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"vans" poems
Am I really that uncouth? Have you lot yet worked out the truth. The **** I write, it's so contrite. I know you're dim but I thought you might. I've been feeding bananas to you all. Big bananas, none are small. All are bent, of course they are. Enough's enough, it's gone too far. Dear Voyeurs, to all my fans. Some ride cycles, some drive vans. for M&Y, yeah you're the guy. So I bait my line and continue the lie. But let's have it right, as well I might. You wanted to play, so pretended you're gay. Now most I know aren't, but one or two do. Boiler repair guy with the twinkly eye. Bent over in two, I spank with a shoe. And all that he asks is, I call him Sue. So I have him pegged, for that's what he begged. But now he knocks on my door wanting much more. Fuckin' Big Bent Bananas by Kaydee. (slurp, slurp)
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Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 2:55 PM UTC
Big Bent Bananas
A gentleman is not brutal, but he will prove all vendettas futile. He is not immune to bullet, fist or blade but any insult raised against him will be met with a blockade. He is stoic, but still smiles, cracking his face open without reserve for a friend, to calm, to a foe, to unnerve. A gentleman dresses his best, whether it Vans and sweater, or tie and vest. No-one is beneath his attention he gifts compliments quite often, but when a man puts a hand on him, that man goes home in a coffin. No matter his orientation, he respects every inclination, He holds the door the same way he strikes true, every time. He knows his weapon well, but in blood, he doesn't buy nor sell. He knows the time to fight but of violence, he makes no light. He respects every man, every woman, every child... But, if his family is ever hurt and this one renders apologies inert then they shall receive only a box and a white shirt.
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 1:41 PM UTC
Gentleman
Manila, Manila, Your bustling streets vibrate with the rumbling of the jeepneys and the hollers of the drivers as they say, “Pasahero diyan, kasya pa, kasya pa!”; (Any passenger there, some seats are still free!) Your nights twinkle with the Christmas lights that surround every tree around the Meralco building when September begins; Your endless traffic jams keep McDonald’s and KFC alive twenty-four by seven where traffic enforcers dodge cars and vans trucks and tricycles and jeepneys and bicycles while dancing to the rhythm beating in their own ears with a smile and a salute to all the drivers from dawn to dusk; The noise awakens the outskirts of your city filled with people who never fails to smile even when the storm pirouettes like a tempestuous ballerina, where children watch the roads transform into this ocean of black water and small wooden boats become the means of transportation; paddling in between houses as the adults try to go to work; where chickens waddling upon roofs and cats chasing rats become the best forms of entertainment but Manila, your lingering smell of cancer comes with the dark blue starless sky telling people to grip their bags until it merges with their bodies. Manila, say good night while they hold it tight protecting it from the dark humid air where thieves come out to thumb down unscrutinised objects from shallow pockets by the flickering lamps across the blazing red and emerald green lights you see less and less and less faces as the Sun sinks and says good bye. Stop and try to tranquilise yourself. Your city is now lead by a blood-thirsty leader. Apologies from gunshots overpower the cries of help from your people. Manila, ignore them and sleep well. Let the truth decay while lives burn and vanish. Prayers cannot save your mutinous ignominy. Halcyon days are over but Manila, you are still a beautiful city. Your resilient people overflows with hospitable hearts. Their faces plastered with big smiles as they welcome us for you and say, “Mabuhay!” (Long live!) proud and mighty. Offering their minds on banana leaf plates to everyone who visits, Giving away their hearts in small loot bags to everyone who leaves, The Pearl of the Orient Seas was my hood. Manila, despite your lack of snow and intense weather swings, You are and will always be my home.
