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The sun bakes down heavily on a plastic micro planet in Orlando, Florida where crowded trams drop American bushels of tourists into an alien world. Quickly fantasy comes alive through a corporation of disguise. The workers mask themselves in a drapery of familiar life -like costumes to charm little children’s hearts. They smile wildly, carving a clear dimple line on the but of their cheeks. Walt’s Disney World must have driven every one of America’s circuses out of business. The flying trapeze is too elegant, people now want to be strapped in, buckled up and whipped around to forcibly experience the true velocity of entertainment. Even the participant’s attire is geared for this third world oblivion. Neon ***** packs rest like bloated kangaroo pouches on fat sweaty old lady’s round hips, their plump fingers holding on to leashed harnesses reined to their child’s small chest. This is vacation, strangers of people in massive conglomerations with confused expressions and burnt faces. Even the food seems wickedly unnatural, like an artificial order of burning plastic and sour dough surprise. Waiting is the enthusiast’s pastime as parades of anxious voyeurs are captivated by a trance fixation of lights and whistles. They line up like schools of lemming, plunging on rides, one by one. This is the place Where memories are made And dreams come true
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Sep 25, 2010
Sep 25, 2010 at 12:25 PM UTC
Walt Disney World, Orlando Florida
The unknown city Enveloped in dark So black even light would fear She walks on barely visible Standing still felt more frightening She feels numb She looks down and her legs missing She see busses and cars And trams and trains Being driven by people and their eyes missing There was sky but weather There were trees but leaves There were owls but feathers There were bats all crying She wanted to breathe and her nose missing A strange sound plays somewhere around Squeaks of abandoned seesaws and laughing clown Playing an opera of horror She wants to scream Her voice choked An immortal horror takes over She hears a ring A doorbell ring She breaks her sleep And realize it a dream The bell kept ringing She goes to the door The door won't open She looks at her bed She is deep asleep She shakes her up She won't wake up Tears roll on her cheeks her cry was missing She wants to scream Her voice was missing She opens the door The other side was missing She turns around She was missing In the unknown city
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Sep 22, 2018
Sep 22, 2018 at 12:08 PM UTC
The Unknown City
Carrickfergus (1937) - poem by Louis Macneice. I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries To the hooting of lost sirens and the clang of trams; Thence to Smoky Carrick in County Antrim Where the bottle-neck harbour collects the mud which jams The little boats beneath the Norman castle, The pier shining with lumps of crystal salt; The Scotch quarter was a line of residential houses But the Irish quarter was a slum for the blind and halt. The brook ran yellow from the factory stinking of chlorine, The yarn mill called it's funeral cry at noon; Our lights looked over the lough to the lights of Bangor Under the peacock aura of a drowning moon. The Norman walled this town against the country To stop his ears to the yelping of his slave And built a church in the form of a cross but denoting The list of Christ on the cross in the angle of the nave. I was the rectors son, born to the Anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure. The war came and a huge camp of soldiers Grew from the ground in sight of our house with long Dummies hanging from gibbets for bayonet practice And the sentry's challenge echoing all day long; A Yorkshire terrier ran in and out by the gate-lodge Barred to civilians, yapping as if taking affront; Marching at ease and singing 'Who Killed **** Robin?' The troops went out by the lodge and off to the Front. The steamer was camouflaged that took me to England- Sweat and khaki in the Carlisle train; I thought that the war would last for ever and sugar be always rationed and that never again Would the weekly papers not have photos of sandbags And my governess not make bandages from moss And people not have maps above the fireplace With flags on pins moving across and across- Across the hawthorn hedge the noise of bugles, Flares across the night, Somewhere on the lough was a prison ship for Germans, A cage across their sight. I went to school in Dorset, the world of parents Contracted into a puppet world of sons Far from the mill girls, the smell of porter, the salt-mines And the soldiers with their guns. Louis Macneice
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Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 8:54 AM UTC
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
