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"widowed" poems
Let the world always remember, That fateful day in September, And the ones who answered duty's call, Should be remembered by us all. Who left the comfort of their home, To face perils as yet unknown, An embodiment of goodness on a day, When men's hearts had gone astray. Sons and daughters like me and you, Who never questioned what they had to do, Who by example, were a source of hope, And strength to others who could not cope. Heroes that would not turn their back, With determination that would not crack, Who bound together in their ranks, And asking not a word of thanks. Men who bravely gave their lives, Whose orphaned kids and widowed wives, Can proudly look back on their dad, Who gave this country all they had. Actions taken without regret, Heroisms we shall never forget, The ones who paid the ultimate price, Let's never forget their sacrifice. And never forget the ones no longer here, Who fought for the freedoms we all hold dear, And may their memory never wane, Lest their sacrifices be in vain. 09-30-10b.
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Dec 30, 2011
Dec 30, 2011 at 1:31 AM UTC
We Shall Never Forget (9-11 Tribute)
Neatly coating the floor in thin white trails, woven into floorboards like cotton twine, sunbeams snake their way across hardwood. Books scream to be read & my yellowed pages ache to detail my experience as a widowed reader of time. Magazines pile, while my simple hands grow a day older. Heat on my neck. The driver of time exhales grandiose, tells me to travel while I'm young, visit regions on this globe that grow green with age, listen to honest trumpets before I gray, wade in pools of clear urgency. He said: "Find a walking stick out beyond the ether laugh with veracity, poking fun at Saturn & the Stars."
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Nov 18, 2017
Nov 18, 2017 at 1:20 AM UTC
Walking Stick
there once was this guy named oedipus of whom it was prophesied that his mother he'd marry, his father he'd **** at a place where three roads were tied. his mother and father discovered their fate and tried to dispose of their son but he ended up in corinthian lands and their efforts were all undone. then a drunk guy ruined his happy facade and to an oracle oedipus went who repeated to him the dank prophesy; he fled corinth, not taking a cent. while on his sojourn away from his home he encountered a party royale which rudely pushed him off of the road, and angered he slaughtered them all. then from that blood soaked three-way path he nonchalantly flew not knowing that his father was the man that he just slew. he continued his journey until he reached thebes where a sphinx held the city hostage so oedipus solved the bird-cat's lame rhyme and released thebes from its ******* as a reward, the people of thebes gave oedipus their widowed queen, unknowingly joining mother and son in a marriage that was unclean. after they ruled for twenty good years, during which four children came, a plague was induced by the sheltering of the man by whom was slain in searching him out, oedipus found that the murderer was really he, so long ago. the man he had killed at the place where were joined roads of three. but by finding this out, he also discovered that his wife and his mother were one. he gouged out his eyes after her suicide; in her own bedroom she was hung. as it turned out, oeddy exiled himself but the seeds of his misery were sewn. so he went to colonus and wandered around and this is the end.
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Jul 30, 2010
Jul 30, 2010 at 5:14 AM UTC
ballad to oedipus
there once was this guy named oedipus of whom it was prophesied that his mother he'd marry, his father he'd **** at a place where three roads were tied. his mother and father discovered their fate and tried to dispose of their son but he ended up in corinthian lands and their efforts were all undone. then a drunk guy ruined his happy facade and to an oracle oedipus went who repeated to him the dank prophesy; he fled corinth, not taking a cent. while on his sojourn away from his home he encountered a party royale which rudely pushed him off of the road, and angered he slaughtered them all. then from that blood soaked three-way path he nonchalantly flew not knowing that his father was the man that he just slew. he continued his journey until he reached thebes where a sphinx held the city hostage so oedipus solved the bird-cat's lame rhyme and released thebes from its ******* as a reward, the people of thebes gave oedipus their widowed queen, unknowingly joining mother and son in a marriage that was unclean. after they ruled for twenty good years, during which four children came, a plague was induced by the sheltering of the man by whom was slain in searching him out, oedipus found that the murderer was really he, so long ago. the man he had killed at the place where were joined roads of three. but by finding this out, he also discovered that his wife and his mother were one. he gouged out his eyes after her suicide; in her own bedroom she was hung. as it turned out, oeddy exiled himself but the seeds of his misery were sewn. so he went to colonus and wandered around and this is the end.
