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"vantage" poems
Before all of this, even after all of this, I will forever be a patriot. Before the poet in me matured and I started talking like a parrot, The dogs of war barked and I climbed exile's fence on my own And there I have dwelled, with nothing tangible to bring me down. I have been on this fence so long and I will remain there forever! Especially since the premature child is still in the incubator. From this vantage point, I have learned never to trust any politician I've always looked at them with mistrust, disdain, and suspicion, Before all of this  and before I ran and climbed the exile fence, I was once mercilessly flogged, dragged and made to dance By drugged up and coerced child soldiers with a rubber cable They tied and spread me like a dog on the market table I watched as innocent people were killed with a rusty knife There, I vowed to become a fence dweller for the rest of my life! I've been a patriot all my life but I have done it from here..safer. From here I have seen blood spilled, hearts broken, hopes dashed, progresses stalled, mullions embezzled, promises broken, lies told people changed, games played, party surfed, interests prioritized. And from this vantage point, I have learned never ever to trust any politician I have always been right...though I have looked on with disdain, suspicion, and operated with caution but through it all, I have remained a true patriot and a fence dweller. .✍️©️✍️IvanBrooksPoetry.✍️©️✍️
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Jan 24, 2018
Jan 24, 2018 at 8:03 PM UTC
The Fence Dweller
I sit on my back stoop, alone in the moonless dark lit only by a window glowing in my neighbor's new spa room. Spikey tropical plants. backlit by warm yellow light are all I can see from my vantage point only yards away. But my imagination runs to visions of two lovers delighting in their newest acquisition, bathing in clouds of fragrant steam, a couple still together. They have each other, while I sit alone, me minus you. Eileen Auger 4/4/2010
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 12:07 AM UTC
THE SPA
Someone once told me that love was blind. Youth is wasted on the young, We are all going to die. After un-clutching scraps of what I'll never find, This is all that I've brought. I am all that is mine. Don't ever, ever, little girl, Listen to the old. The world of those who Raised them were as dark as Devils compared to the Funlit days we live. To them, infatuation came In work's way. To them, romance was Mind's comfort; the Substance of fantasy. In our world, your heart's Every beat for another Rings as true To Love's ears as Her own To herself. Yet the cloak hangs so heavily Around all of these scenes. Each notion a portrait, Undistinguished and vague yet Littered with details strewn in Alarming Array. I take with rock salt All that they've had to say. For how does dim Memory To a feeling Compare? Let us forget to look back And listen for Wisdom. Let us forget to ask For opinions; vantage points. All fingerprints blur In time and fade forgotten Into their surfaces; the Grip they once formed Long, long released. Love, if only for a second. Love, even if you know That it's wrong. No love ever was. Love. You'll have bigger Regrets in time. Only we know What it means to be Exactly this Young Today. Only I See through these keyholes Carved upon my Face. I am free from pre-conceived restraints. I am a beacon Of naïve wisdom, A sponge for all feelings Un-hardened by fate. Suggestions Directions Instructions abound. I am free from these shackles, Boundless heartwaves Resound I see not your keyholes for the Key in my eye. You are Divine Feminine expressing Herself Through yourself; as yourself. Quill dipped in own wisdom. Heart's blood and history. Afloat in eternities of Utter female Warmth. Someone once told you that love was blind. That youth was wasted on the young. I don't want to hear you Sounding that old Ever again. Notions. Heartwaves. Manifestations. Art saved. Inspirations. Emotions.
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 8:25 AM UTC
Notions (with Sverre G. Holter)
Someone once told me that love was blind. Youth is wasted on the young, We are all going to die. After un-clutching scraps of what I'll never find, This is all that I've brought. I am all that is mine. Don't ever, ever, little girl, Listen to the old. The world of those who Raised them were as dark as Devils compared to the Funlit days we live. To them, infatuation came In work's way. To them, romance was Mind's comfort; the Substance of fantasy. In our world, your heart's Every beat for another Rings as true To Love's ears as Her own To herself. Yet the cloak hangs so heavily Around all of these scenes. Each notion a portrait, Undistinguished and vague yet Littered with details strewn in Alarming Array. I take with rock salt All that they've had to say. For how does dim Memory To a feeling Compare? Let us forget to look back And listen for Wisdom. Let us forget to ask For opinions; vantage points. All fingerprints blur In time and fade forgotten Into their surfaces; the Grip they once formed Long, long released. Love, if only for a second. Love, even if you know That it's wrong. No love ever was. Love. You'll have bigger Regrets in time. Only we know What it means to be Exactly this Young Today. Only I See through these keyholes Carved upon my Face. I am free from pre-conceived restraints. I am a beacon Of naïve wisdom, A sponge for all feelings Un-hardened by fate. Suggestions Directions Instructions abound. I am free from these shackles, Boundless heartwaves Resound I see not your keyholes for the Key in my eye. You are Divine Feminine expressing Herself Through yourself; as yourself. Quill dipped in own wisdom. Heart's blood and history. Afloat in eternities of Utter female Warmth. Someone once told you that love was blind. That youth was wasted on the young. I don't want to hear you Sounding that old Ever again. Notions. Heartwaves. Manifestations. Art saved. Inspirations. Emotions.