Carrickfergus (1937) - poem by Louis Macneice. I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries To the hooting of lost sirens and the clang of trams; Thence to Smoky Carrick in County Antrim Where the bottle-neck harbour collects the mud which jams The little boats beneath the Norman castle, The pier shining with lumps of crystal salt; The Scotch quarter was a line of residential houses But the Irish quarter was a slum for the blind and halt. The brook ran yellow from the factory stinking of chlorine, The yarn mill called it's funeral cry at noon; Our lights looked over the lough to the lights of Bangor Under the peacock aura of a drowning moon. The Norman walled this town against the country To stop his ears to the yelping of his slave And built a church in the form of a cross but denoting The list of Christ on the cross in the angle of the nave. I was the rectors son, born to the Anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure. The war came and a huge camp of soldiers Grew from the ground in sight of our house with long Dummies hanging from gibbets for bayonet practice And the sentry's challenge echoing all day long; A Yorkshire terrier ran in and out by the gate-lodge Barred to civilians, yapping as if taking affront; Marching at ease and singing 'Who Killed **** Robin?' The troops went out by the lodge and off to the Front. The steamer was camouflaged that took me to England- Sweat and khaki in the Carlisle train; I thought that the war would last for ever and sugar be always rationed and that never again Would the weekly papers not have photos of sandbags And my governess not make bandages from moss And people not have maps above the fireplace With flags on pins moving across and across- Across the hawthorn hedge the noise of bugles, Flares across the night, Somewhere on the lough was a prison ship for Germans, A cage across their sight. I went to school in Dorset, the world of parents Contracted into a puppet world of sons Far from the mill girls, the smell of porter, the salt-mines And the soldiers with their guns. Louis Macneice
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Monday Bleak unoriginal Mondays Where there is no Whipped cream or cherries, Hot chocolate sauce or Peanut sprinkles Only ***** wrecked trams Absent faces & Dreams of freedom From hell That is This is These are The Monday Blues
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Mar 12, 2012
Mar 12, 2012 at 5:19 AM UTC
Monday Blues
If the Scots get independence will we get better **** I'd vote for that. Maybe the 'silent majority' are like ... hospitals, schools, fish, whisky, natural energy blah blah The good folk in Scotland have been drip-fed the worst **** in history: coated in chemicals bath rinsed molasses spare car tyre plastic flotsam *** seriously No wonder - Bammed (right up) Givin it Havin it Lovin it is why bands & DJs Love to Play: 'up for it' 'Hey MoJo's share some of that MTV love' anything that's called Council Hash and accepted as the norm reeks of class politics; ah they won't mind the **** end o that they're the Scots The Scottish Government should embrace a new Scotland and the people in it We want lots of things: one of which is better **** Crime will drop: - sniffing car tyres for a hit - sales of Buckfast will fund the entire South East of England. Scotland could lead the world in upcycling as Rizla fails to meet demand. Our days would be so radically different; auto flexi time carbon neutral trams with comfy seats systematically mathematically go faster than walking: a mode of choice I'd vote for that ...
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 8:34 PM UTC
Rant 0719
In memoriam Asher and Franklin Farmers flocked to Blossburg's mines     willing their abandoned plows     to perpetual dust and rain. Burrowing into the Tioga hills     with Keagle picks and sledges,     they filled their trams with rough cut coal. Black diamonds - carved for waiting boilers     of New England mills and trains     and Pennsylvania's winter stoves. Brothers, Frank and Asher swung their picks     in tunnels deep beneath the hills     and brushed away the clouds of soot. Their coughs at first seemed harmless     enough as from nagging colds or flus -     but deepened as their lungs turned black. Pain and choking drove them to their beds     where no medic's art could aid them.     Then the coroner came to seal their eyes. A stonecutter's chisel marks their brevity     on an marble graveyard obelisk     that pays no homage to their sacrifice. September, 2007
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 3:57 PM UTC
Black Diamonds
public transport ***** in every way the trains and the trams run on a timetable of delay the public using these **** facilities should protest to the transport authorities here's a draft you can use off your butts fellas or you'll be in the news no mucking around no stalling we'll take extract the digit for the traveling public's sake
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Nov 15, 2013
Nov 15, 2013 at 7:56 PM UTC
Public Transport
