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"unsettled" poems
gurgle, gurgle, groundcurrent unsettled, moon unseen like stars fever dreamed, dissonance for the melody maker, dissonance for the retired risk-taker, dissonance for the hips of homewreckers. civil, civil, no minutes can afford the divide, aside, to the crystal buildings and the sky's sputtering cries, compliments to your forehead's **** compliments to your forefather's rash, compliments to your aforementioned crash. the current, the current rides hot and merciless along thigh, dribbles down chins and nightgowns, dries--a permanent badge of scattered life, electroshock seeps from self-made holes, electroshock seeps from smoldering bowls, electroshock seeps from typecast roles. volcano, volcano, grumble and moan. volcano, volcano, clear cord and stroke. volcano, volcano, grieve me in ash. volcano, volcano, I've been awful bad. I've been awful bad. I've been awful bad.
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Feb 21, 2011
Feb 21, 2011 at 11:19 AM UTC
volectric
my whispers, they float over the currents braving the undulating waves in our overture... around their necks, hung time-worn pendants whispers... struggling to convey my sentence like wreaths adrift perhaps with hope like a requiem filled perhaps with remorseful penance but more like weakened footholds on a slippery slope... this dream... only spoke grandly of sprawling blackness where nothing did gleam only thoughts heavy but... oddly weightless except for... a repertoire of transgressions... raucous and obnoxious mischievous taunts that pull me back caging me, enslaving me, smothering me senseless that was my consciousness where second chances exist... in faint sporadic eruptions through the heavy curtains of uncertainty's mist finally awakened by hastened breaths heavy and laboured as like previous temporary deaths I could hear my heart thumping... beating... fighting... to set its beats apart breathe deep... allow the new day's air sink in rise fully from sleep wake up and... let today begin
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Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015 at 8:01 AM UTC
Unsettled Heart
. Aimlessly wandering    with a feeling of agitation,       caught somewhere between          browsing with interest             and prowling with intent. Distressed and unsettled    like anticipating trauma,       mooching with an emotion          that something is imminent             yet its nature remains veiled. The horizontal line defines a stability and yet, it has started to list off to one side. Tiny perforations promise fragmented logic by osmosis revealing the storm implied. The tap of excitable energy is dripping slow threatening balance with a flood rip tide. Empathy walks with the expectant father pacing and coils of despair knot so deep inside. A nervous anxiety    grips psychology and waits,       caught somewhere between          bleak submissive acceptance             and stark naked panic. © Pagan Paul (22/05/18)
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May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018 at 10:15 AM UTC
Unsettled
What was the point of this reverie If it just came and walked away Bringing my soul Strolling again Those deserted roads That once cherished our presence Were you there Expecting me Or was it just an embodiment Of the memories of our ordeal Who was the actual one Who willingly became a liar Who was the first person Who built mushy hope Before crushing it Without any grounds you toyed with my heart Like disastrous hurricane That unexpectedly surged and vanished You were only a shadow Of wretched past Whom sometimes got carried away By my unsettled endless dream.
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Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021 at 6:50 AM UTC
Endless Dream
A walk in Africa, Africa for Africans, A walk down town Africa, Meeting an African, A troubled and unsettled African, A troubled African in Africa, Africa in Africa, An African Diaspora, An African imprisoned, At home and away, A pure African, From the Africa of poor Maputo, A pure African, From the Africa of poor Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Congo, A poor African, From the pure Africa of elsewhere, An unfree African in a free Africa, Africa for Africans, Africans yesterday, Africans today, And Africans tomorrow, The Africa of South Africa.
