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587 poems tagged LIFE
My heart goes into vein when see the pain in my poor people eyes. / My heart goes into rumbling when see my people desperation for food. / Wish I could be their helping hands for the need they need / My leaders are so cruel, they intentionally crushing the country. / My leaders are so un human,… sign in to read more »
Happy birthday In heaven / never gets easier so say, / You should be here with us / To celebrate your day. / / What I would give to hear you call me / daughter, Or here you tap at the door / And shout SCHOOL.. Emelia / Come on, let’s go. / / There’s no sound of your walking stick / Or over excited dogs… sign in to read more »
One year ago / 365 days / My suit is ready, / Your on your way. / / You pull up I break down, / Earth swallow me whole. / In my tears I could drown, / Coz This really ain’t cool. / / To the crem I follow, / My heart is broken. / Sad, Empty and hollow, / My fears have woken. / / But your coffin I carried,… sign in to read more »
Three sixty five days times two…. / That’s another year without you. / My heart is still empty, / I could scream… don’t temp me…. / Since the day heaven called out your name. / / You brightened the day / with the things that you’d say, / your humour was one of a kind, / I inherited your twisted mind… sign in to read more »
Some days I don’t like my reflection, / or the colour of my hair, / I don’t like what the scales say / and I can’t find anything to wear. / Some days I get too quiet / and no words will leave my mouth. / When my world feels like it’s ending / and my life is going south. / When days feel like their… sign in to read more »
To you. / You aren’t nothing, you are something to someone, you are everything to someone. Stop believing you have no worth. Step back and look at what we’ve overcome! Your not looking!!!!! I know you!!! Now think about it, all the things we’ve gone through that should have destroyed us, it’s been… sign in to read more »
Today the Labour Day. / / Have a Good Day with a … sign in to read more »
Respect, admire, encourage the needy person with love, kindnes… sign in to read more »
My heart, my faith, my destiny, is my love. And my love is my count… sign in to read more »
Chin up, shoulders back, spine straight, eyes watching and assessing. / You are the Queen my darling, not a simpering little princess waiting to be saved; you will do the saving and you will ride your horse into battle leading the charge and forcing your enemies to bow before you on the field of… sign in to read more »
Memories that served as a reminder of a love that is no more. / Rejection seems to linger at a distance, slowly making its way to me to embrace and remind / me that loneliness is my portion. / Cliché sayings such as I have loved and lost seem to be playing in my mind over and over again like a… sign in to read more »
I do not owe my family a thing / For they’ve raised me with affronts / And frowns / When I remember their soft / sweet jargon that impaired my soul / rain drops within my face. / / hated and banished as an outcast / In that midnight winter with wavering / And shivering of my body pleading for / For mercy… sign in to read more »
My mind thinks I’m still a badass like I was at twenty-five / My mind thinks I’m still a badass even though I’m sixty-five / My mind makes my mouth write checks my old body it can’t cash. / / I used to ride every horse, never a fear or doubt within my mind. / I used to walk the stormy beach; daring the… sign in to read more »
In how many minds / should I go crazy? / whom should I ask? / / Should I continue to hop / like drops / that jump up / after water / flowing from spout / hits the ground, / or remain transfixed / like stone under the selfsame spout / that despite being lashed / by incessant flow / does not even budge?… sign in to read more »
Fever painted me all over the body / with its warm kisses of love / for a duration unknown / / Taking everything aside of my own being / it was a marvelous feel / to be cocooned into the grip / of this thin frenzy from head to toes / it was immensely ecstatic to / feel the passionate warmth over the skin… sign in to read more »
Fell in love with these hearts and this soil / these houses, these walls and streets. / / Living a fraction of time somehow / from the fringes of life / I realised some dreams / have lodged in these eyes / some hearts have entered the heart. / / Well, didn’t find life as anything special! / / What heart… sign in to read more »
As soon as everything was approved / We packed our things and moved / We have not gone far / This note is to let you know where we are / We would be honored to have the pleasure / Of your company at our new treasure / / This treasure gets suddenly cold without a warning / Is that not a call for a… sign in to read more »
Friends says to write a book on me. / I says it would a book of ups and downs of life. / A book of love and hate, a book of sad and happiness. / A book of success and failure. / A book of loneliness and socially fame. / A book of understanding and miscommunication. / Would be a book to read on the life of… sign in to read more »
accept the flaws / the beauty / the uniqueness / the difference / / imperfections have / their own beauty / your scars are your medals / my failures are my experiences / / one day this face will become / dull and ugly / why dont you see my soul / why dont you feel my heart / / only compassion will last / in this… sign in to read more »
One Day / There will be no Sorrow / No Sadness and No Tears / But only / Delightful Moments and Memories / and Soulful Songs / / One Day / There will be charming Flowers / Whom I can smell my whole Life / They will not Die / and They will not Fade / / One Day / I will cherish my Life / I will cherish it by… sign in to read more »
We percieve them as they / be / Until we go beyond them; / The subjective, then we / see, / When we do not think / within them. / / / Whether visionary or / traditional, / Such structures we break / By the new-fangled with / rivals, / From cages weld, we / break! / / / Until the die-hard we / disband; / And (like… sign in to read more »
A star is rising, a star is rising. / Just imagine glory of the star is rising. / The darkness of the sky makes the star shining. / The view of horizon makes the star shining. / Now the morning glory comes and sun is now shining. / The darkness of star changes in to the glow . / And the sun at its peak ,… sign in to read more »
A stroke of hair / Is only enough but a share / Twilight rendezvous so fair / The only reminder - memory is the fare / Highly payed for, no dime, none to a spare / A second ago is in its essence rare. / / Upon the Damsel’s Bloody cheeks / Antiquity plays the harlot / Wit’ tender a lip that its lure… sign in to read more »
They call it clouds, the thoughts in your head so watch out for rain and get an umbrella instead. It is raining, and raining hard. With muffled mouths and distance warned and loved ones dying throughout this pandemic belated, for they new something before. Give yourself more love, it may feel… sign in to read more »
We are all propelled by an ambition, / To ultimately reach fruition. / Be it some goal we want to reach, / Some item we wish to possess, / Some title we want to be known by; / It is desire that provides us with an objective, / Giving us wings to reach the same, / And it is only desire that pushes us into… sign in to read more »
The Bible can be a difficult read so / I’ve taken some time and condensed it / It’s mainly about the subject of sin / And God is totally against it. / / The good book also has many stories, / And at the risk of seeming a prude, / Upon reading some of them / They could be considered lewd. / / It also… sign in to read more »
The day I went home, / I forgot how to ramble and roam / / In this scenario- / The universe became rude, / with bitterness in its truth / / The world unites for social fight, / with hope to heal and have everything right / / Some have shelter, some still starve, / some are with family some still desire… sign in to read more »
When i saw her for the first time, love is the word that came up to my mind, i was asked to describe love, her unexampled personality I chronicled, then they asked me if love had a face, yes I replied closed my eyes and, oh lord what a beauty when she smiles, and if love had a second name it would… sign in to read more »
Do not increase / your love for me / I am a vagrant / wondering like a lonely cloud. / / Changing shapes / in troubled times. / Carried away / by the winds of change / / Looking down / having no permanence / lost in thoughts of my wisdom. / How can I / support your love / when I am in pain. / / Like a… sign in to read more »
Remember the pain you felt in your heart. / Remember the joy you could not explain. / Remember the time you mourned the death / for a loved one. / Remember the birds that sung outside the church on / a sunday morning. / Remember the tears that drenched your cheeks. / / Remember that life is made up of… sign in to read more »
Water is the basic human and all living beings essential requirement. Human body need enough water to support daily chores. As it is considered as essential element of any living being therefore it is called Life as well. / We have a lot of content and literature available on water and how to save… sign in to read more »
Slug – Free Verse Poem / / .That slippery slime, / .That crawls out of damp places, / .In the sorrowful night, / .It wishes to find a home, / .A home of vegetables is like a dream, / .If it was a dream like no wonder any slug likes one, / .When they crawl out in the day light, / .In the garden full of… sign in to read more »
The mirror tends to be / the harshest critique. / Self-love feelings towards / myself with a hint of doubt / make me feel hideous in my / own skin. / Comparisons with others / make me wish to be another / human being. / Forgetting that all my scars, / trauma and defects were intricately / placed by the… sign in to read more »
I am a dedicated teacher / Who acts as a guide rather than a preacher / I look forward to seeing my students every day / Eager to listen to what they have to say / I know each student by his/her name / I love them all the same / I help them during class / With obstacles they have to surpass / While learning… sign in to read more »
Life is a long but narrow route / All travellers a day must cross / Again a short thinned passage / All welfares’ must trample upon / The way well made travellers match. / / Sycophant men all in emptiness / The world is a long passage they wane / And looking to and fro in matching / Were we all shall part… sign in to read more »
I miss you / everyday / I know that you never / wanted to go away a nan in a million / and nan as bright as a rose tree / you were always there for me / you were the lady / that kept us together / for many years / a woman so precious / who meant the world too all of us / a woman so kind and trusted… sign in to read more »
when in my sleep, you appear / dressed in purity my heart touched not / leaning on closure you deprived me of / stepping on the love I generously gave you / sipping on a cup of tears I shed waiting for you / pieces of my piece; crumbling in your hands / joy, oh joy; scattered into the air / carried into… sign in to read more »
Wasn’t it peaceful when there were no guns but love. / Now behind every love there is a hidden gun under or above, / Finding the peace is useless when its the hearts that needs the grease. / Stop judging me its the love that you need to release, / Now is that the gun who needs the cease or the gunsmith… sign in to read more »
She left he left, / Memories that stayed. / Still makes the heart feel betrayed, / Ones heart was theft. / True love turned into torture, / While the other one focused on the future. / Memories that remained alive, / Everyday teases that they’re still alike. / Each one is in a different weather, / Still… sign in to read more »
If words could make wishes come true, / That lass beneath the bridge wouldn’t be too blue. / Waiting every day sluggishly watching them decay, / Northern lights nigh is where you find me pray. / But only if words could make wishes come true, / My endless love for you is not an issue. / But only if you… sign in to read more »
I am me! / yes I am. / The owner of my life, / The driver of my life, / The achiever of my goals. / / Yes I am me! / Because am fix, / but I grow, / grow with passion, / the passion of success. / / Yes I am me! / Because I have the right, / the right to retrench and recruit; / Because I own. / Yes I own my life… sign in to read more »
It made sense when / we made love on a cold / night. As we enjoy the simple / pleasures that our bodies give / us, tears slowly pouring out / of yours. As you remember the / forced death of your child. / As you further explain your / dark past about your unborn child. / / I cannot help but question, if I… sign in to read more »
Looking at my face in the mirror / Fills my heart with horror / A face that is old / Through it, a story of agony is told / Yet my eyes show wisdom that is gold / / A heart is pure and young / A well power that is strong / A desire for happiness that is profound / A mind that is always sound / / Getting old… sign in to read more »
Spirits on the roads to nothingness, / Humming through voices of yesterday, / Savouring the tunes to be play the day, / All memories vanish in utter forgetfulness! / / In the long lost kingdom of despair, / Where shapes of being all uncolored, / Heavy rain came, then transformed, / Holes of darkness into… sign in to read more »