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Manila is beautiful at night, Seen from overhead, high above rainclouds in the night sky with a tantalizing view of car exhaust and the debris of broken dreams Manila is beautiful at night. It comes and goes like a shadow in flickering light. At first, it hides behind wispy rain clouds, playful as a child hiding in his mother's skirt. If you look closely, it's lights glisten-- golden and teasing It's incessant winking, an almost promise of what's to come From your aerial vantage point, you wonder: "This is what it must be like to be an Angel when they fly" Below the city, with all it's secrets, sprawls like a handful: A rich lady's heirloom diamonds, thrown carelessly on a ***** floor. It will somehow remind you of a creature: perhaps human, or Leviathan in it's wake Cities, after all, are their own specie of living things At first it is looks like a Brain, with neurons and synapses electric and active Certain spots of the city: mall compelexes and large parking lots, like the nuclei of a brain cell the roads that lead to and fro, the cars zipping up and down in red and yellow lines remind you of dendrites and axons, stretching far They communicate with each other in their own language; a code Your imagination runs wild with untamed fantasy On next glance, it looks like a heart. The whole city pulses magnificently in unison it seems. Thud, thud. Thud, thud. You feel it? Your heart follows it's tantalizing rhythmic pattern, it's muscle beats Though and through the city pumps it's lifeblood into each nook and cranny Oh how it entices your passion so. At last you seem to hear it breathing. Listen closely and hear Manila inhale and exhale in steady tunes Inhale, and exhale-- a silence comes over you, And it's strangely reminiscent of amazement, excitement and bitter fear Your ears dull and you listen to the rush of air in your lungs, the deep drum bass of the pounding of your heart the dizzying feeling that exists in your brain Manila really is beautiful at night. In the shroud of darkness, it rises from slumber; Vivacious and lovely, it's seductive and free Manila is lovely. Manila is a woman, as it should be.
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Jan 6, 2014
Jan 6, 2014 at 1:57 PM UTC
Pearl City (Part One)
Manila is beautiful at night, Seen from overhead, high above rainclouds in the night sky with a tantalizing view of car exhaust and the debris of broken dreams Manila is beautiful at night. It comes and goes like a shadow in flickering light. At first, it hides behind wispy rain clouds, playful as a child hiding in his mother's skirt. If you look closely, it's lights glisten-- golden and teasing It's incessant winking, an almost promise of what's to come From your aerial vantage point, you wonder: "This is what it must be like to be an Angel when they fly" Below the city, with all it's secrets, sprawls like a handful: A rich lady's heirloom diamonds, thrown carelessly on a ***** floor. It will somehow remind you of a creature: perhaps human, or Leviathan in it's wake Cities, after all, are their own specie of living things At first it is looks like a Brain, with neurons and synapses electric and active Certain spots of the city: mall compelexes and large parking lots, like the nuclei of a brain cell the roads that lead to and fro, the cars zipping up and down in red and yellow lines remind you of dendrites and axons, stretching far They communicate with each other in their own language; a code Your imagination runs wild with untamed fantasy On next glance, it looks like a heart. The whole city pulses magnificently in unison it seems. Thud, thud. Thud, thud. You feel it? Your heart follows it's tantalizing rhythmic pattern, it's muscle beats Though and through the city pumps it's lifeblood into each nook and cranny Oh how it entices your passion so. At last you seem to hear it breathing. Listen closely and hear Manila inhale and exhale in steady tunes Inhale, and exhale-- a silence comes over you, And it's strangely reminiscent of amazement, excitement and bitter fear Your ears dull and you listen to the rush of air in your lungs, the deep drum bass of the pounding of your heart the dizzying feeling that exists in your brain Manila really is beautiful at night. In the shroud of darkness, it rises from slumber; Vivacious and lovely, it's seductive and free Manila is lovely. Manila is a woman, as it should be.