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Apr 7, 2017
Apr 7, 2017 at 4:54 PM UTC
Pearl of the Orient
Manila, Manila, Your bustling streets vibrate with the rumbling of the jeepneys and the hollers of the drivers as they say, “Pasahero diyan, kasya pa, kasya pa!”; (Any passenger there, some seats are still free!) Your nights twinkle with the Christmas lights that surround every tree around the Meralco building when September begins; Your endless traffic jams keep McDonald’s and KFC alive twenty-four by seven where traffic enforcers dodge cars and vans trucks and tricycles and jeepneys and bicycles while dancing to the rhythm beating in their own ears with a smile and a salute to all the drivers from dawn to dusk; The noise awakens the outskirts of your city filled with people who never fails to smile even when the storm pirouettes like a tempestuous ballerina, where children watch the roads transform into this ocean of black water and small wooden boats become the means of transportation; paddling in between houses as the adults try to go to work; where chickens waddling upon roofs and cats chasing rats become the best forms of entertainment but Manila, your lingering smell of cancer comes with the dark blue starless sky telling people to grip their bags until it merges with their bodies. Manila, say good night while they hold it tight protecting it from the dark humid air where thieves come out to thumb down unscrutinised objects from shallow pockets by the flickering lamps across the blazing red and emerald green lights you see less and less and less faces as the Sun sinks and says good bye. Stop and try to tranquilise yourself. Your city is now lead by a blood-thirsty leader. Apologies from gunshots overpower the cries of help from your people. Manila, ignore them and sleep well. Let the truth decay while lives burn and vanish. Prayers cannot save your mutinous ignominy. Halcyon days are over but Manila, you are still a beautiful city. Your resilient people overflows with hospitable hearts. Their faces plastered with big smiles as they welcome us for you and say, “Mabuhay!” (Long live!) proud and mighty. Offering their minds on banana leaf plates to everyone who visits, Giving away their hearts in small loot bags to everyone who leaves, The Pearl of the Orient Seas was my hood. Manila, despite your lack of snow and intense weather swings, You are and will always be my home.
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Balcony Life: Sometimes I just watched outside, and it was a glorious day. Children actually played. Groups sunbathed and basked in beer Ice-cream vans were heard not far from here Above a plane heading somewhere etched its mark traced in nothing but just plain blue sky, for miles, as far as the eyes could see. Up the motorway, the sun ignites on speeding sunroofs Toward the Campsie Fells set in a haze of bottle green The white trickle of yesterdays snow cut like some dyslexic ancient symbol A place for misspent youth and baking trays on icy days A hot cheap brand coffee in a chipped petrol-token mug Perched on weathered wrought iron painted brown like last year Meant so much in that moment grasped and shaped like glass with glee I remember that there is life in this here estate sometimes Watching as you do, from your own slice of life on your patch of balcony
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Nov 2, 2012
Nov 2, 2012 at 10:24 AM UTC
Voices from the North part 2
These vans on my feet are ***** Dripped on by the blood of a won basketball game. Dirt covered from the many mosh pits. Torn on from my longboard grip. Rubber grey from long walks. Bled through tie die from lots of running Brown stains from standing in the woods Broken eyelets from a forgotten drunk night. Missing shoelace caught in a bicycle wheel. Only to be replaced. Just like my love. Like my summer.
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Oct 16, 2012
Oct 16, 2012 at 10:19 PM UTC
Vans
A barraster at law no less I wouldnt trust I must confess Looking down your pointed nose seductively holding pose Your linkedIn profile who could see just how you get your filthy fee Perverted farming Filthy creeps In Hi ace vans and blacked out jeeps Gratefully they pay their fee In return for an STD Heres the justice overflow For Nank and **** and ****** I'm returning him to you When I scrape him from my shoe For you my dear a final fact His STD is still intact! Enjoy!
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May 13, 2011
May 13, 2011 at 3:43 AM UTC
Bit on the side
Paper cuts make my knees shake. World goes fuzzy land swimming Where are the ****** band-aids? But gore makes my heart sing. Wrists all slit stomachs split wide viscera falling Where are the flayed faces? Blood drives scare me. White vans all out hiding away Can’t they go elsewhere? But dungeons cheer me. Tables and crosses and rusty chains on ceiling our tools all spread out Can’t we go play?
