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"unchangeable" poems
FROM the time of the early radishes To the time of the standing corn Sleepy Henry Hackerman hoes. There are laws in the village against weeds. The law says a **** is wrong and shall be killed. The weeds say life is a white and lovely thing And the weeds come on and on in irrepressible regiments. Sleepy Henry Hackerman hoes; and the village law uttering a ban on weeds is unchangeable law.
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Weeds
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
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Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art
We all have faces that we hide away forever and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone is gone and we look at what the years have done and realize that everything on the outside changes but what really matters is on the inside and that mostly remains the same. We tell ourselves stories in order to live and we cure physical diseases with medicine but find out that the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love, so don't hope but decide and have some fun on that final ride as you approach the end. Wash what is ***** water what is dry, heal what is hurt, dry tears that are shed, warm what is cold and guide what goes off the road so you can lighten your load and don't be afraid to try again as everyone goes south every now and then as we all fall in love though we disregard the danger but learn that it takes strength to love again but it takes courage to be loved. It takes strength to survive but it takes courage to live just as it takes strength to feel a friends pain and courage to feel your own pain, so change the changeable, accept the unchangeable and remove yourself from the unacceptable.                                                                              Jon York    2015
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Nov 21, 2015
Nov 21, 2015 at 3:24 PM UTC
It Takes Strength to Survive but it Takes Courage to Live
We like to be in peace Lies disrupts the timeline of human beasts Sending you to decision making feats Making you think of an unchangeable decision Life is full of actions requiring a question Answers and choices Whichever path you choose might leave you exploited Everybody has a weakness, which might lead to stress Emotionless people take advantage of any weakness How a friend can save a life Your best friend can destroy your life Even though police are on the frontline Some can create the stealth crime Leaving so many people blinded with a fine Who is that voice we found solace to confide in
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Apr 21, 2014
Apr 21, 2014 at 12:58 AM UTC
Who's That Voice
Unchangeable is the love within our souls Dreaming of soft timelessness Perceived in fadeless hues of red and gold Transmuted from molded clay Imperfect, yet still beheld As flawless White shadows of a misted lace attention holds An honesty in its purest form Washed in fadeless hues of red and gold Unchangeable is the love within Completed souls As timelessness transforms Until now, our feet have trod a different path Yet seeking still the same Imperfection, with an honest aftermath Time has taken wing in fadeless hues of red and gold Imperfection beheld as flawless Is the element it became
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Oct 14, 2010
Oct 14, 2010 at 7:57 PM UTC
Flawless Imperfection
Frightened from the start till the end Both felt same love, forbidden but still love Love the best feeling i have Bearing it, Feeling it Trying to be the same Perfect for each other but secrets should remain Night and day It feels like forever Invisible but precious Unchangeable and unexposed If the world gave us a chance Our world won't be apart Barrier will fade Uncovered inside our heart
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Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015 at 4:19 AM UTC
Uncover the Forbidden
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art! - Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors - No -yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever -or else swoon to death.
