heir, And beauty slandered with a ******* shame. For since each hand hath put on nature’s power, Fairing the foul with art’s false borrowed face, Sweet beauty hath no name no holy bower, But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace. Therefore my mistress’ eyes are raven black, Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem, At such who, not born fair no beauty lack, Sland’ring creation with a false esteem. Yet so they mourn, becoming of their woe, That every tongue says beauty should look so.
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Sonnet 127: In The Old Age Black Was Not Counted Fair
3D print me into something real, impulsive and distinguished. successive layers built around a pulse and backbone. fused electrons hardwired to my brain like therapy. we are broken and the sum of our spare parts. ©Ben Ditmars 2014
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May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 1:15 AM UTC
3D Print
You played doctor when I needed you          Then passed as I held on   You left abruptly at the crack of a smile          And always hung above, loose yet binding, in a moment of grief             You take life away with each successive sunset       And you've always been before we ever gave you a name. My greatest enemy, my only friend.
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Jun 3, 2015
Jun 3, 2015 at 9:48 PM UTC
Bound.
Once upon a time, on a site far far away, I would post and not a soul would comment, let alone read... Minor poet, I am not even, but odd. A truth that slaps me unto tears. I seek your admiration, admonish your failure to admonish me, fail me unto tears. Your academic hyper-pretensions gods of overlording silence, sentence condemnations of the meagerness of mine deaf, weary-worn entreaties. Your ignorance and the vanity of my weaknesses, pencil point punctuate my brain, holes filling up with the approbation of silence. Tender unto me the Onomatopoeia of a concerto of boos, barrels of bitter alliteratives regretful rainwater, send me curses of future inspiration. immoderate me re my mediocrity! Try try again, to charm thine eyes, populate your face with grimaced tears, penetrate our mutuality with uncommon verse, pricking the winter frosted windows of a enmity and a common enemy. Another day of self-persauding, un-succeeding to accept that successive minor failures, are undeniably, a success of sorts, in a minor way. A play on words, as y'all play me. Mr. Adminstrator, answer me! Are we not all prisoners of Poetry?
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Sep 14, 2013
Sep 14, 2013 at 11:06 AM UTC
Minor Poet
It was past 10 pm Indian Standard Time And the score was Two O Five Klusener was the launcher Donald was the Duck Hansie had the fancy That he will lift the cup Seconds ticking One, two, three, four, five… Damien Fleming’s the bowler And he’s known as a troller Windies was the victim Eight years ago Steve Waugh! The man who made Gibbs drop the cup Stood there Like a commander Klusener like a slaughterer Yorker’s the marker To stop the nine runs needed From the Klusener blade NOW THE LAST OVER ONE went for a four TWO went for a four Tensions flared up We are on the proverbial Edge-of-the-seat Steve stood there No expression on his face Hansie's in the pavilion Like a warrior king THE THIRD BALL Damien's running like he do Yes, bang on target Klusener's couldn't get it off Like the way in his earlier knocks off One run needed in three Just a recap again Final over last pair together nine to get in six ***** player of the tournament on strike Successive fours from Lance Klusener and it was one from four ***** Then came the comedy for South Africa uniquely in the game's annals the tragedy of a tie. Moments before it Steve Waugh was As cold as an Iceberg To the Titanic of South Africa (To be continued in next part)
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 6:31 AM UTC
Epic Waughage - I (Collaboration with the peerless Elizabeth Squires)
His courtiers all, were blind, though their eyes seemed quiet normal, full of glint ay, there is the rub, On his proud countenance, the king plastered for ever an expression of thoughtfulness a make believe, a clever construct, Wasn't it the curse of the lineage? "May the powerful suffer the constant fear of fall, unless courageous to fulfill the karma truly assigned without fear or favor" Every successive king would ritualistically burn, his copy of leather bound parchment written this in lilting Latin verse. "Bullshit,what would the evil genius of the universe would think of me, am I just a pusillanimous ***** the thirst for war runs in my veins!" Sneering he lets out a war cry perfectly pitched and phrased in the tradition of heroes of yore! It sounds odd even to himself "No escape from the rut" he murmurs Everybody pretend not to see the big ***** in his armor. who would take arms against the kingdom's sea of troubles? The king was in fact a lonely being fear alone kept him company, in person of the lord, his man Friday in an armor that made him seem fearless! Dame fear was his true consort the queen only a substitute, wearing crown, she was truly appreciated only when she acted as his tranquilizer, helping his worries galore go to sleep, employing complex strategies. Her favorite one for the final lap was a lullaby that goes thus, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a  crown" in his nightmares regular, mighty empires crumbled. So he did the best he can not anything for love to spread but to consolidate destructive instinct; he invented weapons, went on upgrading it day in and day out to freeze fear blacksmiths, knights, horsemen, cannons, guns his fear took many forms and he used them to feel powerful while trembling with fear.
