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"triggered" poems
Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn, More coiled steel than living - a poised Dark deadly eye, those delicate legs Triggered to stirrings beyond sense - with a start, a bounce, a stab Overtake the instant and drag out some writhing thing. No indolent procrastinations and no yawning states, No sighs or head-scratchings. Nothing but bounce and stab And a ravening second. Is it their single-mind-sized skulls, or a trained Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats Gives their days this bullet and automatic Purpose? Mozart's brain had it, and the shark's mouth That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own Side and devouring of itself: efficiency which Strikes too streamlined for any doubt to pluck at it Or obstruction deflect. With a man it is otherwise. Heroisms on horseback, Outstripping his desk-diary at a broad desk, Carving at a tiny ivory ornament For years: his act worships itself - while for him, Though he bends to be blent in the prayer, how loud and above what Furious spaces of fire do the distracting devils **** and hosannah, under what wilderness Of black silent waters weep.
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Thrushes
A steady cadence   pulsing in a heart beat like rhythm, voices and strummed instruments all in harmonized concert, An orchestral multitude, of frogs and crickets, never tiring or ceasing, How many must there be, to render such a cacophony? Sustained and loud enough to keep city folk wide awake. Nature's Music of the night, should you but choose to listen. How do they do that, all night with absolutely no intermission? A crescendo finale triggered only by the coming dawn's first light, and the boastful crowing calls of our cocky persistent red rooster chicken. Where these musicians go in daylight is anybody's guess. To sleep I suspect, deserved resting up for yet another night of endless music.
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Aug 10, 2018
Aug 10, 2018 at 4:45 AM UTC
Night Music
“the simplest definition of our learning to count to infinity” *wrote those words to a stranger in pain, awful pain, asking him to count his blessings* *now awful pain no stranger to me a pain four decades long, that the surgeon promised was fully excised. but today was triggered, chest pain dagger ingredient emergency room so I am counting for, but not to, counting on infinity when the wounding cannot be recalled, only a minor scar to struggle from wonder whence came it from which is the definition of reaching the infinity place,* where finite comes to rest
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Dec 10, 2019
Dec 10, 2019 at 5:37 PM UTC
the simplest definition of our learning to count to infinity
My sisters have witchy feet. Their words, not mine. If someone else puts them down I firmly draw the line. When they are laughing, Just because they are together, The joy I hear from them Seems to change the weather. It might be chilly or gray But today the clouds evaporate. Inside it’s all warm and cozy, And I do not exaggerate. They manage to find something That they can all laugh about Even when that laughter rises To the level of three sided shouts. It usually starts when one dances And turns it into a wiggle. Then all three of them break out In wild, uncontrollable giggles. Or a memory will get triggered Of something outrageous And the laughter takes over. It is immediately contagious. I am always rewarded by this Circus of the instantly absurd That turns into the best of all Sounds I have ever heard. May I wish all of you have What has happened to me; To have such close members Of our often silly family.
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Jan 15, 2017
Jan 15, 2017 at 9:05 PM UTC
WITCHY FEET
Dear Friends, I had composed this poem in 2008 after reading an article by a Lady Doctor who was a Biologist, and had initially posted it on 'Poemhunter.com'. Hope you will like it! Thanks, - Raj PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF LOVE ! Love’s physics and chemistry, has forever remained a mystery! There are no permanent equations to resolve, Love's unseen wave like force! It travels through three dimensional space, At frequencies higher than electromagnetic waves! It remains unhindered by barriers of cast, creed, or clime, Giving two beating hearts a feel of the divine! It generates a magnetic force field, making two hearts in unison beat! Yet Biologists claim that a chemical called (PEA) Phenylethylamine, - Triggers loves molecules in the human mind! Chocolates are rich in this PEA content they say, And is a perfect gift on the Valentine’s Day! The chemical Dopamine makes the lovers to glow and feel fine, When they live on love and fresh air and may even forget to dine! While Norepinephrine, which stimulates our adrenaline production, Makes the lovers world go round in a joyous motion! But Oxytoxin that 'cuddling chemical',  requires constant contact for its effects to prevail! Cupid’s arrows may be dipped in its pail, Before those arrows on lovers begin to hail! Creating unbearable attraction leading to infatuation, Making two hearts beat as one with love’s magic potion! But such feelings remain for a limited duration, Varying with people with different emotions! In a 'mercurial type' loves ecstasy gets mixed, - And they frequently require a PEA fix! But those who stick to a single mate, Are said to be rich in Vasopressin content! And finally when infatuation gradually subsides, Chemicals triggered by Endorphine slowly overtakes, When calmness and stability with loving bond prevails! This Endorphine is reputed to be rather addictive, And firmly binds those forces released by PEA, - which are rather seductive! (All Copyrights with Raj Nandy of New Delhi)
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Jun 4, 2016
Jun 4, 2016 at 9:22 AM UTC
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF LOVE!
