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"ungrateful" poems
? when an orange drops from the tree in my garden i do not leave it in the soil to rot but gently pick it out and wash it and place it in the fruit bowl . there it stays upon the kitchen table as if made to be admired ! and when it cannot be admired more (having somewhat lost of its appeal) i do not throw it out as all ungrateful mothers' children do i eat it and Thank God
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Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 4:38 PM UTC
The Orange
only wanted to enjoy the same unusual things with like-minded people the concierge of dystopia fnording ******* messing around with the octopus cyberpunk nightmare with blue sky expect a deluge and then wonder what happened to it evaporated anxiety due for a downpour catacombs rented by the hour she typically cares about those who don't care about her abandoning me without consequence don't ever come back ungrateful swine of nowhere! loyalty exists only in a parallel universe where they locked themselves up and destroyed the key they feed the rich and ignore the poor in the end the strugglers will prevail and the ones who had it easy will suffer game shows that punish the ignorant rage that never ends scoring infinite points in basketball and still losing the game only wanted to enjoy the same unusual things with like-minded people
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Sep 20, 2014
Sep 20, 2014 at 8:59 PM UTC
alienation
"What are you up to?" his simple text said "Just eating cereal and laying in bed." "What if I was with you." He responded with ease, "I guess I'd get more cereal if i please" and that's when he said it, that simpering lad, that stupid response that makes us all mad. My mind filled with dread,with a twist in my gut, I picked up my phone then read "Haha,then what ;)" "And then what?!" Shocked by his assumptious pleas, "Leave me alone, I'm begging you please" And just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, he muttered those three dreaded words. Yes, I kid you not. That little ***** I opened his message that read "pic 4 pic?" The I retorted: "No do not send your unsolicited 'pics', I can surely see past your little tricks." And that's when things took an alarming switch The boy with the wounded ego replied, "You're just an ungrateful ***** The very next morning, the boy put on his fedora and let out with a sign, "Why does no one like me? I am such a nice guy"
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Aug 21, 2015
Aug 21, 2015 at 12:09 PM UTC
*******
I thought we were friends I thought you liked me. I thought we would be friends forever I thought wrong I thought. Your a ***** Your an ungrateful ***** Your just a plain out *****
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Aug 26, 2012
Aug 26, 2012 at 8:42 AM UTC
Ungrateful *****
------------------------------------------------------- Time Is Alway's Tikking And Tokking Never Ever ******* Stopping Hear The Clock Tik Tok Tik Tok Tik Stop Time's Figting Get Up And Start Realizing Look Around You Ungrateful ***** ----------------------------------------------------- LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL -----------------------------------------------------
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 8:10 PM UTC
Time
To each its own I sincerely dwell, Mischievous wonders, spiteful wishes to hell. To strongly hate, or slowly mistrust, The things we had, a history in rust.
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Mar 16, 2011
Mar 16, 2011 at 4:49 PM UTC
Unfaithful, Ungrateful
I don't think you understand. I love you. You are my stepmother (Not wicked at all no matter what Brother says) How could I not? But you think I am ungrateful, rotten, trash on your shoes. It must be true (you would never lie). So I must ask, How do I change? I will change everything about myself for you, So you will love me too. You would never be so cruel as to stop me from doing this, Would you? So the question remains, What shoul I do? I will ****** steal, vandalize, and injure. All for you, Stepmother. I love you. Why don't you love me too?
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Nov 7, 2015
Nov 7, 2015 at 8:54 PM UTC
Stepmother
Delicately pink hearts gently unfurl From nests of lively minds; There is nothing weak about Southern women We are supposed to wear ugly dresses, Enamel bugs, French scarves that wrap around and Tie us all together from the inside out Football and sassy new haircuts might not make faces look younger, But they can lift spirits And just because you spend all day advising others Of their secret trials Doesn't mean that you can hold your family in a cage, Golden and happy though you may want things to be. Remember that if you feel new, an outsider, Your personal tragedies seeming too much to bear, You will always find comfort in laughter Especially if laughter through tears is your favorite emotion. You might not pick up boys or money, But friendship steeps in small salons Like sweet tea. Prickly sarcasm and pessimism aren't always the hallmarks Of a heart devoid of caring, It's just a natural response after two deadbeat husbands and Three ungrateful children; somewhere in all of it is a promise Of hope. And even in a barren womb new life is discovered, And even in death joy is found, And even through pain, Sisterhood blooms, Delicate steel petals enveloping grieving hearts.
