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"windless" poems
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. Here's yesterday, last year --- Palm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vast Windless threadwork of a tapestry. Flick the glass with your fingernail: It will ping like a Chinese chime in the slightest air stir Though nobody in there looks up or bothers to answer. The inhabitants are light as cork, Every one of them permanently busy. At their feet, the sea waves bow in single file. Never trespassing in bad temper: Stalling in midair, Short-reined, pawing like paradeground horses. Overhead, the clouds sit tasseled and fancy As Victorian cushions. This family Of valentine faces might please a collector: They ring true, like good china. Elsewhere the landscape is more frank. The light falls without letup, blindingly. A woman is dragging her shadow in a circle About a bald hospital saucer. It resembles the moon, or a sheet of blank paper And appears to have suffered a sort of private blitzkrieg. She lives quietly With no attachments, like a foetus in a bottle, The obsolete house, the sea, flattened to a picture She has one too many dimensions to enter. Grief and anger, exorcised, Leave her alone now. The future is a grey seagull Tattling in its cat-voice of departure. Age and terror, like nurses, attend her, And a drowned man, complaining of the great cold, Crawls up out of the sea.
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A Life
*How I wish to float upon your breast Soft and placid as a glass lake, windless Breathless But to delve into valleys Unexplored, keeper of buried treasures I trek throughout, wandering Aimless deliverance, unspoken promises Intricacy of intimate embrace I weave in my fingers, passion Spill me, leave kisses like ghosts Translucent memories Moist with seduction Delicious droplets of enticement Proposing infatuation, falling from your lips Illustrious little allures Swim through me Serpentine twisting contours Wrap me in flesh, consumption Stares, to reiterate a longing Convey this truthfulness Honeyed words of desire Think not to deny yourself this moment Make love to white whispers Embedded in the mouth of temptation Take no responsibility Let movement be freely expressed Body caressed Comforting red embers Of lustful flame Spin tales of time and tryst Inhale the sweeter aromas Entwine with immaculacy Reciprocate sensuality, a pair Two Two with a twist And many other turns*
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 7:38 PM UTC
Entwine
It was a restless night denuded of sleep So since it was warm and windless I hit the streets Walking under ancient oaks draped in Spanish moss My path inevitably led to where Everything was at a complete loss Crescent Moon Memorial Cemetery For the dead Where all lie below earthly care Was where my feet had somehow led Row upon row of forgotten names In all of their endeavors Have been eased of their earthly pains And now as I trudged by at a quarter to three A low chorus and chords of music Through the mists came floating to me It startled and intrigued What now is this ? So I had to go see for myself And I silently crept to where came the origins of bliss In a circle of bench seats and monument stones The strangest thing I saw , that of the unborn Ghosts and skeletons playing with bones and singing in moans A see through piano , trombone , bass , saxophone and a silver cornet And one wailing guitar completed the set On the translucent petal bass drum Was the name of the ethereal band And to a catchy tune I began to hum Crescent Moon Memorial Buried Blues Band The epitaph on the vaporous drum stated And I soon found myself a loyal fan What seem like a lifetime they continued to play Quaint rthyms and lyrics now made my day . . . and night ! As the sounds drifted across the river out onto the bay But far off I heard the mornings cock's call Then phiff . . . vanished all into the fog Not a trace as if covered by an invisible pall And then a ray caught the gleam in my eye And I knew that when the time comes Here's where I want to be placed after I die
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 8:38 PM UTC
Crescent Moon Memorial Buried Blues Band
It was a restless night denuded of sleep So since it was warm and windless I hit the streets Walking under ancient oaks draped in Spanish moss My path inevitably led to where Everything was at a complete loss Crescent Moon Memorial Cemetery For the dead Where all lie below earthly care Was where my feet had somehow led Row upon row of forgotten names In all of their endeavors Have been eased of their earthly pains And now as I trudged by at a quarter to three A low chorus and chords of music Through the mists came floating to me It startled and intrigued What now is this ? So I had to go see for myself And I silently crept to where came the origins of bliss In a circle of bench seats and monument stones The strangest thing I saw , that of the unborn Ghosts and skeletons playing with bones and singing in moans A see through piano , trombone , bass , saxophone and a silver cornet And one wailing guitar completed the set On the translucent petal bass drum Was the name of the ethereal band And to a catchy tune I began to hum Crescent Moon Memorial Buried Blues Band The epitaph on the vaporous drum stated And I soon found myself a loyal fan What seem like a lifetime they continued to play Quaint rthyms and lyrics now made my day . . . and night ! As the sounds drifted across the river out onto the bay But far off I heard the mornings cock's call Then phiff . . . vanished all into the fog Not a trace as if covered by an invisible pall And then a ray caught the gleam in my eye And I knew that when the time comes Here's where I want to be placed after I die