Dear Friends, I had composed this poem in 2008 after reading an article by a Lady Doctor who was a Biologist, and had initially posted it on 'Poemhunter.com'. Hope you will like it! Thanks, - Raj PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF LOVE ! Love’s physics and chemistry, has forever remained a mystery! There are no permanent equations to resolve, Love's unseen wave like force! It travels through three dimensional space, At frequencies higher than electromagnetic waves! It remains unhindered by barriers of cast, creed, or clime, Giving two beating hearts a feel of the divine! It generates a magnetic force field, making two hearts in unison beat! Yet Biologists claim that a chemical called (PEA) Phenylethylamine, - Triggers loves molecules in the human mind! Chocolates are rich in this PEA content they say, And is a perfect gift on the Valentine’s Day! The chemical Dopamine makes the lovers to glow and feel fine, When they live on love and fresh air and may even forget to dine! While Norepinephrine, which stimulates our adrenaline production, Makes the lovers world go round in a joyous motion! But Oxytoxin that 'cuddling chemical',  requires constant contact for its effects to prevail! Cupid’s arrows may be dipped in its pail, Before those arrows on lovers begin to hail! Creating unbearable attraction leading to infatuation, Making two hearts beat as one with love’s magic potion! But such feelings remain for a limited duration, Varying with people with different emotions! In a 'mercurial type' loves ecstasy gets mixed, - And they frequently require a PEA fix! But those who stick to a single mate, Are said to be rich in Vasopressin content! And finally when infatuation gradually subsides, Chemicals triggered by Endorphine slowly overtakes, When calmness and stability with loving bond prevails! This Endorphine is reputed to be rather addictive, And firmly binds those forces released by PEA, - which are rather seductive! (All Copyrights with Raj Nandy of New Delhi)
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'twas a long hot summer day sticky air without a breeze concrete burning my bare feet cicadas screaming in the trees a triggered memory smelling honeysuckle scent, the way he looked at me remembering what he meant when I was sixteen with his mischievous grin and a squint in his eye he said, I hope you know how to swim in his old pick up truck as we rolled the windows down he drove us to this place in the woods outside of town off road, through a pasture to a watering hole, he found guaranteed to cool me off from spring fed water underground sweet talking me naked still not sure how he did it a memory now sacred my first time skinny dippin'
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May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017 at 11:14 AM UTC
That Summer Day
I'm smarter than Most people i know, But i've been cursed With the ability to Feel. I have a multitude of thoughts Being triggered every second. Each with their own Unique emotion. I feel each one vividly, And with amazing depth Creating a storm in my head Impossible to ignore. My storm of emotions Grows so strong, It prevents the simultaneous thoughts From being articulated Or understood. I can confuse myself, And break my own heart Because of the complexity Of my mind. An astounding talent, really. My dad says I'm smart, Too smart for my own good. And he's probably right. What good is a brain, When your heart makes all the decisions?
