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"unwinds" poems
Every day you play with the light of the universe. Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water, You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands. You are like nobody since I love you. Let me spread you out among yellow garlands. Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish. Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them. The rain takes off her clothes. The birds go by, fleeing. The wind. The wind. I alone can contend against the power of men. The storm whirls dark leaves and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky. You are here. Oh, you do not run away. You will answer me to the last cry. Curl round me as though you were frightened. Even so, a strange shadow once ran through your eyes. Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle, and even your ******* smell of it. While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth. How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans. My words rained over you, stroking you. A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body. Until I even believe that you own the universe. I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Every Day You Play....
Every day you play with the light of the universe. Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water, You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands. You are like nobody since I love you. Let me spread you out among yellow garlands. Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish. Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them. The rain takes off her clothes. The birds go by, fleeing. The wind. The wind. I alone can contend against the power of men. The storm whirls dark leaves and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky. You are here. Oh, you do not run away. You will answer me to the last cry. Curl round me as though you were frightened. Even so, a strange shadow once ran through your eyes. Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle, and even your ******* smell of it. While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth. How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans. My words rained over you, stroking you. A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body. Until I even believe that you own the universe. I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Wake up Mi Amor enjoy the Day to Come Life isn't a sprint it's a marathon run Hold yourself together through the good and bad As we ride the roller coaster of happy and sad Emotion like weather here comes a storm Take shelter in me I'll keep you warm We can take a trip don't worry about money Lounge all day feed you when you're hungry A picnic for two with a bottle of wine Relax read a book as day unwinds Refills of affection overflows your cup In a daze as we gaze to deep.. Peaceful sleep I'd hate to disrupt Return to me my love It's time to wake up..
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Mar 26, 2014
Mar 26, 2014 at 4:52 PM UTC
Wake Up
The moment you forget. Mind wanders with regret. Eyes blurred, lose focus. “What’s my current purpose?” Is spontaneous enough? Chasing a dream, tough. As a child we rushed, what was all the fuss? The lost moment finds. The lost moment unwinds. The lost moment reminds. Messes with our minds. In that moment there is clarity. We connect with our reality. Understand humanity. Endless possibilities. Test our comfortability. A chance to breathe. Rebirth and see. Are we where we want to be? Take that lost moment, to reset your focus. To find yourself and your new found purpose.
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Oct 10, 2017
Oct 10, 2017 at 12:05 PM UTC
The Lost Moment
So he threw all his chips on red Thought only of what was in his head Which turned out to be shots of dread For his seeds planted in young women's garden bed Without nary water or breaking bread Or nary knowing the breaches of his and her homestead So he rushed down stranger's alley shed On a runaway, wrongheaded cocky sled Through her banks, he crashed her spread Like a raging, raging thoroughbred Nary was a thought of a rubber glove on his dragonhead For the buried absence of love was in his heart of lead There's his wife at home tucking their kids in their bunkbed While he flirted with the forbidden apple instead It was this night that lives in infamy for others to read this dread For the news broke of a married man impregnating a young coed Accosting such teen to what now proves to be his deathbed Yet if he unwinds his c(l)ock and placed his chips on black he wouldn't have bled Petering out the ills in his marriage he would have been freed Now he shrivels in a shameful battle of what went through his head Logan Robertson 10/05/2018
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 10:10 AM UTC
Infidelity Blew His Life Away
A day recedes,      I'll chase down one more night A lamed and hobbling Spring      tries to outrun the tide of all the misspent months and all this wasted time           The northern breeze sings cold,           it sighs through tattered topsails           sea of questions waits.           schools of unanswered voicemails My footfalls share the sidewalks,                                           steady, sure. Still young but glimpsing old and stumbling Walking outside soaked lungs need some new air I'm nervous and shaking fold the map, don a blank stare my days wearing on                fill 'em up with a fool's words                I'm saltwashed, stuck and                peeling paint off my memory                for now. A day's been seized--           a metered length of life Can't place a price on Fall           and can't outrun the tide of these layered seasons as his time unwinds           The eastern wind comes hard           and shreds through mended mainsails           river of answers dried           so ask the waving cattails. His footfalls know the sidewalks                                         leaking down sidestreets' asphalt tributaries Walking around A hitch in his slow gait A ghost of our town shuffles on with a fixed gaze, his days playing out,                As he strides down the sidewalks                his life plays a film,                flashing bright on glazed eyeballs And I'm southbound, 4 p.m. driving Orange Street completely drowned--                --swore I woke up in Gimli,                 Manitoba January                 seared into my youthful memories I'm freezerburnt                 Autumn heat, don't leave me I'll hold your hair if you're feeling sickly, then drive back home.                 Autumn heat, don't leave me now.                 ...Autumn heat, don't leave me now.