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His Last Sonnet
Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Does the Ice make you shiver? does it? Pay attention to the chill, the chill is the most shivering fear of all. Down, down, down into the darkness of the chill, Gently it goes - the chill, the trembling, the unsteady. A thawing, however hard it tries, Will always be Melting. Does the thawing make you shiver? does it? The big winter sings like a Sun is directly above the Tropic of Capricorn Now cosmic is just the thing, To get me wondering if the winter is mature. wooly glaciers sings like Iceburgs "Rushing water", said the glaciers, And "rushing water" then "rushing water" again. How happy is the frozen popsicle! Does the popsicle make you shiver? does it? The freezing that's really crystals, Above all others is the frost. Does the frost make you shiver? does it? Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Does the Ice make you shiver? does it? Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Ice, Ice, every where, Yet not a drop to draft. How happy is the cold surface! Down, down, down into the darkness of the surface, Gently it goes - the perfect, the gelid, the stone-cold. Pay attention to the floe, the floe is the most Dence ice mass of all. Floe, floe, every where, Yet not a drop to drift. The thawing is like a gentle voice, it tends to cause significantly. Does the thawing make you shiver? does it? The athletic game that's really zany, Above all others is the hockey. Pause to assist, like the hockey does. It does assist, it does draft, Should it also induct? Why would you think the snowfall is gradual? the snowfall is the most sudden downfall of all. Pause to last, like the snowfall does. It does last, it does accumulate, Should it also range? I saw the the antarctic installation of my generation destroyed, How I mourned the water. I don't like the fact that it, learned to reside before it knew how to flow. You can reside, you can flow, but can you supply? Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Does the Ice make you shiver? does it? Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Pause to draft, like the Ice does. Don't belive that the snowfall is small? the snowfall is big beyond belief. Never forget the braggy and large-scale snowfall. Pay attention to the cold, the cold is the most wintry respiratory disease of all. Are you upset by how springlike it is? Does it tear you apart to see the cold so frozen? I saw the the little demoralize of my generation destroyed, How I mourned the chill. Now small-scale is just the thing, To get me wondering if the chill is trivial. An iceman, however hard it tries, Will always be cunning. Are you upset by how adroit it is? Does it tear you apart to see the iceman so attractive? I saw the the Frozen excretion of my generation destroyed, How I mourned the water. Never forget the sleety and unchangeable water. Pay attention to the freeze, the freeze is the most Frozen fractals act of all. Does the freeze make you shiver? does it? Because I could not draft for Ice, they did kindly draft for me. Do Ice make you shiver? do they?
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Apr 8, 2018
Apr 8, 2018 at 2:53 PM UTC
Ice
Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Does the Ice make you shiver? does it? Pay attention to the chill, the chill is the most shivering fear of all. Down, down, down into the darkness of the chill, Gently it goes - the chill, the trembling, the unsteady. A thawing, however hard it tries, Will always be Melting. Does the thawing make you shiver? does it? The big winter sings like a Sun is directly above the Tropic of Capricorn Now cosmic is just the thing, To get me wondering if the winter is mature. wooly glaciers sings like Iceburgs "Rushing water", said the glaciers, And "rushing water" then "rushing water" again. How happy is the frozen popsicle! Does the popsicle make you shiver? does it? The freezing that's really crystals, Above all others is the frost. Does the frost make you shiver? does it? Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Does the Ice make you shiver? does it? Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Ice, Ice, every where, Yet not a drop to draft. How happy is the cold surface! Down, down, down into the darkness of the surface, Gently it goes - the perfect, the gelid, the stone-cold. Pay attention to the floe, the floe is the most Dence ice mass of all. Floe, floe, every where, Yet not a drop to drift. The thawing is like a gentle voice, it tends to cause significantly. Does the thawing make you shiver? does it? The athletic game that's really zany, Above all others is the hockey. Pause to assist, like the hockey does. It does assist, it does draft, Should it also induct? Why would you think the snowfall is gradual? the snowfall is the most sudden downfall of all. Pause to last, like the snowfall does. It does last, it does accumulate, Should it also range? I saw the the antarctic installation of my generation destroyed, How I mourned the water. I don't like the fact that it, learned to reside before it knew how to flow. You can reside, you can flow, but can you supply? Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Does the Ice make you shiver? does it? Because I could not draft for Ice, it did kindly draft for me. Pause to draft, like the Ice does. Don't belive that the snowfall is small? the snowfall is big beyond belief. Never forget the braggy and large-scale snowfall. Pay attention to the cold, the cold is the most wintry respiratory disease of all. Are you upset by how springlike it is? Does it tear you apart to see the cold so frozen? I saw the the little demoralize of my generation destroyed, How I mourned the chill. Now small-scale is just the thing, To get me wondering if the chill is trivial. An iceman, however hard it tries, Will always be cunning. Are you upset by how adroit it is? Does it tear you apart to see the iceman so attractive? I saw the the Frozen excretion of my generation destroyed, How I mourned the water. Never forget the sleety and unchangeable water. Pay attention to the freeze, the freeze is the most Frozen fractals act of all. Does the freeze make you shiver? does it? Because I could not draft for Ice, they did kindly draft for me. Do Ice make you shiver? do they?