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May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015 at 5:04 AM UTC
An African in Africa
Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all? Skin so delicate and fair Blue eyes and long black hair A good king, a good daughter A wicked stepmother One day full of gloom and dread When The Wicked heard it said "The Daughter is the fairest, O' dear! You are second best!" The Wicked was wild with jelousy And begun plotting conspiracy Getting rid of the fair lady Was the wicked plan of the day The Wicked called on her servant The name was **** Cindy Bribed her with riches women want Promised her a gift of beauty So **** Cindy and The Daughter Went into the depth of the forest **** Cindy has led the pretty girl She surely must put her to death! Our **** Cindy however Found the girl a thing of beauty **** Cindy's courage betrayed her Excused herself and ran away The pretty daughter was left alone Terribly scared but still alive Tears fell as she thought of home Doubtful if she will ever survive **** Cindy returned to the castle Showing a heart of a roe deer And served as a loyal vassal To The Ever Wicked stepmother So **** Cindy got rewarded With unimaginable riches Lasting beauty she was awarded At last she got her wishes At night our **** Cindy Her riches, all she gathered And then she vanished swiftly Away from The Ever Wicked Meanwhile the pretty daughter Found a place to stay That house was full of laughter And the rest was history Highly pleased now The Wicked Turned again to the mirror But her hopes became unsettled After the unpleasant cheer She must die! She must die! Went The Wicked's awful cry She became an old peasant Killed the girl with a poison And so the pretty daughter Laid in the forest for days The cute house lost its laughter The Wicked went on her ways The sad news reached the town And to our **** Cindy So she wore her sexiest gown And started on her journey Into the forest she went Looking for that pretty girl Her heart skipped and bent Feeling that awesome thrill **** Cindy found The Daughter Lying on a wooden bed "Thy beauty is oh, so rare!" Was the thought inside her head She could not help but wet her lips Staring at the sleeping lady She felt a tingle below her hips And sensation inside her belly They said no man can wake the girl And maybe no man really can? So **** Cindy kissed The Daughter And so her passion has began The kiss was oddly very awesome And it stirred the sleeping girl It brought a funny slurpy sound Waking up The Royal Daughter "Oh God! Oh my! Oh my! Oh my beautiful princess! Take my hand, come with me Away from this very place!" So **** Cindy and The Daughter They ran away together Across the land of nowhere Where they lived happily ever after Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all? "Snow and Cindy are the fairest O' dear! Now you're the third best!" ~THE END~
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Jan 11, 2013
Jan 11, 2013 at 12:51 AM UTC
Mutable
Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all? Skin so delicate and fair Blue eyes and long black hair A good king, a good daughter A wicked stepmother One day full of gloom and dread When The Wicked heard it said "The Daughter is the fairest, O' dear! You are second best!" The Wicked was wild with jelousy And begun plotting conspiracy Getting rid of the fair lady Was the wicked plan of the day The Wicked called on her servant The name was **** Cindy Bribed her with riches women want Promised her a gift of beauty So **** Cindy and The Daughter Went into the depth of the forest **** Cindy has led the pretty girl She surely must put her to death! Our **** Cindy however Found the girl a thing of beauty **** Cindy's courage betrayed her Excused herself and ran away The pretty daughter was left alone Terribly scared but still alive Tears fell as she thought of home Doubtful if she will ever survive **** Cindy returned to the castle Showing a heart of a roe deer And served as a loyal vassal To The Ever Wicked stepmother So **** Cindy got rewarded With unimaginable riches Lasting beauty she was awarded At last she got her wishes At night our **** Cindy Her riches, all she gathered And then she vanished swiftly Away from The Ever Wicked Meanwhile the pretty daughter Found a place to stay That house was full of laughter And the rest was history Highly pleased now The Wicked Turned again to the mirror But her hopes became unsettled After the unpleasant cheer She must die! She must die! Went The Wicked's awful cry She became an old peasant Killed the girl with a poison And so the pretty daughter Laid in the forest for days The cute house lost its laughter The Wicked went on her ways The sad news reached the town And to our **** Cindy So she wore her sexiest gown And started on her journey Into the forest she went Looking for that pretty girl Her heart skipped and bent Feeling that awesome thrill **** Cindy found The Daughter Lying on a wooden bed "Thy beauty is oh, so rare!" Was the thought inside her head She could not help but wet her lips Staring at the sleeping lady She felt a tingle below her hips And sensation inside her belly They said no man can wake the girl And maybe no man really can? So **** Cindy kissed The Daughter And so her passion has began The kiss was oddly very awesome And it stirred the sleeping girl It brought a funny slurpy sound Waking up The Royal Daughter "Oh God! Oh my! Oh my! Oh my beautiful princess! Take my hand, come with me Away from this very place!" So **** Cindy and The Daughter They ran away together Across the land of nowhere Where they lived happily ever after Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all? "Snow and Cindy are the fairest O' dear! Now you're the third best!" ~THE END~
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On the prom, in chairs of similar design actors, support artists and crew. Chatted in between takes as the sun shone around the The Cafe' television set. In a seaside town they each came together that day it was unsettled weather. The atmosphere was friendly nobody left out congenial conversation not forced. That created the mood for a great shoot as a new comedy series was made. On the seafront with a train ride there passers by were everywhere. Actors were also rehearsing another scene under a canopy while it rained. Fascinated I watched and laughed as well feeling part of that moment. In this privileged spot to observe first hand by the sea close to the sand. The Foureyed Poet.