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 11:51 AM UTC
Always Summer Bed & Breakfast
A day recedes,      I'll chase down one more night A lamed and hobbling Spring      tries to outrun the tide of all the misspent months and all this wasted time           The northern breeze sings cold,           it sighs through tattered topsails           sea of questions waits.           schools of unanswered voicemails My footfalls share the sidewalks,                                           steady, sure. Still young but glimpsing old and stumbling Walking outside soaked lungs need some new air I'm nervous and shaking fold the map, don a blank stare my days wearing on                fill 'em up with a fool's words                I'm saltwashed, stuck and                peeling paint off my memory                for now. A day's been seized--           a metered length of life Can't place a price on Fall           and can't outrun the tide of these layered seasons as his time unwinds           The eastern wind comes hard           and shreds through mended mainsails           river of answers dried           so ask the waving cattails. His footfalls know the sidewalks                                         leaking down sidestreets' asphalt tributaries Walking around A hitch in his slow gait A ghost of our town shuffles on with a fixed gaze, his days playing out,                As he strides down the sidewalks                his life plays a film,                flashing bright on glazed eyeballs And I'm southbound, 4 p.m. driving Orange Street completely drowned--                --swore I woke up in Gimli,                 Manitoba January                 seared into my youthful memories I'm freezerburnt                 Autumn heat, don't leave me I'll hold your hair if you're feeling sickly, then drive back home.                 Autumn heat, don't leave me now.                 ...Autumn heat, don't leave me now.
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I see you dressed in wool, My mind unwinds, I feel a definate pull, To see her struggle against her binds. Tall and thin she towers, Headphones cover her ears, Red and yellow leaves spiral in showers, Can I speak and overcome my fears? Intimately we look up from the ground, And walk our separate ways without a sound.
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Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 10:31 AM UTC
Girl In Yellow
605 The Spider holds a Silver Ball In unperceived Hands— And dancing softly to Himself His Yarn of Pearl—unwinds— He plies from Nought to Nought— In unsubstantial Trade— Supplants our Tapestries with His— In half the period— An Hour to rear supreme His Continents of Light— Then dangle from the Housewife’s Broom— His Boundaries—forgot—
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The Spider holds a Silver Ball
We assembled a modest telescope, To find what sights there were  to see. I stared, transfixed, at the moon and stars, In the driveway with all of my family. I know exactly where I stood, The moment I would find, The infinite nature of time and space, And how it all unwinds. I asked about the size of the moon, The distance of its arcing track. I asked about the space beyond, The nothing in the black. I asked my family how big it is. I asked if anyone knows, The moon, the stars, and all of it. I asked how far it goes. “My son, our curious little one…”, My parents said to me, “It has no end”, “It just keeps going”, “Outward, eternally”. I stared up into a southern sky, Ominous, dark as the sea. And I swear, at that moment, Looking up, Something departed from me.             It flew into the dark of space, And hasn’t slowed in all this time,        As far and as fast as information can.                         The speed of light, I hear… Which is not so much a speed…           Hitched, perhaps, to the Voyager probe…    By these new thoughts inside of my head.                              But I digress. This thing  began a journey that, Must bring it face to face, With everything that ever was, Every corner of time and space. Everything that is yet to come, Everything that has ever been. Repeating every history, It’s trek would never end. That thought has always stayed with me. It anchors me, somehow. A line cast from a sailing ship, Where I stand upon the bow. In the oblivion of the infinite, It grounds me to the “now”.
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Jul 5, 2023
Jul 5, 2023 at 12:02 AM UTC
Telescope
We assembled a modest telescope, To find what sights there were  to see. I stared, transfixed, at the moon and stars, In the driveway with all of my family. I know exactly where I stood, The moment I would find, The infinite nature of time and space, And how it all unwinds. I asked about the size of the moon, The distance of its arcing track. I asked about the space beyond, The nothing in the black. I asked my family how big it is. I asked if anyone knows, The moon, the stars, and all of it. I asked how far it goes. “My son, our curious little one…”, My parents said to me, “It has no end”, “It just keeps going”, “Outward, eternally”. I stared up into a southern sky, Ominous, dark as the sea. And I swear, at that moment, Looking up, Something departed from me.             It flew into the dark of space, And hasn’t slowed in all this time,        As far and as fast as information can.                         The speed of light, I hear… Which is not so much a speed…           Hitched, perhaps, to the Voyager probe…    By these new thoughts inside of my head.                              But I digress. This thing  began a journey that, Must bring it face to face, With everything that ever was, Every corner of time and space. Everything that is yet to come, Everything that has ever been. Repeating every history, It’s trek would never end. That thought has always stayed with me. It anchors me, somehow. A line cast from a sailing ship, Where I stand upon the bow. In the oblivion of the infinite, It grounds me to the “now”.