Let me express myself through words. / One night my life shall end, the earth will open, / And the ground will swell, Only to preserve my bones. / / Before I dissolve, / Would I have achieved my all, / Enjoyed a life of mystery and cause, / Or drenched my time in effortless activities / That produced no… sign in to read more »
Here in my bubble, I am all alone, no one but me... / No noise can I hear, if only my bubble can be a dome / Bigger is bet… sign in to read more »
You have comeback power / / Most of the times when things happen to us, we tend to allow them to define us and we eventually get lost in them, as it happens we have the choice to allow it to control us or we do otherwise. In that process we feel useless but the recipe is in the process. / / I am a… sign in to read more »
I was thrown on the ground, rejected & cast away / they thought I did not have value / in a dumpsite where my kind belonged as they said / I was rejected / But I knew who I was and what I possessed / what I was carrying inside of me, was greater than to care about what they say. / Dirt pilled on me, day… sign in to read more »
Until the heart merges with eternity, / it can never love, nor truly live. / Until the heart welcomes, surrenders, / Breaks free within the pain, / It can hardly ever deepen itself. / All its feelings are only glimpses of its depths, / Human is nothing but a reflection of form, / Carrying heavy chains to… sign in to read more »
The world is both pure and unpure, / Beautiful and unbeautiful, / Inspiring and limitative. / When looking deeper into it, / … sign in to read more »
Whispering to the voice in the head, / There is nothing to be afraid of, / Nothing to be ashamed of, / Nothing to lose, nor to gain, / Nothing to contro… sign in to read more »
Deep beneath layers of evolution, / History is again unfolding in each moment, / / Behind the veils of endless growth, / Exis… sign in to read more »
In peaceful states of being, / Simplicity is all mind can reach, / No speech,… sign in to read more »
The skies, countless galaxies alive, / Dancing the music of the one Love, / Shining to perfect the final carving. / / In that note is found the root wisdom, / Some have named guidance, / Speaking pure words in silence. / / There, souls tire of the form, / Thus cease to follow the map, / Shape new paths in… sign in to read more »
A mind seeking completness, / To what is beyond its realm, / Gathering evanescent glories, / Hoping to ease eternal gaps. / / Words reach the soul, / As the offing meets the sky, / How deep is the touch, / When the join cross not the shuck? / / Wordless heart wander, / In the mysteries of cosmic love, / How… sign in to read more »
The mysteries of my Beloved unveiled, / In brief spells of timelessness. / / In my old longing for thee, / My sou… sign in to read more »
Your soul is familiar to me, / Yet I never met you. / In the presence of your love, / I lost all self image of me. / I have seen you beyond the stars, / Now I wonder: / Why is it the only t… sign in to read more »
By the autumn tree, / Let all dead leav… sign in to read more »
Shingwaya Shintoshi was / The most scary man I have ever seen / Leave that for another day. / Shingwaya Shintoshi won a lottery / He drowned himsel… sign in to read more »
Transcending duality i… sign in to read more »
When on that fountain with my beloved, / My chest secretly whispered, / I love you until I can love no more. / / He smiled a… sign in to read more »
I am only love, / The way to me is filled with love, / Whomever seeks me, / Sure finds me, / The… sign in to read more »
Through the veils of creation / I saw one tree, / One root, countless branchs, / It said that all differences, / Lead back to same source. / / Magnificient beauty is hidden, / Wit… sign in to read more »
On an air train to that bright fountain, / I saw people trappd in cord cages, / Each with different color and shape, / All with only one key to open. / / Fully concerned with seeking the key, / Few realized the cage was not, / Those are the flagrance of the divine, / On the road to ascend beyond...the… sign in to read more »
Different shapes, sizes and sounds / are unique and lovely altogether. / We all say we love music, yet we / never understand the significance of / each note- the odd sound vibrations / that each note carries- and let alone / the names of the notes. / / Life is a Musical note. It can come / in different… sign in to read more »
This love is from me to you. / This love for you is true. / You walked into my life and brought me hope. / Slowly I trusted and learned to cope. / / You opened the doors of my heart and eased in / Now my love has a purpose and a reason. / You are the fairy in my tale. / The reason to each breath I inhale… sign in to read more »
Only time can heal / the scars so real / the brokenness you feel / / Only time can mend / where there is a bend / and were you think it can't / / A little longer, pray / That you may / find your way, / before the final day / / Time moves apace, / as we wait for heavenly grace / to see thy master's… sign in to read more »
The desert thirsts / Where sands of a scorched world / Drink the mirage of a poisoned oasis / Skulls and bones gather stone tears for cairns / To mark mass graves of unborn dreams / / The sun never belonged to us / Neither did the stars and the moon / That light up the nightmares of our dreams / Winds of… sign in to read more »
You will not see my name in history books, / Nor will a statue be erected in my image. / / No road will be written in my name, / My home will not be an attraction for Tourists. / / My contribution will go unrecognized, / And my existence will befriend my flesh. / / I have endured hatred and disbelief, / To… sign in to read more »
The gun shot sound / echoes through out the / whole street. 2 am / massacres are a common / site, the body slowly falling / on the tarred road. / / A black grave temporarily placed / for the dead life. Last deep / breathes as the soul takes flight, / the restless soul roams the street / seeking for… sign in to read more »
"this is not for you". Truant has always been unreliable! / / this is for the ones who taught their tongues to swirl questions / around their mouths on nights that they couldn't ask / the ones who threw stones into waters but weren't excited by the pattern of their ripples- / so they hit their heads on… sign in to read more »
The book that man has failed to understand over the ages, / it contains riches beyond our wildest imaginations. / It is a light to the path; / wisdom to the truth seeker; / a guide to the lost; / a hope to the hopeless; / a puzzle to the intellectuals; / salvation to the believers; / poem to the poets;… sign in to read more »
If they've filled you with hate / Then it can only be fate / If you expend it on them, / But may mercy tug at your hem. / Live above it. / / If they've filled you with lies / Causing you to descend from highs / Only remember to draw nigh / And disillusion yourself with truth; / Then you are unfit to be a… sign in to read more »
There rests an old man / By him a bottle of Scotch on his right / A bag of tales on his left / To share with the young before his grave / / Days and weeks and months pass / With no energetic life in sight / What could've happened / He wonders in curiosity - / / Just before a selfish answer / There he sees a… sign in to read more »
may god forgive my impertinence / as it is no fault of mine / only this freedom that he's given me / it made me do this / that I tell it as it's been: / / intact were our abilities as we were led / on empty stomachs and unkempt visages / purging our souls of what sanity is left / and looking on the brethren… sign in to read more »
Rain man, Rain man, Rain man. / Pour out your rains to wash all the / Evil away. So much hatred roams / The earth, love seems to be the forgotten / Dream which has lost its worth. / Police brutality used as ammunition / For war. The red and blue colors / From the police car light up the sky / And have the… sign in to read more »
As we age we regret words of anger and spite / That were heard and remembered and can't be unsaid. / The remarks we thought clever or proved we were right / That resulted in losses of friendships instead. / / All the heartbreaks that came from suspicion and doubt, / The betrayals and hurts we refused to… sign in to read more »
They say if somebody loves you once they will always / love you...Well you loved me many moons ago now do you / regret letting me go...aren't you the one that said you / loved everything about me, you just couldn't get enough / of me well I can still hear you saying but maybe you / never did really love… sign in to read more »
Well we had ten good years together / but even if we just had one you / left a special place in my heart / that'll last forever even as new / loves come and go I know / I will love you still...just / thinking about you feels / just yesterday to me and / it probably always will... / remembering how you used… sign in to read more »
Scars are vultures / They linger around for my death / To tear me apart in decay / The streets never embraced / The pain and the sorrow / Of a life spend in the mute pursuit / Of something richer / Time changes / New dawns arrive unabated / The moon and the sun / Locked in a constant race / It rains in summers… sign in to read more »
May the storm deal with the child birth, / / Let the rain pour down to mot… sign in to read more »
Well I just don't understand people these days / Always in a hurry, kind less and rude for / One reason or another, I'm not saying I'm / Perfect by no means but I try to treat people / The way I'd want them to treat me... / Life is just too beautiful to be ugly / Life is just too short to waiting for… sign in to read more »
Johannesburg sings the beauty of our lonliness / The night's heartbeat as fake as the hanshakes exchanged / Ribbons of headlights coarse through the veins of the city / Where we die in search of a better life we left behind / The night whispers its screams from deep within us / / We stand on the edge of… sign in to read more »
I adore creativity both in love and lust; / / Life and creation are intimately connected. / / Many lovers have expressed their love / / and talent through creative display, / / sometimes to embarassing results! / / It is the relationship between / / Human being and the myteries / / Loving inspirations… sign in to read more »
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There is sunrise here and there / And lights here and there / Oddity and rarity I look, / Where the dark fades to / Trees in Mountain look sleepy. / And there are no birds of the sky in the sky. / / 06H00, I leave the village. / A glimpse at our dilapidate houses / To incline esteem / / Hopes high and… sign in to read more »
I meet the memory of myself on the old roads / Sometimes young. sometimes old. / is he coming or going? / from where to where? / All mixed up / The right time on the wrong road. / The right road leading to the wrong place. / He wont tell me / There is daylights left in me / He still got a chance / Don't loose… sign in to read more »
Our days quickly passing by / To slow the aging process, we usually try / Regardless, they go so fast / Our final destination, they cast / Reminding us of the memories of our past / Telling us that all we have is today / We must exert every possible effort to enjoy / About the future nothing we can do or… sign in to read more »
The white of her was only a dream / Drifting in and out of surreal reality / Her heart and soul needing the same thing / Tired of the white porcelain mask she wore / With forced smiles masking her real fears / Never letting her act slip / It left her face and soul emotionless with silent longing / / Once a… sign in to read more »
It doesn't matter if you are Muslim, Christian, Jewish or doesn't believe at all / I will always be behind you to catch you if you ever fall / It doesn't matter if you are black or white / I will listen to your views if you are right / It doesn't matter if you are young or old / Hopes toward a happy… sign in to read more »
A curse and a blessing sometimes you lose, sometimes / you win, somewhere between darkness and dawn a candle / in the wind... I take it to the heart, I take it on the / run crossing some crazy state line one more time still / hearing you say, "when you get what you want you don't / want it anymore" well… sign in to read more »
I used to be creative, / I used to write what I feel. / Now I have no character, / I have no feelin… sign in to read more »
I was a little kid. / A kid was full of need. / A need was full of heed. / A heed was full of beet. / A pure feel, a healthy mind. / A little keen, a wealthy rhymed, / there was not money in my little hand. / there was not funny out of land. / A little land, out of other hand. / A little land, found by no… sign in to read more »
A love that will never end. That will never be changed. / A love so deep it entangles and marries souls in melodies of hummingbirds and orchestras of the universe's heartbeat. / A love so unconditional the coldest days of June and hottest of November are mirror reflections. / A love so pure the moon… sign in to read more »
The air looks like that song that stays on your fingers and makes hearts smile / Your favourite song tastes like a medley of ice-creamcream, pop-corn and marshmallows all dipped in rich darks chocolate / Food sounds like the orchestra of toes in socks strutting their way on wooden floors / Each breath… sign in to read more »