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Jul 26, 2011
Jul 26, 2011 at 4:17 AM UTC
On The Prom
Outliers, nomads, vagabonds of sorts We have many names, us unsettled at heart One city, one place will never be enough We travel, not to find ourselves, but to discover higher truths We travel to meet people like you Without said journeys, blank pages fill your soul You whither and dry and just plain crumble Colors haven't touched your eyes, Wonders, your mind Read all the pages you can possibly come by I, for one, can say this is truly true I've found wonder and intrigue, But I'll always be most interested in traveling with you s.q.
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Jul 26, 2014
Jul 26, 2014 at 7:40 PM UTC
Adventure Time
. *I awake in the night and whisper your name, is it just a dream when only silence replies? a melancholy descends like a blanket of shame at the arousal of remembering your Siren's eyes. Such sleep as I had not enjoyed in long ages disturbed by the intrusion of an old lovers face, rearing up to unbalance the serenity pages, your name passes my lips with yearning grace. Unsettled by your surprise and quiet arrival I lay back, anxiously sigh to the waiting void, uneasy closing my eyes, craving dream survival but the illusion of rest has now been destroyed. I sleep in the night and whisper your name, is it a dream as the silent in mute rejoice? A sadness drops slow like a blanket of shame, at the distance of remembering your Siren's voice.* © Pagan Paul (21/10/18)
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Oct 21, 2018
Oct 21, 2018 at 12:52 PM UTC
Dream Whisper
People show love in many ways A note on the bathroom door An extra brownie in your lunch box Starting the car on a cold morning For her it  was in her food She cooked her emotions the way most chefs add salt You could taste them clearly in every bite connecting your tastebuds to your heart, If she was happy the steak melted on your tongue If she was sad the soup made a tear glisten in your eye But when she was in love with me Every Bite sang in my mouth She made my favorites every night Life was good But one day the bread wasn’t so fluffy It held a melancholy note i’ve never tasted before I asked what was wrong but she didn’t have the words to explain what she as feeling, So I let it go That was my mistake Day by day, she started to crumble So did her pies She went from a wonder dancing in the kitchen and licking the spoon To a hollow shell serving you lukewarm pasta that left you unsettled I excused her behavior I was busy she was stressed The food was only cold because I was so late to the table I didn’t realize it wasn’t dinner I was neglecting It was her If i could change one moment in my life, i’d be that night The one where she finally felt up to baking again We had some time together, she hummed a bit as she stirred the batter But then she stumbled and dropped a glass measuring cup of milk she was holding It was bitter irony seeing the woman i loved, The light of my life, Crying over spilled milk That’d be the moment i’d change I’d catch her wrist and hold her up Just Like I promised I would I wouldn’t fail her if I had another chance Our kitchen is quiet these days There's a thick layer of dust everywhere except the microwave And around the edges of the room are tiny bits of glass Glistening like diamonds Or unshed tears, Abandoned like me But I can’t complain After all, I abandoned her first I should have read the recipe I should have realized she was breaking I didn’t see it at first But every bite held a piece of her suicide note If i’d only tasted it before it was too late Now she’s gone My hearts as broken as that measuring cup And I’m the one crying over spilled milk By Aknier     ~this is fictional~
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Nov 9, 2018
Nov 9, 2018 at 10:48 PM UTC
Spilled Milk ~a long story~
People show love in many ways A note on the bathroom door An extra brownie in your lunch box Starting the car on a cold morning For her it  was in her food She cooked her emotions the way most chefs add salt You could taste them clearly in every bite connecting your tastebuds to your heart, If she was happy the steak melted on your tongue If she was sad the soup made a tear glisten in your eye But when she was in love with me Every Bite sang in my mouth She made my favorites every night Life was good But one day the bread wasn’t so fluffy It held a melancholy note i’ve never tasted before I asked what was wrong but she didn’t have the words to explain what she as feeling, So I let it go That was my mistake Day by day, she started to crumble So did her pies She went from a wonder dancing in the kitchen and licking the spoon To a hollow shell serving you lukewarm pasta that left you unsettled I excused her behavior I was busy she was stressed The food was only cold because I was so late to the table I didn’t realize it wasn’t dinner I was neglecting It was her If i could