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"unearned" poems
In my heart, you are an asset But in my mind, a liability You are an entry I can't forget That's slowly shaking my equity. Loving you is an understatement For a beauty's carrying value And so I made an adjustment Of the love that I must issue. But your heart had a preference For someone who's not me Who can give you more dividends Than a hopeful ordinary. All my hope was expensed For such unrecoverable loss And the business I've commenced Resulted in an opportunity cost. And so you went depreciating Ending this going concern There's this pain accumulating From a romance unearned. Now I'm left here to close All the journals I've made Correct the errors I chose For a love that I would trade.
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Jul 22, 2013
Jul 22, 2013 at 10:38 AM UTC
Accounting 143
She had a needle ***** pin for his dream balloon He laughed at her faith Mocked it Loathed it for what he perceived It had done to him Long before she ever came around This was something that she never knew But what she did know was enough She had a Mason jar for his unearned tears She kept a wooden box full of nails To hold up the boards That blocked the sun And kept the birds out He wanted to jump off a mountain cliff To feel free in the fall To prove her wrong She had a cat of nine tails and a whiplash smile When he asked her to dance she said it wasn't her style
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Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010 at 7:03 AM UTC
LoveBirds
It is safe. The road is. I have tried it. My feet have walked it. Let’s leave. Let the pen stay. On the desk, untouched. Let the book remain. On the shelf, unread. Let the wealth remain. Unearned. Life is on the road. I give you my hand. Are you coming?
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Oct 21, 2015
Oct 21, 2015 at 2:36 AM UTC
The road
Broke Unable to finalize any purchase Checking For change in the last places that one searches Insufficient To the point I'm unable to ward off the throes of destitution Bankrupted By devaluing those who have not made restitution Insolvent To the point of having to fight off the urge to curse Disallowed by the prose that places value and give credit....to verse Denied Any credit accrued....maybe even unearned Reevaluation With no accounting for the time you SPENT Learning what you have learned Depreciation or Appreciation Cannot be quantified by the lack of someone.saying thanks Interest will eventually be of value Once accrued... but for now I must accept That I'm simply overdrawn at my memory banks Investment in my own value Will allow me growth In my own ... ......personal Checking account Helping me in balancing  the books Keeping me payed up and happy BY Always giving others their true valuation   So that ego doesnt become a currency That is subject to... such a devastating inflation
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Jun 16, 2016
Jun 16, 2016 at 4:24 PM UTC
Accounting for...
☮ ☮ ☮ **Society needs more Social Justice. Humanity needs peaceworkers.** Peace and Social Justice must be promoted aggressively. There are inequities that must be addressed. Power is not equally distributed. Neither are resources or wealth. Neither are poetic gifts or vision equitably distributed. Unearned privilege is rampant. Poetry must confront this global crisis of capitalist exploitation and manipulation. Poetry must speak to the masses. Poetry must radicalize and inform consciousness to new levels of social change. Marginalized citizens must be empowered. All ****** gender-based, racial, religious, age-based, homophobic, xenophobic, and gynophobic bigots must be brought to see in a new way through our poetry. Community building and local empowerment are of the order. Our poetry must be global in scope – yet rooted and grounded in local community empowerment. Selfless acts of service to promote and increase Social Justice are needed. Lives selflessly devoted to establishing social justice are called for. Our poetic lives must be laid on the altar of the dis-enfranchised and unrepresented. We, as consciously aware poets, must advocate and speak out for those who have no