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Nov 13, 2017
Nov 13, 2017 at 11:39 AM UTC
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smoke. the smell of nicotine rests on my black graphic t-shirt. the dwell of misery rests on my back, while music reverbs. my black vans are filthy with the weight of pain. a wallet, filled with little notes. writings from her in my back pocket. a very lonely bench awaits my place as i sit and try to out smoke this familiar mental state. i look out into the water ahead, the creek’s liquid mirror reflecting her aura. “oh god, not again.” a sudden and sharp spike of sadness runs through me, a longing tear trails my frozen cheeks. then i remember him, and how much i miss him. i remember him calling out for me along with mom, and how harmoniously my heart would pump gallons upon gallons of hot burning blood. hot burning love. i take another drag to mask the molecules of reality that i wish i wouldn’t have to inhale. i look up at the aligning stars, and by the grace of the god i do not believe in do i tell you that i let out a cry so loud, that he himself must’ve felt heaven shake. with water flooding my brown eyes, i yelled and pleaded whatever being that could hear me to end me, because i tell you that all this pain, of missing certain people, of longing for lost love, of experiencing incompleteness, of feeling so ******* unable to stand up, of combatting the poison guilt is, drags. at my soul, harder than cigarette smoke. -melancholicreator
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Nov 5, 2018
Nov 5, 2018 at 10:24 AM UTC
a waste of tears
One room away is a woman who wants me to **** her. She is beautiful, intelligent, and drunk. I am ugly, intelligent, and sober. Even though my highest and best tells me to walk away with a smile, my core screams for a ruining. One room away is a drunk, ***** dripping work of art who is also very, very lucky. Charles tells me to listen to my **** and Pablo whispers a reminder to remember the smell of early morning wheat and your eyelashes while Walt and I gaze at the stars and think of death. I smile to myself, soaking in the after glow of vanilla chai, good **** and dead poets. One room away is a woman who's fate was in my sadistic hands. Two rooms away is a twelve year old who is dreaming of flag football and Vans and getting to level 37 of Skyrim and one day, after he wakes up and after we have our toaster strudel, and somewhere in between me stopping for coffee and dropping him off, I'll remind him that good ***** is everywhere so take your time and do it right and when you just don't want to look at their face, make some tea, catch a buzz, and read some poetry.
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Apr 24, 2013
Apr 24, 2013 at 1:09 AM UTC
Maybe then I'd sleep
it is an honor to love and be loved by you (only you) i wanted a hippie van and you wanted to make me happy so you took off your Vans and grabbed a marker we wrote "don't worry, be hippie" on the fabric until our fingers cramped
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 1:55 AM UTC
one random Tuesday
My grandma told me it was time to go home, and that's when I so badly wanted to ask to stay one more night I felt more at home at my grandmas than I do in my regular house So I kicked on my old vans, grabbed my back pack and went home Compared to my regular house, we do more stuff at my grandmas than we do there Where at home I just lay in bed listening to my music and watch movies that I've seen like 500 times There's a picture in our kitchen that says "God Bless Our Home" Then again I haven't come into contact with any sort of god. The only people in my house are me, my brother, and mother And my dad on the weekends since my parents separated at least a year ago And my sister is going off to college soon so I don't really ever see her because she lives with her mom and has a job I see her on holidays and birthdays and such which makes me happy Life in my home hasn't been the same since my parents split We used to be active I would say Now I all I do, like I said before, is lay in bed. I go out sometimes, for shows and other stuff I don't really hang out with friends from school except for my bestfriend since we go to the same shows School starts back in a few weeks and am I prepared? Yes and no I'm excited to see my friends and I'm not excited to see people who annoy me But let's go back to talking about home What's your definition of home? In the dictionary home is the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household. My definition of home is that home is a place where you make memories. Home is a place where you live and die. Home is a place full of love and hate. It's a place where you can feel comfy and warm or miserable and cold. Home is where the heart is and I guess my heart moved out a long time ago...
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Aug 6, 2014
Aug 6, 2014 at 6:53 PM UTC
home
My grandma told me it was time to go home, and that's when I so badly wanted to ask to stay one more night I felt more at home at my grandmas than I do in my regular house So I kicked on my old vans, grabbed my back pack and went home Compared to my regular house, we do more stuff at my grandmas than we do there Where at home I just lay in bed listening to my music and watch movies that I've seen like 500 times There's a picture in our kitchen that says "God Bless Our Home" Then again I haven't come into contact with any sort of god. The only people in my house are me, my brother, and mother And my dad on the weekends since my parents separated at least a year ago And my sister is going off to college soon so I don't really ever see her because she lives with her mom and has a job I see her on holidays and birthdays and such which makes me happy Life in my home hasn't been the same since my parents split We used to be active I would say Now I all I do, like I said before, is lay in bed. I go out sometimes, for shows and other stuff I don't really hang out with friends from school except for my bestfriend since we go to the same shows School starts back in a few weeks and am I prepared? Yes and no I'm excited to see my friends and I'm not excited to see people who annoy me But let's go back to talking about home What's your definition of home? In the dictionary home is the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household. My definition of home is that home is a place where you make memories. Home is a place where you live and die. Home is a place full of love and hate. It's a place where you can feel comfy and warm or miserable and cold. Home is where the heart is and I guess my heart moved out a long time ago...