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The curtain frays at the edges Unwinds, disobedient Only to reveal No bed (where one should be) Dainty white muslin Conflicted, floats Away from the pane More like a halo (than a shroud) Here, in the cage of your mind, Lies a mandolin Hollow (with no music in its heart) Towards another window Its brother may lie Born of nothing (but of itself)
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Mar 27, 2016
Mar 27, 2016 at 7:51 PM UTC
Une dentelle s'abolit
710 The Sunrise runs for Both— The East—Her Purple Troth Keeps with the Hill— The Noon unwinds Her Blue Till One Breadth cover Two— Remotest—still— Nor does the Night forget A Lamp for Each—to set— Wicks wide away— The North—Her blazing Sign Erects in Iodine— Till Both—can see— The Midnight’s Dusky Arms Clasp Hemispheres, and Homes And so Upon Her Bosom—One— And One upon Her Hem— Both lie—
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The Sunrise runs for Both
Action is the reality Imagination and thoughts are false The indulgent and lies Action brings out manifestation The thoughts and imagination are the bargains To the maybe actions to be The maybe is a possibility But not the reality in itself Karma is what the action brings The situation is a stimuli The brain is the stimulus The thoughts are the response Of the stimuli to the stimulus The action is what brings about the change In a while the thought seems to bring out the change And the transformation from within The transformation in the thought plane Is a trap in itself A new thought comes in its place The action brings about the change in real The winding up in the trap of thoughts Brings about the ego self to build up The action unwinds the chain of thoughts The universe is a plan of action Not the plan of thoughts The thoughts are meant to be a tool For the action to be performed The human race back from generations Has chosen thoughts rather than actions The actions, if there are There are the thoughts driven action. The less is the action driven thoughts The thought driven action Nourishes the thoughts rather than action On the contrary The action driven thoughts Nourishes the action As manifestation and karma are action driven Rather than thoughts driven A modern man gets confused By keeping an eye on thought Saying ***** didn’t do anything to nobody But karma didn’t go well If ***** has the conscious actions With the thoughts as a tool driven to action ***** would have managed to acknowledge His/her karma and know for themselves Where the karma took directions Karma is the action that has no reaction The thoughts are purely reactions The stimulus to the stimuli When indulged drives more and more reaction Hence more thoughts A thought can never satisfy The more, the thoughts come into place again A modern human seem to be indulged In the reaction Rather than performing the action instead Being and action Spontaneous The human ideal
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May 17, 2018
May 17, 2018 at 8:34 PM UTC
Action and Thoughts
Action is the reality Imagination and thoughts are false The indulgent and lies Action brings out manifestation The thoughts and imagination are the bargains To the maybe actions to be The maybe is a possibility But not the reality in itself Karma is what the action brings The situation is a stimuli The brain is the stimulus The thoughts are the response Of the stimuli to the stimulus The action is what brings about the change In a while the thought seems to bring out the change And the transformation from within The transformation in the thought plane Is a trap in itself A new thought comes in its place The action brings about the change in real The winding up in the trap of thoughts Brings about the ego self to build up The action unwinds the chain of thoughts The universe is a plan of action Not the plan of thoughts The thoughts are meant to be a tool For the action to be performed The human race back from generations Has chosen thoughts rather than actions The actions, if there are There are the thoughts driven action. The less is the action driven thoughts The thought driven action Nourishes the thoughts rather than action On the contrary The action driven thoughts Nourishes the action As manifestation and karma are action driven Rather than thoughts driven A modern man gets confused By keeping an eye on thought Saying ***** didn’t do anything to nobody But karma didn’t go well If ***** has the conscious actions With the thoughts as a tool driven to action ***** would have managed to acknowledge His/her karma and know for themselves Where the karma took directions Karma is the action that has no reaction The thoughts are purely reactions The stimulus to the stimuli When indulged drives more and more reaction Hence more thoughts A thought can never satisfy The more, the thoughts come into place again A modern human seem to be indulged In the reaction Rather than performing the action instead Being and action Spontaneous The human ideal
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As I let my mind wander into time, and release these binds that have me confined, I began to feel a great energy, like the sun had been compressed and put into me, and as time tic tocs and unwinds into its trail of infinity. I realize a trinity mind body soul, they burn as a whole, for the mightiest of goals. and as time unwinds it'll leave you behind. unless you get your spot in, a line of legacys never to be forgotten Confucius, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr, George Washington, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Nelson Mendala, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Steve Jobs, Stephen Hawkins, Leonardo Da Vinci, Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart, nikola tesla, Wael Ghonim, Jimi Hendrix, Joseph Stiglitz, Reed Hastings, François Rabelais, Archimedes, Sigmund Frued, Charles Darwin, Aryabhata, Bob Marley, Garrett Morgan, George Washington Carver, Aristotle, John Locke, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Plato, Galileo Galilei...and many many more... Stand for something. Think outside the box. Evolve and express yourself. Make a difference  #STEM #LegacyToIfinity