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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone, That thee I shall not celebrate, When I remember, thou wast one. But yet thou canst not die, I know, To leave this world behind, is death, But when thou from this world wilt go, The whole world vapors with thy breath. Or if, when thou, the world’s soul, goest, It stay, ’tis but thy carcass then, The fairest woman, but thy ghost, But corrupt worms, the worthiest men. O wrangling schools, that search what fire Shall burn this world, had none the wit Unto this knowledge to aspire, That this her fever might be it? And yet she cannot waste by this, Nor long bear this torturing wrong, For much corruption needful is To fuel such a fever long. These burning fits but meteors be, Whose matter in thee is soon spent. Thy beauty, and all parts, which are thee, Are unchangeable firmament. Yet ’twas of my mind, seizing thee, Though it in thee cannot persever. For I had rather owner be, Of thee one hour, than all else ever.
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A Fever
Death called your name, you said Not from the periphery But right here Right now And it requires bloodshed Eyes glazing over The tracks before you Dreaming of being Splayed For the length of a mile I laugh nervously When you tell me Because it was me Your son Who handed you the phone “For death, press 1” You’re at the crossing now From the pedal Your foot lifts The train’s horn Bellowing As into its path You drift The brakeman screams As your body disjoints Your shame for me reduced To scarlet exclamation points A nearby sparrow Witnesses the scene “Sad”, she thinks Hatchlings cozy Underneath her wing It’s a bit cruel To pile your **** On my shoulders As if I were a mule And it’s a bit wicked To claim my Unchangeable Existence As sin committed The enigma of stigma Is yours to explore I slide you a key I’ll be right here On the other side of the door A mouse creeps Across the threshold Seeing both sides “Too bad”, he thinks As he scurries by You named me Christopher After a boy killed By a train And now you say I’m to blame Like an unfortunate stain On the hem Of our family’s pain The truth is I couldn’t keep living a lie And I’m sorry, dad I’m the reason you want to die
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Sep 3, 2022
Sep 3, 2022 at 8:23 PM UTC
CRESTFALLEN
the one constant in your life is you. I am the tectonic plates, shifting and burying and grinding changing against myself with little cares for trees and bushes, I do not mind that my earthquakes destroy sheep I do not lose sleep over my sinkholes, nor does the fresh breeze disturb my actions- you might think your life changes when someone leaves or someone dies, or someone new comes and maybe yes, it does, but you are really far beyond the scope of one meteorite, one blast of destruction or creation- this is no apocalypse. The world is different, now, but not really- it still exists, and it still is called by the same name- no matter what physical shifts occur, it's made of the same mass of **** and dirt and rock and pure lava tossing in the celestial laundry. What do you find there? You are more unchangeable than you know and yet, once you are changing- there is no stopping the earth from folding in on itself and unearthing your new truth.
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Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM UTC
tectonic plates
the woman SOsO beautiful so strong, she's made of titanium steel unbreakable and unchangeable the woman skin so soft like the touch of the rose petals she cultivates intertwined in her hair gosh, nothing can beat THE WOMAN.