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May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 at 7:26 PM UTC
The king's armor
His courtiers all, were blind, though their eyes seemed quiet normal, full of glint ay, there is the rub, On his proud countenance, the king plastered for ever an expression of thoughtfulness a make believe, a clever construct, Wasn't it the curse of the lineage? "May the powerful suffer the constant fear of fall, unless courageous to fulfill the karma truly assigned without fear or favor" Every successive king would ritualistically burn, his copy of leather bound parchment written this in lilting Latin verse. "Bullshit,what would the evil genius of the universe would think of me, am I just a pusillanimous ***** the thirst for war runs in my veins!" Sneering he lets out a war cry perfectly pitched and phrased in the tradition of heroes of yore! It sounds odd even to himself "No escape from the rut" he murmurs Everybody pretend not to see the big ***** in his armor. who would take arms against the kingdom's sea of troubles? The king was in fact a lonely being fear alone kept him company, in person of the lord, his man Friday in an armor that made him seem fearless! Dame fear was his true consort the queen only a substitute, wearing crown, she was truly appreciated only when she acted as his tranquilizer, helping his worries galore go to sleep, employing complex strategies. Her favorite one for the final lap was a lullaby that goes thus, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a  crown" in his nightmares regular, mighty empires crumbled. So he did the best he can not anything for love to spread but to consolidate destructive instinct; he invented weapons, went on upgrading it day in and day out to freeze fear blacksmiths, knights, horsemen, cannons, guns his fear took many forms and he used them to feel powerful while trembling with fear.
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Dedicated to the Hard Hats, ..for holding it all together. **** frost on the green grass There's a cold moon in the sky The estuary waters black and calm Where golden ripples lie. Dawn's horizon lightens up Bright stars begin to dim Hard Hats all arrive for work And with frozen breath...log in. Work boots crunching on the stone The men disperse to trucks, The diesel motors roar to life Their departures forming rucks. Swarming in the morning light Each to his own job's task, Bridge building work underway As dawn's first sunbeams bask. Amazing the complexity That building bridges has, Amazing how voraciously It eats up time and gas. The planning and design work The funding of supply, Those organizational matters And the labour standing bye. Digging, lifting, shoving, shifting Moving this to there, A logistical nightmare For the novice, unaware. Steel and timber by the ton Concrete pours en mass, Gravel, sand and aggregate And reservoirs of gas. Procurement of supply ensures A smooth transitional flow Of successive small procedures To make the project mesh and grow. Day after day the massive trucks Carting tons of sand Are authorized by gate men To unload on to land Where motorway construction Is steadfastly taking place And progressing at A gradual and steady building pace. From concept to completion A million multitasks, Which involves a caste of thousands And a schedule which asks, That the finished installation Be completed by the time Of the Rugby World Cup kickoff, Our global status on the line. Like ants the Hard Hats swarm about Each does his little bit And gradually, over time, The bridge emerges from the pit. It emergeth like a phoenix In a drab and sombre gown But on completion, shines like fire To be the nation's most re known. The Manukau Harbour Crossing A project for the Gods, Of massive lengths of concrete And miles of reinforcing rods. Of an eternity of effort From everyone involved And an asset for New Zealand And a beauty to behold. Marshalg @theGate MHX Mangere Bridge 14th March 2009 Please view the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQZ-M90Zig
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Nov 14, 2009
Nov 14, 2009 at 1:07 PM UTC
M.H.X. Emergeth
Dedicated to the Hard Hats, ..for holding it all together. **** frost on the green grass There's a cold moon in the sky The estuary waters black and calm Where golden ripples lie. Dawn's horizon lightens up Bright stars begin to dim Hard Hats all arrive for work And with frozen breath...log in. Work boots crunching on the stone The men disperse to trucks, The diesel motors roar to life Their departures forming rucks. Swarming in the morning light Each to his own job's task, Bridge building work underway As dawn's first sunbeams bask. Amazing the complexity That building bridges has, Amazing how voraciously It eats up time and gas. The planning and design work The funding of supply, Those organizational matters And the labour standing bye. Digging, lifting, shoving, shifting Moving this to there, A logistical nightmare For the novice, unaware. Steel and timber by the ton Concrete pours