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The lament of a widowed Werewolf in the fury of the space between.” || shoo.shu ||
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 4:09 AM UTC
Widowed werewolf
stayed with a woman and her sister for a few weeks up by the chesapeake on a little river with a dock that audienced the most beautiful sunsets a man could witness she was a good woman widowed quick to think of others before herself never got drunk before noon worked hard and long for the money she earned and I appreciated her and her hospitality her sister smoked **** and drank expensive wine on that dock during the earliest hours of the day looking upwards all the way till that beautiful sunset I would join her while her sister was hard at work I appreciated my woman for her work habit for the *** and the hospitality she gave so willingly and passionately however I also appreciated her sister in many of the same ways which is why I was asked loudly and violently to cut my visit short after only two quick weeks I still miss those sunsets
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 2:19 AM UTC
Vacation
My life is simple, humble pleasures The girl I love, summer leisure ‘The Duke is dead’ the prime minister says ‘Your time has come, you must do your best’. My heart grows large, my eyes turn red One final kiss, I lose my breath My mother weeps, my father stares His parting words ‘you must do your best’. We train for the task that lies ahead Our tools of evil, our countries crest Brothers forever, until the end The sergeant says sternly ‘you must do your best’. The foreign soil, our blood it thirsts We do not falter, we march and curse We face our destiny, we march abreast My father’s voice follows me ‘you must do your best’. The fight is hard, our spirit put to the test Death follows us, we cannot rest Our bravery triumphs, ‘oh how our country will be impressed’ We do our duty, we do our best. But the victory is fleeting, our brothers fall Staring eyes, cold skin, we loved them all Our grief immense, we lay them to rest They were the bravest, they did their best. The darkness surrounds us, our souls to stone They want to end us, to send us home I raise my weapon; one man lay dead I have taken, life most precious, I have done my best. The war is over, the Duke avenged We wander home, those who were left return to crowds, they stand abreast They thank us all, ‘You are the best!’ The war is over, still a battle I fight My hands tremble, sleepless nights I see his face, where his body rests My heart is cold, no pride, but guilt instead ‘I did my duty, I did my best’. My parents proud, my love distressed My suffering is silent, put to them instead They grieve for me, the boy that left The Man, broken, who survived, who tried his best. A fatherless son, sonless mother A widowed wife, man’s lost brother Their pride is poison, a shot to my chest I confess my sins, they do their best. My life was simple, now changed beyond measure The girl my wife, our children treasures ‘The Duke is dead!’ she says to them ‘Your father went, he did his best’.
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Sep 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018 at 9:01 PM UTC
'You must try your best'
My life is simple, humble pleasures The girl I love, summer leisure ‘The Duke is dead’ the prime minister says ‘Your time has come, you must do your best’. My heart grows large, my eyes turn red One final kiss, I lose my breath My mother weeps, my father stares His parting words ‘you must do your best’. We train for the task that lies ahead Our tools of evil, our countries crest Brothers forever, until the end The sergeant says sternly ‘you must do your best’. The foreign soil, our blood it thirsts We do not falter, we march and curse We face our destiny, we march abreast My father’s voice follows me ‘you must do your best’. The fight is hard, our spirit put to the test Death follows us, we cannot rest Our bravery triumphs, ‘oh how our country will be impressed’ We do our duty, we do our best. But the victory is fleeting, our brothers fall Staring eyes, cold skin, we loved them all Our grief immense, we lay them to rest They were the bravest, they did their best. The darkness surrounds us, our souls to stone They want to end us, to send us home I raise my weapon; one man lay dead I have taken, life most precious, I have done my best. The war is over, the Duke avenged We wander home, those who were left return to crowds, they stand abreast They thank us all, ‘You are the best!’ The war is over, still a battle I fight My hands tremble, sleepless nights I see his face, where his body rests My heart is cold, no pride, but guilt instead ‘I did my duty, I did my best’. My parents proud, my love distressed My suffering is silent, put to them instead They grieve for me, the boy that left The Man, broken, who survived, who tried his best. A fatherless son, sonless mother A widowed wife, man’s lost brother Their pride is poison, a shot to my chest I confess my sins, they do their best. My life was simple, now changed beyond measure The girl my wife, our children treasures ‘The Duke is dead!’ she says to them ‘Your father went, he did his best’.