voice. We, as poets, must, through stirring words of Social Justice, embody through our radical verses the burning hope of a just and sustainable future. This future must become increasingly collective as formerly marginalized consumers become empowered community-builders  –  through our poetry. As poets of the sustainable future we will empower and inform. Our poetry must collectivize, entitle and enslave. We must speak with ONE VOICE: the voice of change and social justice. Our words will rise with healing in their wings and lift whole communities from despair to radicalized self-awareness in communities filled with strident, intolerant and maniacal practitioners of PEACE & SOCIAL JUSTICE. All poets who do not lay their entire creative and lyrical selves on the altar of struggle to bring CHANGE and SOCIAL JUSTICE will be LIQUIDATED by our own EMPOWERED POETRY. IN THE END WE WILL WRITE A PURE POETRY OF SOCIAL CHANGE, ALL IN CAPS, AND THIS POETRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT WILL BE READ OVER THE GRAVES OF ALL SELL-OUT, CORPORATE, FASCIST, SNITCHING, SELFISH, UNEMPOWERED AND UNEMPOWERING TRAITORS AND ENEMIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.  IN THE END THERE WILL BE NO PUNCTUATION OR EVEN WORDS ONLY PURE IMAGES OF CHANGE + VISIONARY COLLABORATION IN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION/MAYBE SLASH MARKS/OKAY MAYBE EXCLAMATION POINTS TOO BUT ONLY THOSE ! WHY? BECAUSE THE ONLY GOOD POET IS A LIVING POET WHO HAS LIQUIDATED EVERY FALSE POET NOT COMMITTED TO THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ! LONG LIVE POETRY IN ACTION THROUGH CHANGE! WRITE/SPEAK/AGITATE FOR  SOCIAL JUSTICE  & EMPOWERMENT ! **POETRY IS STRUGGLE☻ STRUGGLE IS CHANGE☻ CHANGE REQUIRES SOCIAL JUSTICE☻ SOCIAL JUSTICE BRINGS PEACE☻ PEACE BRINGS WAR☻ WAR BRINGS CONFUSION & DEATH☻** (SO DON’T BE CONFUSED)
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 9:03 PM UTC
Agitating the Spin Cycle
☮ ☮ ☮ **Society needs more Social Justice. Humanity needs peaceworkers.** Peace and Social Justice must be promoted aggressively. There are inequities that must be addressed. Power is not equally distributed. Neither are resources or wealth. Neither are poetic gifts or vision equitably distributed. Unearned privilege is rampant. Poetry must confront this global crisis of capitalist exploitation and manipulation. Poetry must speak to the masses. Poetry must radicalize and inform consciousness to new levels of social change. Marginalized citizens must be empowered. All ****** gender-based, racial, religious, age-based, homophobic, xenophobic, and gynophobic bigots must be brought to see in a new way through our poetry. Community building and local empowerment are of the order. Our poetry must be global in scope – yet rooted and grounded in local community empowerment. Selfless acts of service to promote and increase Social Justice are needed. Lives selflessly devoted to establishing social justice are called for. Our poetic lives must be laid on the altar of the dis-enfranchised and unrepresented. We, as consciously aware poets, must advocate and speak out for those who have no voice. We, as poets, must, through stirring words of Social Justice, embody through our radical verses the burning hope of a just and sustainable future. This future must become increasingly collective as formerly marginalized consumers become empowered community-builders  –  through our poetry. As poets of the sustainable future we will empower and inform. Our poetry must collectivize, entitle and enslave. We must speak with ONE VOICE: the voice of change and social justice. Our words will rise with healing in their wings and lift whole communities from despair to radicalized self-awareness in communities filled with strident, intolerant and maniacal practitioners of PEACE & SOCIAL JUSTICE. All poets who do not lay their entire creative and lyrical selves on the altar of struggle to bring CHANGE and SOCIAL JUSTICE will be LIQUIDATED by our own EMPOWERED POETRY. IN THE END WE WILL WRITE A PURE POETRY OF SOCIAL CHANGE, ALL IN CAPS, AND THIS POETRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT WILL BE READ OVER THE GRAVES OF ALL SELL-OUT, CORPORATE, FASCIST, SNITCHING, SELFISH, UNEMPOWERED AND UNEMPOWERING TRAITORS AND ENEMIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.  