The Great Falls, was a massive clone of ice; yet still her waters poured forth in roaring waves over the ebb of the river. Sliding into a frozen crevasse, down an icy bar, I land wet, chilled and numb from the duration of the decent and the soul piercing cold. On the landing, the carcasses of industrial waste were encased in a frozen loam. The giant mill wheel locked in place, entombed in a glacier of ice. It made good sense to found this city on an industrious bluff. The Great Falls spun the wheels that powered vast manufactures. Shoots and trams shot flumes of water down every street. Everyman was a master of his cottage industry, forging bullets constructing locomotives, spinning the finest silk from the most exotic foreign worms. But the machines shut down. The handiwork of learned men, entrepreneurs, urban planners, engineers and artisans now encased in frozen rust. Barely a tool could be used to produce a product or plumb a line. A simple hand tool could not be lifted without betraying its purpose. A society of useful manufactures frozen shut; dissolving into bankrupt liquidation; so I left my home on Chianci Street and caught the first Paterson Plank coach to the Hoboken Ferry. I would be in Manhattoes by nightfall. The morning travels consumed thoughts of future prospects. The silk mill forever closed. The industry of my home city, dead. This weaver of fine silk had lost his loom. For William Carlos Williams From: Vesuvia, 1997 Music Selection: Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble, Arabian Waltz
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Nov 26, 2011
Nov 26, 2011 at 10:10 PM UTC
Leaving Paterson
The Great Falls, was a massive clone of ice; yet still her waters poured forth in roaring waves over the ebb of the river. Sliding into a frozen crevasse, down an icy bar, I land wet, chilled and numb from the duration of the decent and the soul piercing cold. On the landing, the carcasses of industrial waste were encased in a frozen loam. The giant mill wheel locked in place, entombed in a glacier of ice. It made good sense to found this city on an industrious bluff. The Great Falls spun the wheels that powered vast manufactures. Shoots and trams shot flumes of water down every street. Everyman was a master of his cottage industry, forging bullets constructing locomotives, spinning the finest silk from the most exotic foreign worms. But the machines shut down. The handiwork of learned men, entrepreneurs, urban planners, engineers and artisans now encased in frozen rust. Barely a tool could be used to produce a product or plumb a line. A simple hand tool could not be lifted without betraying its purpose. A society of useful manufactures frozen shut; dissolving into bankrupt liquidation; so I left my home on Chianci Street and caught the first Paterson Plank coach to the Hoboken Ferry. I would be in Manhattoes by nightfall. The morning travels consumed thoughts of future prospects. The silk mill forever closed. The industry of my home city, dead. This weaver of fine silk had lost his loom. For William Carlos Williams From: Vesuvia, 1997 Music Selection: Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble, Arabian Waltz
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like a deer drinking from a stream in the clearing I am clearing time away I am the wolf amongst women I am a jar half full I am residue on the sink edge dusty, smudged I watch people on trams I watch people on buses I don't smile I watch the deer drinking I play with my hair I stare I am the wolf from afar I am I am waiting for the clearing to wilt and stream to dry up I watch the deer I am
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Dec 2, 2021
Dec 2, 2021 at 7:09 PM UTC
I am
Hanging by the post box red front door Since 71 A long trench coat, shade of green With flat cap on top, peak smudged From fingers that had gripped Pulled it from a head, Both, an umbra of post war world gloom To the boy, now the man who looks at it Memories contained within its pockets and creases Of boiled sweets handed to his bairns Of neatly folded plastic bags, For the necessary emergencies He was so convinced he’d meet Of hands that belonged to the coat, Strong, firm that tousled this man’s hair, Yet gentle and playful, full of fun Of the head that wore the cap, the grin, The mischievous glint, when his Peg wasn’t looking As he slipped some coins into this boy’s tiny hand Stories told, of times before the war, Of stopping trams, driving pigs through N’castle As a butcher’s Boy, on slaughter day Of the day he met his Meg, down by the coast Of showing off, and coming a cropper And oh, how his Meg laughed A coat holding so much of the past, Of shipbuilding by the dark, ***** Tyne, Boats that loomed over the houses Taking this boy to see them launch Dreaming of exotic, oriental places He would never visit Of betting slips, crumpled in pockets From long gone nags, who caught his eye Torn envelopes with Megs writing, Bread - brown, tin of carnation milk (small) Rich tea, sultanas, flour – plain A use for his plastic bags,
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Dec 13, 2015
Dec 13, 2015 at 10:40 AM UTC
Granda's Coat (draft)
The sea lies solid under ice, The blizzard seldom stops; The glögi's running freely In friendly coffee-shops; The trams still run and life goes on And still I can't remember Why no-one ever calls a song "Helsinki in November".
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May 22, 2010
May 22, 2010 at 9:11 PM UTC
Not April in Paris
it was the city we talked about in those long nights when we had nothing to say, lying in your bed and memorising the way the dark painted shadows across our cheekbones and jaws. melbourne, you would whisper. a city far away and cultured and quaint and brimming with old buildings and trams and coffee houses and american things like seven-elevens and starbucks. it was different being there with you. much more different being there without you.