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Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014 at 5:31 PM UTC
Thoughts of a Legacy
The Sun Is Shining Today The Storm Has Finally Stopped a statement says: <we have done something yesterday nothing like our best just something to stop that storm> the statement returns true as fact inconsequent gestures of nature we weave to serve an unknown wish -made of numerous physical and non-physical senses- so that fabric of a network   evolves  itself materializes sense sense to fabric fabric to sense scientifically improbable it remains an infinitesimal loop unwinds when you are not there runs within an ideally operating closed circuit remains invisible to the factual eyes of daily lives an etheric vitality materialized by our definable senses of touch, of smell, of see, of taste and some of yet undefined ones - possibly  assigned to maybe a Poetic Variable- executable within that program of simultaneous causalities only. So then Only then When You Combine the patchy Network of Things of Beings You Can Dance Them Sing Them Play Them Make Love To Them Become One With Them Compose Them but All these on condition that it remains as an unpacked gift Without telling to Yourself   or to Others or to That Storm because You Don’t Even Have An Intention To Stop The Storm All you do is Wish for Sunshine so you can maybe bike tomorrow But again How important is it really that biking tomorrow ? I mean when sighs and cries whirl around? a statement says: <you can’t stop wars by fights> the statement returns true as fact And if I know that you can stop storms by touches touches to smells smells to lights lights to metals metals to elements elements to stars stars to flights flights to a breeze on my fingertips breeze on my fingertips to an auric kiss then I think maybe it is **** important to keep a seemingly futile wish to bike to a beach of my dreams tomorrow so that I can be blown away on a broken December day and let my long hair collect dune corrals  made of cosmic ray Huh So Yeah I can Stop Storms if I want to or Create Some! - not because I need to for my own sake or think about it.
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Mar 8, 2015
Mar 8, 2015 at 5:13 PM UTC
Today Is Tomorrow's Promised Beach Of Dreams
The Sun Is Shining Today The Storm Has Finally Stopped a statement says: <we have done something yesterday nothing like our best just something to stop that storm> the statement returns true as fact inconsequent gestures of nature we weave to serve an unknown wish -made of numerous physical and non-physical senses- so that fabric of a network   evolves  itself materializes sense sense to fabric fabric to sense scientifically improbable it remains an infinitesimal loop unwinds when you are not there runs within an ideally operating closed circuit remains invisible to the factual eyes of daily lives an etheric vitality materialized by our definable senses of touch, of smell, of see, of taste and some of yet undefined ones - possibly  assigned to maybe a Poetic Variable- executable within that program of simultaneous causalities only. So then Only then When You Combine the patchy Network of Things of Beings You Can Dance Them Sing Them Play Them Make Love To Them Become One With Them Compose Them but All these on condition that it remains as an unpacked gift Without telling to Yourself   or to Others or to That Storm because You Don’t Even Have An Intention To Stop The Storm All you do is Wish for Sunshine so you can maybe bike tomorrow But again How important is it really that biking tomorrow ? I mean when sighs and cries whirl around? a statement says: <you can’t stop wars by fights> the statement returns true as fact And if I know that you can stop storms by touches touches to smells smells to lights lights to metals metals to elements elements to stars stars to flights flights to a breeze on my fingertips breeze on my fingertips to an auric kiss then I think maybe it is **** important to keep a seemingly futile wish to bike to a beach of my dreams tomorrow so that I can be blown away on a broken December day and let my long hair collect dune corrals  made of cosmic ray Huh So Yeah I can Stop Storms if I want to or Create Some! - not because I need to for my own sake or think about it.
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Befriended street lamps' static hum Timed steps slashed through electric buzz Fled from the dawn's grey stain chased night with anxious breath                                               erupting Outflanked and pinned down                                          by the days Strike up the band, roisin the bows. Compose another tired piece. I dread the melody and cringe away                               from the next movement I'm only up for burned out wandering.      Another balance overdue Took out a loan for time well spent      Roll out the carpets for the doomed It's unforgiving turf where our steps are bent I'll draw these lines      of ghostly profile night and coax the specters out We'll roll on with the tides      where we can dance macabre until the core unwinds. Defend the fort for sleeping ghosts I'll man these walls until the dawn. I'll fight these memories beneath the banner of                                   some others Shell-shocked with gun arm                                   growing sore Outside, the sidewalks glow red-orange I throw my shadow on the sparks. Charred homes on cindered streets I draw my bow                            across shaking half notes Chart out a map of burnt meanderings.      Default on friendships I misplaced I'm wrapped tight in familiar fear.      But I'll warm to those familiar strains... Because it's 5 o'clock somewhere, and Summer's here... I'll cross the lines      into the ghostly night and wake the specters up As fires kiss the night      so I can sleep real sound and let my core unwind.