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I’m rocking back and forth against the hull of my loneliness, Stuck in knowing it’s goodbye But not being able to say I love you or I’m sorry. I’m crying with joy and longing as I lie in the love and conversation around me, Wishing it were mine. I’ve been high so long my heart rate stopped going down with the sun. Going over it all all over again all the time. I feel like a child again, terrified by the the dark, the wind, the eyes of men. I’m breaking down in the line at the gas station. Looking out the glass wall at a Lovecraftian highway, Flickering florescent lights like the ones from The Exorcist. On my way to a cavernous husk of a family dinner, Most of them gone now. Just me, my mother, and my widowed, bereaved, great aunt. There’s a stupid old cardboard cutout of a mascot next to me grinning too widely, holding up its product. I scream and tear it’s head off it’s body In my mind. I have work on Monday. This is life.
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Sep 19, 2023
Sep 19, 2023 at 12:14 PM UTC
How far away the stars seem
Widowhood is not a curse, ladies Widowhood is ordained by God Bible and Qur’an teaches about widows Tamar in the Bible married twice. Tamar was widowed twice. God had a plan for Tamar. Khadija was a widow married twice. Her second husband was young Mohammed Allah had a plan for Khadija. Zainab and Zubaida two sisters Two sisters bound by widowhood. God had a plan for Zainab and Zubaida. Leah Rabin and Jehane el-Sadat widows Their husband sought peace, they were killed. Jehane and Leah had no fear, God had a plan. Widowhood is not a curse. Widowhood is ordained by God God has a plan for all widows, have faith.
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Apr 1, 2013
Apr 1, 2013 at 10:58 AM UTC
Widows
This is the house of Bedlam. This is the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the time of the tragic man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a wristwatch telling the time of the talkative man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a sailor wearing the watch that tells the time of the honored man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the roadstead all of board reached by the sailor wearing the watch that tells the time of the old, brave man that lies in the house of Bedlam. These are the years and the walls of the ward, the winds and clouds of the sea of board sailed by the sailor wearing the watch that tells the time of the cranky man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a Jew in a newspaper hat that dances weeping down the ward over the creaking sea of board beyond the sailor winding his watch that tells the time of the cruel man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a world of books gone flat. This is a Jew in a newspaper hat that dances weeping down the ward over the creaking sea of board of the batty sailor that winds his watch that tells the time of the busy man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a boy that pats the floor to see if the world is there, is flat, for the widowed Jew in the newspaper hat that dances weeping down the ward waltzing the length of a weaving board by the silent sailor that hears his watch that ticks the time of the tedious man that lies in the house of Bedlam. These are the years and the walls and the door that shut on a boy that pats the floor to feel if the world is there and flat. This is a Jew in a newspaper hat that dances joyfully down the ward into the parting seas of board past the staring sailor that shakes his watch that tells the time of the poet, the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the soldier home from the war. These are the years and the walls and the door that shut on a boy that pats the floor to see if the world is round or flat. This is a Jew in a newspaper hat that dances carefully down the ward, walking the plank of a coffin board with the crazy sailor that shows his watch that tells the time of the wretched man that lies in the house of Bedlam.
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Visits To St. Elizabeths
This is the house of Bedlam. This is the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the time of the tragic man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a wristwatch telling the time of the talkative man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a sailor wearing the watch that tells the time of the honored man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the roadstead all of board reached by the sailor wearing the watch that tells the time of the old, brave man that lies in the house of Bedlam. These are the years and the walls of the ward, the winds and clouds of the sea of board sailed by the sailor wearing the watch that tells the time of the cranky man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a Jew in a newspaper hat that dances weeping down the ward over the creaking sea of board beyond the sailor winding his watch that tells the time of the cruel man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a world of books gone flat. This is a Jew in a newspaper hat that dances weeping down the ward over the creaking sea of board of the batty sailor that winds his watch that tells the time of the busy man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a boy that pats the floor to see if the world is there, is flat, for the widowed Jew in the newspaper hat that dances weeping down the ward waltzing the length of a weaving board by the silent sailor that hears his watch that ticks the time of the tedious man that lies in the house of Bedlam. These are the years and the walls and the door that shut on a boy that pats the floor to feel if the world is there and flat. This is a Jew in a newspaper hat that dances joyfully down the ward into the parting seas of board past the staring sailor that shakes his watch that tells the time of the poet, the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the soldier home from the war. These are the years and the walls and the door that shut on a boy that pats the floor to see if the world is round or flat. This is a Jew in a newspaper hat that dances carefully down the ward, walking the plank of a coffin board with the crazy sailor that shows his watch that tells the time of the wretched man that lies in the house of Bedlam.