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 11:48 PM UTC
melbourne
Doubtful of the future As our wooden furniture Creaks and cracks Like wounded soldiers sutures House on the edge of the water The Earth shows to Only be getting hotter Heaven may only be a starter I've asked all my questions Meandering in drunken perspiration The moon hangs laughing Behind my back Where I was before this I can't keep track Trams, metros, terror colored in streetlights All souls around me barely giving off light Piano man plays with broken fingernails Screaming he's guiltier than all that is wrong or right Could have beens Would have beens Should have beens Sticky black tar regret Stare at the sun and Unveil the lie they've Been telling you all along I wrote something That looked like something That came before I wrote that other something And when I read that something And read the other something Both seemed to be about Nothing and nothing As well as All of the above Staring at the stove top She lays upstairs in bed Silence atop these fingertips Secrets flying high In this unstrung kite A cloud stubs his toe The sun makes His move I feel like a real man Acting like I have a plan Too fast some days Other days Too slow Proving routine Is the curse of the Owner's of the silver spoon I hang on the edge of A smooth, round beer bottle My hardened fingertips Show to be slipping I'm lost in a sea of forgiveness Frantically keeping my head afloat While smiling to myself that I left The life vests tied upon the boat My need for revenge has Sunk into The Black Sea Bitterness was such a boring feeling Like an old ring I was always wearing I hand out my pleases Like ripped off store candies Everybody's got their maybes ready I look at my hand and see its steady This day This month This year or so away From home is Showing me Only I Know where I need to go Let the snow fall The government post what they will High up where we can't reach on the wall All will be remembered All will be forgiven one day The last man to laugh Will be He who believes not In His own trap
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Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 4:18 PM UTC
Experimenting with Faith
Doubtful of the future As our wooden furniture Creaks and cracks Like wounded soldiers sutures House on the edge of the water The Earth shows to Only be getting hotter Heaven may only be a starter I've asked all my questions Meandering in drunken perspiration The moon hangs laughing Behind my back Where I was before this I can't keep track Trams, metros, terror colored in streetlights All souls around me barely giving off light Piano man plays with broken fingernails Screaming he's guiltier than all that is wrong or right Could have beens Would have beens Should have beens Sticky black tar regret Stare at the sun and Unveil the lie they've Been telling you all along I wrote something That looked like something That came before I wrote that other something And when I read that something And read the other something Both seemed to be about Nothing and nothing As well as All of the above Staring at the stove top She lays upstairs in bed Silence atop these fingertips Secrets flying high In this unstrung kite A cloud stubs his toe The sun makes His move I feel like a real man Acting like I have a plan Too fast some days Other days Too slow Proving routine Is the curse of the Owner's of the silver spoon I hang on the edge of A smooth, round beer bottle My hardened fingertips Show to be slipping I'm lost in a sea of forgiveness Frantically keeping my head afloat While smiling to myself that I left The life vests tied upon the boat My need for revenge has Sunk into The Black Sea Bitterness was such a boring feeling Like an old ring I was always wearing I hand out my pleases Like ripped off store candies Everybody's got their maybes ready I look at my hand and see its steady This day This month This year or so away From home is Showing me Only I Know where I need to go Let the snow fall The government post what they will High up where we can't reach on the wall All will be remembered All will be forgiven one day The last man to laugh Will be He who believes not In His own trap
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The well is dry Tonight Not much thought Nowhere to go But sleep Or Drink The well is dry Tonight and I envision black crocodiles With razors for Teeth, chuckling underneath Their putrid, blood stink breath Their belly's tanning In the sun like I wish I could Pepper shakers for Limbs caring for The war sick wounded Sounding like the whoosh Of the first windy roar From an atomic explosion Naked and writhing and waiting For death to crack his knuckles The big sleep at last Where no light can be seen Taking comfort in the new, familiar darkness At night, when there isn't much going on, I see the water start to boil over The food begin to rot in its bowls Lakes churn from no wind or rain or boat Only spinning to feel its means has an end Here, the fish weep into their scaly fins And night - when there isn't much going on - With the bars all open and the churches all closed And the streets bursting with de-salienation tools Branded with love and hate and indecency; Where matters pressed are things worth dying for The well Is dry Tonight And the trains and trams pass by A ***** dies A cop makes a young woman cry Yes, There is not much Going on Tonight But there are still things happening I try to hear them I get lucky every now and again When there isn't much going on, The dust of the dirt Fills my nostrils, making it Hard to breathe and I see Snakes have bitten my feet, Though they do not swell and Laughter of one who once loved me, Has turned to the ringing in my ears Clouds form the forward march And the fortress has buckled down This place does not need to make sense Here, I can be alone with no one but Who I was before and who I wish to be The well is dry tonight But, I continue seeking I keep on Digging Picking Brushing away the dust And wiping away the blood The well is dry tonight And I try to keep on Drinking Thinking Blinking Anyways