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You saw by panes held by thin wire. Two-ways seeing crumbled fire. I remember autumn Checking at the bookstore In your vans on film you wore No conception of bottom. A kid from Mexico, 15 Convincingly my age unclean Walk summer down West Sylvester Powder sugar walkway, tester The ******* **** is blue Wild eyes tell me you knew. Back across the fairchild lot He slid to drive; I told- we bought They'd taken off without their lights He barreled lone known route recites As I scream STOP IT ISN'T WORTH IT I'LL GET YOU BACK PULL OVER, **** No one taught us how to quit We rotten without teeth to grit
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 3:51 AM UTC
Repress
i saw the greater part of creation succumb to the piracy of numbness- the nimbus rage of torpedo cigars blowing blue-grey smoke into the dark lashes of love-struck little ***** thirsty angels with tangled curls of hair bashing their heads against bathroom walls screaming under their breath, not enough. i saw the green plastic- and her orange eyes and the soap-bubbles on the sidewalk and the soap frothing all over the sidewalk and the glass that took off like pristine bullets in every direction and- blood running over the cum-covered lip of the curb, flowing into the street- down to the drain, dripping into the hungry orifices of the big metal grate into sewer pipe salvation- destination unhindered by your humanity. god, this must be insanity and not even the good kind. but let's go watch the fire-works up on the roof- crawl out the attic window i let you go first to watch the electric calico trickle down your legs like a promise. i like the birds that fly in and out of your hair- the handkerchief at your hip, i like the crazy and the cool- the too cute for comfort and the fake angsty danger of your darkside. like morphine- the band or the drug? you're ironically detached with your semi-satanic languidity- and overdue serenity [i got a few overdue books at the library.] [they closed the library a long time ago.] i like to play catch with your presence- our eyes with the back-and-forth, the half-sent glances when we think the other isn't looking. but we were always looking- or at least i was always looking at you. i could see half inside of you. you were always half-naked- in the scanty rags of the latest fashion. when you breathed it was like nectarine noises- and muffled yelps of love. i watched your shirt move up and down on your chest and told you about "never knows best" it seems i've seen the greater part of creation succumb to the supreme softness and the best laid plans of motorcycles and mini-vans fall to pieces in my palms. and you were the greatest creation i saw on the roof that day. don't bat another pretty little eyelash at those tiny flashing pieces that go past like ricochets it's just one more night of strangeness and then you can be free again.
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Jul 11, 2012
Jul 11, 2012 at 1:34 AM UTC
shameless
i saw the greater part of creation succumb to the piracy of numbness- the nimbus rage of torpedo cigars blowing blue-grey smoke into the dark lashes of love-struck little ***** thirsty angels with tangled curls of hair bashing their heads against bathroom walls screaming under their breath, not enough. i saw the green plastic- and her orange eyes and the soap-bubbles on the sidewalk and the soap frothing all over the sidewalk and the glass that took off like pristine bullets in every direction and- blood running over the cum-covered lip of the curb, flowing into the street- down to the drain, dripping into the hungry orifices of the big metal grate into sewer pipe salvation- destination unhindered by your humanity. god, this must be insanity and not even the good kind. but let's go watch the fire-works up on the roof- crawl out the attic window i let you go first to watch the electric calico trickle down your legs like a promise. i like the birds that fly in and out of your hair- the handkerchief at your hip, i like the crazy and the cool- the too cute for comfort and the fake angsty danger of your darkside. like morphine- the band or the drug? you're ironically detached with your semi-satanic languidity- and overdue serenity [i got a few overdue books at the library.] [they closed the library a long time ago.] i like to play catch with your presence- our eyes with the back-and-forth, the half-sent glances when we think the other isn't looking. but we were always looking- or at least i was always looking at you. i could see half inside of you. you were always half-naked- in the scanty rags of the latest fashion. when you breathed it was like nectarine noises- and muffled yelps of love. i watched your shirt move up and down on your chest and told you about "never knows best" it seems i've seen the greater part of creation succumb to the supreme softness and the best laid plans of motorcycles and mini-vans fall to pieces in my palms. and you were the greatest creation i saw on the roof that day. don't bat another pretty little eyelash at those tiny flashing pieces that go past like ricochets it's just one more night of strangeness and then you can be free again.