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4 Years, 1500 days, 3600 hours, 2,160,000 minutes, 129,600,000 seconds Yemen with a devastating war Yemen crushed by Saudi war criminals Yemen wounded by US' immorality Yemen killed by too many's frigid hearts Yemen unbelievably destroyed 4 Years, 1500 days, 3600 hours, 2,160,000 minutes, 129,600,000 seconds Yemen a skeleton Yemen with its sustainable resources confiscated Yemen its country's wealth no more Yemen with blood everywhere 4 Years, 1500 days, 3600 hours, 2,160,000 minutes, 129,600,000 seconds Yemen with 20 Million affected Yemen with babies deceased Yemen with young orphaned Yemen with old without shelter Yemen with men buried under sand Yemen with women ***** Yemen with countless widowed Yemen trapped under rebel with people screaming for help 4 Years, 1500 days, 3600 hours, 2,160,000 minutes, 129,600,000 seconds Yemen in shock Yemen weary Yemen with its hands up high in the air pleading for an end Are our hands up with them Are our foreheads wet Are our eyes full Are our mouths dry Are our fingers in motion Are our legs fatigued Are our brains thinking YEMEN: 4 Years Starving, 4 Years Dying, 4 Years Bleeding, 4 Years Grieving, 4 Years Hurting, 4 Years Too Long Not With Our Oppressed, 4 Years Too Late We Must Begin
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Mar 27, 2019
Mar 27, 2019 at 1:27 AM UTC
YEMEN: 4 Years, Where Have We Been
To die, To fall, To lose, In an act of, Life-giving, Spirit lifting, Victory, Is simply, Nonsensical, And yet, Perfect, Completely, Irrational, And yet, Thought out, And so, Incomprehensible, With human mind, But absolutely, And definitely, The right thing to do, Because God loved the world so much, He would let his own creation, Take his only son from him, To save his creation, From the hands of evil. And the best thing? The most amazing and inconceivable thing of all, Is that he did it for all mankind. Athiest Agnostic Christian Jew Muslim Sikh Hindu Buddhist Black White Straight Gay Lesbian Bisexual Asexual Boy Girl Bigender Transgender Agender Young Old Kind Cruel Happy Sad Rich Poor Healthy Ill Free Enslaved Safe Afraid Intelligent Stupid Deaf Blind Disabled Handicapped Single Taken Married Divorced Remarried Widowed Lost Found Persecuted Persecutor Murderer Self-harmer Suicidal Unloved Adored Popular Ignored Beautiful Ugly Guilty Innocent Outcast Desperate Autistic Bulimic Alcoholic Bipolar Addict Dyslexic Anorexic Schizophrenic SAVED Every single human being ever born is saved.