As an aimless traveller / I started this mysterious journey / The courage to make mistakes / Acted as sign boards and helped me throughout / / I realized that what I had is / much less than what I ought to have / That awareness augmented my avidity / To explore the unexplored expanse / / Traversing… sign in to read more »
And if they ask me about you I'll tell them exactly who you were / You lasted far more than just a moment when I first laid eyes on you / When I looked at your eyes the first time you drew me in so deep / Your gaze stirred my insides / It was an odd and disturbing feeling / So disturbing I wanted a… sign in to read more »
His eyes sunk in their sockets / less drunk like other days / but his spirit is low / fading with his dim eyes / / 'Son, give me the brown bottle' / He reaches out like a beggar / all he wants is his last sip / out of a life lived in agony / / It was never a life / after all the money is made / and many… sign in to read more »
We all say life is like a big hard rock. / Some of us think its a walk in the path. / Life is like a story with once upon a time. / But no happily ever after. / Great people with little once upon a time. / Gates, Colgate, Carson, Oprah. / Just to mention a few born to this life. / / Once we take the first… sign in to read more »
I'm writing out to you because you're worth reminding of the power, hope, possibilities, bestowed in you / To those born not of blood nor of will of man nor flesh, but of God / Rise up and declare of His goodness, power and lift your flag up high...the journey is still long / Awake and shake off the… sign in to read more »
Life is more beautiful when we have peace. / We can enjoy having peace when our minds are uncluttered. / Every one is entitled to having peace but not every one accepts peace. / How sad it is when one loses peace over of self-conflict. / That thin line between you and peace, when letting go is a… sign in to read more »
When I look into your deep blue eyes, / Emotional feel comes of tearless cries, / you are like curator fighter from above, / A love of yours is more pure than a dove. / / You owe me, nothing for yesterday, / I do owe you everything for today! / When your times were good, no curse, / Even, I could never… sign in to read more »
You be a flying bird in the dawn; / Inspiring to get out of your nest / In and out of a silent mood, / Coming to take my olive branch, / Leaves and fruits are abundant, / Love and life is now redundant / Life is now holding, face it as bold, / Waiting, for a clearance, off sickness, / crystal clean, clear… sign in to read more »
...My hopes and dreams are officially gone / long gone / gone with the wind / I mad as well hang myself from a rope… sign in to read more »
The sign of time is in the heart of the clock / That ticks off the seconds to our destiny / The sign of our destiny is the self inflicted mark / That scars the very being of our identity. / Time... / / Life is lived by the code of our own makings / Emotion switched to frivolous uncertainty / The when and… sign in to read more »
Memories bring me to these thoughts of my choice; / They bring forth the words of a man without a voice. / Scars and pleasantries of note within one's life; / Cuts through reality like butter with a knife. / Shall we forever endure these iniquities of disaster; / Or shall we perish at the hands of… sign in to read more »
So where does this all start and when does this all end, / Entrapment caused by shadows, in corners and in bends; / Fantasies of wealth, captured in one's self, / Once upon a time, a cliché all by itself; / / Rows of empty blue atoms standing proud and tall, / With no-one else to sit there, recession… sign in to read more »
Born by mistake, / den… sign in to read more »
To be best is an effort, / To keep being the best, / Is real hard work, / Appreciation is the answer, / To originality, the toil, / The pains, the sweat. / / Part of human destiny, / Hard labour, real hard, / Liberation from, / Custodious study, straining, / Lumination of the tunnel candle, / Light at the end… sign in to read more »
I would dare you, / To jump or swim, / Across the Nile, / Or dare you to, / Overthrow his excellency. / / I wouldn't let you risk, / To stop the burren widow, / I remember meeting her, / Scratching the unyielding, / Barren land. / / She looked up, / And bowed in respect, / This young barren widow, / Who has… sign in to read more »
Your marvelous body will decay; / / And wondrous sight will disappear, / / All your lovable expression s will fade; / / Do not be saddened, do not be depressed / / The resource is from eternal world / / Budding, growing, branching out, / / and giving a new life; extreme delight. / / Never moan at anything… sign in to read more »
Sit cross-legged and look straight. / / Place one hand on your heart, / / The other hand on your breast, / / Close your eyes and try to nurture, / / a feeling of love and acceptance; / / Just a pure love and open acceptance; / / for that part of your wholly flawed body. / / When you feel done, open your… sign in to read more »
Spring blossoms in your eyes / Within a reminiscence / of innocence, / / Summer brightens on your face / within a memory / of cheerfulness, / / Autumn falls down on your cheeks / within the season / of exquisiteness, / / Winter drops on your cherry lips / within a reason / of loveliness… sign in to read more »
We live in a society where pedestrian love is no true love, / In a society where sex before marriage is no more a sin but before money is, / A society where I wanna be the 1st one to post pics of my neighbor's burning house and not the 1st one to help, / A fucked up society where funerals are now… sign in to read more »
I love to eat, I love to drink, / I love to sleep, I love to dream, / The more I think or so it seems, / There are no end to my love it seems. / / I have always thought, at times a lot, / but then again I soon forgot, / For me a life never quite ends with a dot, / For it soon changes like a wild moth.… sign in to read more »
I sit here in my bedroom / That now passes for my den. / To write a poem for the one I love / The words flow to my pen. / Comparing our love to things celestial / A cliche one uses now and then. / The visa process is time consuming / And when it's approved I'll shout "AMEN!" / I'll share my joy with all I… sign in to read more »
For the sun that burns unhealthily / For the wind that blows continuously / A baby's cry that knows no end / A moment of silence that's heaven sent. / / For waking up from under a newspaper / Rain pelting on a cardboard shelter / The stench of city air pollution / Music banging, chains rattling, much… sign in to read more »
Open your eyes dear African Child, / Listen to the prophecy of life, / Where apocalypse is holding our fate, / We lick shots while trying to fight for our freedom, / Crossing the boundary with our / Siblings hanged behind our backs, / / ThatÂ’s what is it, we are caught in the hustle, / Denied to… sign in to read more »
When I was but a young girl I just loved opposites, then I didn't know they attract. / Defying the odds and always being the odd one out, now I only find out it's what they call gender. / Female, feminine, phenomenal are words I started understanding when I became a young woman. / Pubic, puberty is not… sign in to read more »
Life is full of complexities. / A simple word but so much infurities. / You have to cry so that you can laugh again, / You try to soldier on but fall apart to be whole again. / / A life of show offs that wants to be sponsored. / Hugiale and anotimpical vision needs to be monitored. / / Moral boundaries… sign in to read more »
Singing along to the blissful melody of jazz rebels / as I inhale red paint from the dripping wet brush of employment, / the eye of heaven looks down on me / sizzling on a winter afternoon barefoot in contempt. / / Alone in my world / I would sneak a dance or two before / the shades of darkness are drawn… sign in to read more »
For no reason I fell down, / So why do I need a reason to fly? / So I set my wings to soar high, / High above the sky! / / For no reason I cry, / So why do I need a reason to smile? / So I shed off my tears, / Laugh above the sky! / / For no reason I give up, / So why do I need a reason to try again? / So I… sign in to read more »
I love lonely hearts. / I hate faithful partners. / I love married women and men they are my easy target. / Temptation is my trend. / I hate it when people block me. / I love teenagers who are going through adolescence and life challenges. / I hate it when they abstain. / Guess who? / / I lie but who doesn'… sign in to read more »
Undressed before me; / bare in dark in the bed; / An angel whispered a / love lyric softly and said: / Put … sign in to read more »
I NEVER ALLOWED THE DEVIL TO COMPLETELY CRUSH MY LIFE TO THE GROUND / / It was on Friday 2009, November 27th when I last saw and spoke to you / The man of my life, a father to my two boys, a friend and loving husband / Ooh Lord: why you have taken the gift of my life away from me / / Although I was not… sign in to read more »
She is sweet and enigmatic / Her walk so conspicuous / How dare I go there, / With all her enigma / This surely won't end well. / / She walks towards me / And courteously asks to sit beside / I hastily agree / Words that fall from her mouth / Are nothing but pleasing, / Dropping innuendos at every given… sign in to read more »
The break of dawn in beautiful / did you ever wonder? / The dusk is the promise that brings it, / equally full of beauty & splendour. / Goodbyes are sad & melancholic / but do you know? / The happiness of meeting again is precious, / you wouldn't know if you don't let go. / Let go of them, set them free… sign in to read more »
Our Cultures Forgotten, / Mother Tong Never Spoken, / Equality never shared and Friendship never cherished. / / We are lost by our fathers, abandoned by our mothers / laughed at by our neighbors, taken grant-age by our friends / and even killed by our loved ones. / / Our Souls are no more treasured, Money… sign in to read more »
I've been living off the edge, / crosing rivers, floods, and sometimes all dries up into droughts. / I've been living with changes, / watching trees burning down, while once they were sprouts. / / I've seen life coming to me, / showing me how pleasant how meaningful it's going to be. / I've heard it… sign in to read more »
They laughed at my hair / She played with my braids / / They picked on my clothes / She called me a princess / / They asked me not to scream / She tickled me when I was quiet / / They stalked on me everyday / She held my hand very tight / / I was never & never will be / The same girl that I used to be / A… sign in to read more »
Know that I didn't die because my heart stopped, / I died because it was broken / my life is sensitive, so I don't discuss it. / she gained my trust, so hell / I told her about my life / she characterized it to friends / I will never trust again. / / I did want to die before, / I knew I was stronger than… sign in to read more »
Find in me / that part of you / we both seek most of all / / reality / has seen us through / but can not break the fall / / here betwixt what is and will be / I find no comfort here / I am battered, bruised and certainly / most humanly filled with fear / / as I drift through / an endless sea / in… sign in to read more »
This is my life- my sad story / / Born poor, raised to achieve / The day I was born it was / Sadness than happiness of my family / Wondering how will I make it? / Their fear let them to hide me from reality of life / Always hiding under their wings / I grew up knowing I can only depend on them for… sign in to read more »
Count numbers in relation / To your blessings and / Not in relation to your temptations. / Forget not the gift of life / Which we receive daily. / Forget not the gift of freedom, / The gift to love and the blessing to be loved. / Forget not the gift to see, to hear / To walk and to speak. / / Subtract… sign in to read more »
Taxi crowded. / Gun shot sounded. / Small boy wounded. / Old ladies shouted. / Small girls got scared. / Small boys got fascinated. / Old men got shocked. / / A car went past fast; / Chased by police; / A transgression / In procession. / / Wounded boy screamed / With pain. / Taxi stopped. / Boy looked at his… sign in to read more »
Cold wind penetrates their thick / Jackets as they shiver helplessly. / They repose on tools that link / Areas of patrol guarded needlessly. / From afar a convincing delusion. / / Front gate stands a man, alone, / Protecting, guarding, working, waiting. / Man of honesty, dignity, respect, all is known.… sign in to read more »
Why, how and when / the moon arose and came the rain? / Moments passed seldom last, / but leaves a trail of questions why, how and when / / As day so dawns many a child seat in lawns, / and driven by dreams draw pictures unseen, / giving a unicorn a lions mane, / when grown a man he looks and smiles, / why… sign in to read more »
There comes a time that we have to make choices, / And now, we are the choices we made some time back / And somewhere along the line, my heart shattered... / My tears fell along as I watched the scattered pieces... / I don't regret the rain or the night I felt that pain... / Or the tears I had to cry… sign in to read more »