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Jun 23, 2014
Jun 23, 2014 at 12:42 AM UTC
Siege Engines
Befriended street lamps' static hum Timed steps slashed through electric buzz Fled from the dawn's grey stain chased night with anxious breath                                               erupting Outflanked and pinned down                                          by the days Strike up the band, roisin the bows. Compose another tired piece. I dread the melody and cringe away                               from the next movement I'm only up for burned out wandering.      Another balance overdue Took out a loan for time well spent      Roll out the carpets for the doomed It's unforgiving turf where our steps are bent I'll draw these lines      of ghostly profile night and coax the specters out We'll roll on with the tides      where we can dance macabre until the core unwinds. Defend the fort for sleeping ghosts I'll man these walls until the dawn. I'll fight these memories beneath the banner of                                   some others Shell-shocked with gun arm                                   growing sore Outside, the sidewalks glow red-orange I throw my shadow on the sparks. Charred homes on cindered streets I draw my bow                            across shaking half notes Chart out a map of burnt meanderings.      Default on friendships I misplaced I'm wrapped tight in familiar fear.      But I'll warm to those familiar strains... Because it's 5 o'clock somewhere, and Summer's here... I'll cross the lines      into the ghostly night and wake the specters up As fires kiss the night      so I can sleep real sound and let my core unwind.
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I washed your sheets on Mondays, a private liturgy Their veracious nature spoke; my eyes sought not to see I scrubbed those stains with child's hands Until linen stripped and fell to strands Those twisted ropes that once bound us Turned silent traitors, servants of  lust Denial is my cross to bear And of the irony, I am aware Yet do not dismiss my right to ache My faith in you is your mistake But know when thread unwinds to bone You will lie prisoner on those sheets Alone
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Nov 30, 2012
Nov 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM UTC
***** Laundry
A pregnant lass with eyes of glass has never learned to cope. Once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope - She casts the Curse, the Holy Verse, and shoots a shot of dope, And stalks discreet Asylum Street her daily horoscope - The stray was struck by random truck which was her only hope. Well, Banjo Boy, with little joy, he strums her life entire: “The wayward waif was never safe; her stars were dark and dire. Born midst the rues and avenues where lack and want aspire Where no one heeds the childish needs that little ones require; Where faith survives in tempest lives, a swirl within the briar, Infinity grinds as time unwinds, until the winds expire. Her last caprice? The final peace that no one could deny her - Whipped by the flood, stray beads of blood are spattered on the spire; Though beads of sweat are cool and wet, cold clotted blood is dryer.” Though broken there, she’s fled the snare with dying thoughts serene. And now she’s dead, the rumours spread:  “her age? a sweet 16, With child, ***** her soul dyed red, her body so unclean.” A place is sought where she can rot, avoiding churchyard scenes, In limey pits, as well befits, behind forbidding screens; And all the while a dirge is styled on tattered tambourines Which echo through the human zoo in valleys of the Queens. Without rejoice, in hissing voice, near soil that’s seldom trod “In pious role, God bless my soul”, was mouthed with mitred nod, Neath scarlet trim with black, and grim, behind a robed facade - “She’ll burn in hell and sulphur smell”, spat Priest and man of god. Well, angels sweet with cloven feet, they sing in girl’s attire, But Banjo Boy, he’s playing coy while chanting in the choir: “The clueless search within the church to find what they desire - Beyond the nave, a gravelled grave, the final Rectifier” And when he’s through, without ado, he stacks some stones nearby her.
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May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 at 8:07 AM UTC
A Pregnant Lass
A pregnant lass with eyes of glass has never learned to cope. Once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope - She casts the Curse, the Holy Verse, and shoots a shot of dope, And stalks discreet Asylum Street her daily horoscope - The stray was struck by random truck which was her only hope. Well, Banjo Boy, with little joy, he strums her life entire: “The wayward waif was never safe; her stars were dark and dire. Born midst the rues and avenues where lack and want aspire Where no one heeds the childish needs that little ones require; Where faith survives in tempest lives, a swirl within the briar, Infinity grinds as time unwinds, until the winds expire. Her last caprice? The final peace that no one could deny her - Whipped by the flood, stray beads of blood are spattered on the spire; Though beads of sweat are cool and wet, cold clotted blood is dryer.” Though broken there, she’s fled the snare with dying thoughts serene. And now she’s dead, the rumours spread:  “her age? a sweet 16, With child, ***** her soul dyed red, her body so unclean.” A place is sought where she can rot, avoiding churchyard scenes, In limey pits, as well befits, behind forbidding screens; And all the while a dirge is styled on tattered tambourines Which echo through the human zoo in valleys of the Queens. Without rejoice, in hissing voice, near soil that’s seldom trod “In pious role, God bless my soul”, was mouthed with mitred nod, Neath scarlet trim with black, and grim, behind a robed facade - “She’ll burn in hell and sulphur smell”, spat Priest and man of god. Well, angels sweet with cloven feet, they sing in girl’s attire, But Banjo Boy, he’s playing coy while chanting in the choir: “The clueless search within the church to find what they desire - Beyond the nave, a gravelled grave, the final Rectifier” And when he’s through, without ado, he stacks some stones nearby her.