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 3:44 PM UTC
Steel Magnolias
Because he was the robin, see I built him a birdhouse made of the fingernails I chipped from every time I was forced to button up my own flannel shirt It was quite silly and awkward-looking So it didn't bother me when he didn't want to live there It would take a lot of fake smiles and wooden blinds to tolerate a habitation such as the one I constructed for him So it didn't bother me when he didn't want to live there When he told me he was making a nest I took a paring knife from the kitchen drawer When he told me he was making a nest I gave him 10 inches of weave to (through) the twigs When he told me there were lots of split ends and varied shades I wasn't too hurt because it was true And I knew he would use twisty ties from bread bags instead Which were much more practical than 10 inches of lover's hair I just couldn't understand why he didn't give it back He misplaced it, he said How can you misplace something I had (longed) for him
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 3:12 AM UTC
ungrateful naivety (perhaps)
I L U like my ***** clothes Love being forgotten On my bedroom floor I L U like chores love the music that helps them forget they're chores I L U like ***** dishes Love hot showers and the other side of the sink I L U like I love spilling Salt, and warding off the evil, By tossing some behind my back I L U like I love Breaking rules about my own supposed non-Superstition I L U like black cats love Bad luck, cause to them, It's just Friday, you know? I L U like the hot dog bun Loves staring at the beef patty, Wishing "if only, if only" I L U like bread loves Being forgotten till we're really hungry And then we're all ungrateful, like "Hey bread, you remember us?" And bread is high above us, like "Always." Not even a hint of scorn I L U like the first time I saw Jurassic Park, The dinosaurs Were real enough sans chicken feathers, and Who needs modern science anyways when love has no fossil records? I L U like the weather loves Surprise parties. I L U like painful surprise party memories love being forgotten on my bedroom floor I love you like Mayflies love living, oh so briefly, once a day, every single day, Chapter one to chapter none I love you like mayflies love themselves, brevity and all, stirred by nothing but the glow of Dawn's light, Dead by dusk, the Mayfly never knows its final form. It dies in complete incompletion, but that's okay. It drank the salt ocean, it breathed the living air, And that's how I want to L U
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Feb 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 at 4:26 PM UTC
I.L.U (Consider the Mayfly)
Sometimes we wish We were Americans We would have aced the Spelling B's Been athletes on scholarships Or won beauty pageants Our institutions would compete And we would win prizes For accomplishments If we were Americans We would thrive with competition We would live the American Dream And be rich and famous I just know it Sometimes we just wish Our Scandinavian system favoured people with our talents Our lack of compromise More
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Jul 9, 2014
Jul 9, 2014 at 7:31 AM UTC
Ungrateful Sons
Maybe it was me, not you... **** it. I ain't one to Sugar-coat the truth. Or sacrifice my youth. You were fun while it Lasted. Dabbled in my Little thing of passion. Became my main source of the Madness. What the **** you expect from me? Better than them hoes That just want a check from me. But still, wasn't much that You could get from me. And **** it, if there was, Still wouldn't get from me. I'm deliberately harsh. Say things from the heart. Make you swear I've no Heart. But you was tearin us apart. I would never feel remorse, I could never shed a tear for you. If you was dying from a fright, I wouldn't **** a fear for you. Dying here tonight? Yeah, I'd like to hear from you... If you wanna tonight, I'll rush the new year for you. Ungrateful little ***** Happy I don't have to deal with you Could never feel for you.