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Feb 4, 2013
Feb 4, 2013 at 3:46 PM UTC
Tonight
The well is dry Tonight Not much thought Nowhere to go But sleep Or Drink The well is dry Tonight and I envision black crocodiles With razors for Teeth, chuckling underneath Their putrid, blood stink breath Their belly's tanning In the sun like I wish I could Pepper shakers for Limbs caring for The war sick wounded Sounding like the whoosh Of the first windy roar From an atomic explosion Naked and writhing and waiting For death to crack his knuckles The big sleep at last Where no light can be seen Taking comfort in the new, familiar darkness At night, when there isn't much going on, I see the water start to boil over The food begin to rot in its bowls Lakes churn from no wind or rain or boat Only spinning to feel its means has an end Here, the fish weep into their scaly fins And night - when there isn't much going on - With the bars all open and the churches all closed And the streets bursting with de-salienation tools Branded with love and hate and indecency; Where matters pressed are things worth dying for The well Is dry Tonight And the trains and trams pass by A ***** dies A cop makes a young woman cry Yes, There is not much Going on Tonight But there are still things happening I try to hear them I get lucky every now and again When there isn't much going on, The dust of the dirt Fills my nostrils, making it Hard to breathe and I see Snakes have bitten my feet, Though they do not swell and Laughter of one who once loved me, Has turned to the ringing in my ears Clouds form the forward march And the fortress has buckled down This place does not need to make sense Here, I can be alone with no one but Who I was before and who I wish to be The well is dry tonight But, I continue seeking I keep on Digging Picking Brushing away the dust And wiping away the blood The well is dry tonight And I try to keep on Drinking Thinking Blinking Anyways
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I woke early this morning in Lisbon before the birds chirped the traffic shattered the silent room in the Sao Bento Guesthouse and the old tram struggled, groaned up the steep hill She stirred beside me even and measured breaths I turned on the white light and read Pessoa and Florbella Espanca poets of the past of the hilled city split poetic personalities the one she, the other, a killer of her self "Abre os elhos e encara a vida!"* advice not taken today we'll walk those hills ride those trams and eat seafood along the Tagus as we ignore the passing of our lives *open your eyes and face your life
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Dec 29, 2020
Dec 29, 2020 at 3:38 PM UTC
Quiet Morning in Lisbon
That’s Wakefield out the window, kept between four corner walls landing flat and rising tall, this is how it walks and that’s the way it goes and its red brick timber lined walls are pieced back together with a forever piece of wire tether. That same wire would have led down back streets and alleyways, turning into a hardened mess of grey lined, grey hound steel, that ran around as tracks for the trams, the Chantry Chapel couple waiting patiently with their pram to cross the street, to cross the bridge, to get back home- put the milk in the fridge. I can hear you cry, Wakefield your calls are cast so near. I can hear you cry Wakefield, your fear distilled within the hum of the traffic outside, spilled onto the road deaf and dead, caught within the grooves of another tyre's tread.
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Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013 at 10:06 AM UTC
THROUGH-A-GLASS WAKEFIELD
Trams Knitted smoke And rosary of towns Unspotted in the rear of the lazy sky Dreams getting grasps lackeyed And ***** moon branded with loneliness Smile tiling what left pariah . Those survives the end as a woundless dagger Did anyone ever stands ? In front of the smoke When He enters the mind carousel Speck in the line of windloot A walk to vanishes .... All dare to trip , After the sundown curfew When we lost an another episode of terrors ....
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Dec 15, 2013
Dec 15, 2013 at 12:36 PM UTC
Trams
I heart Blackpool, engraved tankards Little old men & full kit wankers. Bracing wind with rain & sleet ******* blowing in the street. In Blackpool. Kiss me quick & squeeze me slow. Madame Tussauds, pier-end show Grubby track-suits, baseball caps Homeless people search for scraps. In Blackpool. Sun and rain, blue & grey. All four seasons in one day. Drug ravaged transients dressed in rags. Haggard old women smoke their **** In Blackpool. Flashing lights & lots of noise Flirty girls & drunken boys Abba tributes, yesterday’s stars, Rattling trams & clapped out cars. In Blackpool. Penny arcades & bingo halls. Amusement rides & market stalls. Drag Queens flaunt with macho men. Stripper seduces drunken hen. In Blackpool. Rooms by the hour, rooms by the night. A £1 burger & a £2 pint Rolling sea & golden sand. Lowest life expectancy in the land. In Blackpool.