She sat huddled towards a tiny tin cup that was before her / A black veil completely covering her face despite the scotching sun / For a minute one would think she was praying, maybe, for a better life / The circumstances that had forced her there were unknown knowns for the rest of us / A little… sign in to read more »
though I trod with worn muscles, / trapped in my coffin-bodied body, / though the morning no longer have good mornings, / with remnants and remains of my breath / I shall unleash deep, dig that force / though my face is masked with gloom / these scattered pieces are the witness / witnessing resilient soul… sign in to read more »
She lay on the little wooden square wobbly bed in a remote hospital in the middle of nowhere, her body gently sipping away water of life from the drip that towered above her, supported by a crooked hurriedly put up structure. Her breath and time were quickly fading away, her heart was also losing… sign in to read more »
There comes a day, an end, / one day nothing will matter / no more sunrise to dance to, / no more glowing nights of stars / to cherish the night, / no sounds of wild birds to serenade / the lover's moments of intimacy. / / Money, treasure, wealth all gone / drowned, swept down the drain, / life shall cease… sign in to read more »
Let me be the shoulder to lean on; / When life has pushed you to rocky edges; / When the only souls to rely on / Have deceived, have deserted you; / Let my shoulder be the shoulder to lean on; / When the world has washed you off from its / Face; / / When your only hope like garbage has dumped / You in the… sign in to read more »
As years pass by, my passion may grow, / Like a river aiming towards a steep flow; / / In a much strange, deep emotional stream; / Than when we, were so young to scream; / / This is a story of love, thirty years old affair; / In a standstill, holding at heart as a lovely fair; / / Rain shower has… sign in to read more »
My heart is broken, / I'm running but I cannot get shelter, / I'm molten in the core of my soul, / Because this time I believed love was real, / But this real love decided its own destiny and left me alone, / It left me alone without notice, / Now all kinds of feelings surface, / They surface and I think a… sign in to read more »
With a broken birth, childhood and potentially breaking youth / I will accept her and colour her world vividly / With crayons as I animate alphabetical notations that proclaim hope and healing / From my heart to hers / / With a broken heart, spirit and potentially breaking trust / I will embrace her and… sign in to read more »
If I had to carve out my tongue / Or lose a lung... / I would reach for my pen / And prove to you my friend / That God saw it… sign in to read more »
I enjoy teasing you / When you are sad / Sitting on the couch / With hands and legs tugged together. / I enjoy seeing the flush on you face / When you are suprised / Or caught unware. / I enjoy watching you laugh / Like a baby / When you giggle / Your face becomes full with life. / I enjoy watching you move… sign in to read more »
I am doomed / Fare and square / Hole in the past / Hole in the future. / Bad! Bad! Bad! / All is bad. / My goody dreams / In one past / All eternity blast. / I am doomed / One fair kiss / Briefly a bliss / Rape! Rape! Rape! / All in tape / Seduced by fifteen / One little teen / Tall, say fair / She no fair / Had, say… sign in to read more »
Father, I asked for a bright future / And the filthy streets of Hilbrow were the answer / I asked for love / But Oxford road was the answer / I asked for a job / and roamed Andries street in Pretoria / Father forgive, I am a sinner / Though I pray for freedom / I know tomorrow I will sin again / And if you… sign in to read more »
She gathers seeds of winter tears / As harsh winds weave a tapestry of pain / Her heart recounts fears born of years / Where the sun courted the rain / / She dreams of a lover she once loved / When love loved her back / Her name in his heart he carved / Promised never to turn his back / / She yearns for his… sign in to read more »
The eighth hour catches her by surprise, one morning / As she stands on campus's balcony / A norm proceeding to her daily hustles and struggles, awaiting a lesson / For, ambition knows and calls her by name / / Eyes in natural position / In no real attempt to defy laws of science / Gliding down the fourth… sign in to read more »
In the beginning / This is me, now reminiscing / It was me and her - Pearl / Our hearts dark, void and without form - like Genesis'™ Earth / Life had just pulled one of it mysteries on us / Life, Love and Time had been kind us thus no fuss / / As I turned to gaze at the beauty on her / I saw that the… sign in to read more »
Secretly, I crave immortality / Stuck in seemingly never ending bliss / In the cool breeze / Of sweet summer springs / / But I am a gingerbread man / Stuck in a chase to prevail / Running from the inevitable dawn / When my breathe shall fail / / Will I crumble? / Or will I run forever / Or will I be… sign in to read more »
(dedicated to the late Happy Sindane on the day of his funeral) / / You were born into the ugly brutal world / where a rhino's horn was more than your worth / / You were lost from the onset / A black mother was your curse / removed from priviledge at birth / too black and unhappy to be white / / why did… sign in to read more »
In the dead of night / The wind whispers to the rain / Freedom is dead / His throat slit from ear to ear / Justice lay in his arms / Fast asleep / Two damned souls / No Saviour's blood could save / / In the dead of night / The rain whispers to the wind / Somebody killed a sparrow / With a bow and arrow / The… sign in to read more »
Cry! Cry! Cry! / / It has been too long without crying; now my pen cries for me. / / Cry! Cry! Cry! Cry oh men when you are hurting. / Cry oh men and just let it go. / When the circumstances of the heart are paining, won't you just let it flow? / When the face no matter what you try, won't glow / Will you… sign in to read more »
What is love - pray do tell, / I seek it dearly, but what do I know? / The vision's set, the road's mapped out, / But where do I start, where do I go? / Why do I dare? Why do I care? / Do I care? Oh, surely I must... / Why do I stand? Why here did I land? / Where is the reason, what answer do I trust? / I'm… sign in to read more »
Only for a second in your arms I felt safe, / But then the way you held me changed, / Only for a second I felt warm, / But my body started to feel cold... / Only for a second your words seemed real, / But then I realised they are just words, / Only for a second your actions seemed sincere, / But then it… sign in to read more »
Find the sea, oh streaming river, / For lost only are you alone. / Through the tangled woods and mountain passes, / Onward shall you find home. / / Veiled or clear, your destiny's set, / The banks have arose to guide you. / What can hinder the inevitable? / When all obstacles fall behind you? / / Masses,… sign in to read more »
Shadows embrace / Darkness fills my soul / My black eye contorts objects around / Night fills my vision / As the final blow falls / / Faintly sound surrounds me / Light barely reaches my purple eye / A hand / Retreat / The hand remains / Soft, welcoming / / Standing again / Dark spots remain / But light… sign in to read more »
The awakening of a woman, / while the sun rose before her eyes, / and set behind her future... / Beauty so profound, / even I as a woman can see... / she brings out the side of anyone in which we rarely shows... / The awakening of a woman who had been asleep, / for quite sometime, / she made it a point to… sign in to read more »
I fall in love with him everyday, / whether I see him or I don't I miss him... / It's like some kind of magic that he fed me, / he fed me to the sotmach, / and now each time I see him it tinkles, / It's amazing because / He's the same guy I see in my dreams, / he's the same guy who has been in my heart all… sign in to read more »
It soothes my sores / And cools my drinks / And makes the floors / For skating rinks. / It floats in punch / In cubic form. / It's fun to crunch / When I feel warm. / It's great for sleds / And pucks and falls / And penguin beds / And igloo walls. / On frigid days / It's hail or sleet / Or frozen glaze / That… sign in to read more »
Colours / As in multiple / Pink, red, blue, white / Mix in combination / In bags, shoes, pants and t-shirt / With heavily painted face / Stood on those low light lone roads. / / One, / Two, three, four, / Five maybe and more / Flocks here and there / With tall legs / A perfect round bottom / And a juicy eye… sign in to read more »
She's confident, she confides. / Her skin is black and it aint going to crack. / Her body is not of an hour glass but she has class. / She is bald but that doesn't stop her from being bold. / Is that her face and I thought I was blinded by the sun. / She walks the talk and when she talks you can't help… sign in to read more »
Have you ever loved someone to the core of you that it hurts? / Have you been worried why they haven't called you in a day that your heart bursts, / Have you ever cried for someone 'til your face cracks? / Have you ever felt you need not a reason to love, even when they having you just want their time… sign in to read more »
The years have past like sand in the wind, / Fluttering alone through the dessert of time. / As the rush of life slows ever down, / And recedes to rust and grime. / / The chances that came, like fateful gifts, / Lie littered among the broken dreams, / Wishes and desires that glittered like gold, / Lay… sign in to read more »
I rather go to sleep and dream of my peace / nothing bothers me, my sleep is so deep / I try to always look on the bright side / hoping that I can smile at my bad times / but I watch people laugh and enjoy life / especially the nice man and his pretty wife / Everything you know about me is a lie / you hear… sign in to read more »
Some find me a complication. / Cause I use my heart, / as a respiratory system. / Yeah, I breathe through my feelings - / I'm such an odd composition, / Always looking for a reason. / Where there's a 'note', / there is transition. / / I am just a person, / Too deep for your ocean. / And I breathe in… sign in to read more »
No temperature. Above, there's no sky, / Nor any light but maybe this would be cured / So I asked many others and this is what I heard / The sun had a heatstroke and then it burned / The ocean couldn't swim and so it drowned / The ground was defeated when it became destructive / The wind blew away… sign in to read more »
I don't want his money, / 'cause when it goes away I'd have nothing to stay behind for, / is not his cuteness / 'cause there'll come a time when it fades, / is just his love for me, / his respect for all of me, / his warmth when am feeling cold, / his protection when I'm not feeling safe, / his guidance… sign in to read more »
Freezing like Rime in / This world of mine / I try cling on to life / With everything I got / / They say what heals is time / But how can I be healed / Without a dime / I'm not in love with money / But in need / / At this moment all that glitters is gold / Because this hunger is shaving me bold / Money is not… sign in to read more »
It's kinda foggy outside, / But the rain has dripped dry. / Looks like heaven is all cried out. / I went from hurt and despise, / To feeling lost and deprived. / It looks like hope has finally made its way round. / / And the air smells like flowers, / And the grey skies turn to blue. / And the future… sign in to read more »
The end starts in the beginning / The puzzle of Old, / Understood only by wise men, / That powers within human beings are infinite / Made to look finite by the world of time / / Lest ye say that life is hard / Instead say that I'm harder than life / For our souls are like gardens / Made precious by the… sign in to read more »
It hurts so bad that I've gone numb - / My equilibrium. / Scars so deep that I don't feel a thing - / This pain, My anesthetic. / / I've killed myself, with giving much / And the patience, the suspense / Which I ease into... / I took it on, Helped it along / I knew that it be damaging to my soul… sign in to read more »
Yesterday I went to the Grave. / I mourned. / I grieved, / What I had put to death. / and buried... / / Today I visited the Grave, / I put fresh flowers on the wet soil. / The soil still soaked by my tears. / It wasn't too long ago, / That I grieved, / What I had put to death, / And buried...… sign in to read more »
Yea, selfish, arrogant and all that, call it whatever you like. Call me whatever you want. / / We've been here before and you know what? We're not doing it again. / / Watch me walk, I won't say "listen to me talk aswell" because I'm done talking, yea being the woman I am, we do shut up sometimes… sign in to read more »
When I had lost you in 2010, / my heart got bitter and I felt like a piece of me was stolen, / When I was getting used to you not being with me, / I shivered a little 'cause you are my first love, / I had to change so that I can chase you, / now that I have you once more, / my joy has returned, / even the… sign in to read more »
See in me not what I am / but what I can become / See in me not the child / but the spirit of growth / See in me not what I have done / but what I am yet to do / See in me not what I have said / but the lives will change with my words / See in me not the pain inflicted upon me / but the forgiveness my heart… sign in to read more »