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Feb 26, 2016
Feb 26, 2016 at 5:11 PM UTC
Smarty Pants
Can we talk about the word trigger Because people are dumb Teenagers say they are triggered when They don’t want to write a paper They miss a goal in soccer They drop their phone That is called being annoyed or disappointed That is not triggered A trigger is an emotional allergy Some that triggers distress or panic A trigger is loud noises cause a panic attack
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Sep 22, 2019
Sep 22, 2019 at 10:12 PM UTC
trigger
Book of life brings various mysterious chapters,one such spells my visit to village.. It was so awe aspiring, but no man's clock can be rewinded to bring that timeless age... I shouted in wilderness like the way toy means to infant's rejoice... my words couldn't jump over the peaks, bouncing back my voice... I was panting and cramps got better of me,pushing me to rest on flat limestone... But enjoying every bit of that pilgrimage and witnessing melodious chirping tone... I resumed my journey upwards but soon grey clouds triggered the quenching rain... Closing my eyes,i opened my arm,kids with cherry cheeks called me tenuous insane... It seemed as if almighty took me to the heaven, being surrounded by the flowery and green hills... In the east breeze those school kids were skidding down the slope with their paper windmills.. An aged shepherd was looking for some shelter,not for himself but for his lamb and sheep.. Such care, such love,that's why the wool machine searched the banyan where her master could sleep... Some urbans haven't travelled to such pictures just because of it's tech- remoteness.. Wish i had my own hut in the vicinity of woods giving utmost peace,but I'm hapless... Darkness is floating through narrow lane yet eye catches only citylight.. But wish i could dream again in countryside under shiny moonlight..
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Aug 17, 2018
Aug 17, 2018 at 12:23 PM UTC
Once in a countryside
The last judgement shall not hold mercy on the servants, but it shall not wrong them in their deeds either, it is the final decision to make, The end of a long journey which births the desire to see you again, Your reflection cast on a mirror in a sea of pure lunacy shall clear it all It will open your heart and reveal all of your sinning impurities cast away by words of falsities, triggered by a simple yet small lie, Heartfelt dream scapes shape the mirror; In a world so dark that the stars will blind ones sensitive, mortal eyes within seconds to come, Experience of past events suspend memories from the future's dawn. I will not show you any sad dreams, I'd like to heal your wounds if you have striven for righteousness and purity such as patience, If you however have striven for corruption then you should know, There's unending punishment and darkness awaiting your arrival, Here we do have unlimitted time after all, unlimited cruelty and fear, Love comes in misery, ends unexpectedly yet you won't see, will you? Time ticks on, goes by and follows it's clear path in this devil's world which I am lurking over, ruling, which you have intruded tonight, Take my hand oh all you pure souls, the love of light is for all to bear! ~ Umi
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Mar 14, 2018
Mar 14, 2018 at 4:19 PM UTC
The Last Judgement
she expected f i r e w o r k s when she first kissed him. little did she know that she was going to become the fireworks. she was an easy target, and he had good aim. as soon as she f e l l into his grasp, he was quick to send her back from where she came. crowds gathered. fathers' hands silenced their children's mouths as his loaded her into the mortar. mothers' hands covered their children's ears as his lit the fuse. she was shot forward by a merciless puff of dragon's breath, and as she looked over her shoulder, she saw the ash leaking from his nostrils. stars beckoned to her. glimmering, shimmering, shining stars extended their fiery hands to her already outstretched ones. she rose higher and higher, filling her lungs with the last bit of oxygen that was left, and screamed. he screamed. her flaming body parts rained down in the form of asteroids, striking him. stars spelled out her name and pulsed weakly like his dying heartbeat. they both went from "are" to "were" in a matter of seconds, and everyone knew that their chemical reaction was triggered by fireworks.
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May 17, 2014
May 17, 2014 at 10:25 PM UTC
fireworks
The Ganga talk eh eh eh What does it say? The Ganga talk eh eh eh She says light me up Light me up The Ganga Talk Ay ay ay She says daddy burn me up Burn me up The Ganga Sing What does she sing? She Singing oh in harmony As I put the flame to her, she seems Soft & Vibrant Honest Eyeing me OH I cannot think Burning my baby Oh I cannot stop Puffing my baby till she's gone Society Has triggered this in me! And All I can think about Is the next time my ganga talk, my baby gonna sing.
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Nov 30, 2015
Nov 30, 2015 at 12:52 PM UTC
Ganga Talk
Sweetness on the inside and outside Is a rare combination You can't buy that in Cash Go ahead, call me a liar. I know it when i see and feel it. Astonishingly heartwarming I don't know about the world's Global Warming But you triggered mine, but with positive effects.