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Camping out is an experience everyone should have The cool grass in the morning and the birdsong Timeless air keeps you alive, energises the soul. Freezing feet and nose is inevitable as blanket or sleeping bag Don't quite make the grade The hard ground or undersheet has a smell that remains In your nose and in your memory Bringing the place back to you in your latter years. Once breakfast is cooking everything seems OK The worst part is the transition of night into day Then day into night, It's easy, stay up and just look upwards No light pollution, no clouds, no sound Drink in the inky blackness as Orion's three winking lights Demonstrate how wonderful life is But more importantly how small we are Tiny dim orange lights glow in the tents and vans Muffled noises diminish as the occupants climb Into their cosy beds and roll themselves up To keep out the cold, the inevitable insects One by one the darkness becomes complete Until no more music can be heard or Voices, rustling sounds or whimpering children Wanting their teddy bear or comfort blanket Mummies and Daddies soothing The silence is deafening save a cool breeze Just flapping the tent canvas, small cracking Sounds as it rolls and then straightens. Rolls then straightens gently, gently, gently The guy ropes straining a little then relaxing Another night comes to the campsite Enveloped in darkness all are safe and inside Their little tent or van Goodnight campers, sleep tight. Max Hale
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Aug 30, 2013
Aug 30, 2013 at 4:43 PM UTC
Camping out
Everyone's out to outdo everyone else It's not even about meaning anymore It's how much press coverage it gets Whoever makes them "just" statistics And there's no fantasy draft yet Somewhere alone in his dark place Ruminating his environment Some bedwetting, fire starting, animal abuser Infantilized by the hatred of maternal instincts Projected on him De-evolved He likes the way she hurts him She abuses open hand words or clenched up fists of embarrassment It just fuels his homicidal tendencies His brains on the hate frequency And he's ready to let the fantasy slip Home is where the heartless host absence of emotional ghosts the boy the man the monster He lost it Family annihilator, He took his mother out last So she'd suffer through the destruction of the ******** Her wasted wish of abortion'd children. This was before the news vans This was before the first respondents This was before the society outlash Back to him alone in a dark place In the depths of his disturbing mind He sets higher stakes.
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Oct 20, 2013
Oct 20, 2013 at 8:20 PM UTC
All The Best Psychopaths Have Mommy Issues
Here neatly side by side these rotted steels Cancerous rust peeled off paints lay idle Progress put halt these **** grown wheels The sad pale ghosts of once was tireless angels In unknown graveyard of ambulances There's silence. But whistling birds in a tree Not like sirens blared heard far distances Cut through traffic like ships divide the sea Wings on fire ferrying perilous load Sick and dying dire need to hospital Mother's in labour mishap on the road Saviour of lives young, old and critical Where mankind employs, mankind destroys Hollowed vans left to whims like broken toys.
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Apr 13, 2018
Apr 13, 2018 at 9:01 PM UTC
Sonnet; Graveyard Of Ambulances
O' Warped Tour On the hot blacktop we stand In front of your various stages The beautiful bands grace us with their angelic, or if they prefer, demonic, voices. O' Warped Tour The people we meet Girls in bikinis Boys with ****** noses Teenagers sitting on shoulders O' Warped Tour Mosh pits in the front Singing in the back Crowd surfing To running circle pits O' Warped Tour With your merchants And band autographs With your cigarette smoke And crazy teens With your summer days And loud music We never want to leave O' Warped Tour We love you
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May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 at 12:53 PM UTC
Ode to Vans Warped Tour
_Marge_ retrogrades lazily towards the hills; Her name, printed the width of her cab-over dinette In crinkled cobalt cursive, Totters eccentrically as her handbrake fails. SNAP-AP Oblivious to errant camper vans (and centripetal forces in general), Barney speeds maniacally along a deserted city street; Golden coated and joyously poochie, His tongue flabbers as fast as his bicycle courier dad can pedal. SNAP-AP-AP Mr Blue buys buckets at Bunnings To match his cerulean suit and shinier-than-shiney satin shirt; Periwinkle rhinestone shoes carry him unabashedly passed the second glances and sideways looks; There goes the best dressed DIY-er in town…don’t ya know. SNAP-AP-AP-AP
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Apr 5, 2022
Apr 5, 2022 at 7:01 PM UTC
Antigua Street Photography
Knee length skirt, cotton cami, lace shrug, and heels. All black. Fair skin, blonde hair, blue eyes. Very pretty. My children edge past her, past the Other Women, on their way to the park. Son takes a second look, then hurries on. Vans squeak through sodden grass. Baggy jeans soak up puddles of mud. Typical twelve-year-old boy. They return, plastered in cut-grass, flushed-pink and grinning. Daughter cradles the ball, and crows about winning, while The Pretty One, the Other Women, alternate tuts with oh-what-it-is-to-be-youngs … but The Pretty One, she's only twelve.
