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"wwii" poems
What luxury to get mad about last night's basketball loss and watch the full moon descending at the speed the earth turns. Things could get worse personally and for the community. Bombings, killings, anomie boiling frogs and witches cursing. The changing climate, typhoons in the Philippines, volcanoes and tsunamis, WWII which I missed, Thanksgiving nor'easter, Easter twister. What abundance to fast or feast, your choice, stay inside by the stove or go outside, climb the mountainside. Live in a city or small town. So I raged at the coaches for their lazy zone defense like an alien in the bleachers unable to affect the outcome. When my sons came home I yelled at them too. What opulence to be angry about nothing of consequence neither stopped by the cops nor slipped on the ice.
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Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 at 6:13 AM UTC
Jack's Time Out
Senses explode, WWII, Nuclear warfare on this expanse of bare Skin supposed to be closed at my age separates, I let the saltwater seep into this, Slick. Time passes, hardly passing, But, oh, how well we move. Dance Around our icy fire, escape from the pain Constantly eating, feeding. We are a buffet of things to harm Come for another plate, fate. Do us more harm? No. We will not stand, we can't When we are in this state of mind. We have no state of mind, Lust driven creatures, but we can speak. Command, tell me what You want. You want a simple thing, but so complex. And I want it, too, but simpler for me. A simple thing, unless thought of. Believed in, felt deeply in ways not physical. Arching and deepening, we will not be broken down by a measly War outside of our windows. Fire scorching the wooden figures, but we are sheltered by stone. We have escaped and we are left with a heavy air and the smell Only we can concoct. Nonexistent fabric leaving traces on my skin and yours, indent. And your eyes are all I see, even in the dark. I know their color by heart, greenbluegrey-everchanging. But I can figure it out. Your pupils dilate you know. You look at me and I see them. You seem drugged, dear. Let me feed your addiction. There are many nuclear weapons left, buried Throughout the world. We can travel and love, Never ending.
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 7:03 PM UTC
Something Seductive
I had to run to the store today at lunchtime we were out of paper plates we had a party last night and didn't want to have to do dishes again While there and while moving quite quickly although in the shape I am in, "quickly" is being very kind to myself I came across a man In a blue blazer with yellow shorts and knee-high yellow socks in beige shoes My first thought was I need to get paper plates my father-in-law is waiting for his lunch he's eighty nine and flew over the Pacific during WWII in a PBY Catalina one of the most beautiful flying boats ever created pulling pilots out of the water who had come up short in a dogfight or of fuel I needed to get paper plates This isn't Bermuda old chap or a cricket match in Rhoorkee the british invented great campaign chairs there this is Connecticut but then I realized that I knew the man I had worked with him in a previous life in a long dead company that burst before the internet bubble did He was a former British Sergeant Major and as such took his colonial British very seriously that attitude fascinates me his office I recalled, looked like a colonial governor's office in India So I said hi and we talked for a bit and wished each other well and said good bye as I needed to get paper plates my father-in-law was waiting for his lunch
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Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 8:02 PM UTC
A Man in Knee High Yellow Socks and a Blazer
Biology TED talk, Ken Burns WWII Multiple choice plus open response = Teacher cares, out there among the English Mathematics, fractions to imaginary i Anything can happen any time, I mean Mass killing--public school, movie theater, Post office when every mother wears a gun Yet happiness permeates like CO2 + sunlight Photosynthesis + electricity = burning bush Hot tea, hot shower pleasure perfect rest Early to bed, no more lies, complexity Poetry about history, i.e. Wolfowitz As for non-fiction, most things qualify to know Astrobiology, search for LUCA, FLO Minerals on Titan, organisms on Enceladus Divination on Iapetus, peace on Earth and Tethys Volcanoes and tsunamis, Big Red One and Private Ryan Don't stay up late, take your vitamins Sin and crime being nothing more than Mental malaise, imbalance. Love and compromise Tolerance, practice worksheets, brilliance Prejudice and superstition, Tha's a wrap Nothin doin, ain't gonna happen, freedom's when Yes is mostly a blessing and No is always an option
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Feb 3, 2019
Feb 3, 2019 at 8:14 AM UTC
TED Talk
Oh Archie, The Don speaks so kindly to our generation... I wish you were here to hear, To lament, with me... Oh Archie, It seems so difficult this modern life. This place of no rewards, ...no one knows what started it all, how life was great once here in America. Oh Archie, They've taken over your favorite past-time, television! They're everywhere nowadays my love... You can't get away from them; like cock-a-roaches. I see them out in the marketplaces and wonder; "Can these people understand English?" "Do they remember that white people saved the world in WWII?" "Do they care that someone else built civilization?" Oh Archie, ...my love, I miss you.