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Rows of starched green and yellow paisley feather stalks Marching in ordered lines along the road to 57 Eldon Way Hot dogs and char burgers charge the air with yesterday's homecoming Buds of moxie memories tipping long ears to big blue Listening to the chickadees vocal pecking at kernels from the past Morsels fall to the dirt signal life again for those willing to root Pulled magpies to lines spy intimate joy-scattered seed below Promising fortunes creased by hourglasses settled sand White washed porches with rose printed borders Nestle a "his and her" swing vantage over familiar fields Imagined better-time scenes from selfie soaked movies More real than all the forgotten stones ever stepped upon Sweet tea sugar fills tall glasses of yarn spun dreams Glory red and navy rippling a windy beat To the clang of their steal pole clasp Dance Swing with them and recall a time of slower horizons Of richer baskets Of brighter springs Of longer summers Take a dip in the swimming hole Naked, together, and happy © 2019 MJL
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Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 at 7:43 PM UTC
Upstate
If tires of trees I seek again mankind, Well I know where to hie me—in the dawn, To a slope where the cattle keep the lawn. There amid loggin juniper reclined, Myself unseen, I see in white defined Far off the homes of men, and farther still, The graves of men on an opposing hill, Living or dead, whichever are to mind. And if by noon I have too much of these, I have but to turn on my arm, and lo, The sun-burned hillside sets my face aglow, My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze, I smell the earth, I smell the bruisèd plant, I look into the crater of the ant.
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The Vantage Point
They said the fairest of the goddesses Was the one to give us love, The one to fetch the maidens And bring the boys their girls. What they meant by fair was beautiful, Not just or right or equitable, For it hardly seems fair That she's a goddess, Enthroned on a mountain with a mirror in her hand And we're all of us mere mortals, Hapless humans, With our ribcages wide open, With no bone to shield our vulnerable ventricles And no sense to tell us to cover our chests. It's no wonder that this otherworldly seduction Can ****** us And string us along And consume us Until we forget what life was Before love caught us. It seems impossible That these frail, impermanent bodies Can hold such ethereal infatuation; It's too strong, So it ravages us, Strips away dignity, Rips away common sense, And seizes all control. Our little human selves Never stood a chance. Tell me, Aphrodite, Does it make you laugh to watch us struggle? From your lofty vantage point, Do you giggle when the rational become foolish, When the thinkers become unfocused, When the innocent become broken? Does it please your fair reflection When those devoted mortals go to ungodly lengths For this love that you inflict, Until they have nothing left of themselves, Until they're worn to the very bones That couldn't protect their unsuspecting hearts? Do you revel in the irony, Aphrodite, When, exhausted and dejected And downright tortured, They still worship you? When they bow And sacrifice In gratitude? When we miserable mortals Thank you for these feelings that destroy us, Because for tiny moments We felt transcendentally good. Perhaps she'd had better intentions, That goddess Aphrodite, Thought that she was filling our open hearts With something to give them meaning. Maybe she thought We'd left our ribcages open on purpose, That we'd all simply been waiting for her, Wondering when she'd reach down her power And give us a love to cling to. Or, It could be that she had it right, That our chests were left gaping And our hearts were left empty So that Aphrodite could look away from her mirror, Smile from the clouds, And send us someone to make us whole.
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Nov 27, 2010
Nov 27, 2010 at 6:39 PM UTC
Aphrodite
They said the fairest of the goddesses Was the one to give us love, The one to fetch the maidens And bring the boys their girls. What they meant by fair was beautiful, Not just or right or equitable, For it hardly seems fair That she's a goddess, Enthroned on a mountain with a mirror in her hand And we're all of us mere mortals, Hapless humans, With our ribcages wide open, With no bone to shield our vulnerable ventricles And no sense to tell us to cover our chests. It's no wonder that this otherworldly seduction Can ****** us And string us along And consume us Until we forget what life was Before love caught us. It seems impossible That these frail, impermanent bodies Can hold such ethereal infatuation; It's too strong, So it ravages us, Strips away dignity, Rips away common sense, And seizes all control. Our little human selves Never stood a chance. Tell me, Aphrodite, Does it make you laugh to watch us struggle? From your lofty vantage point, Do you giggle when the rational become foolish, When the thinkers become unfocused, When the innocent become broken? Does it please your fair reflection When those devoted mortals go to ungodly lengths For this love that you inflict, Until they have nothing left of themselves, Until they're worn to the very bones That couldn't protect their unsuspecting hearts? Do you revel in the irony, Aphrodite, When, exhausted and dejected And downright tortured, They still worship you? When they bow And sacrifice In gratitude? When we miserable mortals Thank you for these feelings that destroy us, Because for tiny moments We felt transcendentally good. Perhaps she'd had better intentions, That goddess Aphrodite, Thought that she was filling our open hearts With something to give them meaning. Maybe she thought We'd left our ribcages open on purpose, That we'd all simply been waiting for her, Wondering when she'd reach down her power And give us a love to cling to. Or, It could be that she had it right, That our chests were left gaping And our hearts were left empty So that Aphrodite could look away from her mirror, Smile from the clouds, And send us someone to make us whole.