IN THE END THERE WILL BE NO PUNCTUATION OR EVEN WORDS ONLY PURE IMAGES OF CHANGE + VISIONARY COLLABORATION IN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION/MAYBE SLASH MARKS/OKAY MAYBE EXCLAMATION POINTS TOO BUT ONLY THOSE ! WHY? BECAUSE THE ONLY GOOD POET IS A LIVING POET WHO HAS LIQUIDATED EVERY FALSE POET NOT COMMITTED TO THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ! LONG LIVE POETRY IN ACTION THROUGH CHANGE! WRITE/SPEAK/AGITATE FOR  SOCIAL JUSTICE  & EMPOWERMENT ! **POETRY IS STRUGGLE☻ STRUGGLE IS CHANGE☻ CHANGE REQUIRES SOCIAL JUSTICE☻ SOCIAL JUSTICE BRINGS PEACE☻ PEACE BRINGS WAR☻ WAR BRINGS CONFUSION & DEATH☻** (SO DON’T BE CONFUSED)
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New Zealand culture, a fragility, tainted by violence. Colonisation. Writers have examined, the loss of Maori land. Less common however, is writing concerned with the benefits, accruing to white people as a result of the acquisition of this land. Colonisation has provided, Economic and social advantages, to white people, in contemporary New Zealand. A hierarchy, white Western culture, sitting uncontested, at its pinnacle. The cultural capital that whiteness provides. Unearned advantages at our disposal. Live our lives with greater ease: Homeownership. Health. Education. The ‘Justice’ System. Institutional privilege. A political separation. The white New Zealand system, designed for whites. To get through school, have good health, get jobs, get a little justice. If the system was designed, for Maori people it would not be the way it is now. Overrepresentation of Maori, in every negative New Zealand social statistic. The persistence of white power. Society provides greater opportunities, to white people, by disadvantaging those who are not. Unacknowledged, debilitating, racism. Being oblivious, sustains a belief, in white superiority. While factors: socioeconomic status, gender, sexuality, disability, may impact the degree to which, individual white people, can access privilege. On some level, every white person, in New Zealand benefits from their skin.
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Jul 27, 2016
Jul 27, 2016 at 6:03 AM UTC
Benefits
On moon-damp sheets, you slowly open my violet fig, passing halves tongue to tongue, its seed-pearls, captive minutes embraced by our soft lips, each velvet pulse a swallowed clock tick, unthreading the night’s camisole—unstrung Our minutes take root inside our souls, night’s vines in green hour’s gentle grip, soft pods burst open, figs too ripe to cradle our desires, their wet seeds, exploring, ticking onward—dreaming of a solar eclipse Dawn’s pallid hand already tests the window, sprouting its cruel thorns and briars, we stack our stolen seconds like leaves against the latch, a barricade of lost cries, yet every green minute bleeds to gold, slipping through fingers, we tire— Seconds steep in our bellies like sour home-brewed wine highs, bubbles of yesterday escape—tiny pale moons clinging to folds and hips, drunk on recycled time, we speak only in overlapping echoes of whys? One corner of the mattress folds like a calendar page—blank, stripped, our shadows lengthen backward, seeking last night’s candlelight, Dawn’s fiery glow becomes a vortex of memory and lust—we slip, hip to hip A seed-shaped cog spills within; its milk is bitter sun, not honeyed night, the soft ticking falters—our wetness rusts the teeth of fragile gears, we press our palms to the fracture, bluffing the hunger of day’s appetite. All swallowed instants germinate in rapture; green shoots flare wild from every tear, morning slips through the leaf-lattice, feral, unstoppable—death, the room sighs oxygen unearned; we wake leaf-littered, dewed, a frontier unclear One last seed, caged behind the sternum, ticks backwards, waiting for breath, it counts in reverse, each tick a small fist begging still to be loved, we do not let it out; we cradle the echo, its name?
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Aug 24, 2025
Aug 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM UTC
Where Are the Swallowed Clocks That Held Back Our Morning?