change one moment in my life, i’d be that night The one where she finally felt up to baking again We had some time together, she hummed a bit as she stirred the batter But then she stumbled and dropped a glass measuring cup of milk she was holding It was bitter irony seeing the woman i loved, The light of my life, Crying over spilled milk That’d be the moment i’d change I’d catch her wrist and hold her up Just Like I promised I would I wouldn’t fail her if I had another chance Our kitchen is quiet these days There's a thick layer of dust everywhere except the microwave And around the edges of the room are tiny bits of glass Glistening like diamonds Or unshed tears, Abandoned like me But I can’t complain After all, I abandoned her first I should have read the recipe I should have realized she was breaking I didn’t see it at first But every bite held a piece of her suicide note If i’d only tasted it before it was too late Now she’s gone My hearts as broken as that measuring cup And I’m the one crying over spilled milk By Aknier     ~this is fictional~
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Our town was to have a rail-line Circa the mid eighteen nineties This story has surprised my ears A local amateur historian apprised me just recently Documents to support this claim are archived in Sydney Not far out of our town On a well know property in the district Two surveyor pegs are still in existence Marking the route the rail-line was to track Though the Forefather's rail-line was never bedded down The powers that be government leaders of the day Shelved these impressive plans They never saw the light of day Ribbons of steel not coming to fruition Leading to our town Other town went ahead rail-lines were established to them Out town alas and alack missed out Look where Tamworth and Armidale are to-day Rail being in their favor Our town was left to languish and to be dispirited Going no-where no-where to go Our Forefather's now lay in their graves Not quite resting in peace Their rail proposal for our town unrealized Good ideas die along with good intentions Hence their unsettled repose Our town could have been a regional town Industry and population dotting the landscape Rail would have assured our place The Forefather's rail proposal long since shelved Consigned into the passing vapor of time
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Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 6:45 PM UTC
Forefather's Rail Proposal
I am the flower that everyone picked over.  No, I am the flower that you stepped on. I am like the flower blowing in the early hour, Quicken To be blown away by the pearly showers. I am the one who sits alone. Hoping for someone to join. I am a flower with broken petals Unsettled and fragile like a broken vessel Or like a flower Nestled beneath a trestle.
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Dec 1, 2015
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:24 AM UTC
Like A Flower
eye lids move slowly over the eyeballs in an effort to garner sleep to a worn out body to restore the metabolism to normality yet sleep eludes the slight movement of the eyelids never felt before is sensed as the brine tear a lubricant between the interface where surface tension dominates all other forces of physics what force dominates my heart? I know not and sleep eludes me Unconstrained emotions flow around like unsettled dust particles glowing in the sunlight that escapes in through a ventilator hole sedatives themselves are sedated and sleep eludes me I still have five more days I foresee before hallucinations and delusions take over me before that oh sleep like gandalf arriving at helms deep please come back to me but not at the breaking of the dawn not when light is bright but in silence of the mysterious night
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 2:49 PM UTC
Sleeplessness
Welcome to my home, oh won't you come in? Allow me to show you around, would you care for a drink? Tell me your poison, maybe a highball of gin? I keep it in the kitchen with the coffeepot by the sink, or maybe you'd prefer a tumbler of crown? Whiskey is right in the foyer by the doorstop, there's nothing like a nip right before I bounce. And if it's wine you crave, it's in the living room atop the tube television beside the VCR in it's place. But if you've a tongue for peach schnapps then make your way to the crawl space. Whilst your up there I say, would you do me a fave? Look in the attic for the bourbon, it's beside my baby pictures, and bring it down for me. I'm sure that I saved some from the last time I was up there alone with self-stricture. Oh you don't care for bourbon, then maybe some brandy? The cognac is somewhere down the basement, but ignore the rope and the candies. You're unsettled you say? Then rum's how to spend drinking the night away with me in the den. OH! Just send a beer your way?! you should've just said! A six-pack's in the bathroom, right next to the head.