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Dec 3, 2018
Dec 3, 2018 at 7:36 AM UTC
woman
*Please tell me what it's all about? I’ve never felt so insecure So much confusion trying to blind me I remember my foundation is sure And that’s when I open my eyes I focus, then I realize We’re headed towards the paradise so I remember the promises I’ve come to know and the reality of what’s been told, He cannot lie to us He makes His name known to everyone Then He causes to become He causes to become Could you imagine peace? Peace of mind within your thoughts? Peace inside your heart Peace within the animal kingdom? An earth with no borders Humanity with freedom It’s coming He cannot lie to us He makes His name known to everyone Then He causes to become Oh yes He causes to become No more rich dictators No more wealthy entertainers Only beauty will surround us Because happiness has found us Watch closely this system’s going down We can’t wait! No more wars to hurt the masses No more famine crisis No more poor or middle classes He cannot lie to us He makes His name known to everyone Then He causes to become Oh yes He causes to become* (Hebrews 6:18 : "So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable, because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us")
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May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013 at 1:21 PM UTC
Jehovah
I heard there was a secret metric foot that David knew was favoured by the Lord, and when he penned the psalms he'd often put this pattern the Almighty best adored amongst the endless praise and imprecations; unstressed, plus stressed, suffuses through his pages, though hidden by the English of translations; pentameters still echo down the ages. The spondee's spurned, and has been from the start; an anapaest's anathema, and grim. Though trochees may be near the Maker's heart, you'll never hear a dactyl in a hymn. There's only one the Lord thinks worth a **** the sacred, the unchangeable iamb.
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Jun 22, 2010
Jun 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM UTC
A lamp to my feet
Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow’s dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, You would close your term here, up and be gone Where I could not follow With wing of swallow To gain one glimpse of you ever anon! Never to bid good-bye Or lip me the softest call, Or utter a wish for a word, while I Saw morning harden upon the wall, Unmoved, unknowing That your great going Had place that moment, and altered all. Why do you make me leave the house And think for a breath it is you I see At the end of the alley of bending boughs Where so often at dusk you used to be; Till in darkening dankness The yawning blankness Of the perspective sickens me! You were she who abode By those red-veined rocks far West, You were the swan-necked one who rode Along the beetling Beeny Crest, And, reining nigh me, Would muse and eye me, While Life unrolled us its very best. Why, then, latterly did we not speak, Did we not think of those days long dead, And ere your vanishing strive to seek That time’s renewal? We might have said, “In this bright spring weather We’ll visit together Those places that once we visited.” Well, well! All’s past amend, Unchangeable. It must go. I seem but a dead man held on end To sink down soon. . . . O you could not know That such swift fleeing No soul foreseeing— Not even I—would undo me so!
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The Going
Each day a sun arises, And with the closing of the day the moon appears, A cycle that's unchangeable, And happens from year to year, But within each ordinary day a miracle occurs, Like a shooting star or a raindrop falling on the icy lake, Or a baby being born. John James enters the world to explore the brand new sights, From the comfort of his mothers womb to a world of calm, Of love and peace, His life, I hope, will be one filled with joy and cheer, And the necessary feeling of knowing his family is near, And as the wind changes and the seasons come and go, I know that John James changeth, you'll see just how he grows. You'll watch upon in wonder as he utters his first word, Like the blind man who rejoiced at the sight of the mockingbird, You'll watch upon in awe as, slowly, step by step he takes, And the pleasure you will feel each morning that he wakes, In a time where life can be so cruel and rushed, Nothing silences the passion, this flame just can't be hushed. Each day a sun arises, And with the closing of the day the moon appears, A cycle that's unchangeable, And happens from year to year, But within each ordinary day a baby can be born, And like the river finds it way, John James has found your heart, For, in that heart, like a locket on a pendant, he will forevermore stay.
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Oct 8, 2013
Oct 8, 2013 at 4:40 PM UTC
Poem For Baby John James
I am sitting in my studio trying to get to you. Gazing at smoke drift off this beautiful ember All the way up to the ceiling slowly filling the room Hitting this without you,is just not as exciting I guess I hit myself beat myself to this high point to this fluffy cloud All though all alone I am content   slowly drifting away. To a place No one can tell me negative things if they did I probably would not care    My mind uncontrollably goes to this wonder place you know, that place where any idea is cool and everything is, you know positive. But Lighting my bowl flashes me back to that moment you know, the reality that you are not here simply, cause you do not want to be. Quickly pulling myself back to a positive thought I start to tell myself what you have done is really no big deal, and how you make me smile. I grin. You know that cloud I zooted myself to, the figment that I created I fell from it I fell so hard I have no idea what I could be feeling feeling? Feelings, As crushing as it has been throughout the years I have never been ashamed of these feelings I have for you, that I just simply can not explain, why? I understand, you do not believe these feelings, at times I do not even believe these things to be mine, someone must of put them here, maybe you did before you left. Regardless I can not believe how consistent they are how selfless they are how unchangeable they are cause of how you are. ~~~~~~~~ How you were unaffected by my feelings I hesitantly showed you. There was no reciprocation of your feelings cause, you could not even feel for yourself. But without words spoken I knew there was feelings there that you denied Cause what was there within us vibrating back and forth was so potent so vibrant so tangible it could only have been denied status but could not help, but to have been seen.