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The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone When Durin woke and walked alone. He named the nameless hills and dells; He drank from yet untasted wells; He stooped and looked in Mirrormere, And saw a crown of stars appear, As gems upon a silver thread, Above the shadow of his head The world was fair, the mountains tall, In Elder Days before the fall. Of mighty kings of Nargothrond And Gondolin, who now beyond The Western Seas have passed away; The world was fair in Durin's Day. A king he was on carven throne In many-pillared halls of stone With golden roof and silver floor, And runes of power upon the door. The light of sun and star and moon In shining lamps of crystal hewn Undimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone for ever fair and bright. There hammer on the anvil smote, There chisel clove, and graver wrote, There forged was blade, and bound was hilt; The delver mined, the mason built, There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, And metal wrought like fishes' mail, Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, And shining spears were laid in hoard. Unwearied then were Durin's folk; Beneath the mountains music woke: The harpers harped, the minstrels sang And at the gates the trumpets rang. The world is grey, the mountains old, The forge's fire is ashen cold; No harp is wrung, no hammer falls, The darkness dwells in Durin's halls; The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dûm. But still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Mirrormere; There lies his crown in water deep, Till Durin wakes again from sleep.
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Durin
The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone When Durin woke and walked alone. He named the nameless hills and dells; He drank from yet untasted wells; He stooped and looked in Mirrormere, And saw a crown of stars appear, As gems upon a silver thread, Above the shadow of his head The world was fair, the mountains tall, In Elder Days before the fall. Of mighty kings of Nargothrond And Gondolin, who now beyond The Western Seas have passed away; The world was fair in Durin's Day. A king he was on carven throne In many-pillared halls of stone With golden roof and silver floor, And runes of power upon the door. The light of sun and star and moon In shining lamps of crystal hewn Undimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone for ever fair and bright. There hammer on the anvil smote, There chisel clove, and graver wrote, There forged was blade, and bound was hilt; The delver mined, the mason built, There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, And metal wrought like fishes' mail, Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, And shining spears were laid in hoard. Unwearied then were Durin's folk; Beneath the mountains music woke: The harpers harped, the minstrels sang And at the gates the trumpets rang. The world is grey, the mountains old, The forge's fire is ashen cold; No harp is wrung, no hammer falls, The darkness dwells in Durin's halls; The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dûm. But still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Mirrormere; There lies his crown in water deep, Till Durin wakes again from sleep.
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Caucasian cadaver in the windless woods. Carelessly hanging from a tree. Colorless face looking down. Carrion yet to be seen. Creation of an evil man. Displaying his departed art. Completed, his compelling plan. Of helping death do its part. Few colors, fewer sounds. White skin contrasts the black dress. Faded yellow floating all around. Splatters of red fill the rest. A frightful figure that overwhelms. Above the confused and thorny trails. All the shallow know themselves. At the sight of this female. Breathless before being dangled. Dead before being displayed. Beautiful body, cold and mangled. Death magnificently portrayed. Multiple stab wounds in your back. Added to the smell of war. Mind immersed in barren black. Gnawed eyes to watch and adore. Dripping, dim and dreadful. The portrait he wanted to smear. Your future as empty as your words. Your hollowness shown clear. You don't know what you're missing.  Elders still die, the young still grow. The leaves below are hissing. At the corpse of a girl I used to know.