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Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 8:34 PM UTC
Oxymoron God
Draped in bridal red Amidst widowed landscapes she stands With her veil swaying gently in the breeze And blossoms tinkling at her feet Fractured light decorates her Revealing rubies hiding in her tresses She brings forth her veil Shading weary scorched souls An oasis Amidst desolate desert sands The forest fire rages Against fate which brought upon us this drought Rekindling hope Of new birth and mercy And rages Until it's time for gentle showers and soothing greens Then tired Sleeps until the end of spring
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May 29, 2017
May 29, 2017 at 5:36 AM UTC
Gulmohar
born underwater a ****** to the birth of creation complacent verses bathing in lakes wasted her patience ocean poems emotive prose the notions grow breast strokes sowed in silly string civilized sovereignty divinity’s reliance divided by Earth’s dire needs fires breathe regardless of the rain she breeds seeds beneath the sand hold no reason to lie in wake so we speak in foreign tongues with dominance a mistake to take her language for another world visions died with imminence and grandiosity a coliseum’s misconstruction catalyzed combustion’s coldest counterculture living within the wind sinning stings it’s singularity glaring stares impaired all sages of their clarity careful conscious turned rotten swimming in the toxins glossy water robs apostles of oxygen filtered riddles fiddled this conviction’s symmetry & now the god’s live in ignorance and misery crimson skies abysmal cries they’re looking at the ground astounded to the loud doubts that overpower clouds powdered optometry devoured flowers of their solitude another rotten petal for every sentiment left misunderstood confused prisoners gifted with the write to think proles sentenced to wonder why the caged bird sings a paradox of broken thoughts to question it’s intentions matter undermined the undefined enlightenment spirals in the light comprise a present tense evanescent destination sensei keep I humble so many stripes up in my wavelengths widowed endorphins scrape the pain away balanced chemically an efficacy of electricity many marvel but the master’s prophecy is destiny
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 4:13 PM UTC
white skies
born underwater a ****** to the birth of creation complacent verses bathing in lakes wasted her patience ocean poems emotive prose the notions grow breast strokes sowed in silly string civilized sovereignty divinity’s reliance divided by Earth’s dire needs fires breathe regardless of the rain she breeds seeds beneath the sand hold no reason to lie in wake so we speak in foreign tongues with dominance a mistake to take her language for another world visions died with imminence and grandiosity a coliseum’s misconstruction catalyzed combustion’s coldest counterculture living within the wind sinning stings it’s singularity glaring stares impaired all sages of their clarity careful conscious turned rotten swimming in the toxins glossy water robs apostles of oxygen filtered riddles fiddled this conviction’s symmetry & now the god’s live in ignorance and misery crimson skies abysmal cries they’re looking at the ground astounded to the loud doubts that overpower clouds powdered optometry devoured flowers of their solitude another rotten petal for every sentiment left misunderstood confused prisoners gifted with the write to think proles sentenced to wonder why the caged bird sings a paradox of broken thoughts to question it’s intentions matter undermined the undefined enlightenment spirals in the light comprise a present tense evanescent destination sensei keep I humble so many stripes up in my wavelengths widowed endorphins scrape the pain away balanced chemically an efficacy of electricity many marvel but the master’s prophecy is destiny
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There is not much more than lunch of your poor soul's gut. That which has hidden your chase, Be it the same flurry you face, or the chaste, widowed band of loons Supplicate snail-movements, while wading through the stiff lagoon. Everything must, while the fissures grow grumpy. While the dust settles inwards and the cracks fill with stuffing. The particle stands stiff, while each nursery cries. A pitter-patter of rain drops lurch the birds forwards towards flight. Say the gumption to roost was the dork lit and idling, Each abortion towards space, kept the rocket from flying, Like the cannonball sneering, or the whistle of men The trial and tribulations of the miserly pens. If be swore the moors, concrete beds shuffle the snores. Unlike any trumpet of nose notes or horns. How each curious grumbler failed the ewe of his flock. Lil' crock lodgers counting sleep of each lot. Who can practice commands, width that makes up a strake In the morning the weir-men quaff each tea of their tastes. Then comes to the rind, the hands each guided by eyes. Stumps the bard of his nightshade in imported glass vials. Show whomever the pleasure, the happy hell once began Because under each gambit is the king of a lamb.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 5:10 AM UTC
Notes on a Lamb
A white rose, a gold casket, and a field were all you'd let yourself take in. It was the fourth of October, 2008, And you had stopped crying. You were surrounded by those dressed in black, you yourself wearing a nice dress and his necklace. Your brain was on high alert and yet you were calm, almost as if nothing fazed you. Not the smell of the ground, Freshly dug up in the cool, hard Earth of the autumn time, Nor the sound of your own mother crying, Allowing the tears to flow down her cheeks while she says a few words about her husband; now widowed. A white rose, a gold casket, and a field were all you'd let yourself see, The rest just a blur of movement and scenery. You sensed the touch of your uncle's hands on your shoulders, And could hear him sniffling, Mourning the loss of his brother. His grip was tight, almost as if he was afraid to lose you too; almost as if you were the only thing he had left of his dearly beloved brother. You could taste the bitterness of the words your mom had said to you the day after he died: "daddy died", those words being repeated over and over again in your mind, An infestation of thoughts and language. A white rose, a gold casket, and a field, The rose you were holding in your small, fragile hands; The rose you were gripping so tight blood started pouring from your skin as the thorn punctured your tiny little fingers; You did not notice, you did not choose to notice. You threw the rose onto the casket as it was being lowered six feet under. The casket with him in it. His hair was brushed back, his black and white suit on, and his eyes firmly shut...forever. It's done. He's buried. The field he's now buried in is covered in a thick fog, similar to that surrounding your mind. And as the car arrives to take you back home, You can almost hear the wind whispering for you to come back and visit and although you've finally left the scene, All you can picture are a white rose, a gold casket, and a large, foggy field.
