georgeschaefer posted a new Poem titled STARING DOWN 19 weeks ago
Staring down
a digital alarm clock
threatening to wake me
before my time
earlier than expected
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georgeschaefer posted a new Prose titled SHELLS OF OUR FORMER SELVES 19 weeks ago
Hiding in the rooms we build. We remain shells of our former selves. Life is unknown to us. The fools and winos are quarantined. The safety mothers run rampant on the rights of the individual. Don’t do... [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled Something is rising 19 weeks ago
Some people are philosophizing
They know there's nothing we can do
More folks, they're slowly realizing
They know humanity is through
We're all gonna die
You know the reason why
If you don't, check with AI
I could argue all day with... [read more] |
Angelhavingfun posted a new Poem titled Still Holding On 19 weeks ago
I’ll be your friend, no matter what,
Even when it hurts too much.
I’ll smile when your old love comes around,
And hide the silence where my tears are found.
Through every laugh, through every call,
I’ll stand beside you through... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 1ST POEMS: To Swedening, Whom I Should Have Loved Better, And Who Has, Since, Reposed In Christ; A Sonnet 19 weeks ago
Both joy and anguish sounded in your voice when
you told us, at the lunch table, "I love men"
Your courage deserved a shout; I chose the Gulag's silence,
instead, for fear of homophobic violence.
Your was a quiet beauty, and diplomatic courtesy,
far... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled Epitaph On A Tomb, Without The Russian Orthodox Cross, For The Soviet, Or Bolshevik, Ethos 19 weeks ago
Taught by Lenin, they thought terror and extreme cruelty
would bring out of flawed and selfish humanity,
the supreme achievement of reaching the highest epitome
of human, therefore Marxist. condition. To this deviltry,
Lenin's followers, ... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; But As He Could Not Have Told His Parents, During High School, 1974-75 19 weeks ago
"Kissing Misha, I tasted his tightly braided, waist-length dreads,
"his lips and erect nipples, and his toes; on my way---
"a bit circuitous---to that firm, pulsing engorgement
"to receive the sweetstuff his core had confected for me all day."
C.O.... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; To Fred B----t, Algebra II, 1974-75 [XLIX] 19 weeks ago
Beautiful and long-haired, you let me copy
your final test answers. But I could hardly
concentrate: all that hair, your eyes, smile, baggy
jeans, and gray socks from which your shoes had slipped off---
very distracting . . .
C.O.Q., MHA [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 1ST POEMS: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Monday, October Thirteenth, Nineteen Seventy-Five; Sonnet With Envoi 19 weeks ago
I thank YOU, LORD, for the half century
of ambition to write a bit of Poetry:
all of five decades, all those years since then,
although it seems like just yesterday.
I told my parents at the evening meal
and shocked prejudice was all they had to say... [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled DAILY GRATITUDE WORDS AND ACTIONS 19 weeks ago
I am grateful for understanding in every human interaction
the difference between what a person says…
and that person’s actions:
If you want to know what someone is thinking
listen closely to their words on which you’re chewing…
but if... [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled WORDS AND ACTIONS 19 weeks ago
May we be blessed to see
how we should use our words like currency.
Spending them wisely
careful about which words we choose to dispatch
Knowing they will lose their value
If our words and actions…do not match.
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joy posted a new Poem titled OUR WORDS 19 weeks ago
Our words have this awesome power
from the moment they leave our brain…
to cause others joy and happiness
or sorrow, heartache and pain.
Which means we must be careful with our words
and how we choose to use them.
to... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled pʉ‑HA‑kʉ … tʉ‑KÁ (light‑skinned youth) 19 weeks ago
pʉ‑HA‑kʉ … tʉ‑KÁ
light‑skinned one … young boy
pʉ‑HA‑kʉ … tʉ‑KÁ
walking with our people's fire
pʉ‑HA‑kʉ … tʉ‑KÁ
soil sees and sun names
.
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redbrick posted a new Poem titled fruit of the branch 19 weeks ago
"Fruit of the Branch"
Fruit of the branch is how the soil remembers the abundance of heart— roots drinking deep from hidden covenant, sap rising like prayer through the marrow of wood.
Each season bears witness:... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled bride made ready 19 weeks ago
“Gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost”— so even crumbs become a silo of abundance, stored against famine, a whisper of Joseph’s barns.
The night keeps count of every restless turning, each tear stoppered in an unseen flask, a... [read more] |