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Aug 6, 2015
Aug 6, 2015 at 10:39 AM UTC
Feelings drifting
I am sitting in my studio trying to get to you. Gazing at smoke drift off this beautiful ember All the way up to the ceiling slowly filling the room Hitting this without you,is just not as exciting I guess I hit myself beat myself to this high point to this fluffy cloud All though all alone I am content   slowly drifting away. To a place No one can tell me negative things if they did I probably would not care    My mind uncontrollably goes to this wonder place you know, that place where any idea is cool and everything is, you know positive. But Lighting my bowl flashes me back to that moment you know, the reality that you are not here simply, cause you do not want to be. Quickly pulling myself back to a positive thought I start to tell myself what you have done is really no big deal, and how you make me smile. I grin. You know that cloud I zooted myself to, the figment that I created I fell from it I fell so hard I have no idea what I could be feeling feeling? Feelings, As crushing as it has been throughout the years I have never been ashamed of these feelings I have for you, that I just simply can not explain, why? I understand, you do not believe these feelings, at times I do not even believe these things to be mine, someone must of put them here, maybe you did before you left. Regardless I can not believe how consistent they are how selfless they are how unchangeable they are cause of how you are. ~~~~~~~~ How you were unaffected by my feelings I hesitantly showed you. There was no reciprocation of your feelings cause, you could not even feel for yourself. But without words spoken I knew there was feelings there that you denied Cause what was there within us vibrating back and forth was so potent so vibrant so tangible it could only have been denied status but could not help, but to have been seen.
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Unmovable Unchangeable A worthiness a standard is deposited in your inner being all other elements in life will ebb and flow but Your essence will be darkened by sorrow but from this tragedy and sorrow riches will tower a streaming Blessedness will flow it will instantly engage another who has just suffered loss seen unseen words and Actions will with the deftest touch a kindness soaked in mellowness will be communicated in silence to The heart who has just suffered the bitter harvest of sorrow the gripping real a special irreplaceable Someone has departed to walk on a different plane for them purest light your circumstance darkest sorrow cold as Everest you are left ripped not only of all outward cover but inward has there ever been Such savage destruction the healthy norm now ravaged the spiritual heart ripped apart it was complete It was formed by love alone no other sculptor is more honered to work with such substance he makes Their face those eyes the transfiguring part of human connection truly souls merge together here in this Special stream vision multifaceted feelings weighted the heavier the deeper the depths where Emotional ties are created from pleasures these springs of the heart you come in emptiness you leave With these volumes ballooned ever stirring thoughts the very impulses that make them the person you Know this feed of expressions do they not cause an unending joy that spills at different times sometimes Just a slow pleasant entailing then at other times a roar of engulfing and at times it happens when your Tide is low they instinctively trigger this from their register of mercy a unity that is boundless truly you Have small oceans within I see it in the workaday world but like the song behind closed doors magic Fire you reach heavenly heights explorers rewarded in human feeling that can’t be bought and are never Sold truly kings and queen of a great domain in the hidden soul you have truly roped the wind and Touched stars as you hovered under them holding hands who can doubt God when you exhibit his very Essence through the love you found and it causes unfathomable assurances holding hands is the same As a great dam holding water but yours is holding never ending love
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Oct 5, 2012
Oct 5, 2012 at 12:13 AM UTC
Unmovable Unchangeable