It was by that moment... / That moment when everything was falling apart, / and he was the only thing that made sense... / It was by that moment when he made me happy out of the saddest times... / It was by that time when his smile went to my head. / When his light skin went to a glow in my head making… sign in to read more »
feel lost, I am lost / / today in search of you / I went and I couldn't find you / have you turned your back on me / so much that you can't reveal yourself to me / / I saw all shade of black stones / gray and white ones / but couldn't fint yours / saw all names and surnames / nations and clans / / but couldn… sign in to read more »
I can't / can't do this anymore / sacrifice my happiness for yours / what I need is put aside / while your wishes are been considered / / Inconvenienced for your convenience / / I can't / can't put a smile to your face 24/7 / nor provide for you sll the time / while you sit there and do nothing / you hardly… sign in to read more »
To burn so bright and die young / What a tragedy, to rise to life's apex / And shine so bright you blind a star / Only to die in the prime of your brightness / / See a star in its rush of brightness / Shines so bright it kills itself / And vanish a spark-less gold dust / Never to shine again not even dimly… sign in to read more »
empty is how I feel / this house I wanna leave / lonely is how I feel / getting out is all that left for me / mind somewhere else / body still here / my heart has left / seems like I have lost interest / / feel like my organs are separated / from his body of mine / tall walls surrounding them / solitary… sign in to read more »
I gave you the one thing I treasure the most, / >My heart< / and here you've come to rob me of my joy, / robbing me of my dreams... / Why me? / I didn't choose this ok!... / Why you acting like a fool and blowing me off? / You know am a weakling, / but I can't come back, / when you came to me I listened to… sign in to read more »
Be strong enough to face the world each day. / Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything alone. / Be generous to those who need your help. / Be frugal with what you need yourself. / Be wise enough to know that you do not know everything. / Be foolish enough to believe in miracles. / Be willing to… sign in to read more »
Life is a mixture of sunshine and rain, / Teardrops and laughter, / Pleaser and pain / Remember / There was never a cloud that the sun couldn't shine through / / Let your past be your building block to being a better you / Do not let it become something that'll let you down / Or stop you from being the… sign in to read more »
Hey woman, wonderfully and fearfully made. / A flower that blossoms in all seasons, areas and atmospheres. / / Your scent gives breath of fresh air / Your presence brightens the day / / Woman your range and brand does not end / uprooted and planted elsewhere it does not change you, it makes you even… sign in to read more »
The Pendulum swing is the yin and yang! Two gravities in one force divided yet united. / A canvas dripping of an idea the point failed to capture, as it's like unity, divided! / The blisters of my heart can often tear me apart, / Yet hold the key that relaxes the hilt as reflexes tilt / The thoughts… sign in to read more »
Not much need be said yet / as a lot's water under the bridge / sweepin' away all sour memories / laced with brief ecstatic moments / of a little love gone stale. / / Not much need be said now / no, not when livin' on the edge / of a life full of fadin' hopes. / The brilliance and glamour / that was once an… sign in to read more »
It was only dark, no lights, no sight but curiosity / Curiosity of what would happen if there is sight, if there is light / You wake up, wondering who is who, / They are all smiling at you, kissing you, calling you with sweetest names / You then learn to know them, yes they are your family, your mama… sign in to read more »
I hear you, but listen to yourself / You might just hear the wailing of my heart / Maybe you might just hear the splattering of my teardrops of joy / From my excited heart / Listen to what you are saying / You might just hear careless whispers / By angels who might have fallen for your charm / Listen to… sign in to read more »
It came in a business envelope / That bore my lawyer's name. / It arrived without any fanfare. / And without any acclaim. / Inside it was the end result / Of a sad and expensive game. / It contained the official decree / That snuffed out a former flame. / It said nothing of the heartbreak, / Brought by… sign in to read more »
Oh what joy / it is to create / Another life, from love / to grow within / / Oh how tiny you are / barely an inch / But what a big / change you bring to me / / If only you could listen / maybe you do / If only I could speak / to my adorable you / / I am committed to protect / you from this strange world / I… sign in to read more »
My love-jaded heart will no longer respond to the sound / Of whispering raindrops in fall or a train passing by. / I've got brand new wings, yet so frail; I lose touch with the ground / To take to my fantasy velvet mysterious sky. / / I'm fine in my bulletproof shell and I quit endless waiting / Like… sign in to read more »
Mother is an ocean of duties, / in a sea of love. / Fondness makes the waves, foam and bubbles, / in many waters. / Loving waves arise, collide, play and wane … sign in to read more »
My darling sent this quote to me. / She wrote it down in Latin, / A Language that one does not hear / Even in Mid-Town Manhattan. / / "Per aspera ad astra." / Means, with loose translation, / "A rough road leads to the stars", / Which I read with fascination. / / Our challenge is one of distance / And not… sign in to read more »
Beneath a blue sky / I felt revolt rise up in me / I ask why? / The antechamber of hell appeared / Flames were leaping up from ditch / Death wrapped itself around me / How long had I been standing like this / In the icy wind / Why did I pray? / Why did I live? / Questions only God can explain / Empty and dead… sign in to read more »
In the halls of ancient gods / Stood men ever at odds / Their hands raised staves / Cursed good with knaves / They told us our morals / In their ancient quarrels / / Let fall the temple / Around their ears / Then build the temple / To our fears / / And the many became one / With much murder done / With no… sign in to read more »
All of us are born with a cry, / two hands, two ears no wings to fly, / we all are same accept at least try, / stop all differences, / on this, that and why! / / We all react the same in cold, hot and dry, / we all see from eyes and all equally sly, / all speak truth at times do lie, / fighting for selfish… sign in to read more »
My kids don't like fish very mu… sign in to read more »
There is a passion born deep / The wronged eyes look dark / The voice deprived of sleep / Words leave their mark / / She says me of her suffering / She never learned to survive / And says without stumbling / Stand tall and be alive / / Names denigrate by alliance / Yet fearless in her lonely stand / She notes… sign in to read more »
Born of royalty, wisdom and unfading beauty, / Patient, loving and caring is what you are, / Problems do not bring you down they make you stronger. / / Born of different cultures and nations, / We lay in different wombs, / We are of different colours, but we're still the same. / / The world may beat you… sign in to read more »
When loneliness pierces your heart like a thorn, / When memories seem to replay all your past, / When some contradictory feeling is born / To remnants of love that was not meant to last, / Your temple of hope is about to fall, / The shade of your sun is about to fade, / The wheel of your life is reluctant… sign in to read more »
I've changed black pearls of cherished then / To sparkling diamonds of today, / It's all arranged, I've got a plan, / At such small price as love to pay. / / I'll sell my dreams as plain free verse / To any weekly magazine, / With no fear or remorse / I'll break the bounds of routine. / / If my heartbeat is… sign in to read more »
I'd send you a dream in another e-mail / And open my heart to attach, / But it would be hard to explore and unveil, / Since digits and feelings don't match. / / The digits of love are a changeable thing / Without a permanent code, / However, the vivid emotions they bring / Still fill the handwritten plain… sign in to read more »
Sometimes it's hard to welcome changes / And learn the art of letting go; / It's only fortune that arranges / And doesn't even let me know. / / I need the key to solve the riddle / And make the scattered pieces fit; / I'm stuck somewhere in the middle / Between your truth and my deceit. / / The answer's got… sign in to read more »
Fresh from the incubator... we come out a box, / Newly born and eager to burn. / The doctor's smack lights the wick, / A weak flicker is the start. / / In his teens the wind bends the flame to go with the flow, / But flickering moments of dark then light / Teach it straight to grow / And that the way of… sign in to read more »
In my mind I see them, children of the land, / Black as darkest Africa, standing with an outstretched hand. / I see their stomach's bloated, signs of despair, / Yet on I go with my life and couldn't even care. / / I smell the stench of flesh as vultures have their meal, / Yet my heart's turned hard...… sign in to read more »
I tell you, there will forever be / No pain, no gain for free / Trapped in endless circulation / Seek the same pixel, in better resolution / Different story, yet the lesson unlearned / All the enlightment, yet the truth undiscerned / To set a course, and to consign that way / To oblivion, all in the arch,… sign in to read more »
So many times we've decided, "It's time we split up!", / But then we find we just can't give up. / It's not for each other; it's for the children we care, / On them it's unfair, / They stand in the corner helpless and bare. / / There's so much to remember my daughter, my son, / But all I can think of is… sign in to read more »
Fresh from the incubator... we come out a box, / Newly born and eager to burn. / The doctor's smack lights the wick, / A weak flicker is the start. / / In his teens the wind bends the flame to go with the flow, / But flickering moments of dark then light / Teach it straight to grow / And that the way of… sign in to read more »
The steam that rises from the shell / Mists up the scope lens / A steady hand etches a heart / Through which the other bleeds / / A tattered pass absorbs the flood / Inches from the silent hand / That reached beneath his thread bare coat / A white flag not received / / The towel-head becomes another scratch… sign in to read more »
"To my Love"... I start the letter / Which I know will be a curse, / For we said we'd be together, for better... / And for worse. / / Each line that I pen / Forces a tear from my eye, / For I reminisce of back-then / Before I knew I was about to die. / / Ah, the warmth of summer days, / Before receiving the… sign in to read more »
My pen is bleeding on the paper, / As love is bleeding in my heart, / These words are bare truth, / So sing them to your music, / And play this music on my trembling soul strings, / In case you manage not to tear them, I'm yours. / / And if you ever find the answers / To questions I have never asked,… sign in to read more »
In the night a stranger walked by the famous ruins of old / Where folklore stories of horror and pain were told / The moon illuminates the silver light on the statues of gold / He walks between the walls / In the big rooms and halls / Hearing the screams and howls / He slept and he hears those cries / The… sign in to read more »
Books covered with dust on the shelves of my life / Words omitted, forgotten or not accomplished / / Birds sang no more in the storms of deceit / No leafs left in the branches of the memory tree / / Schizophrenic attitude from lost meanings and definitions / Spending a whole life on or in delusion or… sign in to read more »
I'm dissolved in the song of the rain - / In the echoing beat of your heart. / It's you pulse that still feels in my veins / Every day spent together apart. / / Autumn alters the shades of the days, / Seasons change - we remain all the same. / An immaculate image portrays / Sheer grief in a beautiful frame… sign in to read more »
Have you ever felt alone / but with people by your side / that's how life feels sometimes / then we yearn for attention at times / I hope life won't end this way / every soul should never feel / left behind, like a lifeless soldier / in a midst of some war / / I pray you never feel like me / my friend / so… sign in to read more »
As I stood and watched / tears of blood fell from the Lord's eyes / They fell beyond this world / Beyond my reach / trickling into the darkness of despair / / There we stood / lost / gazing upon this rancid world / / We watched / / We watched innocence wiped away by hate, / poverty and disease / We watched… sign in to read more »
I'm looking around - a year has passed, / The moment I seized is forever to last, / The secrets of cherished November / Still live in the imprints of soft fingertips / You left on my key, in your eyes that eclipse / The various colors of amber. / / The waters of changes surround my shore, / The eyes of the… sign in to read more »
Cherish every second / embrace the difficulties / cry away the pain / because we live once and once only / there is no second chance in death / cherish the moments / appreciate affection shown you / because tomorrow may never come and / today right now at this moment may never be again / cherish every… sign in to read more »