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Come, or the stellar tide will slip away. Eastward avoid the hour of its decline, Now! for the needle trembles in my soul! Here we have had our vantage, the good hour. Here we have had our day, your day and mine. Come now, before this power That bears us up, shall turn against the pole. Mock not the flood of stars, the thing’s to be. O Love, come now, this land turns evil slowly. The waves bore in, soon they bear away. The treasure is ours, make we fast land with it. Move we and take the tide, with its next favour, Abide Under some neutral force Until this course turneth aside.
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The Needle
* Cast among the downpour, gates beneath dark clouds are left open The creek is rising, drowning underbrush, darkening tree trunks, moving swiftly the discarded, Collecting at the walls of this place, as stone and mortar slowly crumble From a desperate vantage point overlooking nature’s angry powers I see a shape, a floating aura, eyelet gown of gold stitch, woven ribbon dreams Mahogany hair flowing, eyes captivating, drifting atop muddied raging waters, directing the flow with blown kiss persuasion Suddenly swept away, barely a breath remains, swallowing life in surrendering gulps Flailing intoxicated waves, undertow’s grasp, when a hand reaches, fingers interlock Glazing blue skies whisper in sunlit reflections, ocean breezes soothe washed out tides, as a sand dollar wishes on a seashell And now upon this beach I lie safely within soft arms, tasting her mimosa lips, warm and sweet I drink in her flavor neath palm tree shadows, cool in the heat, but hot of her skin My heart hears the glistening, tingling my senses, awashing me in desires impossible to imagine, as I happily drown in her*
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Aug 30, 2016
Aug 30, 2016 at 7:03 PM UTC
As a sand dollar wishes on a seashell
a light breeze stirs the tops of the trees into a tantric dance in a section of the sky i've only ever dreamt of thriving in. magic stirs the dust... and it coats my eyelashes and the undersides of my finger-nails, and falls from my skin softly- the way stars descend through atmospheres. there is sweetness in the air. moon-beams basket-weave through night-sky hair and tap-dance their way around my neck, adorning me in their celestial secrets. i create and name my own constellations from the vantage point of a little girl beneath a big sky, connecting distant points of light with nebulous-lassos flying from my fingertips. i am golden. in this moment, i am beautiful... if only i could remember. preserve this feeling right now- scoop it from the encroaching dusk, and trap it in a glass bell jar like a firefly, and feed on its light forever. if i could remember that i do love myself- maybe i'll survive... perhaps even flourish. rebellious song birds whisper through the night- accompanying the melody of breaking waves- a lullaby from the universe that only i will ever know. i hum along in thoughtful bliss. this ends the separation- from myself, from loving, from FEELING; right now i feel everything. love, light, warmth, beauty, and the courage necessary to finally acquire a sense of freedom that can never die. i am living, to the very best of the definition... that's got to be enough for you- for ALL of you- because i finally see that it's enough for me... and for the stars.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 4:41 PM UTC
light-speed wanderer.
a light breeze stirs the tops of the trees into a tantric dance in a section of the sky i've only ever dreamt of thriving in. magic stirs the dust... and it coats my eyelashes and the undersides of my finger-nails, and falls from my skin softly- the way stars descend through atmospheres. there is sweetness in the air. moon-beams basket-weave through night-sky hair and tap-dance their way around my neck, adorning me in their celestial secrets. i create and name my own constellations from the vantage point of a little girl beneath a big sky, connecting distant points of light with nebulous-lassos flying from my fingertips. i am golden. in this moment, i am beautiful... if only i could remember. preserve this feeling right now- scoop it from the encroaching dusk, and trap it in a glass bell jar like a firefly, and feed on its light forever. if i could remember that i do love myself- maybe i'll survive... perhaps even flourish. rebellious song birds whisper through the night- accompanying the melody of breaking waves- a lullaby from the universe that only i will ever know. i hum along in thoughtful bliss. this ends the separation- from myself, from loving, from FEELING; right now i feel everything. love, light, warmth, beauty, and the courage necessary to finally acquire a sense of freedom that can never die. i am living, to the very best of the definition... that's got to be enough for you- for ALL of you- because i finally see that it's enough for me... and for the stars.