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Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 11:13 PM UTC
Heartwarming
*A vast blanket of darkness, the world at night Bombarded by the explosion of light Were you bedazzled by my kaleidoscopic luster? You were silenced with awe And your eyes manifest wonder My splendor of lights were formed from the shadows And in its depths I'll return Sadness and hurt made indigo Bliss and jubilance made yellow So light me up, ignite me be the flame to set me afire colliding thoughts had lifted me up This is my extravagant goodbye As the last glint of light flickers in the last seconds of my show as it falls slowly to be one with void i'd like to see one last smile aglow you're the spark that triggered me to combust i was once a firework show now one with dust*
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 12:53 AM UTC
Fireworks
Lately I've been a little moody I get triggered by comments made on a video or a tweet or the supposed leader of our nation spouting his views on ****** assault victims.... The real victims....men and boys that are being accused of a horrible act Innocent yet treated like they're guilty. Please, don't get me wrong. Being falsely accused is terrible. Any one guilty of it should be held liable. But, after all of the victims, women and men alike coming forward to tell their stories, he speaks on behalf of the accused.....Am I stupid for being angry? What really disappoints me are the people that get upset when women react to such insensitive views. They tweet or comment and I try to have conversations with these people and end up screaming into a pillow! I walk away wondering if it's worth my time to make my point of view understood. Will I ever change any ones mind? It's the black lives matter vs all lives matter struggles all over again! The argument of should players stand for the anthem! Why don't people understand that saying black lives matter doesn't mean ONLY black lives matter, it's a way of saying Please remember!!! Black lives matter TOO! Stop the hate!!! People of color are being discriminated against and we are tired. So finally a man decides to protest by calmly taking knee during the anthem aaaaannnd......here HE comes to manipulate the meaning of it all and makes it about disrespecting the flag and our troops. And don't even get me started on gay rights! To be treated like second class citizens is ludicrous! How fantastically absurd to be told by your own government that you cannot marry the person you love! And because life has to be just a little more unfair the LGBTQ community are at high risk for ****** assault and hate crimes too! I realize none of this is new....I guess the Kavanaugh hearing triggered me and I can't seem to get it off my mind. I heard Dr. Ford's testimony and watched as so many people, including the man himself, come with more and more ****** excuses and a half *** investigation and in the end he sits on the supreme court any way. I'll do my duty....I'll use my voice and vote, but I live in a red state and I know it's an up hill battle. One that may be lost. But I've said my piece. If you've read through it all, thank you. If you agree with me, keep fighting. If you don't, I respect your opinion, but I'll never understand it.
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Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 2:14 AM UTC
A bit of a rant
Lately I've been a little moody I get triggered by comments made on a video or a tweet or the supposed leader of our nation spouting his views on ****** assault victims.... The real victims....men and boys that are being accused of a horrible act Innocent yet treated like they're guilty. Please, don't get me wrong. Being falsely accused is terrible. Any one guilty of it should be held liable. But, after all of the victims, women and men alike coming forward to tell their stories, he speaks on behalf of the accused.....Am I stupid for being angry? What really disappoints me are the people that get upset when women react to such insensitive views. They tweet or comment and I try to have conversations with these people and end up screaming into a pillow! I walk away wondering if it's worth my time to make my point of view understood. Will I ever change any ones mind? It's the black lives matter vs all lives matter struggles all over again! The argument of should players stand for the anthem! Why don't people understand that saying black lives matter doesn't mean ONLY black lives matter, it's a way of saying Please remember!!! Black lives matter TOO! Stop the hate!!! People of color are being discriminated against and we are tired. So finally a man decides to protest by calmly taking knee during the anthem aaaaannnd......here HE comes to manipulate the meaning of it all and makes it about disrespecting the flag and our troops. And don't even get me started on gay rights! To be treated like second class citizens is ludicrous! How fantastically absurd to be told by your own government that you cannot marry the person you love! And because life has to be just a little more unfair the LGBTQ community are at high risk for ****** assault and hate crimes too! I realize none of this is new....I guess the Kavanaugh hearing triggered me and I can't seem to get it off my mind. I heard Dr. Ford's testimony and watched as so many people, including the man himself, come with more and more ****** excuses and a half *** investigation and in the end he sits on the supreme court any way. I'll do my duty....I'll use my voice and vote, but I live in a red state and I know it's an up hill battle. One that may be lost. But I've said my piece. If you've read through it all, thank you. If you agree with me, keep fighting. If you don't, I respect your opinion, but I'll never understand it.