Sun drenched soldier, / born from the tears of slaves / In these songs of freedom is where my salvation lays / / Lost within your rhythm, / trying to save my soul / Fighting for humanity, / fighting for us all / / Giving a voice to the poor, / the hungry, the weak / Shouting at those demons, / let my people… sign in to read more »
It's half past eleven, he's bound to leave, / She's holding back tears, she whispers: "just stay"; / He cannot reveal any reason to grieve / And says: "I'll be back, I will see you some day". / / Some day in Novemer is meant to be spring / That comes after February's damn thirtieth night, / When fantasy… sign in to read more »
When you look at me with that colgate smile, turn around and wipe it off like nothing happened. I can't begin to imagine how quickly your heart turns from hot to cold in hatred. / / My anger lasts only a little while, my tears dry up quicker than the morning dew and my memory can't keep up with such… sign in to read more »
The pleasure to speak is my lost privilege, / And now insanity dwells on a page, / However, it's changing the color in days, / Revealing the truth my white pencil portrays. / / But I'm getting sick of the poetess' fate, / I only enliven the worlds your create, / Denying the myths you don't want to believe… sign in to read more »
The numbers, letters, symbols, and songs / of lost poems put into a never ending brew / of cast aside thoughts, / loves, hates, fears, / and joys emotions sought out by many / but found by few / times many mothers / put into simple verses / and left in the mind / of the poets chaos, / that he endures / within… sign in to read more »
You may wonder / what is happening to me; / Don't be surprised / That I talk to myself; / For I'm always lost / … sign in to read more »
There are some dreams that you don't see during the night / You can just imagine. / There are some words that you don't hear / You feel these if you look somebody in the eyes. / There are some loves that you don't get with a kiss or a hug / You can touch these with your soul. / / If you can see what… sign in to read more »
Don't search for apples anymore. / The apple tree has died. / It gave all the apples that it had. / Now it is nothing more than a piece of wood. / Nobody has interest for an apple tree without apples. / Nobody gives it some water to survive. / Not even the dry mother earth. / Nobody. / This is the fate for… sign in to read more »
There is a door. / A unique door. / It is our personal door from our small home, / in our small neighborhood. / We use this door only twice. / Once to come and once to leave. / / This door takes us outside to the big world. / When we go out, / The door closes and never opens again. / Maybe somebody can… sign in to read more »
Blank papers of bitter today / Do treasure the words white on white; / If they are forbidden to say, / Then my privilege is to write. / / I choke on the poison I've drunk, / The root of my love is in grief; / I'm learning the foreigners' tongue / To perpetuate my belief. / / The strength of my weakness… sign in to read more »
The level of pride in my blood is too high, / And shatters of passion are trapped in a shell, / I'm growing older, I cannot deny, / And something unique fills my heart's every cell. / / Love sacred, love secret, love ably disguised / Is tormented, ever forbidden, but still / It speaks for itself, it is… sign in to read more »
I used to compare myself with a fire, / So sudden, so restless, so hard to predict - / A definite danger from miles to admire, / The gamut of colors one couldn't depict. / / The flame is extinguished. The reason is clear - / I crave for love fuel and only one match. / I'm stronger than every invisible… sign in to read more »
I am breaking the vast glassy surface of make-believe seas, / As the moonlight is cutting the throat of scarlet sunrise, / I am screaming my heart out loud, I need to release / All my silently bitter emotions. I pray to the skies / To remain in this world for a lifetime and ruin it then, / In this… sign in to read more »
My best friend / Doesn't talk when I need silence / He won't bother me at all / My best friend / Isn't weak when I need a strong hand / He helps me through a hard day / / My best friend / Brings me joy when I need it most / He always does the right things at the right time / My best friend / Isn't forcing… sign in to read more »
I've turned into an actress, regardless my will. / Life's poignant, scenario brought me the skill. / Performing, I find the salvation / In changing my costumes and masks. / It keeps my true guise ever changing in turn, / The art of arranging's not easy to learn, / It's more than just bright decorations.… sign in to read more »
The smell of Kent / Failed to bring me to life, / I felt almost nothing, kept silent like dead. / The poisoned blade / Of a sharp kitchen knife / Was bound to cut me, I dropped it instead. / / It wasn't meant / To take place then, alas, / My memories, lurking, denied suicide. / My guise would fade / In a… sign in to read more »
Fear grips a family of words. / You are going to where you do not want / to go. / I remain worried about the unknown. / / The inevitable was flowering / on dead palms. / Would you exhume the past to find out, / what the divinity has buried / along the panicles of croci? / / I do not understand this… sign in to read more »
The vast ocean, transcending over lands peacefully / Its waters calm as silence, / When on a wave less, windless day- / Tranquil as water sitting in a test-tube, / / Put your feet into, feel it; / Then waddle or shuffle in its foam / Try swimming across its gargantuan surface / Somewhere one tires, grips… sign in to read more »
Living between the deaths / as a witness / to a silence between the words. / / Leaves had fallen: / yet a dry tree / was still flowering exuberantly / under a scorching sun. / / My day has come, / but I was far away from / shores of the other body. / / From unknown to unknown, / I am the self, / I… sign in to read more »
I will need / some new words today. / To say what I did not want to say, / scratching at the surface of truth. / I do not fight with meanings. / A shade between two borders of lies / between right and wrong. The eyes / will speak for the fierceness of hurts / carrying the fear of unknown. / It is,… sign in to read more »
Corner café, table for three. / Waiter, please get me some wine! / I loosen the straps of my sandals, / as I heavily sit, banging my knee on the corner of the damn table. / Hey gals, what's up! / I get back a mournful greeting / and a grunt from the other. / Okay, I say as I greedily eye the waiter… sign in to read more »
In twilight of pain / I blink for a dot / to punctuate the intelligence. / / My incoherence brings the unseen. / I stay at a vowel / to see the truth. / / Immenseness versus depth, / in shoals of turbulent life. / Where do I hide my vessel? / / A lure of the exotic death / does not bring the peach… sign in to read more »
I miss the tune of my ringtone / That no one except us knew; / I went to bed with my cell phone / And dreamt of hearing from you. / Your voice became my sole salvation, / Your breath - the sweetest lullaby. / I miss the waiting at the station, / Observing people passing by, / And then - your smile, a hint… sign in to read more »
At least the wind blows against your skin with a soothing touch. / At least the skies open broadly to your existence with no traces of anguished stares. / At least tour presence is acknowledged by the incident radiating sun rays without an ignorant detour to exempt you. / At least the soil underneath… sign in to read more »
The times of the rhyming sensations are ceased, / It's no surprise evil love has deceased - / My heart is a chamber with limited space, / Indifference got all my feelings erased. / / Frail fibre is used to the memories' blade, / My thirst for your love is about to fade, / Deceiving myself is revealing the… sign in to read more »
I am drenched in silver smoke / With my weekend brandy mates, / Laughing at the same old jokes, / Taking part in drunk debates. / / When my forces get united, / I will leave the noisy bar, / Soon to find myself invited / To a ride in someone's car. / / Midnight dates, adventures, strangers, / Mad ideas for… sign in to read more »
Midnight strikes, / and the wind picks up. / The sky - / Dark noon, / Overtaken by black. / The candle dies. / Wrestling trees, / Outside, / Shuddering leaves, / Knock on my window. / A flash of lightening, / I blink to see. / Instead I hear, / Thunder growl. / / The storm breaks loose. / As if Mother Nature… sign in to read more »
With stoicism writ on face / I invite the chisels / for giving birth to a dialogue / between me and the shaper. / / Where did the things go wrong / in making the life a simple page / to write a beautiful poem? / / Buddha give me a bo-tree or an interlocutor / who invents skin, teeth and eyes / of a… sign in to read more »
There was no end / to looking inside. / I was crumbling. / / Unnamed homing in / of anguish, / not knowing me. / / The wasted questions / of revival. / A depleted dawn of a failed sun? / / A river war / between two hills / for a moon? / / Time to ask / motor neurons, / why night had failed at ending… sign in to read more »
I had not imagined / that you will start an inquiry / into the creeping fog / under the estranged moon. / / Oh, sorrow / you had taken away my sun / when I was still rooted in night. / / Wading through narcissi / I was trying to catch the echo / and give back his own award / / Pressed between the… sign in to read more »
Feeling again that you've found "the one" / It is difficult to try and assert / That you or yours can love and trust / As if you've never been hurt. / / There may be a tall wall made of fears. / And all the symptoms of Excuse-itis, / Mixed in with memories which may have / More pains than osteoarthritis… sign in to read more »
A name breaks on the tip / of a pen. / Like a wildflower after a / violet end. / / The yellow stripes will / enter the past, / retracing the path / of failures. / / I pick up a broken thread / to weave a shade of blue flag / to open under the weight / of a guilt. / / A cluster of doorknobs. / I… sign in to read more »
That targeted sleep will not come / at once / in the tamed night. / / A shifted pain / lifts the irretrievable word / shamed at edge. / / The godwings / weave the … sign in to read more »
I'd sell my heart in paperback, / In verses for perverts to read. / The crimson lines look good on black, / Just like the world behind my lids. / / For crimson is my poisoned blood / You'd never want to mix with yours, / For black is my denying heart / That's stained with lies and dead remorse. / / Erase my… sign in to read more »
You sing as if from the distant skies; / I take wings as my heart… sign in to read more »
The imprints of your fingers / Have marked a half-full glass. / The sentiment still lingers, / The moment's due to pass. / / Your glance can still appear / In my Campari drink / Like blood that's mixed with tears, / Or passion's scarlet ink. / / My hand's already missing / Your gentle velvet skin. / My heart… sign in to read more »
You take my hand and lead me to the stage. / As you place your hand on my waist, you whisper "Hello beautiful." / I smile, resting my head against your chest. / The music starts, but my feet cannot move, you whisper "let me lead you." / With eyes closed I let you take me for a spin, I feel light in your… sign in to read more »
I raise my swollen eyes to reach your sight, / I try to guess the song that's in your head, / I'm only thinking / Of how I will dream of you tonight, / While looking through the window from my bed, / As always drinking / Plum wine with morning flavor from the glass / You drank from when you came and made… sign in to read more »
To wean away a tigermoth / from a bell jar / for a journey of faith / against ebony of illusion. / / The caterpillar has restrained / the roof, / of future accidents / to coming of age. / / You do not know / the speed / of nakedness / on silvery path. / / Where, / the ending comes? / You know / we… sign in to read more »
There are many people who tell us lies / And many truths we pretend to despise / Because we want a quick path to wealth / Great beauty and reproductive health / / We want to think of ourselves as moral / To stand above all others in any quarrel / We don't want to do the work involved / It is not to… sign in to read more »
Here I am, with my feet as my hands. / Running instead of doing what I should. / Here I am, with my / heart as my mind. / Thinking about what I should feel. / Here I am with my eyes as my ears. / Waiting to see,and not believing what I had heard. / Here I am with my joy as my tears. / Being moping the whole… sign in to read more »
In the cavernous mind / a thought becomes / redundant. / You go straight for a snakeroot. / / A flat cluster of white flowers / spurs a stigma / at the white moon / for floating rumors. / / T… sign in to read more »
Unsown peaks of fear / under aggression. / I ask you to make a choice / between I and inventing yourself. / / I will not abandon the tree: / the animal, renunciation. / The belief and emptiness / will find symbols of foreverness. / / Ephemeral colors; / Leaves will fall one day. / Someone was… sign in to read more »
Today, / go undivine / with me and remain untouched, / in dwindling love of faith. / / A forerunner of nothingness / in a theological mess, / breaking the mirrors / in a slaughter house, finding / a god. / / Collecting ruins of sounds, / veils, traversing the fecundity / of words, phrases. / / Night… sign in to read more »