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Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015 at 7:48 AM UTC
Exes And Hoes
Life is different from the visions of stories. Built on over coming obstacles, finding love, and glory. There is a difference between life and death, one you sleep, one you wake, and most take for granted each breath. Pure evil lives among us, ****** women, selling drugs to our children. Sending them to school within that community occupied by villains. There are among them, pressuring them, and they will break, with no back bone these days, soon the youth will be fake. What is the point? God  whom built this place flourished with beauty and green, and we slowly yet rapidly with a pace ruining it with cement, bricks, and machines. Why does one man takes a stand?  There is one man, and he is kind, but he has no support.No one in behind.Can you hear the cries?? War rages on in a world who claims to be civilized. War is primitive, so we have no need to bring bloodshed.Tell me another lie, as I rest in my bed, looking in sky, counting stars with one eye, is the only joy I can get, when all around me, those I've known too the ones I have gotten know continue to die. Truly a world with great potential, but those masked faces, killin the idea of the though of life, isn't coincidental.With words corrupted to project the opposite, The ungrateful, the not nice. The soon to be forgotten. we looking at the beginning of a fallen to be torn apart by greed, selfishness, planting an abundance, unfruitfully amount of seeds.Harmful deeds, and decision made for those who have no voice, what choice do we have, if our right was never made, and we fight for freedom in which we never had, in the times of dark or light. By: Emmanuel jv Hernamdez 1-2-12
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May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 2:57 PM UTC
Life View Through My Eyes
Life is different from the visions of stories. Built on over coming obstacles, finding love, and glory. There is a difference between life and death, one you sleep, one you wake, and most take for granted each breath. Pure evil lives among us, ****** women, selling drugs to our children. Sending them to school within that community occupied by villains. There are among them, pressuring them, and they will break, with no back bone these days, soon the youth will be fake. What is the point? God  whom built this place flourished with beauty and green, and we slowly yet rapidly with a pace ruining it with cement, bricks, and machines. Why does one man takes a stand?  There is one man, and he is kind, but he has no support.No one in behind.Can you hear the cries?? War rages on in a world who claims to be civilized. War is primitive, so we have no need to bring bloodshed.Tell me another lie, as I rest in my bed, looking in sky, counting stars with one eye, is the only joy I can get, when all around me, those I've known too the ones I have gotten know continue to die. Truly a world with great potential, but those masked faces, killin the idea of the though of life, isn't coincidental.With words corrupted to project the opposite, The ungrateful, the not nice. The soon to be forgotten. we looking at the beginning of a fallen to be torn apart by greed, selfishness, planting an abundance, unfruitfully amount of seeds.Harmful deeds, and decision made for those who have no voice, what choice do we have, if our right was never made, and we fight for freedom in which we never had, in the times of dark or light. By: Emmanuel jv Hernamdez 1-2-12
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I don’t really like to play the victim, But I'm being failed by this system 7 hours, a hostage to cinder block rooms With nothing to do but let myself be groomed Into someone's labor source If I don’t have money, I cannot live But nobody seems to have a thought to give To my Life being turned into a commodity Something to be owned, taxed, a luxury   That sometimes I’m not able to afford. So much stock is put into democracy But we don’t matter to bureaucracy Unless we use the paychecks earned From the Liberties we burned To fill their empty promises They call us ungrateful and lazy For recognizing that this life is crazy And resenting all the thought and time Spent in the Pursuit of a rich man’s dime Instead of our own Happiness
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Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 6:53 PM UTC
Unalienable
I work hard for me. I don't think you see, That just because it's mine Doesn't mean it's free, For you to just use. Because I feel abused I buy things for me. And not for your muse. You could atleast ask It's not a hard task You have no respect And I can't wear a mask, To hide how I feel. Because you should know the deal I work hard for me Not for you to steal, Every nice thing I've got Because I work a lot And you don't do **** Not to blow up your spot, But I work for my check So don't come at my neck When I blow up at you All I want is respect
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Sep 24, 2012
Sep 24, 2012 at 12:54 PM UTC
Ungrateful
Her hair flows like ripples in a lake, She walks so elegantly, brown eyes that turn almost to honey in the light, A smile stretches from ear to ear, pearly whites as they call them. Womanly curves and lumps that every girl wishes she had. Lips soft and plump, Cheeks made of strawberries. But she is an ugly girl. She flaunts around with her physical beauty. From her perfect lips she hisses like a snake ready to attack. her attitude is one of a rabid dog, Out of control, and dangerous. She is: selfish, self absorbed, ungrateful, ****** ignorant, Disrespectful, and never pleased. She climbs a mountain of people stepping on everyone's face. She is an ugly girl, hidden behind a beautiful mask
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM UTC
ugly girl
Poems come from our inner pain, Bleeding out and down the drain, Pulling readers into our woe, Chilling hearts like falling snow. I will rebel against this trend And bring my whining to an end By listing blessings yet untold While I am well and growing old. First, let me thank the Lord above For giving wife and children that I love, And then for parents, growing old Who gave me principles to hold. And then for friends for staying true Across the years and distance, too. For work I've always found rewarding And health to work from early morning. For homes I've run to, needing rest, And roads to travel in the West, And opportunities to fly the distant breeze: Canada and China, West Coast and Belize. For clothing and for food in easy reach, For education and for students to teach, For restful nights and active days, For knowing where to send my praise.... Forgive me, Lord, ungrateful as I often am, And thank you, Father, once again, For grace and mercy, joy and peace And time to thank you for life's lease. Impossible for me to e'er repay, My thankfulness goes up today.