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May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 5:37 AM UTC
Blackpool
IF ONLY THE WAR WOULD DIE If only the War would die but it lives on crawls across the mind the everyday things infected people in trams and buses wearing my dead friend's face until everyone becomes him. A car backfires and I hit the ground to the amazement and amusement of passersby who pass by. It's what kept me alive. This the curse of survival. Even birds wear my dead friend's face. Even his face in a flower's petals. He falls in the rain again and again and again stranded on the wire like a ****** broken puppet the wind pulling his strings dying for days on end. "Die you ****** bugger...die!" I beg him. But he refuses to listen. Three men dead by ****** fire trying to get him me I got it in the leg. I see him rot stage by stage the secrets of the grave open for all to see. I see the rats gnawing at his dear face until only his skeleton grins at me.   His voice forever calling to me.
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Nov 3, 2018
Nov 3, 2018 at 4:08 PM UTC
IF ONLY THE WAR WOULD DIE
Entered in the place Sometime around No time My voice had gone And there was a leak of Green mold in the wall And across the hall I could hear the screams of Either passion or Real pain Outside the trams Roared past & The way they whined Sounded like a young dog Screaming or a little Girl whining - The sound Woke me up For the first Month. But the Autumn smell Warm with eggs, beer & pasta sauce Started to fill up the place And slowly it all Started to feel Like the temporary home It was meant to be And when your supposed To settle down in One place you see that You were never meant to Be that kind of person because It drives you mad seeing The same four walls everyday In and out down the chute made Of concrete, electricity & will power How do people do it For so long Without going insane? I don't know I hope to never know Or maybe I already have, And I don't know it... Perhaps I'm already On the other side Of that Crazy River. Soon The place started to Fill up with things That looked the same As what was in my brain; Things that kept me alive And kept me awake and Steadied my brain from Tilting to far to the right or The left or front to back Then the windows Started opening Cool fresh air coming in Like a rushing stream From a place I knew as "Nowhere" Drunks outside Passing in the night Me one them Some of the time & Me - an observer - The other times But As I watched I saw Little bits of me in them More and more and I started to re-evaluate what Kind of night stalker I wanted to be These walkers - some at least - Can't crane to see the stars Or hear the way the tram passes by them Much like The young ladies in the tight Jeans with their heels clicking and Their lips licking just so Gentle & evil like they always Seem to do I was at A loss of everything As I watched myself Wander to the next Hole that would Never be my or Their last. At quite a loss. Losing is winning And winning is losing When you go right You also go left There is no escaping This mad Crippling Self-obsessed readers digest Crazed, murderous, treacherous & *** blistering place We are here standing On the brink of Digital beauty, Sharing all and being all And seeing pictures That people in the past Would never get to see or imagine Simply because of this ****** little machine in front of me. The trade off From one generation To The next.
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Mar 6, 2012
Mar 6, 2012 at 3:01 AM UTC
Trade Off
Entered in the place Sometime around No time My voice had gone And there was a leak of Green mold in the wall And across the hall I could hear the screams of Either passion or Real pain Outside the trams Roared past & The way they whined Sounded like a young dog Screaming or a little Girl whining - The sound Woke me up For the first Month. But the Autumn smell Warm with eggs, beer & pasta sauce Started to fill up the place And slowly it all Started to feel Like the temporary home It was meant to be And when your supposed To settle down in One place you see that You were never meant to Be that kind of person because It drives you mad seeing The same four walls everyday In and out down the chute made Of concrete, electricity & will power How do people do it For so long Without going insane? I don't know I hope to never know Or maybe I already have, And I don't know it... Perhaps I'm already On the other side Of that Crazy River. Soon The place started to Fill up with things That looked the same As what was in my brain; Things that kept me alive And kept me awake and Steadied my brain from Tilting to far to the right or The left or front to back Then the windows Started opening Cool fresh air coming in Like a rushing stream From a place I knew as "Nowhere" Drunks outside Passing in the night Me one them Some of the time & Me - an observer - The other times But As I watched I saw Little bits of me in them More and more and I started to re-evaluate what Kind of night stalker I wanted to be These walkers - some at least - Can't crane to see the stars Or hear the way the tram passes by them Much like The young ladies in the tight Jeans with their heels clicking and Their lips licking just so Gentle & evil like they always Seem to do I was at A loss of everything As I watched myself Wander to the next Hole that would Never be my or Their last. At quite a loss. Losing is winning And winning is losing When you go right You also go left There is no escaping This mad Crippling Self-obsessed readers digest Crazed, murderous, treacherous & *** blistering place We are here standing On the brink of Digital beauty, Sharing all and being all And seeing pictures That people in the past Would never get to see or imagine Simply because of this ****** little machine in front of me. The trade off From one generation To The next.