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 8:48 PM UTC
Room and Bored (for *****
It's four o clock in the ******* morning, And I'm making coffee, And binge eating vegan chili from a can, And charcoal-ing naked women, And getting ******* emotional over Kardashian reruns. How did this even become my life? God **** it. I am so unsettled right now. I miss my man.
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Sep 7, 2013
Sep 7, 2013 at 3:40 AM UTC
Pathetic
The hollow wind funneled the voice of the distant night-train crossings, awakening  a  familiar  silence hanging from the vast wilderness sky A restless heart hearkening the echoes, imagining  a  runaway  Pullman flew away off the rails,    airborne on the winged wind headed north Winter  pausing  for a moment in  the  shadows  of  familiarity, as if parsing the unspoken breathings in an  echoless  surrendered sigh; uncertain if tacit words set free could ever allow a heart broken         to feel whole again There  is  no  absolving  voice that whispers in a solemner tone :         Death  has  no  mercy  ―   love remains marooned in the wake ,.. and it feels like the world’s gone mad letting time be the arbiter of perpetuity The fading dream of a motherless child; a wish to be held maternally fell to the ground with a thud,         breaking the silence, dissipating formless as the shape of water Muted cold lips so full of questions morphing into fugitive sighs come the unsettled night; when shadows disappear like frail memories that  passed  too  soon  to  grasp, thickly palpable as the warm breath a winter bird alone on frosty branch There’s no fear in braving the darkness in the  winter wilderness of life borne alone There’s no way of knowing what you’ll find down that long empty road back home Life just flashes by silently before your eyes         through the windshield     of countless miles and miles And there’s nothing you can do about it ― It’s like hearing the moment of truth in a lie when all I was looking for was  how I got here in this now,.. yesterday only finding a hopeless poet scribbling  slightly stained pages, spilling  a  bitter  sweet  dream ...         harlon rivers ... February 2018 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018 at 10:31 AM UTC
Awakening a Familiar Silence ...
The hollow wind funneled the voice of the distant night-train crossings, awakening  a  familiar  silence hanging from the vast wilderness sky A restless heart hearkening the echoes, imagining  a  runaway  Pullman flew away off the rails,    airborne on the winged wind headed north Winter  pausing  for a moment in  the  shadows  of  familiarity, as if parsing the unspoken breathings in an  echoless  surrendered sigh; uncertain if tacit words set free could ever allow a heart broken         to feel whole again There  is  no  absolving  voice that whispers in a solemner tone :         Death  has  no  mercy  ―   love remains marooned in the wake ,.. and it feels like the world’s gone mad letting time be the arbiter of perpetuity The fading dream of a motherless child; a wish to be held maternally fell to the ground with a thud,         breaking the silence, dissipating formless as the shape of water Muted cold lips so full of questions morphing into fugitive sighs come the unsettled night; when shadows disappear like frail memories that  passed  too  soon  to  grasp, thickly palpable as the warm breath a winter bird alone on frosty branch There’s no fear in braving the darkness in the  winter wilderness of life borne alone There’s no way of knowing what you’ll find down that long empty road back home Life just flashes by silently before your eyes         through the windshield     of countless miles and miles And there’s nothing you can do about it ― It’s like hearing the moment of truth in a lie when all I was looking for was  how I got here in this now,.. yesterday only finding a hopeless poet scribbling  slightly stained pages, spilling  a  bitter  sweet  dream ...         harlon rivers ... February 2018 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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I am an island. I am a little spit of land, Swept away by unsettled waters and shifting sands; Forced alone to make my home In an insubstantial sea. Yet on my island I am free; free to preserve my eccentricities in a nature reserve made from nurturing love of what I choose to be. I am an island. Borne away on wistful waves, I travel onward, Seeking a place where there are others who are free; And when I find them, There I’ll stay, and thereafter spend my days Not as an island… But as me.
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Jun 23, 2017
Jun 23, 2017 at 3:35 PM UTC
I Am An Island
Socrates consumed Hemlock, Cleopatra embraced the Asp, Alan Turing ate an apple laced with cyanide, I, like those before me, Have picked my poison; An absinthe-eyed, quicksilver-tongued boy. He was unsettled when I answered with the truth of his query, Yes, he is poison, I knowingly and willingly consume every drop of him, Not all toxicity is solely adverse, Radiation treats cancer, Venom in low doses is an antidote, Ethanol relaxes muscle and numbs the emotions. He is my poison and my antidote, He is the corrosive acid that dissolves gear-stopping rust, I, in kind, am the poison apple of his eye, Or so he says, And so, we two, bask in the destruction of ourselves, Consuming each other's pain, insecurity, madness, and lust, Why is it that he, a poison, is the one I trust?