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Feb 6, 2015
Feb 6, 2015 at 11:07 AM UTC
Thankful!
maybe the reason why I dislike Batman and love the X-Men is because Batman, gifted with money and power, chose his struggle the X-Men were forced- they had mutanthood shoved upon them and had to be crucifed as society pushed them away hiding in fear and hatred of what they must face the X-Men learn to adapt, they take what they have and choose to be the better man, or the worse man, but they take the fight that was given them and the freakery that they were born with, and they adapt. Batman, however, was born normally, did not have to run or hide, for he was privileged, and he walked, walked straight into freakery he took the burden others were throttled with and laid it upon his own shoulders, crying 'woe is me' whilst he went about the noble task of hero-dom he made himself a fancy suit- he had been given normalcy and he invented freakery in order to claim sacrifice he did not need to give himself- he was an ordinary man that laid down his life. The reason why that bothers me so much is that ordinary men do not need to lay down their lives they are not called to that future it is not in their cards he claimed his heroic deeds and choose to throw himself into the furnace flames- while others suffered unwillingly he chose it he took their pain and made it less 'see, I can do it! anyone can do it!' what makes the X-Men special is that their mutation isn't 'deal with pain of superheroism' it's some other power, but they have to learn how to be ostracized not anyone can do that- they had to their survival depended on it Batman walked into the struggle of their lives and declared himself a hero though, for some, the declaration was not in their words or actions, it was written into their DNA, it was marked in their skin by the brands of their oppressors, it was pounded into every heartbeat shocked with electricity they fought and hid their heroism their whole lives for they knew- it was not something to love, it was something to suffer with- and Batman took that, he took the heroism and he projected it across the night sky, declaring, "I am Batman", and it is something he can escape from, he can walk away, he can walk away, he can walk away, and yes, he chooses not to, but what he does is steal from those who cannot walk away his heroism takes the nails in the hands of mutants and orphans and masochistically drives them into his own palms crying whilst doing it. rather than being forced to adapt and look normal, he puts on a suit and prances through the night dramatically he takes everything sufferable about being a hero and tosses it out the window- he takes everything noble about being a hero and growls it in a dramatic voice, posing, in his fancy suit, when he could be safe at home. why would you choose this why would anyone choose this be thankful for your ability to be safe, that is the real superpower- the ability to be normal, to have a home to go back to, to have a normal purpose and a normal life, and Batman is completely, utterly, ungrateful- he wishes there were more, while those born with 'gifts' would be satisfied with even less.