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Sep 18, 2016
Sep 18, 2016 at 11:05 PM UTC
Archie, my love...
mass culture     is designed      for       complacency [               ]; the Great Depression of the 30's ended the Roaring 20's; as radio brought WWII & TV Vietnam into homes where easy-chairs & TV dinners reigned in cartoon silence; Bud sneaks off to the garage to smoke bud, when the innocent stoner gets a draft card, turning radical, Bud grows his hair long & giving the middle finger to some, peace sign to others  [decades go by when hideous was fashionable];                  9/11 breaking our post-grunge neo-70's-80's haze [for what, like a week - - -                 then came the hoax of Islamophobia        spreading paranoia & nervousness in case the terrorists missed anyone;                 the 90's were already                 nostalgia by the time of the invasion of Iraq; mass culture is designed for sedentary complacency but when society is in upheaval the media just has to wait until it's all over to start promoting expensive baubles again - - -
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 4:21 PM UTC
profiting from mass cultural hysteria
Won boxing matches with Lewis , Lasky, Corn Griffin, Swiderski, Then many more titles with Griffiths, Farr, Stillman, and Levandowski, Jackson, Caggiano, Darnell and Dobson Something he could tell his grandson His greatest match of all was the title he earned against Max Baer The fight was the ultimate win at Gardens of Madison Square A very passionate man for his wife and children he went to great lengths To keep his family together during the depression, even in times of brink Served honorably in WWII as a 1st Lieutenant Owned a surplus supplier of marine equipment Helped to construct the bridge Verrazano It was the proud city’s beautiful Picasso Gone is Jim Braddock, a movie about him, CINDERELLA MAN to be sure he’s not forgotten His Granddaughter Rosemarie Dewitt  played his neighbor Sara Wilson, who was downtrodden Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved Biopoem
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 11:00 PM UTC
The Bulldog of Bergen
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, Air, space, land and sea; Sailor, Corpman, Airman, Soldier, Pilot, Ranger, Medic, SEAL, or Merchant Mariner; Barbary, 1812, American Revolution, Civil, Spanish, Texan and Mexican, WWI, WWII,  Korea, Vietnam,  Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan. Khaki, green, white and blue, Ship, tank, plane... all boots. Knife, pistol, bomb or rifle,  Weapon, bandage, or Bible instead, Each one’s veins filled with red. Hostage rescue, protect and shield, Capture, conquer, overcome, never yield; Freedom, heartbreak, loss and grief, Foreign, home, border, sky, Ocean, desert, mountain, plain, Water side, hillside, bedside, grave. Parent, child, father, mother, Auntie, uncle, niece or nephew, Sister, brother, spouse and lover. May your sweat on furtive brow, Rouse our tribute, take knee and bow. Buried, missing... wounded all, Respect, endure, honor, release, Forever may you rest in peace. *To each of you Who’s paid a price, With years, with limb,  With blood, with life, For each of these,  Oh, warrior ferocious, Wrapped around  A heart that’s precious; My voice it sings, Let freedom ring; My heart, it bleeds,  My eyes, they weep; My hand, it rises in salute; And my soul is filled  This day for you With pride that swells, With love that beats, A song of deepest,  Heartfelt  Gratitude!* Oh Warrior, you this day I salute!!!