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Jul 31, 2012
Jul 31, 2012 at 12:11 PM UTC
Pretty One
Freedom gives us…… poetry and the ability to make music, you just have to ignore the discrimination in them, Freedom gives us the poetry that helps your thoughts become real, even when you hear poems that remind you of the hell we’re living in, Freedom gives us soldiers to fight our wars, even though they don’t always come back, Freedom gives us faith to stand tall on, if you don't mind people killing each other over religion, Freedom gives us happiness, and every now and then a glimpse of hell. Freedom gives us the right to do whatever you want, with some murders and don't mind the gun shots. Freedom gives you a free voice, if you don’t mind a war because of different opinions, Freedom gives you the choice to believe in heaven, though hell proceeds to make sure it’s all around us, Freedom gives kids the right to be in themselves, even if kids are bullied daily, Freedom gives us the the right to think love exist, you just have to ignore all the hatred people show towards one another, Freedom gives us the right to believe there are good people in the world, even when sometimes all you can see is the air filled with blood, Freedom gives you the right to talk about whatever you want wherever you want, just not in school as if **** and drugs are trigger words that might remind kids of reality, Freedom gives us the right to go to school and learn, just not about the real world, We learn that ****** are only in the dark alleys and white vans. no one ever told us they could be the ones in our home, our neighbors, our friends, They make it sound like a fairy tale “the princess always gets saved”, I guess I was just too broken, showed too much emotion so they didn't need to save me, Freedom gives us choices, Fight back or stay quiet and I chose to fight back I didn't need a prince charming I SAVED MYSELF, came clean as people called me a liar Because I denied a little girl her ******* fairy tale, Freedom gives us the right to feel powerful, they forgot to mention how fast it can be taken away. I am waiting for people to understand that we created hell, which means we can get rid of it.
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 9:18 AM UTC
Freedom gives us......
Freedom gives us…… poetry and the ability to make music, you just have to ignore the discrimination in them, Freedom gives us the poetry that helps your thoughts become real, even when you hear poems that remind you of the hell we’re living in, Freedom gives us soldiers to fight our wars, even though they don’t always come back, Freedom gives us faith to stand tall on, if you don't mind people killing each other over religion, Freedom gives us happiness, and every now and then a glimpse of hell. Freedom gives us the right to do whatever you want, with some murders and don't mind the gun shots. Freedom gives you a free voice, if you don’t mind a war because of different opinions, Freedom gives you the choice to believe in heaven, though hell proceeds to make sure it’s all around us, Freedom gives kids the right to be in themselves, even if kids are bullied daily, Freedom gives us the the right to think love exist, you just have to ignore all the hatred people show towards one another, Freedom gives us the right to believe there are good people in the world, even when sometimes all you can see is the air filled with blood, Freedom gives you the right to talk about whatever you want wherever you want, just not in school as if **** and drugs are trigger words that might remind kids of reality, Freedom gives us the right to go to school and learn, just not about the real world, We learn that ****** are only in the dark alleys and white vans. no one ever told us they could be the ones in our home, our neighbors, our friends, They make it sound like a fairy tale “the princess always gets saved”, I guess I was just too broken, showed too much emotion so they didn't need to save me, Freedom gives us choices, Fight back or stay quiet and I chose to fight back I didn't need a prince charming I SAVED MYSELF, came clean as people called me a liar Because I denied a little girl her ******* fairy tale, Freedom gives us the right to feel powerful, they forgot to mention how fast it can be taken away. I am waiting for people to understand that we created hell, which means we can get rid of it.
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I spent Thanksgiving this year not in the blue-collar comfort of my aunt’s house, nestled somewhere within a well-buried suburb of a quaint, but un-noteworthy neighborhood with walls decorated with Budweiser signs juxtaposed against portraits of the ****** Mary, where a football announcer’s voice plays like conservative talk radio in the background. Instead, to save the labor of my weary immigrant grandmother, we dressed in Sunday best and drove ourselves in three well-packed mini vans to some elegant hotel restaurant, ideal for people-watching from the gaudy, art-deco staircase while pretending to be in the Great Gatsby. It didn’t feel natural, though, that beside a modest turkey breast with cranberry dressing, sat a beautiful cut of prime rib, carefully ladled with truffle au juis– nor beside a humble dollop of mashed potatoes and gravy, should there be salmon to die for, and berries slathered with brie. The food I nibbled with bites of nervous guilt, as the impeccably dressed waiter exhaustedly refilled our water glasses, nodding his head reflexively to my mouse squeaks of “thank you’s” What monsters are we, letting these people work on Thanksgiving Day? Grandma said, calmly, that some people are just happy to be paid, recounting her impoverished childhood in war-torn Germany— that to simply muffle the aggressive rumbling of a days-empty stomach, she and her brother would ****** a handful of potatoes from a government farm, not many, but just enough as she grimaced at the ever-so-slight mealiness of her rosemary-infused pork chop— the woman who couldn’t afford ham until she became a citizen. We nodded quietly and swallowed our privileged guilt, washed down with politely cut bites of perfectly cooked salmon.