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Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2014 at 7:23 PM UTC
batman
maybe the reason why I dislike Batman and love the X-Men is because Batman, gifted with money and power, chose his struggle the X-Men were forced- they had mutanthood shoved upon them and had to be crucifed as society pushed them away hiding in fear and hatred of what they must face the X-Men learn to adapt, they take what they have and choose to be the better man, or the worse man, but they take the fight that was given them and the freakery that they were born with, and they adapt. Batman, however, was born normally, did not have to run or hide, for he was privileged, and he walked, walked straight into freakery he took the burden others were throttled with and laid it upon his own shoulders, crying 'woe is me' whilst he went about the noble task of hero-dom he made himself a fancy suit- he had been given normalcy and he invented freakery in order to claim sacrifice he did not need to give himself- he was an ordinary man that laid down his life. The reason why that bothers me so much is that ordinary men do not need to lay down their lives they are not called to that future it is not in their cards he claimed his heroic deeds and choose to throw himself into the furnace flames- while others suffered unwillingly he chose it he took their pain and made it less 'see, I can do it! anyone can do it!' what makes the X-Men special is that their mutation isn't 'deal with pain of superheroism' it's some other power, but they have to learn how to be ostracized not anyone can do that- they had to their survival depended on it Batman walked into the struggle of their lives and declared himself a hero though, for some, the declaration was not in their words or actions, it was written into their DNA, it was marked in their skin by the brands of their oppressors, it was pounded into every heartbeat shocked with electricity they fought and hid their heroism their whole lives for they knew- it was not something to love, it was something to suffer with- and Batman took that, he took the heroism and he projected it across the night sky, declaring, "I am Batman", and it is something he can escape from, he can walk away, he can walk away, he can walk away, and yes, he chooses not to, but what he does is steal from those who cannot walk away his heroism takes the nails in the hands of mutants and orphans and masochistically drives them into his own palms crying whilst doing it. rather than being forced to adapt and look normal, he puts on a suit and prances through the night dramatically he takes everything sufferable about being a hero and tosses it out the window- he takes everything noble about being a hero and growls it in a dramatic voice, posing, in his fancy suit, when he could be safe at home. why would you choose this why would anyone choose this be thankful for your ability to be safe, that is the real superpower- the ability to be normal, to have a home to go back to, to have a normal purpose and a normal life, and Batman is completely, utterly, ungrateful- he wishes there were more, while those born with 'gifts' would be satisfied with even less.
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My spine is broken from the burden of your ungrateful heart, I have shrugged shoulders to the girls who can walk into the kitchen, just to nod my head to the girl who waits to be served on the dining table, I have swam beyond seas just to drown in your heart, I have betrayed my credibility towards the streets I was raised just to follow the path that leads to your happiness, I have chased all of my dogs at the gate so you can visit anytime, you remember when I found you drunk in careless hands at the club? Then I embraced all the shame and welcomed you in my hands, I no longer see the essence of visiting mama every weekend, cause I've always dedicated my time to you, I have lapsed the doctrines of upholding holiness just to sin for you, now all these broken promises, overflowing tears and unpromising future, you have caused all this because you are ungrateful, and before this coffee hits the surface of my cup, ill make sure this love chokes you and see if you are worth it.
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Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 1:00 AM UTC
Ungrateful Girl
Hungry for love, I was so hungry for love. I am festering from my own greed, ravenous love. Poor guy, he was a victim to this love hungry savage. I attacked him with my love, pushed him so far away. I’m not meant to be loved, no not meant for anybody. He loved me, he actually loved me. Yet I did not know how to love him back. I wish he understood, and I wish I could have told him. I’m not meant to be loved, NO ,should not be loved by him. Stupid girl, so very stupid girl, and girl you are very much stupid. Stepped all over his heart, unworthy of his love, so ungrateful. My past hurt leaked into my present, unwanted, not wanted. I felt like he was going to hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, I’m hurt. I’m not meant to be loved, no not meant to be loved by any. I am loves enemy, oh how love hates my bitter soul, my cold heart. Let me in, I wont let love in, it knocks its knocking, I slam I slam. Love wants to **** me, but I’m already dead, and now love buries me. Here I lay; I’ve lost a heart, that beating muscle which enables me to breathe. I gave him my heart, yet it lacked love, he didn’t feel, he didn’t know it beats. I’m not meant to be loved, no no no not meant to be loved at all. I love him, oh God how I love him, like you love us God. But how do I love him, how do I show, how can I show? I had, I have a Purple undeveloped, bloodless, loveless heart. He pumped his blood into me; he drowned me in his love. I tried to pump back, only a leak, over the years it drained out. So what’s left for him, what did he get, a heart that’s dehydrated. I’m not meant to be loved; no not meant because of me. Here I am, sick with agony, dripping in pain. Too late, its too late, how he hates me, me he hates, he hates. How he tried, hard he tried, tried to fix a broken glass and got cut. He’s bleeding now, I want to stop his pain, but the more I touch the more he bleeds. I didn’t mean to God, I pray take his pain away, let him forget me. Take the love he has for me out of his heart, let him drop mine, just leave it on the floor. Let the herd demolish it completely this time so I cannot feel anymore hurt. I never should have allowed him to grow near, but I loved him more than me. I thought I was showing my love, I really tried, oh how I tried. I’m not meant to be loved; I never was, never meant to be loved. Never meant to be loved by anybody, never meant to be loved by him. I'm not meant to be loved by you!