Be with me / in this zone of pain. / My poems was walking / through me. / / The flute I broke, / in the river of silence. / Someone was whispering / to me… sign in to read more »
They will not come down / with branding iron and bobbing stings. / Instead. / we will walk down the earth, / to meet the silence / in half-lit homes of enemies. / / This poverty / of pause / and peeling off from giants of / fences. I send a green rose to you / from trembling hands, / to smell the… sign in to read more »
How will you carry the mount of tears / in the vally of temples? Kites flowing / in sky of beings-egos-denials and / repeals. / / Smiling at pain I unspeak to a keeper / of cage, under the shadow of golden / roses, walking with blue eyes of private / hymns. / / I craved and dispossessed myself in… sign in to read more »
A fake sanity with its wisdom / enlarges the space between the coarse / land of craft and sea of emotions / for stress to walk with soul / in sleep. / / A dope for the last hurt in hurricane / at burning lake where I was collecting / the black seeds from the fallen tree / of love near the deck of… sign in to read more »
If only you had walked out that door in which you are trying to enter, / then maybe a chance could still surpass / / If only you had listened to me, / and meant all your "I love you's" / Then maybe I would have not made you regret, / you not having to try / / I can see it in your eyes that you seek a… sign in to read more »
It was a failed attempt / to employ the eternity / for breathing. / / Iris, I cannot find the moon / behind the rainbow, when / I was throwing petals at your feet. / / O, white truce of anemone, / why phosphrous was given up / at the fall of an oak? / / In heaps of praises, / a monologue of the lamb… sign in to read more »
I find peace in many places / In the sunbird's quick flittering / Wings amongst red bells glittering / In the field of blowing gold grass / Shimmering as clouds above pass / I find peace in these spaces / / But you come with your theology / You proclaim this but biology / And with this you make war / On the… sign in to read more »
It was getting dark. / The insane curve of greed was rising. / I would not draw the boundaries / between the words. / / The finch was immersed / in soliloquies and light was waiting / inside the seeds. / / I open my eyes / and yell at the clouds in hyperboles / becoming stranger to myself. / / Who… sign in to read more »
It was coming up, the politics / like dirty sex / in tall Parthenium grass. / / The panther was hiding on a steppingstone / watching the hot, field hockey / played with skulls of peers. / / Mauled, the peach skin was / entertaining sunlight in / the metaphoric village. / / Prisoners of false… sign in to read more »
Sometimes God, Zoti, Allah, Bog, and Yahweh breaks our spirit to save our soul, / He breaks our heart to make us whole, / He sends us pain to make us stronger, / He sends us failure so we can be humble, / He sends us illness so we can take care of ourselves, / Sometimes God, Zoti, Allah, Bog, and… sign in to read more »
I'm taking to the road / I'm going home / Up yonder / Far up yonder / / The dust-ridden sandy trail / Is lined with reddish orange leaves / That fall gracefully from the big tall oak trees / Which parallel the long winding way / / I'm welcomed by the lively Sunday market / On the cobble-stoned town square… sign in to read more »
An unusual melody, / a reticent antiquarian / I will wear my galloping age / with your dark eyes. / / The lines were drawn / in the crocus fields. / We were fighting for the wild / immitative geckoes. / / A toad stumbles out from the eyelids / of a zero hour. You will not / touch the counterfeit of… sign in to read more »
It's in riddle form, / I hope you can understand / I love you, / yes, I do / Even though I know not what love is / "But with the little I know, I love you" / Memories all flooding, / reminding me that indeed you are special / It's been what? / 8 months, and I still get the goosebumps that I got when we first… sign in to read more »
Perfect bridges for a fading light / taking you to dark caves / like fireclay in fake sorrows. / / The superstition of a race pool / and unearthing the sacred temple / under a mount of lies. / / In vitro a baby god sleeps / waiting for a butcher knife / impaling the hymn on thorns. / / A silver… sign in to read more »
I really had accepted that I was gonna be an aunt / I really looked forward to changing his nappy and feed him / Just to look at a child's eyes captures your own soul / Innocent as he was / I loved him more even though I haven't seen him / It's a bit strange / / A child has this ability to make one happy… sign in to read more »
He loved her... / not enough to sacrifice his life for her, / she believed in inner strength / that black women possess, / she misled herself that / it's a black woman's purpose to suffer / and conquer the pain alone. / / She loved him enough to feed his ego / succumbed to his shenanigans like a concubine… sign in to read more »
I opened my eyes and the dream began / Rather a nightmare as I could define / I had told a lie / And it felt like there was a bullet in my soul / My heart was pumping blood as if it were a sponge / I still see no use to it / Fact was I had lied / I thought to myself / "It won't last for a month" / Then a… sign in to read more »
After the puppet show, / the nest was calling. / Indeed, the leaves held the slanted light / expanding the shade snared on branches, / / of dancing ash, of almond eyes. / Why the hangman was waiting / for the echo? The river was calling. / / Was this the inheritance of less / talent of pugmarks,… sign in to read more »
Was that a non-devil effort / to hide the language / from cultural onslaughts? / / The anger splits the opinion / about hurting goodness. / An isolated insult will spur / / the words against the flight over / the answer, before the brush / with picketing fear, showing heroism. / / I speak for… sign in to read more »
The hawk was landing. / Squinting at the urgent need / of slaughter and hope- / / among the frightened hunger / of truth, of running feet / in the tall grass. / / A world apart in / seeking the reality of / dying for earthly love. / / I was not sure of / the manifesto of bricks and / stones falling… sign in to read more »
You can be! / / You can be an achiever you always dreamt to be / The original person you were created to be / The blessing that you were meant to be / The best YOU, you can ever be / Yes, you can be! / / You can be like a minor who upholds the teachings of the elders / A person who teaches good ways worth… sign in to read more »
The sludge overtakes the sane / euphoria. A barefoot caravan / of cloud becomes edgy. / / The hills have gone green. / The cascading falls / tend to mount on the scattered stones. / / Suddenly I go berserk and start / hitting the stars moon by moon, / when night had betrayed the lover. / / The… sign in to read more »
Goose-stepping on a soul song / you set the sky ablaze, / and I was not ready to welcome you. / / I was hungry and I was thirsty / but could not find the road. / Back and forth, back and forth / / walking with the toad. You can guess / my predicament when I said / that, I am, not I would / / assult… sign in to read more »
After a long time, I heard them again: / peacocks. / Bequeathing the pilgrim sun to palm trees; / poised to open sexuality. / / Ah, the purple lips of a downing / cloud sets the sky on a chase / for a lost love of the blazing / moon in the starless night. / / A recent pluck of a sharp grace folds… sign in to read more »
On your face the shadow of a transparent wound / bungles the capricious climate / of the death of a thought which you could not / carry very far. / / And that was all when I asked you some questions / about life. You started opening a beehive / of kills and subcutaneous pains. / / How do you spell… sign in to read more »
Hoisting the bisexuality / on a figurine, / I crawl back to anxiety. / / The primitive instinct / was taking over the stitches / on a snake. / / What do you want from / a moon for the drooling … sign in to read more »
Not a single word added today / to my tinsel book. The brown eyes / were searching my smile. / / You want to close the happening / of first moon and the fig. / My roses start a new dialect, / / waiting on the clouds, almost / in rains, spreading the wetting / agent between the eyes. / / The distance… sign in to read more »
Was worried about the assault / from inside, / holding the shoes of his sons, / he was trailing the sectarian kill. / Utopia had its own weapons. / / I was trying to understand schizophrenia / knifing for peace. Do you think mental / fragmentation would find me on / the door bell of sleep? I was… sign in to read more »
What was the idea of charity, / when you were hiding / yourself from you? / / Was it a non-existence? / Or you were writing an / unseen anthology? / / Was that your kin choice / for a reci… sign in to read more »
Walking out of the body / I was drowned, / accepted and condoned by depth of sorrow. / A wide circle of testosterone / giving pardon to a sin / becomes sexless. / / You were overwhelmed by the missed beats. / Your prosaic crime of not fathering / the words becomes a belly dance / for wrinkled verses… sign in to read more »
Time capsule in gangrene / foot. It was madness of the legs. / There were no sins in the ghetto. Only / illicit distillation and girls changing / the beds. / / It stinks when he says he was god. / What was the ism of the sex / in the language of violence? Trash, you / throw the half-eaten apple on… sign in to read more »
Writing on sleeves / to remember your departure / and becoming a stray cloud. / / The maternal touch / of the sky, you can sleep whole life / on dense logics. / / White sheets were burning / unannounced in the home. / I lost the key, to open the door. / / All I wanted to tell you / about, selling… sign in to read more »
Waiting under the opaque moon / a primeval instinct takes over you / and you start arriving. / / A black bone / renders the ash on your forehead / and you complete the circle - / / reaching childhood; you start / climbing the ladder, / for instantaneous release. / / The insects don't forget the… sign in to read more »
Before the spill there was / soaring. And then anti-g. / I readied myself / for the ultimate fall. / / This was the poetry of submission / sharing the pain of disillusionment. / Who was pretending of liberation / in a see-through heart? / / This was the time when / you run amok / under pheromones of… sign in to read more »
A futurist virginity in black rose / was seeking posthumous award / for immoral kisses of thorns. / / Unaware of lethal thighs / skipping the lunar landscape / at night. / / Were you going to leap over / the mountains curling across the glaciers / of white pain? / / I will extend the shadow / of… sign in to read more »
A sage plant scrambles for the / mob, walking out of bed / and begs for a death. / / The adolescence had become / graphic. Do you agree with the / splurge of moonlight under the street light? / / The unborn stink was hovering / after the shipwreck. The seagulls / were bewildered. / / There was only… sign in to read more »
So my absentism will prevail / over presence; / I will talk to you in space / between the moments / of autumn red / when nothing else was moving. / / / In classical pursuit, I straighten / the equation and we understand / the complexities of life, and agree to depart / unlooking at the moon,… sign in to read more »
This fake city / encounters / / a thundering / moment; I go down / / coveting a mating / call from an explosion / / of hallowed / questions, with no answers. / / Stones were after all / stones, not gems of knowledge. / / How can you make a / universal elixir figuratively / / out of garbage of… sign in to read more »
The myopic tongues / of tall trees, going downhill / to find the roots of four-letter words of dead, / unspoken, but sung in dark. / / They had come out of the skin. / River was flowing on emotional track, / with heavy eyelids. Father said, / he would never die. / / Your unborn children were tasting… sign in to read more »
For the dream slaves / the incense has become a moon / for the alchemic effect of tear's stain / in erotic war. / / Ask a mooner, / will he bring her to bed / for a song to measure the cantus / between flight of strings in midnight? / / The small bruises of stars / were playing under the lemon tree… sign in to read more »
Again I would hear the night sounds / through the hours of civilities / when there was a pause in the body / untouchable. / / You were sleeping with counterfeits, / running down the golden dome / sailing over the silken clouds. / My rough palm was still holding the pen. / / That mirage, that fire on… sign in to read more »
A study of soul continues; / hold back the animal, / discovering yourself in blind light. / / Awaken the hungry child / of autumn / and give him the dreams of strawberries / to eat, time would drink his tears / / sans lips. A second death of the / pain of separation from the footprints / of… sign in to read more »
Pearls of fantasies shine in the waters of hope / That February turned tears to. / We will certainly free weakened hands from the ropes / If wonder is all that we do. / / Let us build a small ship as a shelter-to-be / And paint it in colors of spring. / It is madness so sweet to spend life on the sea; / I… sign in to read more »