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May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 at 3:17 PM UTC
"On Privilege"
I spent Thanksgiving this year not in the blue-collar comfort of my aunt’s house, nestled somewhere within a well-buried suburb of a quaint, but un-noteworthy neighborhood with walls decorated with Budweiser signs juxtaposed against portraits of the ****** Mary, where a football announcer’s voice plays like conservative talk radio in the background. Instead, to save the labor of my weary immigrant grandmother, we dressed in Sunday best and drove ourselves in three well-packed mini vans to some elegant hotel restaurant, ideal for people-watching from the gaudy, art-deco staircase while pretending to be in the Great Gatsby. It didn’t feel natural, though, that beside a modest turkey breast with cranberry dressing, sat a beautiful cut of prime rib, carefully ladled with truffle au juis– nor beside a humble dollop of mashed potatoes and gravy, should there be salmon to die for, and berries slathered with brie. The food I nibbled with bites of nervous guilt, as the impeccably dressed waiter exhaustedly refilled our water glasses, nodding his head reflexively to my mouse squeaks of “thank you’s” What monsters are we, letting these people work on Thanksgiving Day? Grandma said, calmly, that some people are just happy to be paid, recounting her impoverished childhood in war-torn Germany— that to simply muffle the aggressive rumbling of a days-empty stomach, she and her brother would ****** a handful of potatoes from a government farm, not many, but just enough as she grimaced at the ever-so-slight mealiness of her rosemary-infused pork chop— the woman who couldn’t afford ham until she became a citizen. We nodded quietly and swallowed our privileged guilt, washed down with politely cut bites of perfectly cooked salmon.
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Italia! thou art fallen, though with sheen Of battle-spears thy clamorous armies stride From the north Alps to the Sicilian tide! Ay! fallen, though the nations hail thee Queen Because rich gold in every town is seen, And on thy sapphire-lake in tossing pride Of wind-filled vans thy myriad galleys ride Beneath one flag of red and white and green. O Fair and Strong! O Strong and Fair in vain! Look southward where Rome’s desecrated town Lies mourning for her God-anointed King! Look heaven-ward! shall God allow this thing? Nay! but some flame-girt Raphael shall come down, And smite the Spoiler with the sword of pain.
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The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, The cliffs were robed in scarlet, the sands were cinnabar, Where first two men spread wings for flight and dared the hawk afar. There stands the cunning workman, the crafty past all praise, The man who chained the Minotaur, the man who built the Maze. His young son is beside him and the boy's face is a light, A light of dawn and wonder and of valor infinite. Their great vans beat the cloven air, like eagles they mount up, Motes in the wine of morning, specks in a crystal cup, And lest his wings should melt apace old Daedalus flies low, But Icarus beats up, beats up, he goes where lightnings go. He cares no more for warnings, he rushes through the sky, Braving the crags of ether, daring the gods on high, Black 'gainst the crimson sunset, golden o'er cloudy snows, With all Adventure in his heart the first winged man arose. Dropping gold, dropping gold, where the mists of morning rolled, On he kept his way undaunted, though his breaths were stabs of cold, Through the mystery of dawning that no mortal may behold. Now he shouts, now he sings in the rapture of his wings, And his great heart burns intenser with the strength of his desire, As he circles like a swallow, wheeling, flaming, gyre on gyre. Gazing straight at the sun, half his pilgrimage is done, And he staggers for a moment, hurries on, reels backward, swerves In a rain of scattered feathers as he falls in broken curves. Icarus, Icarus, though the end is piteous, Yet forever, yea, forever we shall see thee rising thus, See the first supernal glory, not the ruin hideous. You were Man, you who ran farther than our eyes can scan, Man absurd, gigantic, eager for impossible Romance, Overthrowing all Hell's legions with one warped and broken lance. On the highest steeps of Space he will have his dwelling-place, In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath. Floating downward, very clear, still the echoes reach the ear Of a little tune he whistles and a little song he sings, Mounting, mounting still, triumphant, on his torn and broken wings!