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Mar 5, 2013
Mar 5, 2013 at 1:28 PM UTC
IM NOT MEANT TO BE LOVED
Hungry for love, I was so hungry for love. I am festering from my own greed, ravenous love. Poor guy, he was a victim to this love hungry savage. I attacked him with my love, pushed him so far away. I’m not meant to be loved, no not meant for anybody. He loved me, he actually loved me. Yet I did not know how to love him back. I wish he understood, and I wish I could have told him. I’m not meant to be loved, NO ,should not be loved by him. Stupid girl, so very stupid girl, and girl you are very much stupid. Stepped all over his heart, unworthy of his love, so ungrateful. My past hurt leaked into my present, unwanted, not wanted. I felt like he was going to hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, I’m hurt. I’m not meant to be loved, no not meant to be loved by any. I am loves enemy, oh how love hates my bitter soul, my cold heart. Let me in, I wont let love in, it knocks its knocking, I slam I slam. Love wants to **** me, but I’m already dead, and now love buries me. Here I lay; I’ve lost a heart, that beating muscle which enables me to breathe. I gave him my heart, yet it lacked love, he didn’t feel, he didn’t know it beats. I’m not meant to be loved, no no no not meant to be loved at all. I love him, oh God how I love him, like you love us God. But how do I love him, how do I show, how can I show? I had, I have a Purple undeveloped, bloodless, loveless heart. He pumped his blood into me; he drowned me in his love. I tried to pump back, only a leak, over the years it drained out. So what’s left for him, what did he get, a heart that’s dehydrated. I’m not meant to be loved; no not meant because of me. Here I am, sick with agony, dripping in pain. Too late, its too late, how he hates me, me he hates, he hates. How he tried, hard he tried, tried to fix a broken glass and got cut. He’s bleeding now, I want to stop his pain, but the more I touch the more he bleeds. I didn’t mean to God, I pray take his pain away, let him forget me. Take the love he has for me out of his heart, let him drop mine, just leave it on the floor. Let the herd demolish it completely this time so I cannot feel anymore hurt. I never should have allowed him to grow near, but I loved him more than me. I thought I was showing my love, I really tried, oh how I tried. I’m not meant to be loved; I never was, never meant to be loved. Never meant to be loved by anybody, never meant to be loved by him. I'm not meant to be loved by you!
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In her love smitten my home's youngest kitten I stroke her silky fur to hear her mew and purr! As soon as I'm home this beauty's epitome raises fluffy tail holds me in her spell! Of gracious royal class this gorgeous little lass cuddles on my lap for a warm blissful nap! I pamper her too much hanker for her touch she in my heart dwells in pride her heart swells! Though my love she rules she ain't an inch grateful this tiny cute empress leaves poops on floor mattress!