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It is the twisted teal torrents of water That gush through its heart. It is the paint on the walls And the Ancient museums full of art. It’s the beauty of the city center The shops and the boutiques. It’s the bells of the green trams, Winding down the cobblestone streets. It’s the wind on my back And the sun on my face It’s the way when I go out, Hours are lost without a trace It’s the people floating down the river In the heat of the year. It’s my feeling of security, Because here there’s nothing to fear. It’s all the unique traditions, Passed down from generations. It’s the faces of the people, One from every nation. It’s the feeling I get When I just walk around. When I take in what’s around me The sights and the sounds. It’s the knowledge that In this city I have grown. It’s all the things I’ve learned, That I may never have known. It’s when I sit still in my room, And know that there’s so much left to explore. It’s the opportunities I have To do things I’ve never done before. It’s the archaic beige bridge That stands down town. It’s that path we like to walk, Or that cute cafe we found. It’s those beautiful books I bought, The ones I know I’ll never read. It’s the happiness that comes With the quiet life I lead. It’s how much more there is to discover, So much beauty I’ve yet to see. It’s that feeling of contentment When you know you’re where you’re meant to be The more I learn about this city, The more my heart desires to stay And know I may be wrong, But I think this could be home someday.
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 6:23 PM UTC
Reasons
It is the twisted teal torrents of water That gush through its heart. It is the paint on the walls And the Ancient museums full of art. It’s the beauty of the city center The shops and the boutiques. It’s the bells of the green trams, Winding down the cobblestone streets. It’s the wind on my back And the sun on my face It’s the way when I go out, Hours are lost without a trace It’s the people floating down the river In the heat of the year. It’s my feeling of security, Because here there’s nothing to fear. It’s all the unique traditions, Passed down from generations. It’s the faces of the people, One from every nation. It’s the feeling I get When I just walk around. When I take in what’s around me The sights and the sounds. It’s the knowledge that In this city I have grown. It’s all the things I’ve learned, That I may never have known. It’s when I sit still in my room, And know that there’s so much left to explore. It’s the opportunities I have To do things I’ve never done before. It’s the archaic beige bridge That stands down town. It’s that path we like to walk, Or that cute cafe we found. It’s those beautiful books I bought, The ones I know I’ll never read. It’s the happiness that comes With the quiet life I lead. It’s how much more there is to discover, So much beauty I’ve yet to see. It’s that feeling of contentment When you know you’re where you’re meant to be The more I learn about this city, The more my heart desires to stay And know I may be wrong, But I think this could be home someday.