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Jan 31, 2014
Jan 31, 2014 at 7:24 PM UTC
A White Rose, Gold Casket, & Field
A white rose, a gold casket, and a field were all you'd let yourself take in. It was the fourth of October, 2008, And you had stopped crying. You were surrounded by those dressed in black, you yourself wearing a nice dress and his necklace. Your brain was on high alert and yet you were calm, almost as if nothing fazed you. Not the smell of the ground, Freshly dug up in the cool, hard Earth of the autumn time, Nor the sound of your own mother crying, Allowing the tears to flow down her cheeks while she says a few words about her husband; now widowed. A white rose, a gold casket, and a field were all you'd let yourself see, The rest just a blur of movement and scenery. You sensed the touch of your uncle's hands on your shoulders, And could hear him sniffling, Mourning the loss of his brother. His grip was tight, almost as if he was afraid to lose you too; almost as if you were the only thing he had left of his dearly beloved brother. You could taste the bitterness of the words your mom had said to you the day after he died: "daddy died", those words being repeated over and over again in your mind, An infestation of thoughts and language. A white rose, a gold casket, and a field, The rose you were holding in your small, fragile hands; The rose you were gripping so tight blood started pouring from your skin as the thorn punctured your tiny little fingers; You did not notice, you did not choose to notice. You threw the rose onto the casket as it was being lowered six feet under. The casket with him in it. His hair was brushed back, his black and white suit on, and his eyes firmly shut...forever. It's done. He's buried. The field he's now buried in is covered in a thick fog, similar to that surrounding your mind. And as the car arrives to take you back home, You can almost hear the wind whispering for you to come back and visit and although you've finally left the scene, All you can picture are a white rose, a gold casket, and a large, foggy field.
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I am yearning to go to meet the people behind the passion to set foot on a plane and have no fear but only expectation of what greatness is to come I am yearning to go to see the broken orphaned widowed and lost I am yearning to fight to seek justice for the oppressed a home for the homeless a father for the fatherless I am yearning to be apart of their lives even though they do not know my name yet I am thinking night and day about them and when I see their faces my world will be complete and I know the yearning will be replaced with a hunger and a thirst to be a part of their lives until I am called elsewhere (a.c)
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Jan 25, 2014
Jan 25, 2014 at 12:55 PM UTC
I am yearning to go
I am a criminal,  A low down ***** convict,  Robbing old ladies and turning the youth into like minded thugs and killers.  With my gun, I can turn any day into new years eve.  Bang! Pow! I've just shown you how,  I ***** somebody's light out.  I live by the gun  Ready to pull it out and start blasting away,   And if you're in the way?  I hope you've had an eventful final day.  One more body to my death toll is of little consequence.  And to  those who choose to cross me will be dealt with in a premeditated sequence.  So many women I've widowed,  So many children I've left with only half a family. Do I care? No.  For my heart is as black as my skin  I have no feelings of remorse or empathy.  Or do I?  Am I really this despicable person?  Is what I've just said is not me at all,  Or just what people perceive me to be. The truth is, that's all it is A perception  A perverted perception forced upon me and others like me by illogical stereotypes,  A perverted perception perpetuated to the the point where it has become the status quo, A belief so deeply ingrained in the minds of the masses that I become public enemy number one, two and three,  so deeply ingrained that I should not know what it means to be free,  so deeply ingrained that I should not even be given the change to better myself.  Does this perception out rank reality? Does conceptuality govern the actuality of reality?    If so, I perceive this world to be full of ****
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Oct 18, 2020
Oct 18, 2020 at 5:37 AM UTC
Perceived perception