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Dec 10, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 at 11:37 AM UTC
Nadir
Regrets, they come in waves and break around his feet And he begins to wonder who he might have been Had roads diverged in different woods and fields Not yellow or yet any colour still unseen But clearer now by day than windless nights Still nearer than the objects of his dreams It'd rained late into the evening, and when the lights were shaded Around the pool outside and with the windows shuttered He'd thrown on loose clothes, flicked open an umbrella While high outside the stars the lightning flashes muttered Pulled open doors that led to the veranda And moved outside once more with all his thoughts unuttered The smoke, from fires on Java lies heavy on his senses An omen of the time of year and of the past condition He shrugs, ***** in the acidic nighttime odors Reviving lives not lived but revealing his admission That time beyond the present that mirrors every movement Within, without, and yet again, the flicker of suspicion. The pistol in his pocket, illegal not unloaded A symbol of his state of mind and by  his sole discretion He kneels beside the water, deep-set and in the shadows Lips forming wordlessly around the last confession Images of where and what and who and why and whether A portent of that final action, sensing and impression The smoke from fires on Java lies heavy on the water The reek of cordite mixing with the smell of burning grasses Indignant birds protest the crack of one small set expulsion The echo round the swimming pool reverberates and passes Nothing more and nothing less and time and space and matter Slick red upon the treacherous tiles, the shattered bloodied glasses.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 6:19 AM UTC
Fires On Java
Regrets, they come in waves and break around his feet And he begins to wonder who he might have been Had roads diverged in different woods and fields Not yellow or yet any colour still unseen But clearer now by day than windless nights Still nearer than the objects of his dreams It'd rained late into the evening, and when the lights were shaded Around the pool outside and with the windows shuttered He'd thrown on loose clothes, flicked open an umbrella While high outside the stars the lightning flashes muttered Pulled open doors that led to the veranda And moved outside once more with all his thoughts unuttered The smoke, from fires on Java lies heavy on his senses An omen of the time of year and of the past condition He shrugs, ***** in the acidic nighttime odors Reviving lives not lived but revealing his admission That time beyond the present that mirrors every movement Within, without, and yet again, the flicker of suspicion. The pistol in his pocket, illegal not unloaded A symbol of his state of mind and by  his sole discretion He kneels beside the water, deep-set and in the shadows Lips forming wordlessly around the last confession Images of where and what and who and why and whether A portent of that final action, sensing and impression The smoke from fires on Java lies heavy on the water The reek of cordite mixing with the smell of burning grasses Indignant birds protest the crack of one small set expulsion The echo round the swimming pool reverberates and passes Nothing more and nothing less and time and space and matter Slick red upon the treacherous tiles, the shattered bloodied glasses.
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Through halls of cloud his spirit soared Through countless skies of gold In windless corridors of air Through vistas vast and bold. Across the checkered fields of green Above those mountains high My friend would wing his aeroplane Into an endless sky. The windswept beauty reaching out The world so far below This freedom to spread out his wings Would make my friend’s heart glow. His spirit soaring like a bird Into a sky of rain The sunlight setting in the West In shades of sweet refrain. Alone, aloft in peacefulness Is where he means to be, To fly as one with eagles High above a distant sea. To reach up through the heaven’s gate To be at one with God To spiral round like feather down And touch down on the sod. With a heavy heart and weary hands He shut his motor down Forever more to be with us Imprisoned on the ground. A sunbeam I see yonder there At play amongst the shrouds And I fancy seeing Leon’s ghost Flying up into those clouds. Marshalg Mangere Bridge 11th June 2008 Dedicated to my flying mate, the late Leon Denize.