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A capricious young mind alive with reveries of vistas and granite hues, enthralling nocturnes and his touch in the night air. Disparate and removed you contemplated the stars, a life lived with arms outstretched beckoning the notional. Beneath the ceaseless sky you yearned for his warmth, to feel your ashen flesh adhere to his every fissure raising your arms to his celestial vantage you beckoned, once more. From the dimming light, above the distant horizon he rose - like the smoke of an ardent fire that resided within, ascending through your being, coming to rest upon your weary head, he suffused each lissom filament with a fragrance, eternal. ©Thomas Gabriel
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Dec 2, 2011
Dec 2, 2011 at 10:41 PM UTC
Ophelia.
from the vantage point of the triangle of desire, all i see are the delicate hands of Rodin, which now have become your chiseled face. as the world sleeps at night i wet my pillow with tears. tears from the joy of knowing the intense ways in which i love you, deep within my subterranean mind. love knows no possession .... yet i covet you, all of you, even the concept of you. why did you come into my life like a whirlwind only to then vanish like a mirage? © 2022
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Feb 27, 2022
Feb 27, 2022 at 10:02 AM UTC
like a mirage
To kiss someone's lips Or grab them by the hips One must enlist In the power dynamic Inside every relationship There are surprises Of different disguises I must ignore the lies of Reachers and settlers Stalkers and meddlers Those who are aloof And those who are goofs The process never foolproof When animals hide their hooves I took that dubious bet I thought it'd be fun A game of Russian roulette With a fully loaded gun There were unfair rules set That's how you won A one hundred percent threat I'd be hurt a ton It started effecting my health When I couldn't be myself Because my self emulation Amounted to self immolation So I sought your consultation For the vacation Of placation But you took advantage At least from my vantage I could see your rampage Straight from the Stone Age Like a time traveling mage That summoned a cage There was a pattern We kept going around Like the rings of Saturn Until I hit the ground You made me foolishly wait to test me And then hated when things got messy Now you claim that you're a blessing For what you do after ********** You must be jesting Confidence cresting Never confessing Or addressing The emotional underbelly You just like to undersell me Saying that I'm underwhelming I'm talking to a tundra telling me That it makes me a better me Apologizing not part of your plan You tell me you don't understand You must think I'm stupid To treat me so putrid My patience you've used it So the dead weight loosened Once I let go of your noose hand You come back begging You incorrectly pegged me As forgiving not petty I guess you never met me Or at least said goodbye to the best me After never acting on the behest of me And making me think less of me You've become a pest to me Not part of my destiny Just part of the generic sea Of those I let be
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Apr 28, 2018
Apr 28, 2018 at 3:23 PM UTC
Power Dynamic
To kiss someone's lips Or grab them by the hips One must enlist In the power dynamic Inside every relationship There are surprises Of different disguises I must ignore the lies of Reachers and settlers Stalkers and meddlers Those who are aloof And those who are goofs The process never foolproof When animals hide their hooves I took that dubious bet I thought it'd be fun A game of Russian roulette With a fully loaded gun There were unfair rules set That's how you won A one hundred percent threat I'd be hurt a ton It started effecting my health When I couldn't be myself Because my self emulation Amounted to self immolation So I sought your consultation For the vacation Of placation But you took advantage At least from my vantage I could see your rampage Straight from the Stone Age Like a time traveling mage That summoned a cage There was a pattern We kept going around Like the rings of Saturn Until I hit the ground You made me foolishly wait to test me And then hated when things got messy Now you claim that you're a blessing For what you do after ********** You must be jesting Confidence cresting Never confessing Or addressing The emotional underbelly You just like to undersell me Saying that I'm underwhelming I'm talking to a tundra telling me That it makes me a better me Apologizing not part of your plan You tell me you don't understand You must think I'm stupid To treat me so putrid My patience you've used it So the dead weight loosened Once I let go of your noose hand You come back begging You incorrectly pegged me As forgiving not petty I guess you never met me Or at least said goodbye to the best me After never acting on the behest of me And making me think less of me You've become a pest to me Not part of my destiny Just part of the generic sea Of those I let be
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I don't know why I like the floor so much, Maybe it's because you taught me that This is where I belonged, And where I was the most productive, As though pleasuring you from my knees Was any indicator of my worth. But I have discovered many things From this vantage point. I have noticed a crack in the floorboard Beneath which I hid every love letter You ever tucked into my mailbox, I have discovered a locked box Hidden beneath my bed And I don't know what's inside it But it shakes and rattles and screams Every night around two am, So I'm afraid to open it, I have found a marble under my dresser, One of those clear ones With something colorful inside, But it looks more like blood and tissue Than anything, in my opinion, I have also came upon a spot In which the floor does not creak, And it always seems to be cold, A perfect place to rest my cheek. But the last thing I uncovered Was a skeleton in my closet, Folded and tucked into the corner, As though it didn't want to be found, So I found the strength, To lift myself to my knees (It was always a powerful position) And I pulled the skeleton out, And despite its efforts to clamp its bony fingers To my wrist and never let me go I threw it in the dumpster, And rediscovered home.