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Nov 9, 2013
Nov 9, 2013 at 3:37 PM UTC
Tribute
"i am very particular about who i expose myself to," we say to 3 million strangers every day i shut off everything and everyone just to listen for a while then i start talking and do not stop ever imagine yourself vividly darkness goes like this tell me one war since wwii that the united states has "won" tell me one war where we have not been the aggressor he told me that burning down the house was the only logical thing to do next unknowing how much of a literal person i am start the car and leave this nowhere behind things i used to admire from afar seem so much closer now oh dear i think i've lost myself could you call it (i left it on silent) i don't have any data to back up my opinions i think gravity and love are that of the same force i don't like associating with people who complain about the length of songs i wish i was strong enough to lift both of our souls simultaneously you are constantly defining beauty with the way you bite your lip and flutter your eyelashes and grasp your left arm and stare at the ground while speaking to me you are drunk and you are sad and i am broken and lets kiss wow here we are kissing
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Sep 6, 2013
Sep 6, 2013 at 12:36 AM UTC
i don't like associating with people who complain about the length of songs
They're a normal family As normal as they can be The father is a veteran of WWII He runs a tight ship but one can tell by looking into his eyes (the one that works) that he loves his wife and children The mother isn't a homemaker because she's forced to she actually loves the challenge of keeping a household in order it gives her something to take pride in The daughter is sweet sixteen bright as the stars in the night sky She wants to be a concert pianist drawing in crowds of thousands to listen to sweet melodic sensations The son is naught but an infant slowly learning the benefit of moving in order to get places his eyes constantly wander in wonder at his surroundings innocence in its true form They are a normal family But they're not. Look closely at the father You can see the mangled remnants of his chest Where he fell on top of a grenade He is, indeed, a veteran of WWII.   His name is on the large memorial in Washington D.C. Just another young man willing to sacrifice for something he believed in His wife died in 1926 from complications during pregnancy She never got to see her daughter's face as the doctors carried her from the room The mother's pale face and unliving eyes staring at a nondescript hospital ceiling The daughter's crushed skull is the byproduct of a drunk driver who is still haunted by the vision of teenage dreams sliced apart by windshield glass in 1985 He drinks alone at home now The child has a gunshot wound through his neck a stray bullet from a gang fight that found flesh and blood, just as the man who pulled the trigger intended it to every time the infant giggles, one can hear the gurgle shortly after This family exists somewhere outside our consciousness They don't go on vacations to Disney World You won't see them at the corner grocery store They don't Celebrate the Holidays They don't have     a favorite sports team     a favorite pair of shoes     a favorite band    What they have is eachother four random souls that found one another lost in the ether living their afterlife the best they can
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Sep 11, 2012
Sep 11, 2012 at 10:19 PM UTC
Family of Consequence
They're a normal family As normal as they can be The father is a veteran of WWII He runs a tight ship but one can tell by looking into his eyes (the one that works) that he loves his wife and children The mother isn't a homemaker because she's forced to she actually loves the challenge of keeping a household in order it gives her something to take pride in The daughter is sweet sixteen bright as the stars in the night sky She wants to be a concert pianist drawing in crowds of thousands to listen to sweet melodic sensations The son is naught but an infant slowly learning the benefit of moving in order to get places his eyes constantly wander in wonder at his surroundings innocence in its true form They are a normal family But they're not. Look closely at the father You can see the mangled remnants of his chest Where he fell on top of a grenade He is, indeed, a veteran of WWII.   His name is on the large memorial in Washington D.C. Just another young man willing to sacrifice for something he believed in His wife died in 1926 from complications during pregnancy She never got to see her daughter's face as the doctors carried her from the room The mother's pale face and unliving eyes staring at a nondescript hospital ceiling The daughter's crushed skull is the byproduct of a drunk driver who is still haunted by the vision of teenage dreams sliced apart by windshield glass in 1985 He drinks alone at home now The child has a gunshot wound through his neck a stray bullet from a gang fight that found flesh and blood, just as the man who pulled the trigger intended it to every time the infant giggles, one can hear the gurgle shortly after This family exists somewhere outside our consciousness They don't go on vacations to Disney World You won't see them at the corner grocery store They don't Celebrate the Holidays They don't have     a favorite sports team     a favorite pair of shoes     a favorite band    What they have is eachother four random souls that found one another lost in the ether living their afterlife the best they can
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Any brighter and streams in the ditches would look like Cuyahoga River across Cleveland during the 1960's There is no fire, only flies who make bright their bellies and flash for show like the perverts in metropolitan inner city parks Enticed to the flies, like moths to the ceiling globes, we gather jars and lids with air holes hammered hard No walking as we streak along gravel roads built after WWII when rationing was lifted and road speeds jumped Flies caught one by one are smashed on white tees, luminous signals for drivers alert to the folly of our play Our madness endures until Ball  jars become dim lanterns of joy for us and jail for the bugs doomed to die before daybreak until swept from the garage floor as we plot our assault on airborne glimmers along tonight's roadsides
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 8:37 AM UTC
Dim Lanterns of Joy
Please come over. I’ll have a tea set, my clavinova dusted off, Apples to Apples, Bananagrams and a fireplace for philosophical talk. You can keep telling me how the regions of the body have different tones and pitch different notes, and how the ridges of your bones show like ripples in a desert. I’ll wallow in your catalogues: all the warcraft of WWII, the chemicals that preserved the cats we dissected, and the steps to dissolving the puzzle of calculus. You will master the Rubik’s cube over and over again just to amuse me. And deep inside, I hope your poetry isn’t as good as mine. But I’ll still dance better and I’ll still cuddle with you in our home theatre, and I’ll pay you a piece of my mind once I’ve made it up.