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-- In silence -- The dream reel unwinds its thread. --- And the heart, like a l o o m, slowly weaves the thread. --- The dreamer tried to reach for that thread, but F E L L And never found her way back to H O P E ---Michael Slade
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Sep 3, 2025
Sep 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM UTC
The dreamer
The noise of the night now comforts me. The stove creaks as it cools, jets decend to the airport and the traffics throng wains. The day unwinds, its events now memories already. Each event, each thought like a train on its own little railroad, disapearing into the depths of the mind. When morning comes a clean slate. Then within seconds the thoughts that dwell, stress and depress, once again tear along the tracks till they overwhelm you. They just circle the mind on little railroads. No journey to speak of.
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Apr 14, 2014
Apr 14, 2014 at 7:45 PM UTC
Little railroads
--------x-----------x--------------x-----------x--------- *Where rattlesnakes are sliding across a prairie forgotten, And the western wind twirls up a twirling dustbowl   Whispers upon the wind, ancient voices of our ancestors   Across the land of the wild buffalo, and ancient crowe When time unwinds and more than silence can be heard, Just hold on silently for a moment, and listen closely Sometimes a young child's cry, sometimes a jubilant laugh Many voices of our ancestors, A sweet song of long ago* --------x-----------x--------------x-----------x---------
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Feb 1, 2017
Feb 1, 2017 at 5:32 PM UTC
A Sweet Song of Long Ago
Stars shoot across the midnight sky And the drunkards shout outside my window, Screaming about nonsense that I don’t hear, Because I am dreaming . . . Behind my lids lies blackness, But in front of my eyes I see wonderful sights; I am an adventurer, strong and fearless. I have wings. I am me, unhindered by this-worldly chains - Chains like time and space and gravity (Which together are quite a tragedy) – Watching as the universe unfolds. Suspended in mid-air, haunted by places of the past And impossible visions of an invisible future, I see faces familiar and faces strange, Mixing the stages of a conscious life. Snuggled in the warmth of my worn blankets, I feel the comfort of your unseen arms around me, Holding me tight in my dream-world bright In a corner of indiscernible dark. I watch as the plot unwinds and thickens And disappears again to a timeline surreal. But the adventure grows stronger and the will more determined And I watch more vividly as my consciousness begins to stir. But before the war is won and the kiss received, Before I say the words unspoken, Before I die a victim of tragic death, The wish remains unwished. My eyes open and I’m left to the sound of alarm And the light of a morning too bright. My heart is beating fast, captivated By the wish it made that can never come true. A smile alights my waking-up face, Remembering fondly the adventures of my mind. But the day is to begin and will take from my memory The dream that has already disappeared.
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Feb 10, 2013
Feb 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM UTC
"A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes"
Stars shoot across the midnight sky And the drunkards shout outside my window, Screaming about nonsense that I don’t hear, Because I am dreaming . . . Behind my lids lies blackness, But in front of my eyes I see wonderful sights; I am an adventurer, strong and fearless. I have wings. I am me, unhindered by this-worldly chains - Chains like time and space and gravity (Which together are quite a tragedy) – Watching as the universe unfolds. Suspended in mid-air, haunted by places of the past And impossible visions of an invisible future, I see faces familiar and faces strange, Mixing the stages of a conscious life. Snuggled in the warmth of my worn blankets, I feel the comfort of your unseen arms around me, Holding me tight in my dream-world bright In a corner of indiscernible dark. I watch as the plot unwinds and thickens And disappears again to a timeline surreal. But the adventure grows stronger and the will more determined And I watch more vividly as my consciousness begins to stir. But before the war is won and the kiss received, Before I say the words unspoken, Before I die a victim of tragic death, The wish remains unwished. My eyes open and I’m left to the sound of alarm And the light of a morning too bright. My heart is beating fast, captivated By the wish it made that can never come true. A smile alights my waking-up face, Remembering fondly the adventures of my mind. But the day is to begin and will take from my memory The dream that has already disappeared.