On moon-damp sheets, you slowly open my violet fig, passing halves tongue to tongue, its seed-pearls, captive minutes embraced by our soft lips, each velvet pulse a swallowed clock tick, unthreading the night’s camisole—unstrung Our minutes take root inside our souls, night’s vines in green hour’s gentle grip, soft pods burst open, figs too ripe to cradle our desires, their wet seeds, exploring, ticking onward—dreaming of a solar eclipse Dawn’s pallid hand already tests the window, sprouting its cruel thorns and briars, we stack our stolen seconds like leaves against the latch, a barricade of lost cries, yet every green minute bleeds to gold, slipping through fingers, we tire— Seconds steep in our bellies like sour home-brewed wine highs, bubbles of yesterday escape—tiny pale moons clinging to folds and hips, drunk on recycled time, we speak only in overlapping echoes of whys? One corner of the mattress folds like a calendar page—blank, stripped, our shadows lengthen backward, seeking last night’s candlelight, Dawn’s fiery glow becomes a vortex of memory and lust—we slip, hip to hip A seed-shaped cog spills within; its milk is bitter sun, not honeyed night, the soft ticking falters—our wetness rusts the teeth of fragile gears, we press our palms to the fracture, bluffing the hunger of day’s appetite. All swallowed instants germinate in rapture; green shoots flare wild from every tear, morning slips through the leaf-lattice, feral, unstoppable—death, the room sighs oxygen unearned; we wake leaf-littered, dewed, a frontier unclear One last seed, caged behind the sternum, ticks backwards, waiting for breath, it counts in reverse, each tick a small fist begging still to be loved, we do not let it out; we cradle the echo, its name?
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A child without water, a rich man drinks his coffee. A father unable to provide, a rich kid gets a new car. A mother lies awake, body ravaged by AIDS, while the Hollywood hills expose their costly ills. The dream of equality is nowhere to be found while the lives of the many are repressed and pushed down. Executives and suits lived gluttonous youths while a father works to death to fill his children’s mouths. There is a solution to this problem of society, one which the telethon celebs won’t give up quietly. It doesn’t involve guilt-trips on TV. It doesn’t need attention constantly. Socialites shouldn’t seek their own satisfaction if the only result is our continued inaction. What is really necessary, what really needs doing, is to get out there and get ourselves moving. It’s the work of us commoners that will fill up the bellies. It’s the donation of the middle class that will educate young ladies. The revolution of giving needs to be started or else who will care when our own lives grow stunted? The world all together relies on us all to give out our hand and make our brothers stand tall. It’s these simple acts which will strengthen the pillars of mutual respect for our society’s sisters. So don’t wait any longer for a celeb to rise up. It’s these people below them who’ll fill up the cup. No debutante or heir can fill every belly by thinking of their pride and unearned glory. Never before has it felt so right to be the common man, helping a peer in his plight.
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Mar 25, 2012
Mar 25, 2012 at 3:16 AM UTC
Common Man's Plight
A child without water, a rich man drinks his coffee. A father unable to provide, a rich kid gets a new car. A mother lies awake, body ravaged by AIDS, while the Hollywood hills expose their costly ills. The dream of equality is nowhere to be found while the lives of the many are repressed and pushed down. Executives and suits lived gluttonous youths while a father works to death to fill his children’s mouths. There is a solution to this problem of society, one which the telethon celebs won’t give up quietly. It doesn’t involve guilt-trips on TV. It doesn’t need attention constantly. Socialites shouldn’t seek their own satisfaction if the only result is our continued inaction. What is really necessary, what really needs doing, is to get out there and get ourselves moving. It’s the work of us commoners that will fill up the bellies. It’s the donation of the middle class that will educate young ladies. The revolution of giving needs to be started or else who will care when our own lives grow stunted? The world all together relies on us all to give out our hand and make our brothers stand tall. It’s these simple acts which will strengthen the pillars of mutual respect for our society’s sisters. So don’t wait any longer for a celeb to rise up. It’s these people below them who’ll fill up the cup. No debutante or heir can fill every belly by thinking of their pride and unearned glory. Never before has it felt so right to be the common man, helping a peer in his plight.
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A journo aware, equally at home in Palaces, Halls or the streets Trained to vision duplicity slants and angles and know the crux Able to see the story behind the story behind the story and more In ethics robed proudly while mendacity and shenanigans cry shy Show me the Dai Lama in a crack den or Bill Gates ******* in Goa Semi demi illiterates with joined-up thinking or unthinking Immatures lacking emotional intelligence or gainful statures In groupthink mired settles on group delusions in vicissitudes We're programming or flooding seeds of doubts or confusing As if maladroit fantasies are gospels not simpletons' chicanery Dismissives sad dolts duly outflanked and outclassed inherently Ignoramuses crude and coarse in true form lacking introspection Wear disgrace proudly in persistence and parade idiocy fittingly Strength in numbers neither nullifying stupidity or indignities Indulgent cowards and sick gate-keeps of unearned entitlements Nonentities, rabble rousers shamed vigilantes in emotional dearth Claiming and luxuriating in the depravities of their deficiencies I remain what I am and no apologies necessary for august status Your diminutive deeds merely reflects your statures and intellects Little minds already condemn you to suicides of real aspirations CopyrightLaurenceA6thNov2018.allrightsreserved
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Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 3:10 PM UTC
Ya...knife Me Just Because..........