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Oct 4, 2014
Oct 4, 2014 at 4:31 PM UTC
little einstein you
Fighter jets in formation Above Ekeberg Hill Remind me of years Spent on airbases During my time in the Royal Norwegian Air Force. I was stationed at NATO's Northernmost base during 9/11. Minutes after plane #2, I was upgraded to NATO Top Secret Clearance. Given live ammo for my P80. Witnessing the colonel's Marlboro Light shake in his Usually steady hand as I Approached; MSO briefcase Handcuffed to my wrist. There were papers inside I was expected to Die for. I was 22. Not even the police carry Firearms in this country. Not even the police are expected To give up ghost over information. For a nation of such ****** History, we maintain a mellow Attitude. We choose peace over "piece". Gun-sense over violent nonsense. Naïve? Maybe. There are nearly no shootings here. We've had one lethal act of Terrorism since WWII. We can live with that. Literally.
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 10:39 AM UTC
Glock-Less Youngster
. *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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My mind is racing again At 4:37 am I wish my grades were as heightened As my inability to sleep I’ve been having nightmares But they don’t scare me anymore Sometimes I find a comfort in knowing That the monsters I’ve dreamt Are a lot more pleasant than the monsters I have left to dream I don’t mind it But I mind you Only because you’re always on my Mind I pretend that I’m a solipsist , But I could have just made it up Your love wasn't as real in my heart (As it was in my head) I am a shy little flower Somewhere behind the trees “There’s really no way to reach me” But there is. No one has taken the time to Explore I once met a girl A traveler in that moment She told me a story about her grandmother Who was shipped to a boarding school in Germany right after WWII. At the age of three The first sentence she ever understood was: "Everything is broken" And she lived a whole life With that silly little thought Echoing. Someday I will find an ocean breeze Worth calling my home With sand as soft As my tinder Beating heart Good night Is a formulation of words Whose meaning I am still Unfamiliar with As I walked along Your art stricken walls I wonder if I’ve ever really been capable Of creating But hardly ever do I strike an inspiration I can call entirely my own
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Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 11:52 AM UTC
Heavy eyes heavy with the burden of being Awake
It seems to have spontaneously combusted, but it didn’t. The disease struck long ago, brewed in the petri dish of Depression, WWII, and convergent technologies. Well before that, really, but that was the point of critical mass. By the 1950's, it was an epidemic. The independent Republic of individuals, small towns, coherent communities, distinct cities, local diners, shops and stores tied together with two lane blacktop was crumbling. Things only got worse faster. It was a disease of toxic, lulling dreams. American Dreams. And standardization was its crushing foot that flattened everything and left a homogenized wasteland in its trail. The old gods vanished and the new became despots. Go anywhere in America, Boston or Biloxi. You can’t tell where you are. Most shop at the same stores (real or virtual), eat at the same chain restaurants, wear the same clothes, gulp from the same Internet, swallow similar information, and think (within acceptable variations) the same thoughts. Even sin has become tediously consubstantial. Knowledge has been supplanted by content. Words are squeezed of meaning. Everyone is an expert and no one knows anything. Except Siri and Alexa. The Dreamtime of consumerism, consumption and conformity dominates. All that remains to come is the dominion of AI. Then we will all be watched over by machines of loving grace, free to graze in bovine bliss in the cybernetic meadows of bland utopia.