God loafs around heaven, without a shape but He would like to smoke His cigar or bite His fingernails and so forth. God owns heaven but He craves the earth, the earth with its little sleepy caves, its bird resting at the kitchen window, even its murders lined up like broken chairs, even its writers digging into their souls with jackhammers, even its hucksters selling their animals for gold, even its babies sniffing for their music, the farm house, white as a bone, sitting in the lap of its corn, even the statue holding up its widowed life, but most of all He envies the bodies, He who has no body. The eyes, opening and shutting like keyholes and never forgetting, recording by thousands, the skull with its brains like eels-- the tablet of the world-- the bones and their joints that build and break for any trick, the genitals, the ballast of the eternal, and the heart, of course, that swallows the tides and spits them out cleansed. He does not envy the soul so much. He is all soul but He would like to house it in a body and come down and give it a bath now and then.
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The Earth
The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eyes An alien suttee.
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Kipling's Vermont
I must begin with an apology, my friends That I shed no tears for you when you passed When I heard the news that you lived no more That I did not ponder on your existence and ceasing thereof When I continued with the ritual day to day For this, I am truly sorry I must continue with an apology, my friends That I did not acknowledge the cancer in your bones When you were still fighting, still breathing That I put out of my mind even the thought of autocide When your wife was left widowed, your children fatherless For this, I am sincerely sorry I must persist with an apology, my friends That I did not wish to attend your funerals or memorials When I was given an invitation and a chance That I did not comfort the loved ones you left behind When I dined in your homes with your memories For this, I am truthfully sorry. I must push on with an apology, my friends That even now I cannot grieve for the loss of you When I sit and write this poem with all left unsaid That I still cannot bring myself to shed a tear, to weep When I force myself to dwell on this tragedy For this, I am earnestly sorry. I must conclude with an apology, my friends That I am still inhaling stale air, exhaling my ghost When you have been torn from your families That I can still ungratefully demand more than my lot When your potential was cut down without my caring For this, I am fervently sorry. So, so sorry. And yet I still do not cry. h.f.m.
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May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018 at 4:36 PM UTC
A LAMENT FOR MY UNMOURNED: AN APOLOGY
Today bears the weight of erstwhile trepidation. Uncertainties exhumed only to be hung up as ominous flags. Black as night my widowed heart paraded through the procession. Garbed in ash encrusted, sequinned frock, hemmed train all tattered in rags. Herald the face with no features yet obscured behind a chiffon veil. In hands, a bouquet of black roses, worm-eaten to the stems. The mourning sun only gave the weakest glow, feeble attempt to rejuvenate all that is stale; to imbue the shimmer back into forsaken jewels and dulled gems. Her entourage kept up with heavy feet; all grim and sullen. Also faceless... Armed with pitchforks and torches. Today they will draw much; having thirst for crimson. Today they witness her death as the black parade marches.
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Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 11:04 PM UTC
Black Parade
My Harvest, my golden ever-lasting grain, My bird-winged heart who soars above this dull terrain. My Heart, my love, my lasting life's refrain. Oh breath, beat on and overcome this pain. My crop of gold, my one true wish, my meaning as foretold. My true and constant one, whose only hand I hold. My lonely one, my ring'ed one, whose story is not told. Oh heart, bear up and carry me to the fold. My only at my leaving one My dark nights soothing sun My comfort tales by her are spun My daily works, my widowed one Let all the suns rays warm her twice, Let rainfalls wealth melt her winters ice, Let all my mossy paths caress her feet, Until the two of us re-meet.