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Aug 13, 2013
Aug 13, 2013 at 3:08 PM UTC
Rediscovered Home
Fragmented pieces of scarlet memories, trees of stout arms reaching.... affection the fruit it carries, Mauvey plumes sprout this golden harvest of my imagination. I'm drawn to taste commitment's nectar Hear now the sitars melody, notes in Arial Black on Milky White, I climbed the apple tree in this garden of light, The colorful wind melodiously blowing a heretic hero's demise, Though shaken my grasp prevailed the prize. Alas through and through my vantage point reveals a view, The floating dislocated memories on a river of silky love, That rise and brush the teardrops from my cheeks, Then spirit away like frightened doves.
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Sep 12, 2016
Sep 12, 2016 at 1:04 PM UTC
My dislocated memory
He who expends his days a wanderer, Is not aware of his gift, Though he may hunger, and steal into the wicked alleys where the spirits of evil men dwell, He lives and sees the world in a view, one that is unimaginable, as he sings lowly as he walks through the end of night, He has no possessions that are worth possessing, Such that another wanderer may wish for his own, None except his life, One of seeing the world from the outside, As he is starving from within. I gave him some money, and offered him my seat. And society's eye upon me as if I am naive, but I wish them to hold their assumptions, for I believed this man, even his lies. I could sense his sincerity, as distinguished from the typical **** beggars that would scold anyone's failure of compliance. And though he solicited me until the last moment, I knew that my advice may settle in, and for he to use his supreme vantage point of a Sufferer of the City, one without another, I asked this man, who convinced me of his desire to be a writer, to document his days. And to educate himself, this 30-year-old, black, amputee, Torn between drugs and gangs, and a better life that is unattainable. I asked him to be infallible in his refusal of Those evils which will deteriorate his soul, For its royalty will be paralleled not to material wealth, but to any base behavior, or noble virtue. and if he stutters in his gait, to channel such self destruction into a productive means to write about his sufferings.
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Feb 13, 2012
Feb 13, 2012 at 10:24 PM UTC
The Amputee and Me
Society's light is one of oppression, It hides in the shadows the manipulation, Of likes, favourites and ratings, And of course, the TV stations, That tell us how to live. But there will be a time, When someone opens up their mind, And notices the signs, That dictate our every step. Why not today? Let's smash up the light bulbs, And pull out the fittings, Let's switch them off at the mains. Let's wreck up the power stations, And cut all the wires, So only darkness remains. It's time to listen to the crying stars, It's time to listen to the silent cars, It's time to listen to the city at night. Because the city at night is shouting: *Louder! Louder!* And the rain on the pavement's calling: *Stronger! Stronger!* And tribal rhythms, Inspire the buildings, To get up and walk. And driving heartbeats, Persuade the dark streets, To rise up and talk. *"It's time to stand up for what we believe in! It's time to show the world how we're feeling! Because the light has blinded them from our point of view! From our vantage point beneath your feet, We've observed the city that never sleeps, And realised it needs to change and let the darkness through!"* And all the onlookers and sympathisers, Respond with a chant, That shakes society's foundations to bring it down. *We don't want to fit in! We don't want to give in! To peer pressure within Every waking day! We all want to regress! To when we all had less! When money hadn't quite messed Up every word we say!* As every light goes out, Each with a bolder shout, Those in charge watch in awe as the revolution wins. The entire city unites, To bring about the night, A dusk to match the dawn of humanity's sins. But in the morning the sunrise, Brings the reform to its demise. And light obscures the strings that control our minds.
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 5:42 PM UTC
The City at Night
Society's light is one of oppression, It hides in the shadows the manipulation, Of likes, favourites and ratings, And of course, the TV stations, That tell us how to live. But there will be a time, When someone opens up their mind, And notices the signs, That dictate our every step. Why not today? Let's smash up the light bulbs, And pull out the fittings, Let's switch them off at the mains. Let's wreck up the power stations, And cut all the wires, So only darkness remains. It's time to listen to the crying stars, It's time to listen to the silent cars, It's time to listen to the city at night. Because the city at night is shouting: *Louder! Louder!* And the rain on the pavement's calling: *Stronger! Stronger!* And tribal rhythms, Inspire the buildings, To get up and walk. And driving heartbeats, Persuade the dark streets, To rise up and talk. *"It's time to stand up for what we believe in! It's time to show the world how we're feeling! Because the light has blinded them from our point of view! From our vantage point beneath your feet, We've observed the city that never sleeps, And realised it needs to change and let the darkness through!"* And all the onlookers and sympathisers, Respond with a chant, That shakes society's foundations to bring it down. *We don't want to fit in! We don't want to give in! To peer pressure within Every waking day! We all want to regress! To when we all had less! When money hadn't quite messed Up every word we say!* As every light goes out, Each with a bolder shout, Those in charge watch in awe as the revolution wins. The entire city unites, To bring about the night, A dusk to match the dawn of humanity's sins. But in the morning the sunrise, Brings the reform to its demise. And light obscures the strings that control our minds.