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Feb 1, 2010
Feb 1, 2010 at 8:31 PM UTC
Ode to an Aviator
melancholy blanketed the whites scarred voices muffled by a ****** mind. an avalanche stuck in my soul severer than a bee at a forked road    how confused! red-cheeked petals and afternoon birds glare     in confusions at the footsteps : unbalance, shaded, muted! the green umbrella's warm, so scorchingly cold! all embittered, by solemn beams of the soulless sun.      their eyes widen,      for they had never seen such lone, for such lone, rare, is forbid to the sons of nature, never belong to happy child's arms, that dreams in a mother's charm. grieving droughts in the air and grass, no dews, why!,    yawned the madden, soporific rabbit Ah, so wild. the windless noontime cross, my quivers stopped, mild. lashes waxed, blacken like a coal,   mind stuck in a haze, or maybe a threatening maze. stiffness of the air injected to my nostrils into my white tongue they will soak, like perfumes to a clothe. Selene will gaze angrily at this and say,       why no, it shouldn't be in there! the midnight orchids waver and frown. soon the frothing dreams peter, but the bolded letters in a white board stay, my chair stays. creaks of an abominable burden became a din. The smudges of grey-white dust I smelt hover gaily in the air of pompous breath.     spellbound by the stagnant languor, mazy, in hallucinations of the heat and homesick.     I sought the fount of hypocrisy and vile, my hiding nonchalances rosen (towards a flock of friends) and loathes to an abominable sun frozen (I wished it to die!) Tilted to the windows, I saw nothing, but fatal secrets of a heart rosed like window dust to a nose.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 3:45 AM UTC
Rosen fury,
melancholy blanketed the whites scarred voices muffled by a ****** mind. an avalanche stuck in my soul severer than a bee at a forked road    how confused! red-cheeked petals and afternoon birds glare     in confusions at the footsteps : unbalance, shaded, muted! the green umbrella's warm, so scorchingly cold! all embittered, by solemn beams of the soulless sun.      their eyes widen,      for they had never seen such lone, for such lone, rare, is forbid to the sons of nature, never belong to happy child's arms, that dreams in a mother's charm. grieving droughts in the air and grass, no dews, why!,    yawned the madden, soporific rabbit Ah, so wild. the windless noontime cross, my quivers stopped, mild. lashes waxed, blacken like a coal,   mind stuck in a haze, or maybe a threatening maze. stiffness of the air injected to my nostrils into my white tongue they will soak, like perfumes to a clothe. Selene will gaze angrily at this and say,       why no, it shouldn't be in there! the midnight orchids waver and frown. soon the frothing dreams peter, but the bolded letters in a white board stay, my chair stays. creaks of an abominable burden became a din. The smudges of grey-white dust I smelt hover gaily in the air of pompous breath.     spellbound by the stagnant languor, mazy, in hallucinations of the heat and homesick.     I sought the fount of hypocrisy and vile, my hiding nonchalances rosen (towards a flock of friends) and loathes to an abominable sun frozen (I wished it to die!) Tilted to the windows, I saw nothing, but fatal secrets of a heart rosed like window dust to a nose.
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As I put on the sandals made of red I embark on a journey where the past I’ve shed I follow the yellow brick road It twists and turns, windless and winds Around the bend and toward the skies Over the seas and into a new land With my family hand in hand I follow the yellow brick road And on this road I find a ball That entertains me through it all I share and play with those around Through the air or on the ground Kicking, hitting, bouncing, throwing it up and down I follow the yellow brick road As I walk I meet a fork And don’t know which way to go But which ever way I go I know I’ll find The place I want to end in space and time So I take a left and keep my course As I follow the yellow brick road I encounter on my voyage there People that can help me bear The burden that I care Of all the deaths I’ve seen On the path that I have been I follow the yellow brick road I reach a high and reach and low Nevertheless I know where I shall go I hit some bumps and fall right down But always get up and never frown I follow the yellow brick road As I see the road comes to an end I look at myself as an old man Searching this whole time To find my place, to find my life To do what’s right, to claim what’s mine I’ve been on the road this whole time On the road of my life And on this road I have found The person I am on this humble ground And as I dig my grave so deep I know I cannot go to sleep All the unfinished things I still have to do The questions, answers, and all things new So I put on the sandals made of red As a new road appears where the past I’ve shed The sins I’ve gathered I follow the yellow brick road