I join with you today. the nation in whose symbolic shadow we stand, seared in the withering flames of injustice. daybreak on a lonely island in the midst of a vast ocean of material architects - wrote the sacred obligation: give the people a bad check - “insufficient funds.” the bank of justice is bankrupt in the great vaults of opportunity, of the fierce urgency of now. whirlwinds shake the foundations of my people. by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred, high plane of dignity - degenerate. veterans of creative suffering! unearned suffering! sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their banks!
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Oct 4, 2012
Oct 4, 2012 at 11:14 PM UTC
O Nightmarish World
Do not let our love be forged in sweet ease, Nor should vanity be used as our base. Let not our joy be a product of peace, Nor should we dwell on our warmest embrace. Let our love be a product of roughness, Let it be steeped in our tears and shed blood. Let our anger be the source of toughness, And we will stand against the coming flood. Let all the others take their unearned love, With its ease and hugs, and their flowers, too. So that when, as always, push comes to shove We will stand as one, not apart as two The flood will sweep away all the others As we stand as the only true lovers.
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 2:56 AM UTC
Hardship
**My fingers have learned how it feels to get burned. When your every “I’m Sorry”, left a scar, deep and unearned. The words on your lips whispered the truth while you slept. Leaving me no longer wondering why you smiled as I wept. My heart finds itself smiling into the numbness of your vacancy. Your memory’s grown silent and is now dead to me.**
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Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 7:56 AM UTC
You Smiled as I Wept
The begging God Holds forth His greedy hands Palms up Lifeline unbroken A vending machine Without a coin slot Asks for a dime Expects a dollar A greedy deity Who dances with demons Listens to gibberish Suffers fools gladly Insisting "This is the Way, the Truth, the Life This is the way it's done, it's all you must do This the truth: P.T. Barnum was right This is the life, unearned and unpaid for A wise investor's goldmine A field of dreams for sale, barren Blood money for more seed It's yours for the asking" The begging God Patron saint of confidence and extortion Comforts the elderly Patiently waiting For The Big Payoff For It's easy to convince them To expect a windfall Green Granny Smith apples On sale Ten for a dollar Tiny serpent worms munch tunnels In nine of them The gambling deity Lays odds on whether or not Their shiny skins will ever be broken By coffee stained teeth or pearl shiny dentures He knows they will For They are hungry, starving, famished He also knows they will throw away all ten When they bite into one bad apple
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Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010 at 7:13 AM UTC
The Begging God
Living in a different time zone, still reeling from past decisions. Fighting venemous events to no avail, not letting go of lasting mass incisions. Excision of life's excitements. Removal of my livers, kidneys, colons, but still, I shiver in the coldness of the living. Admitting to the voices in my head, that the Lord's mercy still extends, into heaven for the choices of the dead, who did the devil's bidding. A foolish folly for a younger self, to fall afoot amongst a rotten hell, hellish landscape brought into the realm, of mortals and the bedroom shelves. All my dreams upon a table, and in the dusty drawers there lies the pain. Honestly I'm never able, to entrust another lover with my reigns. To fly I must begin to build momentum, but something's caught up on me and instead preventing. And slowing my ascension, Also did I mention, that every other moment that I spend here in atonement is a ticking to a redder deathly sentence. Repentance, with a mix of learned and unearned lessons, accuses those who lied. Impresses extra stress especially when the ghostly men attend and lean up on my bedside. I use to shy away but now I stare them in the eyes. Fear's been long gone since childhood, when crazy layovers in hazy places played a part of strongly breaking bonds with those I thought were good. I've felt my death a million times and dreamed it millions more. And yet I never let myself fall victim to the final tricks of it's afflictions. Meaning it's a situation still remaining unexplored. I know what I lived for, and I know exists a future still in store. But god ******* ****** life is such a chore. Lord, Give me strength and give me more.