en mass, Gravel, sand and aggregate And reservoirs of gas. Procurement of supply ensures A smooth transitional flow Of successive small procedures To make the project mesh and grow. Day after day the massive trucks Carting tons of sand Are authorized by gate men To unload on to land Where motorway construction Is steadfastly taking place And progressing at A gradual and steady building pace. From concept to completion A million multitasks, Which involves a caste of thousands And a schedule which asks, That the finished installation Be completed by the time Of the Rugby World Cup kickoff, Our global status on the line. Like ants the Hard Hats swarm about Each does his little bit And gradually, over time, The bridge emerges from the pit. It emergeth like a phoenix In a drab and sombre gown But on completion, shines like fire To be the nation's most re known. The Manukau Harbour Crossing A project for the Gods, Of massive lengths of concrete And miles of reinforcing rods. Of an eternity of effort From everyone involved And an asset for New Zealand And a beauty to behold. Marshalg @theGate MHX Mangere Bridge 14th March 2009 Please view the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQZ-M90Zig
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The rain, the rain, drives me insane It patters on my windowpane. Each single drop of rain that’s spent Leaves my mind in such torment. A feeling that I can’t explain The torture of the pouring rain. 6 Please let it stop, it can’t go on, My sanity will soon be gone. Pitter, Patter, Patter, Pit, it Drives me mad, I cannot sit. Each successive single drop Makes my brain want to pop. The sound torments, I have no peace. With every drop the sounds increase. It feels as if my brains on fire And I’ve begun to mass perspire. The sweat that trickles from my brow, Begins to Pitter, Patter, now. 18 Oh Water God, please rescue me, Stop the rain and set me free. Hear my prayers and let me go. Remove the curse of H2O I did nothing to create Please let me be, I’m in a state. I’ll begin to beg and cry, Set me free, I’d rather die. The pain, the pain inside my head, I’d be better off if dead. Hear my plea, I beg please do I just don’t know what else to do. 30 I’ll hold a pillow to my ears And mop up my cascading tears, It’s water, water, everywhere. My mind has just become a blur. I can’t go on, I cannot breath, I’ll hang myself and take my leave. Still the rain it patters down, Someone save me, or I’ll drown. My minds in a submerging pool, Oh Water God, why be so cruel. Let the falling water cease. It can’t go on please give me peace. 42 Pitter, Patter, Patter, Pit, Pitter, Pitter, Pit, Pit, Pit. Water running down the drain, The excruciating, crippling pain. The racking of each nervous cell Ringing out my own death knell. Deafening noise I can’t keep out, Grant my prayer, send a drought. Let my mind have peace again, Remove the daggers from my brain. Oh Water God don’t torture me Stop this rain and let me be. 54 If you’ll just grant one single wish And leave the water to the fish. Don’t let it fall upon my glass. Each single, soggy, squishy, splash. Then I’ll forever sing your praise, Forgive me Lord, it’s just a phase
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Dec 8, 2009
Dec 8, 2009 at 7:57 AM UTC
WATER TORTURE
The rain, the rain, drives me insane It patters on my windowpane. Each single drop of rain that’s spent Leaves my mind in such torment. A feeling that I can’t explain The torture of the pouring rain. 6 Please let it stop, it can’t go on, My sanity will soon be gone. Pitter, Patter, Patter, Pit, it Drives me mad, I cannot sit. Each successive single drop Makes my brain want to pop. The sound torments, I have no peace. With every drop the sounds increase. It feels as if my brains on fire And I’ve begun to mass perspire. The sweat that trickles from my brow, Begins to Pitter, Patter, now. 18 Oh Water God, please rescue me, Stop the rain and set me free. Hear my prayers and let me go. Remove the curse of H2O I did nothing to create Please let me be, I’m in a state. I’ll begin to beg and cry, Set me free, I’d rather die. The pain, the pain inside my head, I’d be better off if dead. Hear my plea, I beg please do I just don’t know what else to do. 30 I’ll hold a pillow to my ears And mop up my cascading tears, It’s water, water, everywhere. My mind has just become a blur. I can’t go on, I cannot breath, I’ll hang myself and take my leave. Still the rain it patters down, Someone save me, or I’ll drown. My minds in a submerging pool, Oh Water God, why be so cruel. Let the falling water cease. It can’t go on please give me peace. 42 Pitter, Patter, Patter, Pit, Pitter, Pitter, Pit, Pit, Pit. Water running down the drain, The excruciating, crippling pain. The racking of each nervous cell Ringing out my own death knell. Deafening noise I can’t keep out, Grant my prayer, send a drought. Let my mind have peace again, Remove the daggers from my brain. Oh Water God don’t torture me Stop this rain and let me be. 54 If you’ll just grant one single wish And leave the water to the fish. Don’t let it fall upon my glass. Each single, soggy, squishy, splash. Then I’ll forever sing your praise, Forgive me Lord, it’s just a phase