Unmovable Unchangeable A worthiness a standard is deposited in your inner being all other elements in life will ebb and flow but Your essence will be darkened by sorrow but from this tragedy and sorrow riches will tower a streaming Blessedness will flow it will instantly engage another who has just suffered loss seen unseen words and Actions will with the deftest touch a kindness soaked in mellowness will be communicated in silence to The heart who has just suffered the bitter harvest of sorrow the gripping real a special irreplaceable Someone has departed to walk on a different plane for them purest light your circumstance darkest sorrow cold as Everest you are left ripped not only of all outward cover but inward has there ever been Such savage destruction the healthy norm now ravaged the spiritual heart ripped apart it was complete It was formed by love alone no other sculptor is more honered to work with such substance he makes Their face those eyes the transfiguring part of human connection truly souls merge together here in this Special stream vision multifaceted feelings weighted the heavier the deeper the depths where Emotional ties are created from pleasures these springs of the heart you come in emptiness you leave With these volumes ballooned ever stirring thoughts the very impulses that make them the person you Know this feed of expressions do they not cause an unending joy that spills at different times sometimes Just a slow pleasant entailing then at other times a roar of engulfing and at times it happens when your Tide is low they instinctively trigger this from their register of mercy a unity that is boundless truly you Have small oceans within I see it in the workaday world but like the song behind closed doors magic Fire you reach heavenly heights explorers rewarded in human feeling that can’t be bought and are never Sold truly kings and queen of a great domain in the hidden soul you have truly roped the wind and Touched stars as you hovered under them holding hands who can doubt God when you exhibit his very Essence through the love you found and it causes unfathomable assurances holding hands is the same As a great dam holding water but yours is holding never ending love
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Its 1:30 in the morning.  And I’ve begun to think of the rarities and adversities in life, which shape us into the hollow ghosts called humanity. Machines that listen, and obey.  Becoming slaves of a mundane existence as we go about our days.  Wake.  Eat. Sleep.  Repeat.  With the slight possibility of variation that may never come to fruition.  Why must we consume, but not provide?  We multiple uncontrollably, take from this earth, yet never seem to substantially give back.  Something so beautiful and yet so abused.  To give, may be to take away from ourselves.  But is selflessness so horrible?  To make the life of another better, at the small expense of ourselves should be but a small price.  Yet the few whom know this and continue to give out of the goodness of their hearts, are scoffed at  by the selfish majority.  Why must we, the hollow ghosts of humanity, make decisions for whatever objective we may have, in whatever situation should be presented, and then complain of the results or the consequences should they not go accordingly?  Rather than vowing to improve on the matter of contempt?  The decision was made, and cannot be changed.  Why fret so much, over something that is now unchangeable?  Why not simply decide within one’s self to, when presented with a choice of a similar nature, make a different decision?  We, being the hollow ghosts we are, dwell so frequently on the past.  Thinking so hard, as if to change events of times long behind us.  We think, as if to comprehend our very nature.  And in the absence of the desired understanding and/or enlightenment, we complain about our very existence.  As if anything and everything in our daily lives may hold precedence over the very fact of our existence.  As if to curse our Creator for making us such simple creatures not able to grasp the complexity or diversity of His design.  Rather than taking existence itself for face-value, and enjoying the many fruits of this beautiful earth, we **** ourselves with selfishness and passiveness.  And we, the hollow ghost of humanity, will ultimately be our own miraculous yet untimely downfall.