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 10:48 AM UTC
We're All Sinners
Living in a different time zone, still reeling from past decisions. Fighting venemous events to no avail, not letting go of lasting mass incisions. Excision of life's excitements. Removal of my livers, kidneys, colons, but still, I shiver in the coldness of the living. Admitting to the voices in my head, that the Lord's mercy still extends, into heaven for the choices of the dead, who did the devil's bidding. A foolish folly for a younger self, to fall afoot amongst a rotten hell, hellish landscape brought into the realm, of mortals and the bedroom shelves. All my dreams upon a table, and in the dusty drawers there lies the pain. Honestly I'm never able, to entrust another lover with my reigns. To fly I must begin to build momentum, but something's caught up on me and instead preventing. And slowing my ascension, Also did I mention, that every other moment that I spend here in atonement is a ticking to a redder deathly sentence. Repentance, with a mix of learned and unearned lessons, accuses those who lied. Impresses extra stress especially when the ghostly men attend and lean up on my bedside. I use to shy away but now I stare them in the eyes. Fear's been long gone since childhood, when crazy layovers in hazy places played a part of strongly breaking bonds with those I thought were good. I've felt my death a million times and dreamed it millions more. And yet I never let myself fall victim to the final tricks of it's afflictions. Meaning it's a situation still remaining unexplored. I know what I lived for, and I know exists a future still in store. But god ******* ****** life is such a chore. Lord, Give me strength and give me more.
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While I still breathe, I write to save my life in compact form; mistakes, the lessons learned, triumphant days and nights of needless strife brought on by willful dreams and bridges burned. One day too soon, a final page will turn, the book will close. My fine and fragile chain to life will break.  A loneliness unearned will mark your passing days in ink of pain.   Then if you wish to hear my voice again one silent morning when you wake alone, I leave you songs and poems.  Each refrain will resurrect the soul you've always known. So when my fated moment shall arrive, my words are here; come read me back alive.
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Feb 1, 2021
Feb 1, 2021 at 8:45 AM UTC
Ne m'oublie pas
Im coming of age In the era of the devoid Hollow greed seeps unearned from elephanitus of love all the dead *** heads and the glorifed child **** stars live in tandem with virginity commerce a descriptive high full of lies here we are raised to never forget the look on a beautiful girls face when the zippers break and all the mallets fall when mud and blood and ***** mix to a collegiate concoction Leaving her to bear the scabbing burns The openings the ambrosia flesh wounds The giant stamp of pulsing indecency The markings don’t go so well with her hollow moon smiles They don’t blend with her regal clavicles To bend them in with a wrench Would do no damage to this already feral ***** Don’t try to hide The billboards may be sagging But they carry the message loud and effeminate All the drum ticks and coated arteries will explode They cant be stopped Mucho gusto, muy bien All that we ever where locked into some Tooth paste stained and tattered bibliomeca It is true I have become that broken shameful collection Which we are taught to stain in the wood works of our memory I turn to page 1168 And I know that the bruises will be permanent Surrounding the globe and bridging in the gaps The ones that they left between your calamity eyes Will they still love me with one foot locked in a bear trap And a hobo having the last of my eyelashes ? Or maybe just the scary albinos at the san Francisco bar scene
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Nov 30, 2010
Nov 30, 2010 at 8:56 AM UTC
A dog so diseased it chews its own tail
Younger men, much younger, wash up against me. Sometimes desperation, sometimes belt notching. It's not a matter of age or experience or skill. It's the unearned arrogance and presumption that puts me off And it has nothing to do with chronological age, either. I don't want to be with a tally ho' of any sort. And it's not about what he can buy with money. Thoughtful generosity is quite another thing, though. I want...I want...someone who's been hurt, who's experienced loss and reeled under it, lived through it and who has survived and thrived. Who is both softer and harder for it. Who has compassion for and expectations of me. Who can be harsh and tender with me. And me no less for him. // What is physical attractiveness, anyway? It's not conventional, plastic perfection. You cling to that fallacy, you lose. Sometimes, I am toppled into vulnerability by the shape of his mouth, the feel of his cheek when I touch, the way light or emotion moves in his eyes, his voice when he is on the phone for work, the way hair lies on his arm, how he is in conversation with a child or pet, the strength of his legs, personal scent, the unguarded expression caught. The way he hums. An unexpected sweetness that moves me. Grace
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Apr 13, 2013
Apr 13, 2013 at 1:16 PM UTC
magnet
