redbrick posted a new Poem titled the scar and the voice, a psalm 16 weeks ago
"A Psalm of the Scar and the Voice"
Blessed be the Name, who gives and who takes away. When the heavens were silent, I thought You gone.
When doubt widened like a fracture, I said, “The Voice is drowned, the path erased.” Yet... [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled I get goose bumps reading this 16 weeks ago
I know a young woman named Louise
All the young men she desires to please
With them she loves to flirt
Wearing only shorts and a T-shirt
She'll take a stroll when it's 10 degrees
Some think she belongs in an institution ... [read more] |
tula posted a new Poem titled how lovely is a burning tree 17 weeks ago
how lovely is a burning tree
how lovely is a burning tree
like the thoughts reminisced
at any particular time
burning from
within like a dwindling
candle
as gothic as the metal
gates..perhaps
sculpted statues
or... [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled You tense still? Buy a utensil 17 weeks ago
Two knives, two knives
I'll buy 'em
I need to buy myself two knives
Would give me, oh such a thrill
My wife, I wanna kill
Gotta get me two knives
My plan? I plan to stab her
I'll stick the knife into her chest
I'm not a violent... [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled Brandon, hope never abandon 17 weeks ago
There was a high school student named Brandon
Homework assignments he'd never hand in
When asked why he wouldn't
He said that he couldn't
The assignments were much too demandin'
Brandon, he dropped out of school
Everyone... [read more] |
orangejumpsuit posted a new Poem titled I hope I’m nuts 17 weeks ago
I get it
ecologically suicidal emotional talking monkeys rule the earth
and she might never recover
brutalized and penetrated
drilled, fluids sucked from steel gray malignancies
it's all over her can't shake them off ... [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled DAILY GRATITUDE THE EYES OF OUR CHILD 17 weeks ago
I am grateful for having retained the eyes of my childhood.
For how often they have helped me to see
the world…the way it was created
the way it is meant to be.
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joy posted a new Poem titled HUG OUR CHILD 17 weeks ago
May we be blessed to stop for a moment
It matters not where or when…
and remember to hug the child still inside us
every now and then
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joy posted a new Poem titled WHERE HAS OUR INNOCENCE GONE 17 weeks ago
I wish we could all recover the innocence we had as children.
When we found beauty, wonder and magic every day….
before growing up stripped us of our wonder
and took our innocence away….
Imagine if you can…those simpler times…... [read more] |
randyjohnson posted a new Poem titled R.I.P. Richard Davies 17 weeks ago
He starred in 'Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt' as a man named Clive.
All of his fans were very sad because he was not able to survive.
When you get right down to it, Richard was a very talented man.
He starred in 'Doctor Who' as Burton and in 'Bottle... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled gaudy mask 17 weeks ago
Gaudy Mask
(an abstract)
Above, the awnings creak, their fabric shouting harshly, praising the gaudy, silencing the frail.
The paper mask endures — it waits, attentive, for hands to bind its edges, joining its empty stare.
... [read more] |
Nivagsg3 posted a new Poem titled Heaven's Quite Confession 17 weeks ago
Somewhere among the stars, she breathes,
A beauty the night itself leans toward.
Whose temper bends the heavens to her will—
Her smile makes the constellations tremble,
And the moon—once proud—turns shy in her light.
Her presence feels like peace,
A... [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled DAILY GRATITUDE UNDERSTANDING GRIEF 17 weeks ago
DAILY GRATITUDE
I am grateful for my understanding of grief…
when in grief I have been totally immersed…
I remember…I would never have felt such heart wrenching pain
without having felt the joy of loving…first.
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joy posted a new Poem titled YOU WILL LAUGH AGAIN 17 weeks ago
After she died…when he thought his world was coming to an end
he looked for solace and support…in the comfort of a friend.
He worried he was lost in a cloud of sorrow…
he wondered how…or where or when…
he would discover a way out... [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled History lesson less 17 weeks ago
The philosopher George Santayana
Wrote the following in 1905
'Those who cannot remember the past
are doomed to repeat it'
If Santayana was here today to see what's occurring
He may change that quote to address the situation I'm... [read more] |