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Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016 at 2:51 PM UTC
Yellow Brick Road
As I put on the sandals made of red I embark on a journey where the past I’ve shed I follow the yellow brick road It twists and turns, windless and winds Around the bend and toward the skies Over the seas and into a new land With my family hand in hand I follow the yellow brick road And on this road I find a ball That entertains me through it all I share and play with those around Through the air or on the ground Kicking, hitting, bouncing, throwing it up and down I follow the yellow brick road As I walk I meet a fork And don’t know which way to go But which ever way I go I know I’ll find The place I want to end in space and time So I take a left and keep my course As I follow the yellow brick road I encounter on my voyage there People that can help me bear The burden that I care Of all the deaths I’ve seen On the path that I have been I follow the yellow brick road I reach a high and reach and low Nevertheless I know where I shall go I hit some bumps and fall right down But always get up and never frown I follow the yellow brick road As I see the road comes to an end I look at myself as an old man Searching this whole time To find my place, to find my life To do what’s right, to claim what’s mine I’ve been on the road this whole time On the road of my life And on this road I have found The person I am on this humble ground And as I dig my grave so deep I know I cannot go to sleep All the unfinished things I still have to do The questions, answers, and all things new So I put on the sandals made of red As a new road appears where the past I’ve shed The sins I’ve gathered I follow the yellow brick road
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The mood seems desolate at dusk, a time when emotions are on the rise; The shining hours of day are gone, and mystical images confront our eyes. Not quite sure of what we see, in the vastness of the indigo skies; 'Round about the glowing lamps of light, keenly focused upon iridescent sights. Are we witnessing life's mysteries unfold, the way our elders' stories told ? Yet darker still our evening grows, shivering, shaking in the windless cold. Sitting close on our front porch swing, seeking wonders of imagining; There they go--the ghosts of our youth, which beckon still despite the sting. We're not alone as visions float by, and dawn reveals what the future may bring. Frances McClelland July 17, 2016
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Aug 1, 2016
Aug 1, 2016 at 3:48 PM UTC
At Dusk
“reminding me to remember what has yet to occur” ~for Jean Fisher~ *this poem title lay fallow now near four months; the poem title, a riddle in and of itself, my inability/reluctance to bring it to a spoiled fruition is simply and sumptuously explained, no idea what it meant and cause I got an F in future-telling in 8th grade, when we still believed anything, even hap-hap-happy was a possibility all day long fits and spurts; a sad poem rattles around in every part of my overcast Saturn day, this last eked out September pretend summer weekend, bereftness so powerful, that the weather is slapping me down, hard, for begging, gray grey sadness in the windless stillness asking, why, do you deserve it? the death of summer is a tree ring completed, a marker of nearer-my-death that I dare only utter to my pillow, hoping it won’t betray my statelessness to whomever makes the bed and plumps up them pillows up into squealing my hidden   truths and trust birthing the past is easy and not what the title, words I wrote somewhere, is asking for; no so more straying and to the scribbling and pecking do I attend that title commenced ironically at the end of May when the summer man feathered his mental nest once more and now my blindness clarified. now when summer commences, was I not secretly reminding myself of what was sure to occur - that troubles will come in cold and snow, and no longer will the little house by the sun bathed bay be an available antidote to the real toxins that grow stronger* this then was the clarion self-hint to prepare, reminder to self for the summery summation-end inevitable, for the perfect ending of this poem now that I have accurately predicted my future the title has borne its bittersweet fruits
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 4:12 PM UTC
reminding me to remember what has yet to occur