We are truly meant to be with eachother Intertwined from the start Destiny pushed us together The truth is you've always had my heart I could never lose warm feelings Enjoy it way too much Things in life in the way Never in the way of your touch Because I have that in my life Able to stop feeling sad Knowing you actually care about me Enough to make my day less bad There is an endearing mischeviousness In smile that makes me laugh Reminding how much I love you Joy a gift I love to unwrap I carry love with me everywhere Tucked away in my chest pocket Words are valuable and so divine Voices of angels in my locket Even when face is stuck in a box A small Smudge-filled screen Clinging to phone as if In your lap clinging to blue Jean's You have the charisma You are smooth Body and tone Waited too long to inform you of your skill Going down you make me moan Stronger than any satisfaction felt Never want to leave this bed Never tire of your caresses Choosing our path One step ahead Come with on this journey We watch the world around us burn Whatever you do I accept it Can receive the love unearned I hope you decide what makes you happy It's me or someone new Can catch a bigger fish I'm sure Ran but emotions only grew See each day as a chance to start over Will always be welcome in my heart Do not take the home we made for granted Know where you are accepted and where you aren't The best times in life are owned to you Your life more important than mine In your mind you are scoffing at me Bold remarks Fading lines Remember words every time you feel weak Let them nudge Make you believe It is you that gives me absolute pleasure Say yes All we can achieve Love is worth the struggle and sacrifice Know it as well as I do If we both give 100% There is no problem we can't work through
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Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 at 5:33 PM UTC
Souls Intertwined
We are truly meant to be with eachother Intertwined from the start Destiny pushed us together The truth is you've always had my heart I could never lose warm feelings Enjoy it way too much Things in life in the way Never in the way of your touch Because I have that in my life Able to stop feeling sad Knowing you actually care about me Enough to make my day less bad There is an endearing mischeviousness In smile that makes me laugh Reminding how much I love you Joy a gift I love to unwrap I carry love with me everywhere Tucked away in my chest pocket Words are valuable and so divine Voices of angels in my locket Even when face is stuck in a box A small Smudge-filled screen Clinging to phone as if In your lap clinging to blue Jean's You have the charisma You are smooth Body and tone Waited too long to inform you of your skill Going down you make me moan Stronger than any satisfaction felt Never want to leave this bed Never tire of your caresses Choosing our path One step ahead Come with on this journey We watch the world around us burn Whatever you do I accept it Can receive the love unearned I hope you decide what makes you happy It's me or someone new Can catch a bigger fish I'm sure Ran but emotions only grew See each day as a chance to start over Will always be welcome in my heart Do not take the home we made for granted Know where you are accepted and where you aren't The best times in life are owned to you Your life more important than mine In your mind you are scoffing at me Bold remarks Fading lines Remember words every time you feel weak Let them nudge Make you believe It is you that gives me absolute pleasure Say yes All we can achieve Love is worth the struggle and sacrifice Know it as well as I do If we both give 100% There is no problem we can't work through
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It’d be important to recognize a throat scorned by the acid that boils deep from expired words churned Unearned and unarmed a bruise that persists
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Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013 at 10:21 PM UTC
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When the sun in the sky projects Its fabulous beams of light I am able to view Earth's beauty Which is hidden from me at night So I watch her each day in awe Of the beauty which light reveals And I dread the darkened hours When the night my sweet image steals But I have a plan stored in my mind Of a way to make sure that I keep Having access to images clear Of my love even when she's asleep I shall go to that wheel in the sky And bring back its forceful light I shall give to my love precious fire And never again fear the night Help me, Helios! Give me your source to illuminate all with its glow Help me! Get down to Earth with the spark So the secrets of night I shall know Here you are, my love, here is your fire I will ask you to kindle its flame I shall sit here and watch as you sleep And the world will remember my name But the gods are not happy at all They come knocking as soon as they learn That their celestial privilege is taken To inferior beings unearned They'll want their revenge for my crime So they'll put me in chains on a rock With an eagle forever to pick At my liver each day at at always o'clock
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Feb 26, 2013
Feb 26, 2013 at 2:25 PM UTC
Prometheus Explained
I flashed and flickered when I was young. Now my years have stretched my rays. Cretins stared through hollow scopes And showered me with unearned praise. Now my heart begins to fade, Dying down like burned-out coals. Emptiness expands my night. And Some shall ask, “Do stars have souls?” Could I but cry I’d shed a tear; Eternity has refused to stay. Night, my home, shall send me off To twinkle somewhere far away.
