Sometimes a poem is not what it seems
Unkempt words that dance and sing
To bring out emotions, feelings and dreams
To write prose such as this is a dubious thing
The reader will read what the author has wrote
It isn’t for either to decide right or wrong
To shadow the words with meanings and dote
Or consider the message within them too long
Sometimes a word is a word is a word is word
Letters combine to express such a thought
And not until the thoughts can be heard
Can the reader or author find what is sought
...1/4 amaretto, 1/2 vernors, 1/4 rum... give it a try.
Wooooo... it's hitting me and I'm not even through the first one.
Perhaps I should have dnner...
There is a pull I can’t define
Something much more human
Than divine
A conflict
A test
A struggle
With which I wrest
What seems to be
May not
A lesson learned
Not soon forgot
A circle
I round
Gravitational ellipse
With no core to be found
Random acceleration
Familiar paths and grounds
No wind, no brakes
Missing all the surrounds
Pulling faster to surrender
Control of heart and soul
Leaving nothing left to render
Either that ever will be whole
But still I wonder
Think and ponder
Considering
While I wander
Of what is what and where
The sacrifices once are made
Might further more than fair
Lights and signs
Ropes and vines
Too much bending
Knees and spines
Ponder these until I’m wary
This plighted guest, ever tarry
To heart and soul
And mind used whole
Deprived of sleep
Left in a heap
Of flesh and bone
This will not reap
Hypocrisy in time
And actions less than kind
With words that hurt
Only said
After the heart and soul
Are long since dead
And taken to a resting place
Left nothing more than a trace
Of what wasn’t
On the table
The same old story
Love’s hidden fable
Live just one day in these shoes
You might start to believe the evening news
The bad, the ugly and never the good
People that just won’t behave as they should
The bad take every advantage they can
Quite seemingly out to get their fellow man
Cutting the pie in slices that favor
Not caring if they become the human enslaver
Use and abuse of every man, woman and child
Leaving the Earth scorched and defiled
Money and greed and power corrupt
They don’t let the common interrupt
Their lives to be envied; they live them in splendor
The quest for more power they never surrender
Their names and their faces you’ll always remember
When you go vote the first Tuesday of November
The ugly are different, no power to wield
They use shadows and people as their life saving shield
Money their quest; the poorest they ransom
With drugs and guns, their lives must seem so hansome
To the youths in desperate need for a path
To help them escape the street’s deadly wrath
Or maybe the ugly come in forms much more sheik
The hungry, the greedy that prey on the weak
Filling the world with cold corporate waste
Never leaving their palace to have such a taste
Lying and denying, they’ll do what it takes
To get the people to pay for all their mistakes
Or maybe the ugly are those that do fail
To live up to the facts their lives do entail
A child, a mother, a debt gone unpaid
A squandered chance to do what they said
Abusive and lacking of all moral thought
They leave in their wake too many distraught
Children to learn how to also abuse
Too horrible a fate for any to choose
Not knowing love or a tender embrace
Just leading a life destined to waste
But then there are those who are rarely news worthy
Those that care for the hungry and thirsty
Good hearted people doing their part
To give every one day a bright, happy start
For those that have found their life’s been derailed
By situations caused by others who failed
Good hearted people, like stars in the night
That care for everyone, because they know that it’s right
No, too infrequently these stories are told
Except for a later page or just a note in a fold
A sound bite, an aside, not more than a line
Not nearly interesting enough for prime time
So if it is excitement you seek, walk in these shoes
And look no further than the evening news
For the bad and the ugly and their stories of hating
And never the good – they’re not good for the ratings
Clear and crisp, these winter skies
When autumn binds the summer’s ties
To frosty morning grounds
And silence that surrounds
Hearing nothing but a heart that pounds
And I sigh
I think, and I sigh
For here upon the midnight nigh
The harvest moon with arms stretched high
Looks down upon the hills and trees
Leafless skeletons, forgive the breeze
Neither with an ask nor please
And I sigh
I ponder this, and I sigh
Taking back the sun and sky
Against the winters might, I try
But coldly under this smiling moon
I sit alone in an empty room
I sit in a house of empty rooms
And I sigh
I sit, and I sigh
Beneath Cassiopeia seated in the sky
Trying to catch the hunter’s eye
To gain his heart, to gain his mind
To gain a love so hard to find
To have their lives so intertwined
And I sigh
I think, and I sigh
Staring above to the winter sky
On frozen grounds where love can die
Taking from me flesh and bone
Life only borrowed, not to own
Belonging always to our home
And I sigh
I exhale one last sigh
COMMENTS
Beautiful
I read this and I sighed...*sighs*
Wow. Love it! Well written =)
COMMENTS
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Joli
03:27 Nov 22 2010
I'm screensaving the title. If I ever have a tape recorder when Stabb says "you're right," my collection will be complete.
Blackstaff
03:51 Nov 22 2010
~nods~
captainglobehead
13:33 Nov 22 2010
Excellent.
birra
16:44 Nov 22 2010
The same way I mark on my calendar any time a woman says "you're right" to me?