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Now, I won't try to analyze or criticize what was going on inside your head, I won't even try to investigate or insinuate about the time taken, leaving me waiting hoping for a reply but I was mistaken, heartbroken left alone thinking my love tainted, no I won't try and figure what triggered you to leave, or why I still want to believe, there's something out there that can bring me an ounce of relief from the grief,   I just stopped Thinking with my mind my heart was just taking over, I was turned around going in circles, my whole world turned dark like all those sad songs you listen to on the radio to release your frustration, but you seem to not care I haven't even spoken and you're already reaching to change the station, was it exasperation or desperation, procrastination or your exoneration of obligation, vindication, or was what I thought as love just another irritation, I ask and ask but am met with silence instead, no I won't ask what's going on inside your head, its plain to see no need for anymore concentration, I was merely mistaken.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 2:39 AM UTC
MISTAKEN
She’s at a place where she feels trapped As the mist rises and her sun is crying She cant help but feel alone Alone is a place were she’s been forced to feel At home She cannot recognise a noble deed And allow that memory to take her Instead the fear of being unloved And hardly good enough grip her hand With every word she is paranoid and annoyed and triggered into retreat into alone a place she calls home they roll down a familiar face warm and comforting Its because she couldn’t stay She wanted to, believe her Believe she wants to be a better her But she clings to alone As a familiar face A childhood case That she needs to shake She loves alone but hates it She hates the time it gives her to think About how unfamiliar the un-alone really is She wants to share but she doesn’t know how She wants to talk but she’ll be misunderstood She wants to love him but she’s making him numb Her sorry self is a burden and the cause of pain. She says she felt rushed but she is here now More in love than he can see And then then there’s the stabbing thought that he wants to be free Now she is comfort crying Alone.
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Nov 25, 2018
Nov 25, 2018 at 8:13 AM UTC
Comfort Crying
Thing's that make me uncomfortable: That feeling when you get mad at me, because I didn't do the thing, you didn't ask me to do, cause I can't read minds; I'm not your parent. That tone in your voice when you go off about how unfair the world is, triggered by the slightest setback. The feeling when I sacrifice all that I am for the sake of your mood and happiness, in vain. That sound of the exacerbated sigh when I ask you to run an errand, as if I am not also tired. The pressure of carrying us both on broken legs. The pit in my chest when I ask your opinion and you say "I don't care," but you actually do care, because whatever choice I make is laced in ridicule. When you say you're doing something for me but you're just trying to make yourself feel better about doing it for yourself. When you use my disorder as a justification or excuse, but when I actually need your help you seem burdened and annoyed. That "okay then" moment when I give you everything you ask for and you take it as if you never wanted it.
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 7:10 AM UTC
5:30 a.m.
I'm sorry to all the people I hurt while I was hurting I'm sorry for last minute cancelled plans And ghosting your text messages You've done nothing wrong I just can't get myself together enough to answer you right now. I'm sorry for all of my triggers. And that sometimes my triggers, triggered you too. I know I have a lot of them, I know it is frustrating Believe it or not I've actually come a long way with them though... I'm sorry for the days i was too irritable and short with you I understand it wasnt fair. I'm sorry that the things that upset me, most of the time wouldn't upset other people. I'm a very emotional person, this is a blessing sometimes but also a curse. I'm sorry I see things black or white. I've been hurt so many times, I've built a wall for people in the grey areas. You're either all the way in, or out of my life completely. I'm sorry this comes off as dramatic, and unrealistic. But if you know me well enough, you'd understand why I see it this way. Regardless of all of this, I'm sorry that I pushed you away because of it. Because of my, me-ness. So far away. When really I needed you right here. But this is what I do when I'm hurting. I hurt you because I'm hurting. None of that is fair. I'm sorry if you were one of those people.