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Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 6:54 AM UTC
American Dreamtime: A Scrambled Memoir Of Poetic Future History
Midway- Surprise! We saw them Coming from a mile away. Japanese aircrafts and ships try and attack, And they get their butts whooped! And then we got the idea to island hop! Hop to Iwo Jima- Slowly.... Slowly.... Don't scare it, It's like a nest of bees! And we got it! Two air bases captured And one step closer to the mainland! Japan may be fortified, but we Have tons of muscle! Hop to Okinawa- this one was a doozy... The biggest amphibious battle of WWII, And contained the most casualties! Pretty harsh. Maybe you they shouldn't have attacked us in the firs place! We only meant to invade and use the island as a Springboard towards the mainland, but the Battle took too long. Just weeks after the fighting ended, Japan surrendered And we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki! We never got to invade...
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 10:18 PM UTC
In Order (2)
Tell me how love killed grandpa when nothing else could. How he was blasted into the after-life by a grenade while trying to save another. How they were sure he'd died, and even issued his death certificate. How they sent a folded flag and stoic soldier to tell my great-grandma her son had died nobly. Tell me how the morgue attendant saw him cough and twitch. How the shrapnel ripped him to shreds, severing the blood supply to his brain. How doctors told him he'd never walk, or talk, or even sit up again. How they gave him a Purple Heart to make up for his broken body. How he was too willful to be beaten by WWII, Korea, or a doctor's grim diagnosis. Tell me how I'm the daughter of a dead man's son. How grandpa refused to be crippled by the forgotten war. How he taught himself to sit up and walk, at first with crutches and then unassisted. How he learned to tie his shoes using only one hand, and talk through damaged vocal cords. How he conceived you 6 years later, and the newspapers called him a 'True American Hero.' Tell me how he finally died of a broken heart. How young and full of life grandma was when Alzheimer's disease took her. How quickly she forgot everything, even how to swallow and breathe. How you were orphaned so early in life, no older than I am now. How grandpa's big courageous heart could lose anything but her.
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Feb 21, 2012
Feb 21, 2012 at 9:04 PM UTC
Dad Tell Me About Grandpa
Dear underclassmen, You will learn so much. You’ll learn that when seniors tell you the main stairs are only for upperclassman they’re lying, that freshman Friday isn’t a thing, and elevator passes aren’t actually real. You’ll learn WWII started in 1939 and it was the bloodiest of them all. You’ll learn that sometimes, things don’t have to be ****** to be painful. Sometimes sterile wounds heal the slowest. High school will teach you to love with a vigor you didn't see coming and to hate with a passion you never saw possible, and you’ll find that after feeling them both so deeply, it sometimes becomes impossible to tell the difference between the two. You’ll learn about drugs- that they don’t always come in little ziplock bags or orange pill bottle. You’ll learn that often times, they don’t come in powder or pills at all- they come in words on a page or in blue eyes staring at you through wayfarer glasses that are so clouded you find yourself wondering how they can even see the world around them. You’ll find your drug- everyone does. You’ll know you’re addicted because to you, it's what keeps the earth spinning on its axis; it's what puts the stars in the sky; it's what you see when you hear the word love. You'll get addicted to something, and you’ll lose it, and you’ll move on. You’ll learn that things can change in the blink of an eye, which is just as fast as we are to post our emotions in 180 characters or less, just as fast as we are to scrutinize others for who they love, what they wear, and what they’re addicted to. Things change as fast as the speed of sound: 186,282 miles per second. I learned that in chemistry. I also learned that Fleen Dog wasn't kidding when he said if you lean in too close to a Bunsen burner your hair will catch on fire. I've learned that if you don’t stay in the inexhaustible realm of school dress code, you’re a delinquent, but if you wear hoodies everyday, you’re a scrub. If you don't, you're a try-hard. I've learn that for some reason the word try-hard is an insult. I've learned that stares can be so heavy you can physically feel the weight of their eyes pushing down on your back as they watch your every move, but more importantly I've learned that those stares only matter if you actually let them. You’ll learn that often times- there is no correct answer and sometimes you just have to choose what you believe is the most right option because it’s better to guess than to do nothing at all. You'll learn that even in science, not everything is black and white, that sometimes the best way to learn is by diving in head first, and if you feel your skull crash into the bottom of the pool, know that you will resurface.