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Jun 5, 2017
Jun 5, 2017 at 12:16 PM UTC
Pick Your Poison
i. the Hibiscus is the paradisiacal armistice of quagmire and wind: leave it there anchored to Earth. ii when it rains, it bows to no one; when it genuflects to no bird,   it trills on the red of the moseying hour— nobody sees the Hibiscus.   only the children of the vandal. iii. last summer we had makeshift bubble machines and in the high-rise   of the twilight's cradle, we ran viciously against the humdrum town   blowing bushels of laughter at the dreary populace — the brooms   to a sweeping rustle, unsettled dust mounting the ether.          we hurtled across the infantile roads like they owed us something finitely attributed      to our locomotives. iv.   the Semana Santa had gone by and the season, no matter how promisingly redolent with emollient brush    of wind and laboring silence, held no reprise — the Hibiscus,    it is not alone in the quiet verdigris. v.   somewhere amid the hubbub of city, there is a pendulum of line biting    the shore of waiting repeatedly. only steel scaffolds erected and no    flagrant scent aroused. peregrinating in the haloed hour, the nascent furl of     belch from vociferous iron-clad beasts in all of EDSA    and when i look at people around me they look like gumamelas, finally,     yet i am         not coming home.
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Nov 4, 2015
Nov 4, 2015 at 3:15 AM UTC
Gumamela
Come walk with me a mile... Walk on without our burden’s weighty shoes, warily trudging over the long rocky pathway a lifetime in my soul. A final edifying voyage to freedom. The winds of change are blowing briskly as we walk charily over the long and narrowing rock-strewn passageway. I shed these boots and skin, no longer fitting my scared, blistered and callused soles. As time slowly passes, this craggy passage has evolved from a two-way trail, into one-way jagged forage… Standing barefooted and naked on rocky ground, dark sunken sleepless eyes scan the rolling vista as the wind blows dust from the halo around the sun, blurring the delicate wispy cirrus clouds. The sun’s radiance paints frozen ice crystal azure into a vivid aura of prisms’ brilliant corona. Kaleidoscope rainbows adorn the closest of solar stars. There's something in the ethereal air that leaves my soul unsettled, grasping for an evocative stability trying to understand the silenced voices crying out within… The pain and suffering has vanished as if the body and soul have separated, numbness from the ache of longing, severed nerves, callused fears ruptured on serrated rocky edges, deadened useless flesh cut to the bone by misjudged obstacles encountered enduringly. The barefooted spirit courses on, suffused in the solar spectrum’s dust; yearning, longing to saunter above and beyond the bloated feathery pillows; cumulus clouds finally resting at peace. Dipping heart's lesions and these benumbed toes into a healing balm from the bowers of bliss.. An unfinished life an open ended dream, reluctantly waking to take the last , surrendering steps  beyond the threshold... A long and winding rocky journey’s destiny draws near The halo around the moon illuminates an understanding firmament; the celestial sphere’s pending imminent soulful rain awaits the metamorphosis at the brink of dawn. A shower of heaven's rain shall mourn the loss of flesh form as the spirit of an untamed soul lives on, barefooted, naked and free like the dust in the wind absorbed eternally... 2011 © harlon rivers all rights reserved
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Aug 17, 2016
Aug 17, 2016 at 11:16 AM UTC
Standing Barefoot on Rocky Ground
Come walk with me a mile... Walk on without our burden’s weighty shoes, warily trudging over the long rocky pathway a lifetime in my soul. A final edifying voyage to freedom. The winds of change are blowing briskly as we walk charily over the long and narrowing rock-strewn passageway. I shed these boots and skin, no longer fitting my scared, blistered and callused soles. As time slowly passes, this craggy passage has evolved from a two-way trail, into one-way jagged forage… Standing barefooted and naked on rocky ground, dark sunken sleepless eyes scan the rolling vista as the wind blows dust from the halo around the sun, blurring the delicate wispy cirrus clouds. The sun’s radiance paints frozen ice crystal azure into a vivid aura of prisms’ brilliant corona. Kaleidoscope rainbows adorn the closest of solar stars. There's something in the ethereal air that leaves my soul unsettled, grasping for an evocative stability trying to understand the silenced voices crying out within… The pain and suffering has vanished as if the body and soul have separated, numbness from the ache of longing, severed nerves, callused fears ruptured on serrated rocky edges, deadened useless flesh cut to the bone by misjudged obstacles encountered enduringly. The barefooted spirit courses on, suffused in the solar spectrum’s dust; yearning, longing to saunter above and beyond the bloated feathery pillows; cumulus clouds finally resting at peace. Dipping heart's lesions and these benumbed toes into a healing balm from the bowers of bliss.. An unfinished life an open ended dream, reluctantly waking to take the last , surrendering steps  beyond the threshold... A long and winding rocky journey’s destiny draws near The halo around the moon illuminates an understanding firmament; the celestial sphere’s pending imminent soulful rain awaits the metamorphosis at the brink of dawn. A shower of heaven's rain shall mourn the loss of flesh form as the spirit of an untamed soul lives on, barefooted, naked and free like the dust in the wind absorbed eternally... 2011 © harlon rivers all rights reserved