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Aug 7, 2019
Aug 7, 2019 at 3:29 PM UTC
To all the people I've hurt while I was hurting
If God is the book then life would be the pages in him, for us to study and turn to each new page of her. There is so much paper here, but no place to start a fire. A fire of words and dreams to chase. Will you run with me, with feet wide awake? Please do, and I won't be scared to bleed for you when the time comes. These words I have don't dream lifeless or die in corral conversation or in a helpless blind study. I will help you see it is in fact that God's home is make-believe with no welcome mat to greet you. Maybe God never learned to let bygones just be gone. Maybe this is why you have never seen the glorious Matriarch or heard her voice, but I bet it sounds a lot like the space between a gunshot and a black male's body hit by the bullet right before the screams. Did you know this is what black feels like? These pages feel like an eighth-grade suicide poem written because it is solely triggered by life, and since life is so freaking triggering and our only real competition, then I will write words that are weapons. I will write real-life pages of myself, that is more jazz than blues, more biggie than Pac more Prince than Michael. I will write myself out this padded room call earth, because after all heroes can dream too, and our thirst can become hunger and quickly I learned to eat my own words and breathe in endless possibility in a world where breathing is  no longer a privilege Just a means to be necessary. Jesus! I got a life with no religion and still, I manage to turn doubt into rhinestones right along with these pages of myself. I will turn page after page as if I were Jesus turning the other cheek, and like Jesus, I can take all my dislikes and burdens and turn the into sunsets. I will teach my pain to laugh. Ignorance is not bliss, it is kind. It teaches us to look deep inside of ourselves to see the word of God, and I have seen it, I have seen I am half human and half star and my DNA is all angelic. God wrote his first poem in blood right here on Earth. Her pen never felt writer's block. He never suffered inside the ink. Do you know the difference between God and everyone else? She never starts emotional fires to burn pages of himself and herself as we do.
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Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 10:31 AM UTC
The Book Of Life
If God is the book then life would be the pages in him, for us to study and turn to each new page of her. There is so much paper here, but no place to start a fire. A fire of words and dreams to chase. Will you run with me, with feet wide awake? Please do, and I won't be scared to bleed for you when the time comes. These words I have don't dream lifeless or die in corral conversation or in a helpless blind study. I will help you see it is in fact that God's home is make-believe with no welcome mat to greet you. Maybe God never learned to let bygones just be gone. Maybe this is why you have never seen the glorious Matriarch or heard her voice, but I bet it sounds a lot like the space between a gunshot and a black male's body hit by the bullet right before the screams. Did you know this is what black feels like? These pages feel like an eighth-grade suicide poem written because it is solely triggered by life, and since life is so freaking triggering and our only real competition, then I will write words that are weapons. I will write real-life pages of myself, that is more jazz than blues, more biggie than Pac more Prince than Michael. I will write myself out this padded room call earth, because after all heroes can dream too, and our thirst can become hunger and quickly I learned to eat my own words and breathe in endless possibility in a world where breathing is  no longer a privilege Just a means to be necessary. Jesus! I got a life with no religion and still, I manage to turn doubt into rhinestones right along with these pages of myself. I will turn page after page as if I were Jesus turning the other cheek, and like Jesus, I can take all my dislikes and burdens and turn the into sunsets. I will teach my pain to laugh. Ignorance is not bliss, it is kind. It teaches us to look deep inside of ourselves to see the word of God, and I have seen it, I have seen I am half human and half star and my DNA is all angelic. God wrote his first poem in blood right here on Earth. Her pen never felt writer's block. He never suffered inside the ink. Do you know the difference between God and everyone else? She never starts emotional fires to burn pages of himself and herself as we do.