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In all the time we’ve wandered, spent landing from impossible heights; dancing blind, in the dark, being fumbled and prodded for feelings and requests, the games we laugh at, wasted on self-confidence and possession I have much more than yours, intoxicated on the thriving pulse of fearless flight, we crash into opened arms, not noticing the extent of the fall. A wandering soul, I shall be. Picking up sand on empty beaches, spending time thinking of the footsteps, surely imprinted on my trail I left behind. You came and went. And so you came and went. Tumbling across my path, like that cooling hot flush brought with salty ocean and rain. Wandering past empty mountains, looking over my shoulder to notice the mortal statues I made of you, and you, and you, my tended garden of people and places and things; of darkness and light; of scraped shells and glorious feathered wings; of sickly love songs and hearts blazed; of lonely nights waiting up for you, and all the times you let me down. Wandering alone and free, the purple skies above offering sacred slumber. I remain awake, watching stone eyes move on me, fixating on the bumps in the road, tremors and falls in gentle dips unexpected under my feet; like you were. Another came past, the smell of cut roses and blushes minus a make-up brush; shaking in the middle of your field of games, playing rough and ***** feeding ego and primal instincts, bent backwards and underneath, an empty canvas for marred drawing; it was ****** while it lasted, but I turned to stone long before you came back on your knees. And all the time I’ve wandered this lonely escape, I come to wonder at all my marvels, the things that made you fall faintly for me, and shrines of you, and you, and you. Whether we were meant to collect an exhibition of second best loves; successive wilting romances burnt on scorching days. Whether we were meant to learn by breaking hearts; making cold remnants left to mildew in the past. Whether we make do with second best, as close to first yet farther still; because we don’t know what best is. We know when it tumbles down, like a broken house, but to see it gone is much too late. Safer to say yes to second best, than risk the cold wandering left for us alone. In all the times we’ve spent wandering. And I’m still wandering. Empty beaches and purple skies, long past.
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Jan 10, 2017
Jan 10, 2017 at 2:16 AM UTC
In All The Times Spent Wandering
In all the time we’ve wandered, spent landing from impossible heights; dancing blind, in the dark, being fumbled and prodded for feelings and requests, the games we laugh at, wasted on self-confidence and possession I have much more than yours, intoxicated on the thriving pulse of fearless flight, we crash into opened arms, not noticing the extent of the fall. A wandering soul, I shall be. Picking up sand on empty beaches, spending time thinking of the footsteps, surely imprinted on my trail I left behind. You came and went. And so you came and went. Tumbling across my path, like that cooling hot flush brought with salty ocean and rain. Wandering past empty mountains, looking over my shoulder to notice the mortal statues I made of you, and you, and you, my tended garden of people and places and things; of darkness and light; of scraped shells and glorious feathered wings; of sickly love songs and hearts blazed; of lonely nights waiting up for you, and all the times you let me down. Wandering alone and free, the purple skies above offering sacred slumber. I remain awake, watching stone eyes move on me, fixating on the bumps in the road, tremors and falls in gentle dips unexpected under my feet; like you were. Another came past, the smell of cut roses and blushes minus a make-up brush; shaking in the middle of your field of games, playing rough and ***** feeding ego and primal instincts, bent backwards and underneath, an empty canvas for marred drawing; it was ****** while it lasted, but I turned to stone long before you came back on your knees. And all the time I’ve wandered this lonely escape, I come to wonder at all my marvels, the things that made you fall faintly for me, and shrines of you, and you, and you. Whether we were meant to collect an exhibition of second best loves; successive wilting romances burnt on scorching days. Whether we were meant to learn by breaking hearts; making cold remnants left to mildew in the past. Whether we make do with second best, as close to first yet farther still; because we don’t know what best is. We know when it tumbles down, like a broken house, but to see it gone is much too late. Safer to say yes to second best, than risk the cold wandering left for us alone. In all the times we’ve spent wandering. And I’m still wandering. Empty beaches and purple skies, long past.
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