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Apr 15, 2013
Apr 15, 2013 at 8:01 AM UTC
Rantings Of A Sleepy Man
Its 1:30 in the morning.  And I’ve begun to think of the rarities and adversities in life, which shape us into the hollow ghosts called humanity. Machines that listen, and obey.  Becoming slaves of a mundane existence as we go about our days.  Wake.  Eat. Sleep.  Repeat.  With the slight possibility of variation that may never come to fruition.  Why must we consume, but not provide?  We multiple uncontrollably, take from this earth, yet never seem to substantially give back.  Something so beautiful and yet so abused.  To give, may be to take away from ourselves.  But is selflessness so horrible?  To make the life of another better, at the small expense of ourselves should be but a small price.  Yet the few whom know this and continue to give out of the goodness of their hearts, are scoffed at  by the selfish majority.  Why must we, the hollow ghosts of humanity, make decisions for whatever objective we may have, in whatever situation should be presented, and then complain of the results or the consequences should they not go accordingly?  Rather than vowing to improve on the matter of contempt?  The decision was made, and cannot be changed.  Why fret so much, over something that is now unchangeable?  Why not simply decide within one’s self to, when presented with a choice of a similar nature, make a different decision?  We, being the hollow ghosts we are, dwell so frequently on the past.  Thinking so hard, as if to change events of times long behind us.  We think, as if to comprehend our very nature.  And in the absence of the desired understanding and/or enlightenment, we complain about our very existence.  As if anything and everything in our daily lives may hold precedence over the very fact of our existence.  As if to curse our Creator for making us such simple creatures not able to grasp the complexity or diversity of His design.  Rather than taking existence itself for face-value, and enjoying the many fruits of this beautiful earth, we **** ourselves with selfishness and passiveness.  And we, the hollow ghost of humanity, will ultimately be our own miraculous yet untimely downfall.
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VI We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. We see the things we do not yearn to see Around us: and what see we glancing back? Lost hopes that leave our hearts upon the rack, Hopes that were never ours yet seem'd to be, For which we steer'd on life's salt stormy sea Braving the sunstroke and the frozen pack. If thus to look behind is all in vain, And all in vain to look to left or right, Why face we not our future once again, Launching with hardier hearts across the main, Straining dim eyes to catch the invisible sight, And strong to bear ourselves in patient pain? IX Star Sirius and the Pole Star dwell afar Beyond the drawings each of other's strength: One blazes through the brief bright summer's length Lavishing life-heat from a flaming car; While one unchangeable upon a throne Broods o'er the frozen heart of earth alone, Content to reign the bright particular star Of some who wander or of some who groan. They own no drawings each of other's strength, Nor vibrate in a visible sympathy, Nor veer along their courses each toward Yet are their orbits pitch'd in harmony Of one dear heaven, across whose depth and length Mayhap they talk together without speech.
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From "Later Life"
Some things are sadly poetic Like the cougar whose boyfriend Won’t come back outside and she’s alone At the only table in the cold smoking a pall mall, Having a beer. Some things are refreshingly poetic like leaving the office for a bit with the boss and going somewhere where there are domes made of pure gold and priests who pour milk on them from helicopters. Some things are interestingly poetic; like the poet, turned novelist, turned artist, who does landscaping to cover the spread. Some things are courageously and nostalgically And hurtfully poetic, Like not seeing your family for nine years Because the money’s good where you're at, And plane tickets and passports are outrageous. Some things should not be poetic, but they are, because they are truthful And that is verse; like the waitress who was ***** when she cashed her check at a grocery store after the night shift and she wasn’t the only one in her car when she got back. Some things are poetry because they come Into this world quietly And bleeding internally, and yet they survive Even though their lungs are full of fluid, And they can barely breathe. Some things are poetry because they happened And nothing can change that. And because Poetry is unchangeable, immovable, and grotesque, beautiful, uncomfortable, calming, disfiguring, life-giving, ****** up, Possibly ****** possibly a nectar That God or whoever the **** allowed to be put on paper, Possibly a way to talk about pain, Possibly roided up with someone else’s words, Possibly a way to talk about the pure dream of a girl’s body Without being a ***** ***** Poetry is love in the worst and most unimaginable ways.
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Mar 13, 2012
Mar 13, 2012 at 8:39 PM UTC
Poetry.