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 12:46 PM UTC
Ungrateful
Spring comes little, a little. All April it rains. The new leaves stick in their fists; new ferns still fiddleheads. But one day the swifts are back. Face to the sun like a child You shout, 'The swifts are back!' Sure enough, bolt nocks bow to carry one sky-scyther Two hundred miles an hour across fullblown windfields. Swereee swereee. Another. And another. It's the cut air falling in shrieks on our chimneys and roofs. The next day, a fleet of high crosses cruises in ether. These are the air pilgrims, pilots of air rivers. But a shift of wing, and they're earth-skimmers, daggers Skilful in guiding the throw of themselves away from themselves. Quick flutter, a scimitar upsweep, out of danger of touch, for Earth is forbidden to them, water's forbidden to them, All air and fire, little owlish ascetics, they outfly storms, They rush to the pillars of altitude, the thermal fountains. Here is a legend of swifts, a parable — When the Great Raven bent over earth to create the birds, The swifts were ungrateful. They were small muddy things Like shoes, with long legs and short wings, So they took themselves off to the mountains to sulk. And they stayed there. 'Well,' said the Raven, after years of this, 'I will give you the sky. You can have the whole sky On condition that you give up rest.' 'Yes, yes,' screamed the swifts, 'We abhor rest. We detest the filth of growth, the sweat of sleep, Soft nests in the wet fields, slimehold of worms. Let us be free, be air!' So the Raven took their legs and bound them into their bodies. He bent their wings like boomerangs, honed them like knives. He streamlined their feathers and stripped them of velvet. Then he released them, Never to Return Inscribed on their feet and wings. And so We have swifts, though in reality, not parables but Bolts in the world's need: swift Swifts, not in punishment, not in ecstasy, simply Sleepers over oceans in the mill of the world's breathing. The grace to say they live in another firmament. A way to say the miracle will not occur, And watch the miracle.
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 1:59 PM UTC
Swifts (by Anne Stevenson)
Spring comes little, a little. All April it rains. The new leaves stick in their fists; new ferns still fiddleheads. But one day the swifts are back. Face to the sun like a child You shout, 'The swifts are back!' Sure enough, bolt nocks bow to carry one sky-scyther Two hundred miles an hour across fullblown windfields. Swereee swereee. Another. And another. It's the cut air falling in shrieks on our chimneys and roofs. The next day, a fleet of high crosses cruises in ether. These are the air pilgrims, pilots of air rivers. But a shift of wing, and they're earth-skimmers, daggers Skilful in guiding the throw of themselves away from themselves. Quick flutter, a scimitar upsweep, out of danger of touch, for Earth is forbidden to them, water's forbidden to them, All air and fire, little owlish ascetics, they outfly storms, They rush to the pillars of altitude, the thermal fountains. Here is a legend of swifts, a parable — When the Great Raven bent over earth to create the birds, The swifts were ungrateful. They were small muddy things Like shoes, with long legs and short wings, So they took themselves off to the mountains to sulk. And they stayed there. 'Well,' said the Raven, after years of this, 'I will give you the sky. You can have the whole sky On condition that you give up rest.' 'Yes, yes,' screamed the swifts, 'We abhor rest. We detest the filth of growth, the sweat of sleep, Soft nests in the wet fields, slimehold of worms. Let us be free, be air!' So the Raven took their legs and bound them into their bodies. He bent their wings like boomerangs, honed them like knives. He streamlined their feathers and stripped them of velvet. Then he released them, Never to Return Inscribed on their feet and wings. And so We have swifts, though in reality, not parables but Bolts in the world's need: swift Swifts, not in punishment, not in ecstasy, simply Sleepers over oceans in the mill of the world's breathing. The grace to say they live in another firmament. A way to say the miracle will not occur, And watch the miracle.
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Is the sky too blue for you Or the seas too vast Or your life too full And your loved ones always beside? Are you too happy And that you sulk about that? What is your vindication for Your qualms being selfish? What gives you the blind eye When everyone else struggles? What makes you cry For the little things in life? And you complain that life's unfair When you have a roof overhead And a family that smiles.