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Keep things where they settle. Settled. It settled there, so keep it there. Wrapped. It's wrapped there, in bubble wrap; Placed in the box, very carefully. Bubble wrap fits nicely in boxes. The pretty box is labeled: “DO NOT DISTURB. DO NOT TOUCH.” Don't open Pandora's box. "I won't." Just a little touch... She slips and it blasts open. The wind billows throughout the room, knocking her off her feet. Torn pieces of paper dance in the gusts of wind and settle, placing themselves in a circle around her. She's wrapped up in words unseen, unheard. Unsettled. Keep things where they settle.
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Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 9:28 PM UTC
Pandora's Box
They said high school was a home of learning Oh I learned alright They said it would construct my future All it did was destroy me with the past They said it would be safe They have no defense over the demons They said it would develop me as a person But I remain who I was... only shattered They said so many things, yet understood so little This goes to the pillow-clutchers to the broken who carry soaked and salty handkerchiefs to the flesh that thrive for streaks of red dripping out to the souls that are constantly bombarded by screeches of lies Lies that overrun every beauty in and out Lies that lead to masochistic actions Waiting for the second heartbeat after every punch Hoping this would free the monsters trapped within This goes to the insecure No, we are not emo How can one contain our being in just three letters? We are not superficial pain lovers We are violated, dispirited, downhearted, beaten, unsettled, splintered, forgotten But we will never be merely emo A high school is not filled with students It is filled with labels, rumors, divisions and fake personas filled with eyes that look straight into your soul filled with whispers that spread like a virus Getting worse and worse after every ear it has jumped into Savages looking for the flaw that can destroy you Until you break and mindlessly follow their example **High school is where you lose who you are And be who everyone else wants you to be** Everyone thought I was just being vain Always staring at the mirror, trying to be cute Never did it come into their minds that I was already believing the lies ready to accept the rumors using FINE as my own maxim **** I'm Never Enough But I waited Waited for someone to drive out the beasts to heal my scars to fill my emptiness Yet until now I remain drenched in loneliness and fear High school is worse than hell A quick and small crack in your soul hurts more Than an eternal burn of your flesh This is why we're ready to see the light come out of our eyes But I'm holding on For you need pain before you're declared strong For you need darkness before you see the stars For you need death before you reach heaven For where there are angels, there will always be demons
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Nov 2, 2013
Nov 2, 2013 at 2:47 PM UTC
Pillow-Clutchers
They said high school was a home of learning Oh I learned alright They said it would construct my future All it did was destroy me with the past They said it would be safe They have no defense over the demons They said it would develop me as a person But I remain who I was... only shattered They said so many things, yet understood so little This goes to the pillow-clutchers to the broken who carry soaked and salty handkerchiefs to the flesh that thrive for streaks of red dripping out to the souls that are constantly bombarded by screeches of lies Lies that overrun every beauty in and out Lies that lead to masochistic actions Waiting for the second heartbeat after every punch Hoping this would free the monsters trapped within This goes to the insecure No, we are not emo How can one contain our being in just three letters? We are not superficial pain lovers We are violated, dispirited, downhearted, beaten, unsettled, splintered, forgotten But we will never be merely emo A high school is not filled with students It is filled with labels, rumors, divisions and fake personas filled with eyes that look straight into your soul filled with whispers that spread like a virus Getting worse and worse after every ear it has jumped into Savages looking for the flaw that can destroy you Until you break and mindlessly follow their example **High school is where you lose who you are And be who everyone else wants you to be** Everyone thought I was just being vain Always staring at the mirror, trying to be cute Never did it come into their minds that I was already believing the lies ready to accept the rumors using FINE as my own maxim **** I'm Never Enough But I waited Waited for someone to drive out the beasts to heal my scars to fill my emptiness Yet until now I remain drenched in loneliness and fear High school is worse than hell A quick and small crack in your soul hurts more Than an eternal burn of your flesh This is why we're ready to see the light come out of our eyes But I'm holding on For you need pain before you're declared strong For you need darkness before you see the stars For you need death before you reach heaven For where there are angels, there will always be demons