“reminding me to remember what has yet to occur” ~for Jean Fisher~ *this poem title lay fallow now near four months; the poem title, a riddle in and of itself, my inability/reluctance to bring it to a spoiled fruition is simply and sumptuously explained, no idea what it meant and cause I got an F in future-telling in 8th grade, when we still believed anything, even hap-hap-happy was a possibility all day long fits and spurts; a sad poem rattles around in every part of my overcast Saturn day, this last eked out September pretend summer weekend, bereftness so powerful, that the weather is slapping me down, hard, for begging, gray grey sadness in the windless stillness asking, why, do you deserve it? the death of summer is a tree ring completed, a marker of nearer-my-death that I dare only utter to my pillow, hoping it won’t betray my statelessness to whomever makes the bed and plumps up them pillows up into squealing my hidden   truths and trust birthing the past is easy and not what the title, words I wrote somewhere, is asking for; no so more straying and to the scribbling and pecking do I attend that title commenced ironically at the end of May when the summer man feathered his mental nest once more and now my blindness clarified. now when summer commences, was I not secretly reminding myself of what was sure to occur - that troubles will come in cold and snow, and no longer will the little house by the sun bathed bay be an available antidote to the real toxins that grow stronger* this then was the clarion self-hint to prepare, reminder to self for the summery summation-end inevitable, for the perfect ending of this poem now that I have accurately predicted my future the title has borne its bittersweet fruits
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A drab drop drips Downed casualty Down casually. A sulfuric gust cycles In three fly-by nights. A gust hoping, A breeze yearning to dab a wet tear off a moistened spring cheek. Floating by on a wisp of breath, Breathed once by the blessed. Now irreparably tainted, then incomprehensible anew: Treated by the respirations of the perspiring, expending breath on czarist ears, aspiring; Cured by the tongues of the insatiably dying And by those primary soothe-ers, invisibly crying. Alveoli gripping that sine qua non of civilization Until they must release the once-oxygen into the hills of Kyivan Rus. A first breath and second As much as a penultimate and final. And witness to the chronology that led to such a Bloodbath-blessed blast As this.
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 11:44 PM UTC
A windless night in Amsterdam
I came from the sunny valleys And sought for the open sea, For I thought in its gray expanses My peace would come to me. I came at last to the ocean And found it wild and black, And I cried to the windless valleys, “Be kind and take me back!” But the thirsty tide ran inland, And the salt waves drank of me, And I who was fresh as the rainfall Am bitter as the sea.
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The River
Give me the sea and I'll drink it all of it Give me the sky and I'll blot it out cut it out leave the gaping earth barren of its liquid dressing and leave the sky naked of its blue face there is no compare that is not to say you are not enough for me not at all it is to say you are more than I could have desired more than I could have dreamed and I do not tire of you not in my darkest moments when I'm stretched thin and there is no longer a devil-may-care draped about my addled mind when my patience snaps when my jaw clamps my eyes droop my brain thumps against my skull not even then with the last vestiges of civility held in grasp not even then can I think to lash out at you not even when you poke or **** plod about my sensibilities maim my sensitivities not even then not even when you roll your eyes give me that long 'hmmmm - really...' I don't give in to the nagging, nigh satisfying itch to shake with rage and curse everything that stems from the womb I am cool as a cucumber placid as a windless lake I roll my shoulders flutter my eyelashes look you up and down say, 'My... my... tired aren't you?' Your shoulders slump Your efforts to topple me abate You nod your head curl up on my lap isn't it funny how comforted we become when we are offered solace in exchange for an argument that neither of us would win?
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Jun 18, 2022
Jun 18, 2022 at 4:06 AM UTC
The Raised Hairs Of Lions...
It struck me tonight How impressive it is The deftness of your tongue Coaxing life Out of shy, windless nights I still remember Sitting by your side As your laughter floated westward The bashful heavens made to blush And you Conducting an orchestra Of sweet vivid flowers Wet petals falling from your lips Kissing me gently on the cheek Painting cursive On the sky's horizon My words will never be so Delicate They are stiff; they are tired They are made to roam abandoned alleys And grow old in the open hands Of a book So speak to me Drip your honeyed breath onto my chest With shallow sighs Wrap the fingers of your conversation Around my hand And don't let go
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Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 1:04 PM UTC
Delicate
I watch with no eyes and listen with no ears. I am just the shadow cast still within that of yours. I whisper no words and scream without a voice. I am the quiet between each phrase, the pause before and after every thought. I reach with no arms and stand on no legs. I am the breeze you feel on windless nights. I feel with no heart but love with no boundaries. To most I am faceless, nameless and bear no threat. I am a sihouette in the distance no one notices. A ghost you know exists but don’t believe.