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Big Four Railroad In the past a little one had an interest in this story and one of the racers and the longest freight train The race team was in the living room and their story was being read from the paper mother clueless We laughed and snickered about our secret that old engineer was proud of us we were not vain Down the hill we sped past Bino’s station across Jackson the B&O; he was high balling we had to pour it On between the two tracks he was closing the gap he had nothing to lose but his pride for us it was Curtains the long black limo a one way ride we streaked the line fifteen feet to spare we just stopped And turned what a salutation from the engineer half hanging out the widow of that great engine his Balled fist a shaking you sons with the deafening roar of that train so close we didn’t get to hear the rest And the train carried him on down the track so Jerry and Larry and the other guy continued on to the Swimming pool pleased with our speed we forgot about it until on the front of the paper in the bottom corner it read three Pana youths out run train I guess the old engineer cooled off as he sailed on down The track we didn’t know he talked to the tower as he passed so we didn’t get first prize or a blue Ribbon but in a small way we entered into the great and wonderful tales of train lore along with Jessie and Frank I told you when in trouble I had three actions fight talk or run that day the running won the Day for these three amigos this memory was triggered by that same old paper this time it was talking About the Amtrak detour I remember those passengers all those years ago setting there in their seats flying through our town and the hook and the mail sack from the tower where that old bakery could be smelled all night all the way out at the park as we watched tables for old F.S. Refinery I’m glad we didn’t race a passenger train or this would be a hamburger story enjoy G.H.
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Jan 8, 2012
Jan 8, 2012 at 11:53 PM UTC
Big Four Railroad
Big Four Railroad In the past a little one had an interest in this story and one of the racers and the longest freight train The race team was in the living room and their story was being read from the paper mother clueless We laughed and snickered about our secret that old engineer was proud of us we were not vain Down the hill we sped past Bino’s station across Jackson the B&O; he was high balling we had to pour it On between the two tracks he was closing the gap he had nothing to lose but his pride for us it was Curtains the long black limo a one way ride we streaked the line fifteen feet to spare we just stopped And turned what a salutation from the engineer half hanging out the widow of that great engine his Balled fist a shaking you sons with the deafening roar of that train so close we didn’t get to hear the rest And the train carried him on down the track so Jerry and Larry and the other guy continued on to the Swimming pool pleased with our speed we forgot about it until on the front of the paper in the bottom corner it read three Pana youths out run train I guess the old engineer cooled off as he sailed on down The track we didn’t know he talked to the tower as he passed so we didn’t get first prize or a blue Ribbon but in a small way we entered into the great and wonderful tales of train lore along with Jessie and Frank I told you when in trouble I had three actions fight talk or run that day the running won the Day for these three amigos this memory was triggered by that same old paper this time it was talking About the Amtrak detour I remember those passengers all those years ago setting there in their seats flying through our town and the hook and the mail sack from the tower where that old bakery could be smelled all night all the way out at the park as we watched tables for old F.S. Refinery I’m glad we didn’t race a passenger train or this would be a hamburger story enjoy G.H.
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When I was young, I chased only fun, My head all filled, with stupid. I wrecked some cars, Got into fights, Broke some bones, never learned my lesson. There was back then, A guiding Light, That tried to shine From within my Father. He knew the ropes, Had run the course, He'd even been in prison, But me, well, I was too **** dumb" to listen. We butted heads, The Old Man and me, I remained too stubborn, to heed His hard won Sage wisdom. To me back then, his words, sounded silly, at my age then, I reckoned I knew everything. When he died, We all cried, After all he was my Father. But gone is gone, And I wanted fun, Off I went to find it. In a bar, the "Memphis Star", A guy pulled a knife to stab me. In a full blind rage, I triggered my hate And stole that man's Life forever. All hell commenced, and My Everything changed forever. Now as I sit here thinking Within this rank prison, I dearly wish that to My old Daddy's wisdom, I would have devoted, more attention. Tomorrow mornin', A Hangman's comin', and at the end of my own rope, I will be surely hangin'.