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I pulsate Fixate On the nodding beat Thats taking over your mind. I feel you hanging on To the last note that fades Away from my grip. I create Animate The vibrant scene behind your closed eyes The million goosebumps Riding up your arms The silent shiver Down your spine. I emanate Accentuate The singing of strings As your hesitant voice joins In a burst of exuberance. And now you pull me down hurriedly Glancing back at the weird looks around you. From my vantage point around your neck I chuckle internally And welcome the peaceful silence.
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Jun 25, 2014
Jun 25, 2014 at 3:19 AM UTC
As a Headphone
Feeling wanted could be evidence of friends Until their loyalty is finished taunting Knowing family is what introduces hope Hope is what tempts someone to trust the mystery of friendships will always stand in grey The taste of rejection is putrid and sour The aftertaste is bitter and lasting The death of a friendship pierces even the numbest hearts Lukewarm friends will never last Never stay true or care to look from your vantage point Fed up friendships destroy all innocence The scars still have a pulse when I'm around them Chaos has no place in this lyric, but it is here Fighting for freedom like the carrot on the stick If no one's caring enough let's get this over with Maybe all the smoke that follows them will be a warning Maybe these raw wounds will destroy and repeated mistakes Friendships are Loyal, Trustworthy, and ready to compromise NOT disposable
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Mar 10, 2011
Mar 10, 2011 at 10:14 AM UTC
Disposable Friends (A Diary)
it's real easy to feel like we've done it all wrong phenomenal fuckyes then phantasmagoric fear ragers perpetual pity ******* blood middle knuckle crush regretful bets hedged hunched frozen tongues and pointy unsaids but sometimes with mind wide-eyed and heart roots writhing I've seen it way differently a vantage point where pushpull face-plants are winning lotto tickets because maybe we were kindling of yes unable to keep it burning yet and we would have fumbled it far beyond repair I'm fairly certain our heartfelt invites to instant cohabitation would have ended painfully badly traumas tripping over hair triggers in a 3-legged race two smoking pistols and four red feet even Hello seems too intense to mouth and from this particular perspective I can see how every decision made in fear led to whinging karmarang tied with two strings I daresay one day we might look back with a smile that it went down this way because the initial who were not strong enough to shoulder the immensity nor surrendered enough to float the fragility of newborn carbon gossamer whorl in fact I push all my chips toward that maybe there is fortune in false starts we make plans but I bet The One has better ones so I'm pretty sure we should sit down and listen for that breeze to whisper
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Apr 18, 2017
Apr 18, 2017 at 1:32 PM UTC
lucky numbers
Introduction I stroll through green fields and realise I am home. I bump against soft sandalwood: a fence – And hang my head and weep For Ginsberg, Whitman, and all the other cats clawing for tender acceptance Strolling through ashen fields in rainbow night Tugging on tender trestles of old mother crop of hair south Casting to sky thine eye as black and white lights Of rainbow night do fizzle and pop and – Oops! Great incomparable fusion atom generator on the fritz Once more the Centre of Cosmos choking and clouded with splutter. As thine eye doth dissolve and revolve and resolve and see, from vantage point on high: O Hell! O Eternal abyss of Chiaro-night, I am surrounded! Thy Holy field lies cut and sliced by old tree corpses – lined up in terrible order by tender hand imbued Thou might turn and run and screech impaled or whisp inhaled by gasping trees, by dying trees, by dead trees who breathe. And spat upon the lawn whence thou were born, No matter the crop nor scenery.
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Jun 26, 2015
Jun 26, 2015 at 7:43 PM UTC
Sodden Crop of Rainbow Night
He presents what you see with impeccable finesse. He hides everything else behind the curtains. Heavily veiled by his smiles... Cleverly masked behind his script. He stands elevated, taking his stage. From his vantage he sees all. He allows his facade to bask in the light... Whilst keeping his back in the shadow. He's renowned. By the light that kills the dark. He's addicted to the nightly ovations, cascading cheers and gleaming reviews. But every show has an end. Come every dawn, he wakes to the reality that tolls at his door. He's owned and he knows it... Too well, by the stage he built and the drama he wrote and casted.