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The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, The cliffs were robed in scarlet, the sands were cinnabar, Where first two men spread wings for flight and dared the hawk afar. There stands the cunning workman, the crafty past all praise, The man who chained the Minotaur, the man who built the Maze. His young son is beside him and the boy's face is a light, A light of dawn and wonder and of valor infinite. Their great vans beat the cloven air, like eagles they mount up, Motes in the wine of morning, specks in a crystal cup, And lest his wings should melt apace old Daedalus flies low, But Icarus beats up, beats up, he goes where lightnings go. He cares no more for warnings, he rushes through the sky, Braving the crags of ether, daring the gods on high, Black 'gainst the crimson sunset, golden o'er cloudy snows, With all Adventure in his heart the first winged man arose. Dropping gold, dropping gold, where the mists of morning rolled, On he kept his way undaunted, though his breaths were stabs of cold, Through the mystery of dawning that no mortal may behold. Now he shouts, now he sings in the rapture of his wings, And his great heart burns intenser with the strength of his desire, As he circles like a swallow, wheeling, flaming, gyre on gyre. Gazing straight at the sun, half his pilgrimage is done, And he staggers for a moment, hurries on, reels backward, swerves In a rain of scattered feathers as he falls in broken curves. Icarus, Icarus, though the end is piteous, Yet forever, yea, forever we shall see thee rising thus, See the first supernal glory, not the ruin hideous. You were Man, you who ran farther than our eyes can scan, Man absurd, gigantic, eager for impossible Romance, Overthrowing all Hell's legions with one warped and broken lance. On the highest steeps of Space he will have his dwelling-place, In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath. Floating downward, very clear, still the echoes reach the ear Of a little tune he whistles and a little song he sings, Mounting, mounting still, triumphant, on his torn and broken wings!
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Box fitted vans moving on the prowl. Waiting for these kids in an easy take Preteen gangster violence, With your lovely daughter playing jail bait. We're all thievish wolves, All hungry for more, we're hungry for more. So please tell me that this is under control. As our sons sniffing the product you were forced to recall. Please tell me that this is under control while your misses is prostituting just to feel at home. Please tell me that this is under control While my darling little princess is lying tagged by the toe. Our therapies are burning and our do hearts do swell, Which has got us in love with these feelings, that we've never felt. And I'll take these violent words as nothing more then a test. Try to feed me please for this is nothing more then a crimson mess. This nuclear family Is decaying Right in front of me, Right in front of me. Covered by the trace in the hallow moonlight, pack of wolves at our back. Some one calls out in silence, are fresh killers what we lack? We're ragged fools, just fear in the fold only to feel at home. Our therapies are burning as our do hearts do swell, Which has got us in love with these feelings, that we've never felt. And I'll take this fermented world, right off my chest. Then lead you to the ruins, for the better I digress. Now forgive me, this is how the story goes. Feeding in the innocent stripped to the bones. Please tell me that this is under control While your misses is prostituting just to feel at home. Please tell me we are under control. Swinging from the gallows, caught by the throat.
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Jan 30, 2014 at 6:17 PM UTC
Aim for the Bushes.
Box fitted vans moving on the prowl. Waiting for these kids in an easy take Preteen gangster violence, With your lovely daughter playing jail bait. We're all thievish wolves, All hungry for more, we're hungry for more. So please tell me that this is under control. As our sons sniffing the product you were forced to recall. Please tell me that this is under control while your misses is prostituting just to feel at home. Please tell me that this is under control While my darling little princess is lying tagged by the toe. Our therapies are burning and our do hearts do swell, Which has got us in love with these feelings, that we've never felt. And I'll take these violent words as nothing more then a test. Try to feed me please for this is nothing more then a crimson mess. This nuclear family Is decaying Right in front of me, Right in front of me. Covered by the trace in the hallow moonlight, pack of wolves at our back. Some one calls out in silence, are fresh killers what we lack? We're ragged fools, just fear in the fold only to feel at home. Our therapies are burning as our do hearts do swell, Which has got us in love with these feelings, that we've never felt. And I'll take this fermented world, right off my chest. Then lead you to the ruins, for the better I digress. Now forgive me, this is how the story goes. Feeding in the innocent stripped to the bones. Please tell me that this is under control While your misses is prostituting just to feel at home. Please tell me we are under control. Swinging from the gallows, caught by the throat.
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