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Aug 26, 2013
Aug 26, 2013 at 3:00 PM UTC
Lessons
a virtual network is the perfect place for an alien intelligence to infiltrate; passing as any number of avatars & spreading an anti-human philosophy in the war between robots & aliens w/ humanity no longer a factor, the robots freely the pummel the aliens w/ devastating laser precision; the aliens retaliating w/ hot magnets to heat the polymer machines to the melting point; the aliens unaware of the earth's default nuclear arsenal; triggered to explode as a last resort; mankind & machine joined as one & as the aliens land their ground forces a slight tremor becomes a supernova & the entire alien fleet is blown out of spacetime w/ such fiery havoc, the never seen & long extinct mankind becomes legendary for its viciousness hav·oc/ˈhavək/noun noun: havoc 1.        widespread destruction. "the hurricane ripped through Florida,                                       causing havoc" synonyms: devastation, destruction, damage, desolation, ruination, ruin; disaster, catastrophe "the hurricane caused havoc" great confusion or disorder. "schoolchildren wreaking havoc in the classroom" synonyms: disorder, chaos, disruption, mayhem, bedlam, pandemonium, turmoil, tumult, uproar; commotion, furor, a three-ring circus; informal:                                          hullabaloo "hyperactive children create havoc" verb: archaic: havoc; 3rd person present: havocs; past tense: havocked; past participle: havocked; gerund or present participle: havocking [               ].   (                   ) 1.                      lay waste to; devastate. late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French havok, alteration of Old French havot, of unknown origin; the word was originally used in the phrase ‘cry havoc’; (Old French crier havot )         ‘to give an army the order - havoc,’ the signal for plundering
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 8:04 PM UTC
War of the Words [... | ...]
a virtual network is the perfect place for an alien intelligence to infiltrate; passing as any number of avatars & spreading an anti-human philosophy in the war between robots & aliens w/ humanity no longer a factor, the robots freely the pummel the aliens w/ devastating laser precision; the aliens retaliating w/ hot magnets to heat the polymer machines to the melting point; the aliens unaware of the earth's default nuclear arsenal; triggered to explode as a last resort; mankind & machine joined as one & as the aliens land their ground forces a slight tremor becomes a supernova & the entire alien fleet is blown out of spacetime w/ such fiery havoc, the never seen & long extinct mankind becomes legendary for its viciousness hav·oc/ˈhavək/noun noun: havoc 1.        widespread destruction. "the hurricane ripped through Florida,                                       causing havoc" synonyms: devastation, destruction, damage, desolation, ruination, ruin; disaster, catastrophe "the hurricane caused havoc" great confusion or disorder. "schoolchildren wreaking havoc in the classroom" synonyms: disorder, chaos, disruption, mayhem, bedlam, pandemonium, turmoil, tumult, uproar; commotion, furor, a three-ring circus; informal:                                          hullabaloo "hyperactive children create havoc" verb: archaic: havoc; 3rd person present: havocs; past tense: havocked; past participle: havocked; gerund or present participle: havocking [               ].   (                   ) 1.                      lay waste to; devastate. late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French havok, alteration of Old French havot, of unknown origin; the word was originally used in the phrase ‘cry havoc’; (Old French crier havot )         ‘to give an army the order - havoc,’ the signal for plundering
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“You look like my daughter” The man says to me, As he’s ordering me a drink Looking my body up and down. I laugh, Look away, Try to pretend he didn’t say that Oh but don’t worry He made it a point to mention T H R E E               M O R E                            T I M E S how my body Resembled his daughters, “Tight, perfect, the right kind” Oof. Idk y’all Idk that I can do this. I walk away I dont make that money. Even though I know **** well, I fit his ****** up fantasies. Not to mention I’m triggered, Thanks to my childhood trauma, By all of this conversation, But it doesn’t really matter Anyways. Just a product of my environment Just an object to fill The desires Of hungry eyes. **** it Let me be An empty *** doll. Just take my intelligence with you please. Flowers for Algernon , And I’m wilting. I’m too aware of my place in society. Why strive to peruse my education, When I know no one will hire me Because of my background? Why stay sober, When my ******* flashbacks Only stop when I’m drunk? I hate my life. No I don’t like the job I have; But this **** ain’t easy. And none of it is my fault. It isn’t. None of my trauma is my fault. At least At the end of the day I have the comfort Of knowing, That I matter just as little as the next person. My life, In all of its glory, matters just as little as john f Kennedy’s I am nothing And we are nothing Our suffering is eternal
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Jun 2, 2021
Jun 2, 2021 at 2:06 AM UTC
JUST A STRIPPER WHO WRITES POETRY, WHO THE **** CARES ANYWAY