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Apr 4, 2017
Apr 4, 2017 at 8:02 AM UTC
Performer
along the red marble hall in the east wing on either side, hung from the talons of granite stones resting on their brother's shoulders in the bitter load baring framed in golden oak and cherry wood, gilded arcane; several paintings in the style of the Old Masters. And a long rug from foreign fjords like a flat dune of spice, the length of a mile. pinched to a vantage point in a spider's web. and a draft. a draft through the twelve senses. your song un-gongs the gamelan and the bells remain. pecked by crows of a different summer. beads of honey making war on paraplegic bees. we keep these in styrofoam cups to just enough; seal our wounds. we encounter the lost rooms with the odd keys on either side, the full length of the east hall. stout, brawny portals to discord and fable. perhaps even windows of a different winter. perhaps we know.
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Mar 26, 2013
Mar 26, 2013 at 4:36 AM UTC
Campari Taste Like The Color Red Channeling Sylvia Plath With A Mouthful Of Pop Rocks And Typewriter Ribbon.
. *and today's prime concern of the day? i can't access the recipe site for Australia's master-chef... maybe it's Australia, and their restrictions, or it's the ******* E.U... but... come to mind... last year i could access Eliza's triple-fried tamarind chicken... my god! they're going after restricting access to food recipes!* could i ever think any woman as being, "ugly", neglected, yes,   but... "ugly"?               please...   all manner of things become beautiful around the mandible zenith upon the grinding wheel of the big           O... nothing quiet like deathly screaming in the hollow of the night, but some drunkard loser -     speaking in tongues and recollecting a myth of a patriarch akin to Abraham... 'it's just the moon, you shit-face!'    'yeah, and my grandmother sees a Herr Tvardovsky in it from time to time, riding a ******* cockerel!' which equates to a banality of two things (well, three):   1. she shouldn't have been given opiates during WWII to shut the **** up, as a baby, so my great-grandparents could hide in the Polish countryside, i.e war zone.... 2. i shouldn't be drinking and reading religious text / listening to Finnish folk songs... 3. about that Hollywood thing... how movies are getting ******** and ******** by the day... see... in philosophy there's this point, not a Hegelian dialectic crap, a Kantian coordinate, a starting point,    zee: res per se...    a thing in itself...           blah blah... noumenon... i hardly think t.v. shows will reach this level of "self-consciousness"... i.e. will be making t.v. shows about making t.v. shows... English soap opera tide barrier... but movies have certainly turned to focus on this, "vantage" point... the disaster artist for starters...     birdman?         eh...                and like any cascade of falling down from an airplane akin to the opening image from     Salman Rushdie's the satanic verse... mighty fine looking up and cackling while flapping your hands in imitation of a Canadian goose. ha ha ha... ah... **** never gets old.
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Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 10:29 AM UTC
perversity of humor
. *and today's prime concern of the day? i can't access the recipe site for Australia's master-chef... maybe it's Australia, and their restrictions, or it's the ******* E.U... but... come to mind... last year i could access Eliza's triple-fried tamarind chicken... my god! they're going after restricting access to food recipes!* could i ever think any woman as being, "ugly", neglected, yes,   but... "ugly"?               please...   all manner of things become beautiful around the mandible zenith upon the grinding wheel of the big           O... nothing quiet like deathly screaming in the hollow of the night, but some drunkard loser -     speaking in tongues and recollecting a myth of a patriarch akin to Abraham... 'it's just the moon, you shit-face!'    'yeah, and my grandmother sees a Herr Tvardovsky in it from time to time, riding a ******* cockerel!' which equates to a banality of two things (well, three):   1. she shouldn't have been given opiates during WWII to shut the **** up, as a baby, so my great-grandparents could hide in the Polish countryside, i.e war zone.... 2. i shouldn't be drinking and reading religious text / listening to Finnish folk songs... 3. about that Hollywood thing... how movies are getting ******** and ******** by the day... see... in philosophy there's this point, not a Hegelian dialectic crap, a Kantian coordinate, a starting point,    zee: res per se...    a thing in itself...           blah blah... noumenon... i hardly think t.v. shows will reach this level of "self-consciousness"... i.e. will be making t.v. shows about making t.v. shows... English soap opera tide barrier... but movies have certainly turned to focus on this, "vantage" point... the disaster artist for starters...     birdman?         eh...                and like any cascade of falling down from an airplane akin to the opening image from     Salman Rushdie's the satanic verse... mighty fine looking up and cackling while flapping your hands in imitation of a Canadian goose. ha ha ha... ah... **** never gets old.
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*mirror moon calling via darkness* now awake *vantage high shadowing structures* rise to fall *drawn by light darkness fills the womb* birth evolves
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Jan 13, 2014
Jan 13, 2014 at 3:59 AM UTC
moon haikus