Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Desolated in the biting winter
Bitter frost masking gnarling wood
In the morning when the sun kisses our heads
Gone are the icicles with a thousand facets

Fragile emotions only whisper
Sorrows and regrets to keep you company
In your consummate solitude  
All of which juxtapose your worth

b.
Reconstituting globalization to
re-imagine democracy.

By throwing out scale we
the economizers are forced
to turn into misers
and the satisfisers
might rid themselves
of their pacifiers.

It's all about story and
consuming someone else's
turns you into
an actor, an automaton.
Was it prescribed?
Were you imbibed?
Then you are impaled
on an un-truth and
living out a script
that is not your own.

Time to get ruthless and
cut those strings that
lead us to, plead us to
buy, buy, buy (and cry, cry, cry).
Of course, we might find
a guru
to lead us to promises
of promised lands but
this ain't the way to
Yahweh

Unlock the path that lies within.

I'm talking 'bout multi-spectrum bridges
resonating in frequencies
that ring true for you:

this is the story of Power Geometry
re-constituted
From Wikipedia: Power geometry, according to Doreen Massey, is how the time–space compression of 'globalization' affects people differently. She describes power geometry as the "very distinct ways in relations to [the] flow and interconnections" between different social groups and different individuals.

According to Massey, power geometry concerns not only the issue of who moves and who doesn't; it is also "about power in relation to the flows and the movement" in distinct relationships among different social groups in regards to mobility. Those who move freely have power.
I can't seem to adjust to how the world always feels dark even when the sun is shining
Because your smile always brightened my days even when the skies were full of sorrow
And I can't tell when it's storming or if it's just my heart screaming out for you again

You were my world but I never truly knew how much you meant to me until your presence became a memory that felt more like a dream than reality
But now it's like I'm living in an unending nightmare where I fall asleep to your heartbeats but wake up next to your corpse

I lie down in the very bed the earth has now become for you
Wishing I could become part of it just to be closer to the person I love once more
But that isn't how life works and I still can't figure out why it would take something so good and strip this world of the few beautiful things it has left
And if you can hear me wherever your soul has traveled to please just know that I will always love you

I will always love you..
 Nov 2014 Zachary E Tenney
KA
When I hold her hand time stops.
I write to set my demons free
To let them out into the sun
Hoping they will vanish from my sight
I write so I can spill love, loss, and hate onto blank paper
Instead of my conscience.
Like sand in the hour glass
life keeps slipping past.
Fading eternally
moving so fast.

Summers come
and summers go.
Joy and happiness
Grief and agony.

One day its here
next it's gone,
its elusive
fragile and small.

We cannot tame it
we cannot control it.
It rules its own destiny
it comes when it chooses.

Like reading the last sentence
of a wonderful book,
or the last tranquil note of a love song,

So too do I watch the final pages of summer
fade away.

I do not know whether to grieve
for it is gone,
or to rejoice
for the memories it left behind.

I think I will rejoice
for it has been a summer to be remembered
full of wonders and excitement,
adventure and peril
love and happiness.

Like the setting of the sun
so too must the pages of this sweet season
fade.

Farewell to the fading pages
of sweet summer time.
Listen to the songs of the trees
Close your eyes and see them singing.
Effortlessly they hum and chime
they burst into song
when ever the need arises,
they fill the earth with beauty
and fill the forests with their
sweet songs.

So close your eyes my dearest friend
and watch as they serenade each other
with melodies.
Hear their rhythm
feel the warmth of their song,
capture the moment
and never forget its magic.

For when the songs of the trees
arise more powerful the roar of the seas,
something stirs
within the heart of the wylde.
And the world for a beautiful moment
becomes young once more.

The stars dance like children
their reflections laugh and play
on cool waters.
The sun and the moon
join together in wondrous song,
and the whole of the world freezes
for just a moment, dazed in the beauty
of the trees songs.

The trees shift and sway
they dance to the glory
of what their songs have wrought.
They bask in the magic of the moment
and twist and turn
moan and creak to the beat of the magic.

So be mindful my most trusted friend
to always stop and listen
to the song of the trees.
For you might just get a glimpse
of this magic I speak of.
The magic of the trees.
Into the night
we danced with monsters,
we danced with them
till the morning light.
As they flash their eyes
something precious dies
in my aging heart,
that knows the limits
of wondrous art.

We danced like the flames
we roared like the beasts.
We jumped and we shouted
hand and in hand
those monsters and we.
We exploded like stars
blazing throughout the night.
With monsters we danced,
till morning light.
 Nov 2014 Zachary E Tenney
Court
John. I haven't read one letter since you left. I'm scared to open an envelope and see the same note you left before you let your dreams, goals, days all hang from a rope. To be honest I don't know what it was that you needed to hear, what words could've saved your life. But I can say that old coffee shop feels emptier. My room feels colder. My eyes look darker. I don't smile at seasons changing anymore. I've been avoiding all mirrors because I can't bare to see myself without you.
    You were the best person I've ever met. It almost seemed unfair that I let such a perfect person be with a broken mess like me. You were so funny and the way your eyes lit up when you told a story...Oh God. I'm not religious but when you looked at me that way I thought we were both going to hell. Your laugh was all I needed to make a bad day better, oh what I would do to make you laugh.
   I know you hated long car rides and you knew I hated distance. Who knew 6 feet could feel longer than 100,000 miles.? Because now you're resting underground and I don't sleep without sleeping pills. I miss you so much. I miss you. I miss you.
I love you.
 Nov 2014 Zachary E Tenney
Ghazal
A soft, pink, closed bud
She lay in my palm,
Her untouched, unexplored,
Sparkling pristine charm
Made me desirous of uncovering
The little secrets her innocent depths held,
Though surely there wouldn't be too many,
She was but a little flowerlet.
So, slowly and gently I
Let my fingers unfold
The sheets of her petals hiding
Her stories untold,
I drove into her likes and dislikes,
Her passions, her fears,
I thought that was all but I
Was guided again, into another layer.
A little darker than before, with
Melancholic tales, guilts and regrets,
Punctuated by naughty quirks and unique mirth,
******* me deeper into her nest,
Her nest so ruffled, how she hid it
Within her kempt exterior,
Each depth bizzarely twisting
Into yet another dazzling sphere.
I lost myself inside of her then,
And continue to be, perennially-
Amazed, astonished, perplexed, dazed
At the extravagant flower she turned out to be.
Next page