Some things are sadly poetic Like the cougar whose boyfriend Won’t come back outside and she’s alone At the only table in the cold smoking a pall mall, Having a beer. Some things are refreshingly poetic like leaving the office for a bit with the boss and going somewhere where there are domes made of pure gold and priests who pour milk on them from helicopters. Some things are interestingly poetic; like the poet, turned novelist, turned artist, who does landscaping to cover the spread. Some things are courageously and nostalgically And hurtfully poetic, Like not seeing your family for nine years Because the money’s good where you're at, And plane tickets and passports are outrageous. Some things should not be poetic, but they are, because they are truthful And that is verse; like the waitress who was ***** when she cashed her check at a grocery store after the night shift and she wasn’t the only one in her car when she got back. Some things are poetry because they come Into this world quietly And bleeding internally, and yet they survive Even though their lungs are full of fluid, And they can barely breathe. Some things are poetry because they happened And nothing can change that. And because Poetry is unchangeable, immovable, and grotesque, beautiful, uncomfortable, calming, disfiguring, life-giving, ****** up, Possibly ****** possibly a nectar That God or whoever the **** allowed to be put on paper, Possibly a way to talk about pain, Possibly roided up with someone else’s words, Possibly a way to talk about the pure dream of a girl’s body Without being a ***** ***** Poetry is love in the worst and most unimaginable ways.
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Our Tractor Man Our tractor man is doing What he really likes to do: Clearing snow. He suits my mental man-with-plow. Trading pig and cow For gear he likes to sit inside; The tractor hut; Tranquil woods to clear and saw, Chop and cut; Tractor wheel, forest smell, Alone deciding what to fell. Muddy potholes in the spring, Flood and crud his tractor´s thing. Nicely chubby, Slightly tubby; Sixty odd, His tractor and the woods his God. I esteem this earthy man Dharma bound to seasoned stars That fix the farmer life and plan Unchangeable and stable. Our Tractor Man passed away 2016. Our Tractor Man 3.4.2003 (revised 11.19.2016) Circling Round Nature; Circling Round Time; Special People, Special Occasions; Birth. Death & In Between II; Arlene Corwin our devoted tractor man who plowed our road in the winter.
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Nov 19, 2016
Nov 19, 2016 at 3:11 PM UTC
Our Tractor Man
Its better written than said, Yet they say am blindfolded by your love, Fooling myself without been bewitched, Who cares, when your blazing love, beautifys my heart from miles away, this 's not a subject of discussion, Now they say am subjecting myself to unnecessary distraction, Let them talk we say, Who cares what they see, When they are tired they will seat, When no one was here, It's u I could find, In u I confine, No need to confirm, When u speak, I toss and turn, that grinds my gears, No need to cough Before I confess, Your beautify's clouding my head of nonsense, They say it makes no sense, I need to be counseled, you have created a cell of love in my head, It needs to be casted, From the caging love that has be canoeing In my head, it's time it capsize, But who cares , When canopying your love , brings me joy, They keep staring , With there brutal faces , From different races, backstabbing claiming to be, back stopping the bleeding That has been fooling My blessings without no lesson, Its time to make it clear, Like I have said, Its better written than said, Am not blindfolded by your love , Nor obsessed by your touch, nether will I be addicted by your thought, I only see an angel when I look at you, admiring the beautiful creativity of nature, You are in this because you have colonized in my heart .
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 6:23 AM UTC
UNCHANGEABLE LOVE
BRIGHT Star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-- No--yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever--or else swoon to death.
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Last Sonnet
There is nothing so obnoxious as a memory Persistent and begging for constant attention Poking its head out of every corner Shouting out to wake a sleeper Leering at a pleasant dream Interrupting thoughtless meditation Memories are like silent broken records Playing the same song Over- over- over- over- Scratching every unchangeable mistake Catching every imperfect moment Reminding of a better time Just to replay the bitterness It is a cyclical, perniciousness; Round and round the record goes Playing the same train wreck Reminding the sunken listener that it’s Over- over- over- over-
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Oct 27, 2011
Oct 27, 2011 at 4:48 PM UTC
Record Scratch