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Nov 11, 2012
Nov 11, 2012 at 3:43 AM UTC
The Golden Truth
In the Church, I met a woman so old Bending under the weight of years I wonder what made her steal my attention Was it her struggle to hold back her tears? In spite of her frail stooping figure She seemed to have an indomitable will Defeating all infirmities of age, she stood With a face though sad, yet tranquil and still Strange enough, she recalled to me The determined, but decrepit old man beside the pool Whom Wordsworth had once encountered Gathering leeches so scarce, but resolute and cool I watched the woman humbly prostrate And feebly rise and straighten her aged form Surrendering herself at the feet of God Imploring grace for life’s little tasks to perform In her gnarled hands, she firmly held a prayer book With the other supporting her frail figure on a staff And with a sigh of relief, she left the church As if her afflictions were reduced to half As the Congregation dispersed in all directions She feebly walked to her accustomed haunt At the rear side of the church was a Cemetery unkempt Where the ancestors slept, devoid of earthly cares and want Among all the tombstones in marble and granite Erected in memory of the kindred dead There was a newly dug up grave That stood aloof as a heap of mud I watched the old woman approach this spot Where she knelt down with a calm demeanor Her withered hands clasped together in piety And her eyes closed in silent prayer With a convulsive motion of her lips She rose up and once more knelt down As if searching for a face so dear Whose memory she could never ever drown Within that mound, slept her only son Who died in his prime, a month before Leaving his widowed mother behind To brave the shafts stinging, so sore As Time by seconds and minutes ticked away The bereaved mother stood up at last And heavily yet quietly walked away Leaving the one who was once her own part *** *** ** While the wounds of the young are quickly closed and healed And their ductile affections entwine around new passions The aged withdraw to the silence and desolation of life Once when deprived of the love that life no more sanctions!
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Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 7:09 AM UTC
Frozen Grief
In the Church, I met a woman so old Bending under the weight of years I wonder what made her steal my attention Was it her struggle to hold back her tears? In spite of her frail stooping figure She seemed to have an indomitable will Defeating all infirmities of age, she stood With a face though sad, yet tranquil and still Strange enough, she recalled to me The determined, but decrepit old man beside the pool Whom Wordsworth had once encountered Gathering leeches so scarce, but resolute and cool I watched the woman humbly prostrate And feebly rise and straighten her aged form Surrendering herself at the feet of God Imploring grace for life’s little tasks to perform In her gnarled hands, she firmly held a prayer book With the other supporting her frail figure on a staff And with a sigh of relief, she left the church As if her afflictions were reduced to half As the Congregation dispersed in all directions She feebly walked to her accustomed haunt At the rear side of the church was a Cemetery unkempt Where the ancestors slept, devoid of earthly cares and want Among all the tombstones in marble and granite Erected in memory of the kindred dead There was a newly dug up grave That stood aloof as a heap of mud I watched the old woman approach this spot Where she knelt down with a calm demeanor Her withered hands clasped together in piety And her eyes closed in silent prayer With a convulsive motion of her lips She rose up and once more knelt down As if searching for a face so dear Whose memory she could never ever drown Within that mound, slept her only son Who died in his prime, a month before Leaving his widowed mother behind To brave the shafts stinging, so sore As Time by seconds and minutes ticked away The bereaved mother stood up at last And heavily yet quietly walked away Leaving the one who was once her own part *** *** ** While the wounds of the young are quickly closed and healed And their ductile affections entwine around new passions The aged withdraw to the silence and desolation of life Once when deprived of the love that life no more sanctions!
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How long woman is wild when she is alone? How far woman can reach without her soulmate? How quick woman can fall in her endless waiting! How fun woman can die if she is alone in big house! How strong woman can fight looking her husband die? How big woman can dream if her husband is not rich? Which wills woman can have if her husband is poor? Which knot can win woman to unknot if her husband is bleeding? Which well can be nearly for widowed **** woman? Which well can be so far for kind widowed woman? Which heart woman can have if her children are prisoned? Which decision woman can take if prison guard needs her to ler her kids get out of steels? How fun is man thinking he owns her wife's heart! What happens when he is died so? After understanding all that I asked my mind grandpa, how dare she talks women in that way he told me "all women not like that" and again " non kind hearted woman Are married with Sky"
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Nov 1, 2021
Nov 1, 2021 at 8:40 PM UTC
Woman of sky