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 7:20 AM UTC
Ghost
Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 4:47 PM UTC
A Funebre In Plaridel, Bulacan
Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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She was different than the rest, A Sunflower facing the moon. Trying to grow taller than the rest, to have a voice in a windless field, to be what she is meant to be, when everyone is just the same. Her roots were the strongest but she was the weakest How can you blame her when she is just a sunflower facing the moon. A wild wind took her off, now she is lonley like never before. All she wanted was to be heard but she was just a sunflower facing the moon.
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Aug 30, 2019
Aug 30, 2019 at 1:00 AM UTC
Sunflower
Strange whimsical winds, Drifting across the city bylanes; as if some poet's nomadic dreams. Whether it's gloomy nights or bright mornings, Winds won't stop; as it can't differentiate these things. Storming through the strange alleys, There's none so place which stays windless. Whether roaring blizzard or soothing breeze, It pierce people's soul with discriminating ease. In half agony and half hope, I looked back and forth, Could not get a glimpse of you in this unseen natural wrath. Uncertain of my fate; I must depart, To find you in my lonely heart.
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 4:33 AM UTC
Whimsical Winds
1 (Windless Summer) Between the glass panes of the sea are pressed Patterns of fronds, and the bronze tracks of fishes. 2 (Winter) Foam-ropes lasso the seal-black shiny rocks, Noosing, slipping and noosing again for ever. 3 (Windy Summer) Over-sea going, under returning, meet And make a wheel, a shell, to hold the sun.
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Sea
The parched earth echoed the wails for the dead as flames devoured the crowd of corpses mouth agape with unquenched thirst. The sky had mercilessly looked away having spit fire on them down below sparing not one waterhole on its way and the mother if only she could use her tears for the baby to drink but her eyes had turned dry as the earth. Yet dark as the depth of love the King's pond mirrored the princess' face and would still beam the moon in her eyes strangely hiding from the wrath of the drought. One night sleeping on her ivory bed her silken skin cooled with rosewater the princess heard a voice: *When the fury of God blinds him to the pains of men an angel rises to break his heart stakes her life to rend heaven apart so his tears on earth fall as rain.* The windless night was deadly quiet watched by moon in awe wide eyed the trees sparkled in firefly's light when the princess stood by the pond's side. For awhile her eyes roamed around resting on the marble's gleam the sleeping grass her sweet playground a home smelling all earthly dream. She felt like swimming through the air love glowing warm in her peaceful eyes till she reached the end of stairs that bore her frame with deep sighs. The heaven broke down with thunderous rain the seeds sprouted filled field with green upon that land wasn't a drought again never before had such harvest been seen. In the depth of night if you hear a cry from the clouds pearly by dawn's embrace know God's tears will fall from the sky as dewdrops mourning the rain princess.
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Jul 15, 2017
Jul 15, 2017 at 12:22 PM UTC
Rain Princess
The parched earth echoed the wails for the dead as flames devoured the crowd of corpses mouth agape with unquenched thirst. The sky had mercilessly looked away having spit fire on them down below sparing not one waterhole on its way and the mother if only she could use her tears for the baby to drink but her eyes had turned dry as the earth. Yet dark as the depth of love the King's pond mirrored the princess' face and would still beam the moon in her eyes strangely hiding from the wrath of the drought. One night sleeping on her ivory bed her silken skin cooled with rosewater the princess heard a voice: *When the fury of God blinds him to the pains of men an angel rises to break his heart stakes her life to rend heaven apart so his tears on earth fall as rain.* The windless night was deadly quiet watched by moon in awe wide eyed the trees sparkled in firefly's light when the princess stood by the pond's side. For awhile her eyes roamed around resting on the marble's gleam the sleeping grass her sweet playground a home smelling all earthly dream. She felt like swimming through the air love glowing warm in her peaceful eyes till she reached the end of stairs that bore her frame with deep sighs. The heaven broke down with thunderous rain the seeds sprouted filled field with green upon that land wasn't a drought again never before had such harvest been seen. In the depth of night if you hear a cry from the clouds pearly by dawn's embrace know God's tears will fall from the sky as dewdrops mourning the rain princess.