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dust begins to collect frequent cleanings are nothing but memories of the past your possessions remain relics of what once existed what happened to the unbreakable bond your endless creativity my deceitful beauty how can such things deteriorate so quickly and now we sit legs crossed naked in so many forms clinging on to the past analyzing all uncertainties wondering of the true capability of change of resolution of depth the way things were reminiscing infinite romance joyous love unscathed hope we are the storm and now we find ourselves right where we started longing for love lusting for something lasting neither of which led us here we both know it will never it can never the bond irreversible unstoppable one question lingers as it always has for days for weeks for years decades slip by so quickly one thing is for certain nothing lasts forever but nothing ever fades
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 3:23 PM UTC
Unsettled
while the debate goes on and on, as to which country has the longest, continuous democratic parliament, have it on on good authority that the subject above, is it better to love your kids too much than not enough? was the first among all temporal discussions ever held, despite periodic tabling, the debate remains unresolved, the question unsettled even after 1000 years+ of argumentation when over time, Universal Adult Suffrage finally came to be, the debate became renewable, enflamed, divisive most contentiously, various coming down on each side of a point of view topically since mother, father and child, i.e. pretty much everyone, definitionally, claimed total expertise, and sparing the rod was deemed by most to be illegally, no plebiscite, amendment or ballot initiative was resolved resolutely, the beat goes on continuously as new children reach voting age, sagaciously repeating their view, personally my view? I’ve tried both and failed equally so I’ve little to contribute, so let it be stated in manner unequivocally, the sweet sensibility says too well, but helicopters crash and monied snowplows run over other both their own and others better deserving, leaving all of them buried in snow piles street side, while those who blame their faults on insufficient love, are later most demanding more attention than any, having becoming painfully hardy, by being treated hard about, hard on themselves and worse to others everyone knows the answer to this question for themselves but I’ll leave you with this, permitting a child to fail is a winning strategy, as long as there is no legal limit regarding the amount or frequency on lifetime hugging
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Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019 at 2:14 AM UTC
is it better to love your kids too much than not enough?
while the debate goes on and on, as to which country has the longest, continuous democratic parliament, have it on on good authority that the subject above, is it better to love your kids too much than not enough? was the first among all temporal discussions ever held, despite periodic tabling, the debate remains unresolved, the question unsettled even after 1000 years+ of argumentation when over time, Universal Adult Suffrage finally came to be, the debate became renewable, enflamed, divisive most contentiously, various coming down on each side of a point of view topically since mother, father and child, i.e. pretty much everyone, definitionally, claimed total expertise, and sparing the rod was deemed by most to be illegally, no plebiscite, amendment or ballot initiative was resolved resolutely, the beat goes on continuously as new children reach voting age, sagaciously repeating their view, personally my view? I’ve tried both and failed equally so I’ve little to contribute, so let it be stated in manner unequivocally, the sweet sensibility says too well, but helicopters crash and monied snowplows run over other both their own and others better deserving, leaving all of them buried in snow piles street side, while those who blame their faults on insufficient love, are later most demanding more attention than any, having becoming painfully hardy, by being treated hard about, hard on themselves and worse to others everyone knows the answer to this question for themselves but I’ll leave you with this, permitting a child to fail is a winning strategy, as long as there is no legal limit regarding the amount or frequency on lifetime hugging
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