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Sep 6, 2016
Sep 6, 2016 at 12:16 AM UTC
A spoken word poem
Dear underclassmen, You will learn so much. You’ll learn that when seniors tell you the main stairs are only for upperclassman they’re lying, that freshman Friday isn’t a thing, and elevator passes aren’t actually real. You’ll learn WWII started in 1939 and it was the bloodiest of them all. You’ll learn that sometimes, things don’t have to be ****** to be painful. Sometimes sterile wounds heal the slowest. High school will teach you to love with a vigor you didn't see coming and to hate with a passion you never saw possible, and you’ll find that after feeling them both so deeply, it sometimes becomes impossible to tell the difference between the two. You’ll learn about drugs- that they don’t always come in little ziplock bags or orange pill bottle. You’ll learn that often times, they don’t come in powder or pills at all- they come in words on a page or in blue eyes staring at you through wayfarer glasses that are so clouded you find yourself wondering how they can even see the world around them. You’ll find your drug- everyone does. You’ll know you’re addicted because to you, it's what keeps the earth spinning on its axis; it's what puts the stars in the sky; it's what you see when you hear the word love. You'll get addicted to something, and you’ll lose it, and you’ll move on. You’ll learn that things can change in the blink of an eye, which is just as fast as we are to post our emotions in 180 characters or less, just as fast as we are to scrutinize others for who they love, what they wear, and what they’re addicted to. Things change as fast as the speed of sound: 186,282 miles per second. I learned that in chemistry. I also learned that Fleen Dog wasn't kidding when he said if you lean in too close to a Bunsen burner your hair will catch on fire. I've learned that if you don’t stay in the inexhaustible realm of school dress code, you’re a delinquent, but if you wear hoodies everyday, you’re a scrub. If you don't, you're a try-hard. I've learn that for some reason the word try-hard is an insult. I've learned that stares can be so heavy you can physically feel the weight of their eyes pushing down on your back as they watch your every move, but more importantly I've learned that those stares only matter if you actually let them. You’ll learn that often times- there is no correct answer and sometimes you just have to choose what you believe is the most right option because it’s better to guess than to do nothing at all. You'll learn that even in science, not everything is black and white, that sometimes the best way to learn is by diving in head first, and if you feel your skull crash into the bottom of the pool, know that you will resurface.
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I have no clue what Krshna taught Arjuna but I like the name Atman a lot. Atman. Atman. Where a man is at. At all times. No matter what. Gita, get in the action, gorgeous girl, god is the answer, keep the meter. Wisdom, none. What Krshna tells Arjuna makes no sense. I prefer mathematics. Knowledge of how things are made and done more than meditation on the Self as a manifestation of the One. I’ll never have to leave this comfortable planet. We have this asset but can we sell it? In Paradise Lost, Satan executes his plan but God already knows all about it. Still, whether it succeeds or fails is up to Man. Same here, when it comes to nuclear armaments, a distraction from the work of making life permanent. It is all premised on the mystery of invisible but sentient particles— little Krshnas and Kachinas nesting inside one another. Meanwhile life goes on outside all around you— WWII, the Napoleonic wars, the Civil War which we’re still fighting. Krshna says behead your brothers without prejudice or justice. So it transpires in the nuclear fire. Whatever forever. The poem has gone to glitten. Teacher, teacher—tiger!
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Jul 7, 2019
Jul 7, 2019 at 9:08 AM UTC
Atman. Atman.
Every one tells me I'm smart  But I'm not  I am not intelligent I'm just observant  I see why X=Y  I see why America faught in wwII  I see why people make fun of me  And I remember all the **** you've said to me No I'm not a genius  but I'm smart enough to see though you You thank your better than me  Keep on thinking your fashion makes you better  Keep on thinking that your life is more than mine I'm smart enough to see that when you rag on me You alwow your self to believe if you diss me That the you see in me The you that you hate to see would not be thair I can see all the hate in you I see all the pain in you  Say all that **** about me Make it seem that I'm the imperfect one I use to be like you Constantly denying who I am  Never allowing me to be Always thinking what they think of me  Only knowing what they known of me Only cairing what they wishted for me But I'm not like that any more I see who I am Not what people cair  to see  But who I am Who I want to be Every aspect I hid befor All that i wished for no one to know I do not deny them eny more I am not who any one thanks I am I am not what people want me to be I am not even what I want to be I am me  Nouthing more nouthing less I am who I am No reson to deny this And just like I am who i am You are who you are  No mater if you deny it No mater if you hide it Fact is you was made to be who you are  No amount of friends can change that fact And you will see this like I did You will make friends that do not size you up No mater how ****** up you seem to be  They will be their for you It's just a mater of time before you see who you are