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Mar 29, 2014
Mar 29, 2014 at 12:01 AM UTC
Ungrateful
I had a dream I smoked some ***** with a Rasta Man while we jammed in the name of the lord to some tunes the children of Africa roaming free like wild beast once the cradle of civilization turned into tombs by the ungrateful, heathen souls that ran amok in the name of annihilation and war. But we are fearful pious men, as we inhaled the herb the grass is the shepherd that nourish us like Giraffes the sky is the ceiling that we reach with our blessed hands the rivers gives us skins like Crocs to be able to survive harsh whether, the blood-stained desert left behind by men witnessed by the pale eyes of the torture souls of this land. And so we inhaled and puffed like chimneys in a North Pole night we talked about the smiles of our seeds stretching far and wide how beautiful is a voice when it’s brought to life by a loved one how the scent of a pure woman can bring the dead back to life deadlocked, we are dreadlocked like grapevines until Jah lets us the mental slavery that keeps us chained to the ships of our ancestors. We never once conversed about the frail indignity of the mortals the uselessness of hate, the ways material possessions can’t help you we reached Nirvana without taking our feet off the common ground we shared a spirit, bonded between long hits made of peace and love in the freedom of those free thinkers tinkering with words without rest in the children of Jah, daydreaming at night in a warm bed made of bread.
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Jan 14, 2014
Jan 14, 2014 at 12:40 PM UTC
RASTA MAN
In a fit of pique truths were written. In a moment of reflection all was deleted. Platitudes were written back instead. Who am I to speak of the dead? A wife was ungrateful with truth. Did a pen pal want what the sacred vows of marriage Make unacceptable realities? For whom would I have written? Who would it have pleased? Staring at a fresh e-mail in humbled wonderment that someone would give decent pretense to care I -safely back from war- now ask: what do you want to know? Do you really want to know? Is it my place to tell of seeing a man's insides on the outside of a vehicle who's occupants he unwittingly saved by stepping on the landmine instead? The mine splattered the survivors' vehicle in red. Is it my place to tell Of listening to the medic's confession? Hearing him speak of tasting the blood in the air like pennies on his tongue. There's a tale I haven't heard sung! I met my Shadow I embraced him so deeply that I As I had existed before Ceased to be. The naive child thinking it was Light The Predatory Survivor others (cowards!) may judge as Dark Were forged together Stronger perhaps Time will tell As the alloy of two selves is unified by a personal hell Cheering at outgoing steel rain Laughing after the whizzing of bullets is a memory Running, racing to donate more blood Mourning the fallen while bathed in the dim red glow of chem lights Watching honored corpses loaded in near darkness for their last helicopter flights Is this what you wanted to hear? Perhaps you knew. Perhaps you imagined you knew. Regardless For your consideration Thank you For your innocent Well-intentioned Beautifully petty Gloriously naive And honest letters Thank you. Truly
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Sep 19, 2013
Sep 19, 2013 at 6:18 PM UTC
Dear PenPal,
In a fit of pique truths were written. In a moment of reflection all was deleted. Platitudes were written back instead. Who am I to speak of the dead? A wife was ungrateful with truth. Did a pen pal want what the sacred vows of marriage Make unacceptable realities? For whom would I have written? Who would it have pleased? Staring at a fresh e-mail in humbled wonderment that someone would give decent pretense to care I -safely back from war- now ask: what do you want to know? Do you really want to know? Is it my place to tell of seeing a man's insides on the outside of a vehicle who's occupants he unwittingly saved by stepping on the landmine instead? The mine splattered the survivors' vehicle in red. Is it my place to tell Of listening to the medic's confession? Hearing him speak of tasting the blood in the air like pennies on his tongue. There's a tale I haven't heard sung! I met my Shadow I embraced him so deeply that I As I had existed before Ceased to be. The naive child thinking it was Light The Predatory Survivor others (cowards!) may judge as Dark Were forged together Stronger perhaps Time will tell As the alloy of two selves is unified by a personal hell Cheering at outgoing steel rain Laughing after the whizzing of bullets is a memory Running, racing to donate more blood Mourning the fallen while bathed in the dim red glow of chem lights Watching honored corpses loaded in near darkness for their last helicopter flights Is this what you wanted to hear? Perhaps you knew. Perhaps you imagined you knew. Regardless For your consideration Thank you For your innocent Well-intentioned Beautifully petty Gloriously naive And honest letters Thank you. Truly
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