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out of a shallow dip catch-water field of landscape polished rock a shock of pregnant junipers olive-green fires arise and my eyes bedazzle gossamer floating specks of bees new hatched butterflies golden jump and spiral as if tethered to child's witching wand random ride the windless air
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Mar 10, 2016
Mar 10, 2016 at 4:36 PM UTC
spring snapshot
(To Eleonora Duse) We are anhungered after solitude, Deep stillness pure of any speech or sound, Soft quiet hovering over pools profound, The silences that on the desert brood, Above a windless hush of empty seas, The broad unfurling banners of the dawn, A faery forest where there sleeps a Faun; Our souls are fain of solitudes like these. O woman who divined our weariness, And set the crown of silence on your art, From what undreamed-of depth within your heart Have you sent forth the hush that makes us free To hear an instant, high above earth’s stress, The silent music of infinity?
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*The odor of blood drops in drapes, figures half-lit form false shapes; the bed on which I lie and the windows welcome what the delicate line knows: the open imagination's well-kept trade that many shrug off with a stilted stare or cough, throwing discredit on what honest hands have made. All that dreamlike inspiration becomes a beautiful conflagration: the smell of emblematic men and women slain, and flickering lights from where thought's shadows came, issue out of the creative heart's desire that's uncontrollable, requiring an artistic toll, like the worn fingers of the bard that plays the lyre. But that's what poetry's about, a deep and draining silent shout; the hand is left cramped and consumed, the heart's violet blossoms begin to bloom: sedative perfumes slide over your wearied frame – half-memories abate, the odorous dead dissipate – you're deserted, yet the halcyon heart flares aflame. Symbols come and symbols go: the disfigured trees obscured by snow, or simply standing against the wind or windless heat; a cherished friend, loved ones who’ve passed and the Lost Lyricist; the Muse that eludes the damp room in which it broods; an image of stream near a stony tower’s twist. Find here, dear reader and friend, a testimony sung over again. I write this text to release me from broken thoughts and anger’s sum: all that childhood and adolescence approved. The unvoiced thoughts of a boy caught by cast lots inked to find something beyond evanescent truths.*
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Jul 5, 2012
Jul 5, 2012 at 9:31 AM UTC
(Introduction)
*The odor of blood drops in drapes, figures half-lit form false shapes; the bed on which I lie and the windows welcome what the delicate line knows: the open imagination's well-kept trade that many shrug off with a stilted stare or cough, throwing discredit on what honest hands have made. All that dreamlike inspiration becomes a beautiful conflagration: the smell of emblematic men and women slain, and flickering lights from where thought's shadows came, issue out of the creative heart's desire that's uncontrollable, requiring an artistic toll, like the worn fingers of the bard that plays the lyre. But that's what poetry's about, a deep and draining silent shout; the hand is left cramped and consumed, the heart's violet blossoms begin to bloom: sedative perfumes slide over your wearied frame – half-memories abate, the odorous dead dissipate – you're deserted, yet the halcyon heart flares aflame. Symbols come and symbols go: the disfigured trees obscured by snow, or simply standing against the wind or windless heat; a cherished friend, loved ones who’ve passed and the Lost Lyricist; the Muse that eludes the damp room in which it broods; an image of stream near a stony tower’s twist. Find here, dear reader and friend, a testimony sung over again. I write this text to release me from broken thoughts and anger’s sum: all that childhood and adolescence approved. The unvoiced thoughts of a boy caught by cast lots inked to find something beyond evanescent truths.*
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# *Sparkles and stars, there is a brilliance in the sky and a darkness, all around it Child of wonder child of Light Oh my Lord, child Please hold on tight The worst of monsters come out at night A wingless child Cannot take flight Wonder, young child Let the Light  in you emit from your wild Chasing all you have known that causes  such fright A grass covered field A rolling, green hill On your back,  you look up To a sky, brilliant blue Until the blue  I see becomes the vastest  of oceans now, below me On a windless, cloudless day Wonder, young child And watch all the monsters float away* #
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Jun 11, 2024
Jun 11, 2024 at 1:30 PM UTC
Childhood