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Mar 14, 2012
Mar 14, 2012 at 11:30 AM UTC
X=Y
Every one tells me I'm smart  But I'm not  I am not intelligent I'm just observant  I see why X=Y  I see why America faught in wwII  I see why people make fun of me  And I remember all the **** you've said to me No I'm not a genius  but I'm smart enough to see though you You thank your better than me  Keep on thinking your fashion makes you better  Keep on thinking that your life is more than mine I'm smart enough to see that when you rag on me You alwow your self to believe if you diss me That the you see in me The you that you hate to see would not be thair I can see all the hate in you I see all the pain in you  Say all that **** about me Make it seem that I'm the imperfect one I use to be like you Constantly denying who I am  Never allowing me to be Always thinking what they think of me  Only knowing what they known of me Only cairing what they wishted for me But I'm not like that any more I see who I am Not what people cair  to see  But who I am Who I want to be Every aspect I hid befor All that i wished for no one to know I do not deny them eny more I am not who any one thanks I am I am not what people want me to be I am not even what I want to be I am me  Nouthing more nouthing less I am who I am No reson to deny this And just like I am who i am You are who you are  No mater if you deny it No mater if you hide it Fact is you was made to be who you are  No amount of friends can change that fact And you will see this like I did You will make friends that do not size you up No mater how ****** up you seem to be  They will be their for you It's just a mater of time before you see who you are
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National WWII museum, New Orleans, summer. Somehow we have ended up here. 1,387 miles from home. Here, where war is so close yet so far away. I look at this boy and for a moment I swear his smile looks just like v-day. And his laugh sounds like peace. And when he calls my name through this crowd, It feels just like a homecoming.
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Apr 3, 2017
Apr 3, 2017 at 3:21 PM UTC
7.16.16
I was watching "The Pacific" An HBO series On WWII It was pretty well done I just don't really much care For the violent scenes Although I know its realistic Then I went to a chatroom A christian chat I joined It's fun sometimes Now I'm eating kidney beans And maybe I'll look for another Show to watch If not I'll watch a Documentary again It was a full moon tonight I thought of Elsa Angelica I hope you are having A good night Elsa
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Oct 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015 at 12:34 AM UTC
Hope You Are Having A Good Night Elsa
Joe and Rose’s Children Joseph’s plane was shot down near England during  WWII John was assassinated in 1963 of November Twenty-Two Rose Marie Mary had a lobotomy because she was acting aggressively Kathleen, wed Wm J Robt Cavendish and she later died unexpectedly Eunice married a great man,  Lieutenant  Robert S. Shriver Patricia wed actor Peter Lawford, their marriage wasn't forever Robert wed Ethel Skakel, he was another that was assassinated Jacqueline Bovier felt sure that the Kennedy’s might be hated Married to Stephen Edward Smith Jean was wed to him until his death Edward (Ted) late one night drove off a bridge at Chappaquiddick Reporting the next day about Mary Jo Kopechne was quite horrific Ted was married twice, first to Virginia Joan Bennett  1958–1982 And then next until his death Victoria Anne "Vicki" Reggie too Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved
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Dec 4, 2013
Dec 4, 2013 at 4:06 PM UTC
The Kennedy's
Maybe I'll drive out to the mountain today I like it up in the mountains Just me and the mountain again The air is cool and crisp The water is refreshing You never know who you will meet On the mountain Mmm I enjoy my dried apricots and raisins On the mountain I am a man in nature Therapist left me F***! That's alright Still got the mountain Can't take that away from me, hahaha Still got nature I may not have any money But I have the mountain Nobody is coming to give me a hug Or to give a **** And so I reach out my hand As I climb the mountain Touching the sky!!! Alright! Getting hugged by the creator That's God's son, that's God's son! Look at him go I wish this life wouldn't hurt me so! We are all children of the creator An epic, a dream I can't explain this life Amazing that we are here isn't it I can't help but smile and laugh It's amazing to be alive Man oh man! More times and more times Here they come again! I am sick of these people Tired of this home And I just don't f****** care anymore So I'm going to the mountain Get back to the fight soldier! My ipad just told me that lol I'm a soldier in WWII in this game My grandfather he was in North Africa My great uncle he was a paratrooper, 82 airborne The blood that ran through them, runs through me! I'm a soldier We are all soldiers on battlefield earth And we fight for what it is right And we will not live with fear in our hearts!
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 12:02 PM UTC
Mountain Man