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Slipping through winter-grass you falter, pausing fall softly back against summer's wall Here in the haze of dust and trees are shadows playing of antlered men and women with eagle-heads saying "Come by the paths winding through bedroom walls standing tall, overlook the gardens that stretch through books they smell of lemons. Come, here you may follow trams winding through sun-slumped cities follow the paintings of emerald fish swimming across marble floors and you can tour the first world countries and you can stare into the eyes of passers-by on trains watch lights like necklaces plastered against rivers cities forsaken by gods and rains Here dogs will sing of your virtues And chariots their tyres will spring here markets will sell you filigreed silver and *********** fit for kings (complete with crowns and things) You may stand aloft on slender buildings watch traffic swirl by your feet dip your fingers in amethyst rings dye your hair in deepest indigo feast on  rose-coloured sweets While stepping through rain-damped streets dazed by sulky pressing aquarium heat (aided to press on only by clay cups of spiced tea) become transparent dew-lapped milk soft mushroom with lacy edges variations of delicacy Exeunt And Journeying be mulberry blooded carnival skinned roam through our words heeding nothing but dreams and the dreams of dreams." So saying these shadows flick along yellow grass. But remember kind reader, they never sought these ways alone They have never been to mourn at funerals of lovers or friends they have not heard the sound of death knells. So listen, maybe you stay for a bit Then leave their songs for someone else. --- --- ---
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Aug 11, 2014
Aug 11, 2014 at 1:19 PM UTC
Crystal Myth
Slipping through winter-grass you falter, pausing fall softly back against summer's wall Here in the haze of dust and trees are shadows playing of antlered men and women with eagle-heads saying "Come by the paths winding through bedroom walls standing tall, overlook the gardens that stretch through books they smell of lemons. Come, here you may follow trams winding through sun-slumped cities follow the paintings of emerald fish swimming across marble floors and you can tour the first world countries and you can stare into the eyes of passers-by on trains watch lights like necklaces plastered against rivers cities forsaken by gods and rains Here dogs will sing of your virtues And chariots their tyres will spring here markets will sell you filigreed silver and *********** fit for kings (complete with crowns and things) You may stand aloft on slender buildings watch traffic swirl by your feet dip your fingers in amethyst rings dye your hair in deepest indigo feast on  rose-coloured sweets While stepping through rain-damped streets dazed by sulky pressing aquarium heat (aided to press on only by clay cups of spiced tea) become transparent dew-lapped milk soft mushroom with lacy edges variations of delicacy Exeunt And Journeying be mulberry blooded carnival skinned roam through our words heeding nothing but dreams and the dreams of dreams." So saying these shadows flick along yellow grass. But remember kind reader, they never sought these ways alone They have never been to mourn at funerals of lovers or friends they have not heard the sound of death knells. So listen, maybe you stay for a bit Then leave their songs for someone else. --- --- ---
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The sky was filled with the echoing wheeze Of all the protesters with everything they believe Oh' there are the sirens and the barks of many man What they fight for is reform for a new land Can you hear the way the pigeons fly? Imagine to yourself and try not to lie There are the dancer's and the political magistrates All wondering to themselves who the King will make Lady imagination atop Parnassus's mountain I see you there alone & naked in that fountain I charge you with bringing me to this heavenly place Making me see there is only you to believe as true The hasty hare clicks his pocket watch as he walks As Alice steps forward, how sad she cannot stop And all the doomed and determined minds Frown for they see their fear is much like mine Here the castle stones whisper as peace spells disaster All the trams carry the drunken lined as if in rafters My sister swam through the Pacific without a cough Yet these heathens praise a place they know only in song The minstrels with their strings have many gifts to bring And the orchestra with their penguins praise coming Spring No, I try never to whimper or feel the weight of being alone Those feelings are to be reserved for people without any bones Push me this way and I'll go the other When I was young it was me and my mother Yet time has a way of pulling you away from who you love Though the dove still flies as time ticks and shoves Here in the desert the sky drifts in a different way Not many people so only the animals here to play The guns in the hills point toward my tiny shack When she left she never mentioned when she'd be back Now I started off on a road where there aren't many signs Just the one's from above and the unemployment line If I stick to this too long I know I'll start thinking about that Stay off the road for there is a wickedness here that smells of a rat
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May 2, 2012
May 2, 2012 at 3:34 AM UTC
That Bully Time
The sky was filled with the echoing wheeze Of all the protesters with everything they believe Oh' there are the sirens and the barks of many man What they fight for is reform for a new land Can you hear the way the pigeons fly? Imagine to yourself and try not to lie There are the dancer's and the political magistrates All wondering to themselves who the King will make Lady imagination atop Parnassus's mountain I see you there alone & naked in that fountain I charge you with bringing me to this heavenly place Making me see there is only you to believe as true The hasty hare clicks his pocket watch as he walks As Alice steps forward, how sad she cannot stop And all the doomed and determined minds Frown for they see their fear is much like mine Here the castle stones whisper as peace spells disaster All the trams carry the drunken lined as if in rafters My sister swam through the Pacific without a cough Yet these heathens praise a place they know only in song The minstrels with their strings have many gifts to bring And the orchestra with their penguins praise coming Spring No, I try never to whimper or feel the weight of being alone Those feelings are to be reserved for people without any bones Push me this way and I'll go the other When I was young it was me and my mother Yet time has a way of pulling you away from who you love Though the dove still flies as time ticks and shoves Here in the desert the sky drifts in a different way Not many people so only the animals here to play The guns in the hills point toward my tiny shack When she left she never mentioned when she'd be back Now I started off on a road where there aren't many signs Just the one's from above and the unemployment line If I stick to this too long I know I'll start thinking about that Stay off the road for there is a wickedness here that smells of a rat
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