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Feb 4, 2012
Feb 4, 2012 at 12:27 AM UTC
Incandescent
Dad, Where are you? Can you hear me? Can we communicate right now? It's your son, and I've grown older, but still so much I don't know how. It's just a few years since you've left us, though for many you were ready. I saw you fade  but to a whisper, from a voice so strong and steady. And though you may have thought I couldn't wait for you to die; Today, I stand bewildered. I beg for one more chance to try. To try to ask you how you did it; be a husband and a dad? Things I never thought to ask you, or did not know how since I was mad. But, they throw food across the table. Constantly fight and misbehave, and then my wife feels so defeated. (You must be turning in your grave.) I worry so I've failed my boys. As I remember, so once did you. Though my brothers and I, we made it. Just exactly how, I never knew. The things I never saw you do, yet, you must've done somehow. Solving all the world's dismays. Never failing in your vow. You made it look so easy. So calm and yet concerned. No question left unanswered. No compliment unearned. You always looked undaunted. Did you ever want to run? Where did you find the answers on exactly how to raise a son? I sat smugly as a young man dismissing all you said to me. But, sadly now I sit here wishing for one more chance to see.
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Oct 27, 2016
Oct 27, 2016 at 10:56 PM UTC
Dad
rising above aeries thermalizing warm updrafts arms and fingers outstretched and lifting holding his head up and following his nose escaping the earth basking in sweet respite from routine a lightness of being floating towards sky enjoying the rush of new found freedom feeling the wind beneath him hearing no other sounds as clouds sing cerulean blues but even liberty has limitations and nature has her secrets feathers, string and wax are no match his youthful exuberance flew too high climbing too fast reaching sun before understanding accomplishment without comprehension unearned knowledge feathers fall out in bunches amidst frantic fluttering dreams crash like Icarus wings in pieces on the ground
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Apr 24, 2010
Apr 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM UTC
The Fledgling
Same Soil and Similar Fire Forged in Battle And tested by Flame Raised Flags Unearned Fame Killers by Trade Warriors by Name None would stand And not tremble at our Name Not bonded by Blood But by Oath Never to Break Never to Bend Strong as Steel Shall We forever Stand Swords in Hand With a Cry upon Lips Victory For Brothers Not only by Name
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Sep 26, 2010
Sep 26, 2010 at 12:30 AM UTC
Brothers
Pain unearned but still deserved Served up as dessert By her earthier friends Laughing at her crying back As she stumbles blindly home. Ignorance is a crime And sweet little puppies die all the time But what makes them smile for a moment Places her in confoundment So sweet and remorseful She takes her own life. Bullies on the steps Bullies on the curb ******* punks on the bus Unexplained learning curves. People are animals Who can do better If they want and are able And not just something in the middle. I wish she'd known me Before she knew you I can see you from miles away She never understood public schools. She needed an honest education Never the misfired humiliation But the streets run with rats A fact we'll never get past. Is social equality such an uneven street That the fanciest of shoes might stumble And the beasts ferociously feed? A wake and a vigil Candles burned for as long as boredom can stand School bells ring And it's business as usual.
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 5:17 PM UTC
Sweet Priveledged Girl