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Through sultry silken mists, I wander, lost in desire, as morning's fiery kiss awakens the earth's sweet fire. The air is heavy with secrets; I sip dew's sweet wine, and savor the taste of her, my lips still tingling with the sign— a longing that lingers, a hollow ache that echoes with each sigh I know this path, where her silhouette unwinds, a serpentine embrace, stone by stone. The trees, like sentinels of hushed secrets, their leaves a whispering veil, our wet skin made known Her hair, like Fall, lays a veil of auburn leaves, soft as tears that nourish the earth. Where roots and shadows intertwine, her essence mingles, a sweet rebirth I close my eyes, and her gaze enfolds, warm breath tracing my skin's tender folds. The fog caresses me, a sensual embrace, blouse and shorts fall as leaves, I let her memory find her place Last night, our scents became as one, a drip of honey on love’s mound this morning, unwashed, I carry her still— a sacred musk, our souls now bound The cool air stirs with nature's gentle sigh, slowly parting my sticky legs, to catch her passionate cry, Lungs draw in deep the wild musk's sweet fire, a hidden pulse my body fuels with desire I sink into the leaf-carpeted ground, dew flows within, soothing my every desire. As fog and earth finds our scent, my wetness flows with nature's intent. In fog's embrace, her memory unfurls, our scents, our dreams, mingle, then soar; the earth's pulse beats beneath my flushed skin, as my breath kindles the forest's glow within. The rush of water, her sultry sighs— a lover's serenade, sweet and clear; I close my eyes, swept away by lush tones, each caress a memory I hold dear. But morning's fire will melt this misty veil, and her faint trace will dissolve into light. My body, flush with memories that prevail, will face the day with a jade-like, shadowed trail For what is life without her radiant love, if only nature whispers our hidden truth— two souls adrift like autumn leaves that fall, our brief, glimmering, lost youth.
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Nov 9, 2024
Nov 9, 2024 at 3:03 PM UTC
A Wisp Of Her Fleeting Scent
Through sultry silken mists, I wander, lost in desire, as morning's fiery kiss awakens the earth's sweet fire. The air is heavy with secrets; I sip dew's sweet wine, and savor the taste of her, my lips still tingling with the sign— a longing that lingers, a hollow ache that echoes with each sigh I know this path, where her silhouette unwinds, a serpentine embrace, stone by stone. The trees, like sentinels of hushed secrets, their leaves a whispering veil, our wet skin made known Her hair, like Fall, lays a veil of auburn leaves, soft as tears that nourish the earth. Where roots and shadows intertwine, her essence mingles, a sweet rebirth I close my eyes, and her gaze enfolds, warm breath tracing my skin's tender folds. The fog caresses me, a sensual embrace, blouse and shorts fall as leaves, I let her memory find her place Last night, our scents became as one, a drip of honey on love’s mound this morning, unwashed, I carry her still— a sacred musk, our souls now bound The cool air stirs with nature's gentle sigh, slowly parting my sticky legs, to catch her passionate cry, Lungs draw in deep the wild musk's sweet fire, a hidden pulse my body fuels with desire I sink into the leaf-carpeted ground, dew flows within, soothing my every desire. As fog and earth finds our scent, my wetness flows with nature's intent. In fog's embrace, her memory unfurls, our scents, our dreams, mingle, then soar; the earth's pulse beats beneath my flushed skin, as my breath kindles the forest's glow within. The rush of water, her sultry sighs— a lover's serenade, sweet and clear; I close my eyes, swept away by lush tones, each caress a memory I hold dear. But morning's fire will melt this misty veil, and her faint trace will dissolve into light. My body, flush with memories that prevail, will face the day with a jade-like, shadowed trail For what is life without her radiant love, if only nature whispers our hidden truth— two souls adrift like autumn leaves that fall, our brief, glimmering, lost youth.
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As the wind unwinds the surface The Savanna nods to The Shepherd gently yet every steps he took left deeply-rooted footprints He carelessly steps on her wildflowers, and while he rest, he'd pluck some of hers deep down he knows he's in dead end The Savanna couldn't help her curiosity, so she asked where is he heading off and why he tossed his compass halfway to the ground On the spur of a moment, The Shepherd fainted his throat choked; like he wasn't allowed to say a word little did The Savanna knows he was cursed "I am no use of you," said The Shepherd. "I am cursed to walk on my path with me alone; I am cursed to left my soul in every steps I took I am cursed to get lost in the midst of unknown!" The Savanna embraces him tenderly 'tho every time he bawls out and enraged for countless time she failed but she's persistent "Let me take care of you," insists The Savanna "Until your broken compass works again; until you know where you are heading towards —until then, let me help you." And just like that, The Shepherd found within her his long-time quest; his very own oasis in the desert
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Aug 28, 2020
Aug 28, 2020 at 12:12 PM UTC
Oasis in the Desert
Ripples on the surface, light shined through though always too black to see beneath. I've felt this way, before; I've seen the haze and walked within the maze and been buried beneath the sand and and and and this isn't a dream we weave, though, it's all too much to ignore; And all my friends, they always seem to leave; perhaps I seem a bore. I tried to open that amazing door and be within the beautiful mind that beautiful time which some have called "Memory," others "Past," "Happiness," "Solace," "Escape," though, all I may call it now is "What Was Once But Now Is Dead." I see red streaming before my eyes, screaming into my frontal lobe just a dream to the wise but to a fool a deadly probe; a seedling foully planted within the loamy soil of the mind, it had been granted passage as each root unwinds. I know I've felt this way, before, though I can't know what's in store, I haven't read the yore nor that most evil, ancient lore so all I want is more. I must be ignored. I must be killed. Burn me. Light me on fire. Stack my rusty bones upon the pyre. Give to me the power of the Sun, you my planet that slowly drifts away. I see red I see fire I see great flames a-dancing I see the Sun I see life I see redemption and I see it shut right in my miserable face. I see you continue to float on off into the empty darkness of unreachable space those unimaginable distances like the passages between Memory, Past, Happiness, Solace, Escape. I see you wind on off through the narrow hallways of my frontal lobe finally turning back before my face. I see the terrible, pregnant eclipse of your body before my body, rocky to red-hot Sun, take to my heart like an ellipse . . . I've been naughty I am on the run . . . No light shines through here, no ripples on inky landscapes . . . It is dark.                  .                   .                    I have no light,                    I have no Sun,                 I have no planets,                  I have no dream,               I have no memories.                                                   .                                                    .                                                     I lose it all                                           and yet I keep losing.                                                                                 .                                                                                   .                                                                                     I still feel like a dream inside, though                                                                                                     I know it's merely                                                                                       What Was Once But Now Is Dead.                                                                                                                                                 .                                                                                                                                               .                                                                                                                                                 .                                                                                                                                                     .                                                                                                                                                           .                                                                                                                                                                    .                                                                                                                                                                                .                                                                                            .     .     .                                                    .                                                                                              death                       .                                                                    . .
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Aug 10, 2013
Aug 10, 2013 at 11:40 PM UTC
reflections unremembered
Ripples on the surface, light shined through though always too black to see beneath. I've felt this way, before; I've seen the haze and walked within the maze and been buried beneath the sand and and and and this isn't a dream we weave, though, it's all too much to ignore; And all my friends, they always seem to leave; perhaps I seem a bore. I tried to open that amazing door and be within the beautiful mind that beautiful time which some have called "Memory," others "Past," "Happiness," "Solace," "Escape," though, all I may call it now is "What Was Once But Now Is Dead." I see red streaming before my eyes, screaming into my frontal lobe just a dream to the wise but to a fool a deadly probe; a seedling foully planted within the loamy soil of the mind, it had been granted passage as each root unwinds. I know I've felt this way, before, though I can't know what's in store, I haven't read the yore nor that most evil, ancient lore so all I want is more. I must be ignored. I must be killed. Burn me. Light me on fire. Stack my rusty bones upon the pyre. Give to me the power of the Sun, you my planet that slowly drifts away. I see red I see fire I see great flames a-dancing I see the Sun I see life I see redemption and I see it shut right in my miserable face. I see you continue to float on off into the empty darkness of unreachable space those unimaginable distances like the passages between Memory, Past, Happiness, Solace, Escape. I see you wind on off through the narrow hallways of my frontal lobe finally turning back before my face. I see the terrible, pregnant eclipse of your body before my body, rocky to red-hot Sun, take to my heart like an ellipse . . . I've been naughty I am on the run . . . No light shines through here, no ripples on inky landscapes . . . It is dark.                  .                   .                    I have no light,                    I have no Sun,                 I have no planets,                  I have no dream,               I have no memories.                                                   .                                                    .                                                     I lose it all                                           and yet I keep losing.                                                                                 .                                                                                   .                                                                                     I still feel like a dream inside, though                                                                                                     I know it's merely                                                                                       What Was Once But Now Is Dead.                                                                                                                                                 .                                                                                                                                               .                                                                                                                                                 .                                                                                                                                                     .                                                                                                                                                           .                                                                                                                                                                    .                                                                                                                                                                                .                                                                                            .     .     .                                                    .                                                                                              death                       .                                                                    . .
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*clouds of words from places diverse come floating to the sky, soaking my heavy mind they are unconnected and meaningless stray birds wingless kept in cage of isolation, no relation to find when brought together held close by a tether they mix up to join, combine and bind then in a pattern they flow rise high, fall low dancing with passion, in a rhythmic fashion aligned a story they tell in my thoughts that does dwell feelings get expression, sincere confession, to soul they're affined not seeking perfection but creativity and introspection my humble quill, tries to spill, colors of several  kind my flawed verse is terse in emotions it's immersed it portrays a view, connects with you, as my heart unwinds*
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 4:38 AM UTC
Writing a Poem
The ferns have taken over most of the forest floor you can barely see your feet through the bushy flora moor Early spring flowers have come and gone and now replaced by summer song Butterfly bushes bussing with bees New life singing high in the trees Regrowth of mind as your nature unwinds hart waxing fatter as you take in what matters! Uncountable species and we are but one lunar submissive in our paradise under our life giving Goldilocks Sun Life has just begun ..............................
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Jun 15, 2021
Jun 15, 2021 at 9:45 AM UTC
Mid June Wanderer