I'll paint your sweet portrait with tightly shut eyes / With pleasure whenever you ask. / Though hands ever shaking and colder than ice / Do find it a difficult task. / / I'll cherish the portrait and hang it above / My empty not warm enough bed / To guard all the secrets of mystery love / And clear the… sign in to read more »
I lust... / But I know my book / And doomed by the greed of Macbeth / I fear passion and ambition / / I tiptoe into this realm with curiosity / but stumble hopelessly by mans flaws / My quaking heart beats / / Rushing to shelter / In a tormented state / Breaking out in a sweat / Afraid, vulnerable... / / My… sign in to read more »
Birth had bound my innocent soul to someone called mother, for without her breast I could not survive. All my milestones were meant to please her. She protected me, but her protection chained me. / First day of schhool, my teachers I had to impress and their opinions mattered the most. Their… sign in to read more »
With the swing of my hips I caught your eye. You licked your lips as you took off every layer to unveil my treasured thighs. / Your heart raced and your blood flowed as you caressed my nakedness. / Your hunger and thirst grew, and you wanting to fill your apetite did not care how it was quenched.… sign in to read more »
Absurdity was waylaid / like a black swan on the / grass shaking a leg. / / A child walks through me / antithetical to scorched life / of parallel egos. / / Austerity was neither present / nor absent. Volcanic ash / was spewing on recti. / / It was drifting, the snow bound / killer, spilling the… sign in to read more »
Like a bikini top / two hills were rising / in a spiral optic. / / Has an altruistic vision. / A wildfire erupts between / the thongs of dead. / / You have a mobile message / not to… sign in to read more »
I'm breathing the smoke of fruit cigarettes, / One's already burnt; I am craving for more. / I'm lighting the last one with no regrets - / If you were beside me, it well could be four. / / I'm slowly turning the key in my lock; / It usually takes me two minutes or three, / But I have been blind to the… sign in to read more »
You're driving across the mysterious lands, / You're making your way to the sea and the shore. / Let go of the wheel and stretch out your hands - / Your secret desires will call you for more. / / Midnight in July. / The boundless sky. / The signs in the violet mist. / The red and green lights / That shine… sign in to read more »
Discover the lands of forever - / Of harmony, beauty and peace; / Your reverie's worth the endeavor / Of searching a moment to seize: / / A moment to linger for years, / A perpetuated romance / Of two ever different spheres / That twist in a passionate dance. / / This madness and charm are a whole, / As… sign in to read more »
Tell me old friend / I was told you are a fair man / and many books you have read / was told you can solve a square / oh I swear if you can answer please do / is it fair for two heart to be alone / separated by this life we yearn to leave / separated by this dream they call hope / their hearts beats finding… sign in to read more »
The search for a special partner / Can be frustrating and it vexes, / Re-joining the new world of dating / In the hope of finding my nexus. / / Putting oneself out on the Internet is / An odd mix of ego and vulnerability. / So I delighted in the E-Mails from / Some women that want to know me. / / Sure, I… sign in to read more »
Life is not about one thing / It is not about happiness / Nor about laughter everyday / It is not about everything good / Life is about living. / / Life is about sadness / And about happiness / It is about pain / And about pleasure / It is not about gain / When evrything is in vain / But about loss also.… sign in to read more »
Why does it happen for a person to lose / Whether it be an object / Or / A love close to the heart / Why do we have to endure your pain / / It elaborates it potency in its threshold / It reprimands us / It reminds us of the beauty of things and life / To say goodbye is something I never want to do / again… sign in to read more »
"Nothing on this earth can stop the collective will of man.No force of evil can withstand the harmony of a people's revolution. Egyptians have spoken...And we will be heard" / / Don't despair fellow humans there is surely a better way. Don't give up on the human race; somewhere lies a brighter day.… sign in to read more »
I wander through / this house alone, / This empty place / I once called home. / / Round every corner / and in every room, / I see shadows of you and / it just increases my gloom. / / Home is where the heart is. / This is oh so true. / My home is where my heart is / And my heart is there with you. / / The only… sign in to read more »
I'm looking around and searching you there, / The bright prospect lights only frown as I stare, / My heart's getting lost in the shatters. / I know you'll pick them all up when you come, / And I'll never mind if you steal at least some, / Just keep them, and nothing else matters. / / Those white and green… sign in to read more »
My arms held so tightly around your waist / Just spoke for me, as I'd got my lips sealed. / At least they indulged in a new better taste - / Embraced by temptations, I chose to yield. / / This night was a blinding exhilarant flash / Of life that's unfiltered, of love that's pristine. / You found the… sign in to read more »
When you have something to say and you don't, / When you think of something worth doing and you don't, / When you have a vision but don't let others see it, / And when you withhold any good from those who deserve it, / You are shouting a silent lie. / / / When you see a gap and you don't fill it, / When… sign in to read more »
I dove into the deep end of a fantasy, for real / I would only have myself to blame for the loss I feel / Each word was false, oh but the betrayal was true / Sometimes it feels red, sometimes black, sometimes blue / / Wasted time, dashed dreams, needless sorrows, / It seems there are no colder crimes… sign in to read more »
At the peak of night, a day will come, / And darkness will vanish in the midst of the sun. / At the climax of evil, light will shine, / The darkest age shall move to a new time. / / A new day is a time to get back on your feet, / Leap and sore out of the pit of defeat. / For now you may be at the end of… sign in to read more »
Describe me the pleasures of ignorant bliss, / When life's like a train you are bound to miss, / When casual trifles appear in pink, / And wonders untouchable instantly shrink. / / You don't want to alter reality frail, / So every bold thought finds itself in a jail. / You welcome no changes, you… sign in to read more »
Look outside yourself and see / so much there is / many possibilities / Look around head up high / no need now to try and hide / Gone is that world of long ago / gone are all the people too / You can step outside now / for you are someone new / You have become a stranger / to that someone from the past / Step… sign in to read more »
Why me? Why now? When all was finally on track, / Why is that the time tragedy decides to attack? / When the world is perfect and everything is well, / Is when the convenient twist comes from hell. / What a time to attack, what a time to distract, / Evil exists - That's the greatest fact. / Or is it just… sign in to read more »
If you had a single wish, how would you choose to spend it? / Would you use your wish to destroy the world, rule it, heal it or mend it? / Do you wish for eternal wealth, then you could finally be free? / Or do you wish for the power of flight to travel across the sea? / / Would you use your wish to… sign in to read more »
"What is happiness? Is it something you can find?" / Why are we all to that answer so blind? / Happiness is not bought of some shelf, / Go, search eternity, prove it yourself. / / We crave it so much, but do we know what it is? / Our hopes are crashed by broken promises. / We think of it as a life without… sign in to read more »
I'm riding the cloud of bright blanket dreams, / The coconut smoke entwines with the mist, / The potion of madness in violet streams / Is carving the urge that I cannot resist. / / The mysteries find me still lying in bed, / Enjoying the pleasures of drunken grapefruit. / Just several gulps, and a room… sign in to read more »
And this is how the story goes / Alive or dead nobody knows / Somehow you need to dig inside / Throw out the dirt and dive into the light / Somehow you need to break free / See a glimpse of heaven in a sleepy pine tree / Care for others night and day / For a better world rise up and pray / Leave those petty… sign in to read more »
A very long awaited, phenomenal miracle, / A bundle to cherish and flood with love, / That noise-making little screamer, / Sent steadily from above. / Nine months he had to crankily wait, / To open his new-formed eyes, / Though when the moment finally came, / All that was heard was his cries. / The… sign in to read more »
Cowardice they call it - those people who don't know, / To commit the act of taking your own life, / But who really knows beside those who have committed, / What really made them thrust that knife. / What went through their minds during that moment? / What could life have thrown in their path so… sign in to read more »
To attain success one must work hard, / Make a goal and aim to score, / Reach for the sky but touch the stars, / Be you rich or poor, / The further you go, the harder things get, / And everything gets in your way, / Clear your thoughts, keep it on set, / No matter what the devil may say, / All along, / The… sign in to read more »
Through eyes blinded by judgements with no basis / See what you want, Allowing no graces / Waiting for me to turn around to sink your knife / You have no idea, Oh! You should see my life / / Pay no respect, You can't even afford a smile / Stubborn ignorance, That's just so your style / Step outside for a… sign in to read more »
I'll walk this life alone / Till I take it all in / I'll break those barriers of stone / Till I find peace within / I'll swim away / From this maddening shore / To pure happiness I'll pray / To a kinder man and more / I'll love life till the day I die / And I'll hunt a calmer streak / I'll cast my soul to… sign in to read more »
No wonder we are all feeling low / Mired in trifles down below / Boasting freedom of a walless prison / Seeing all reasons yet never listen / To the voice inside / To the man behind / So come herd and die in that nameless field / Between pain and joy, thought and deed / Come consume and die in rooms of… sign in to read more »
A new blanket / covers the earth / of whiteness / a new birth / Children seem to come alive / so much excitement in their eyes / Winterland of best dress trees / and beautiful snow angels one can see / Laughter and snowballs and snowman too / So many childhood memories come back to you / / all because of this… sign in to read more »
Hey son of the indentured, / Progeny of salvation, / Bringer of hope, / Child of prosperity, / Like slaves we bore the scars of indignation, / In you we vested our sacrifice, the new culture, / Your grooming, / A language lost, a new one gained, / A generation past that scorched in the sun, / A generation… sign in to read more »
Taste remorse bleeding from my lips, / Feel the pain of my dreams unleashed. / Shooting stars struggle to eclipse / One last flash of a perfect wish. / / Make the way with me, / Help my spirit flee, / Set my soul free, / It is smothered. / Let me find my place / In this tempting haze, / In the night's embrace… sign in to read more »
The sun is out / so bright it blinds one eyes / slowly one arrives / to the outside / to see the color of the leaves / to feel coolness of the fall breeze / the air is crisp and as one breaths / it seems to bring life back into me / step by step small ones at first / i learn to accept what is / then I decide… sign in to read more »
You came to me / And / Found me on my own space- quit / You assaulted my thoughts / With / Your charisma / Danced your way into my soul...You / You came to me / As a friend / And / As a committed lover / -Yet- / Omitted that feminine cliché' / "Till death do us apart" / Both of us / We were locked in that lonely… sign in to read more »
Somewhere in New Mexico / There are radio telescopes / They scan the heaven 24/7 / With extra terrestrial hopes. / / I can't search the universe / But I have wished upon a star. / I would like someone on earth to love / Another world is much too far. / / Finding someone has truly changed, / From the days of… sign in to read more »
I say: "Good morning everyone", / Turn on the light. The morning sun / Will never choose to greet this place / Of greed-trapped minds and sheer disgrace. / Some beer into inner space / To sink reality for instance / Is just the way of my resistance / Within this suffocating maze. / / The fussy crowds in… sign in to read more »
There are deadlines to meet, Places to be / Constantly driven by the dark cloud over me / Maybe just one more day then it will go / Maybe just one last effort, Then they will know / Rewards are not forthcoming in kind, only in cash / No rewards, No benefits, No hidden cache / / But at the end of the day… sign in to read more »
What if I fell into a deep sleep, not knowing the depth of my capacity? / What if the darkness that surrounds, transcends into shadows I've followed / What if this reality exists in a dream, I have awoken from before / What if my words, my thoughts, my dreams are a vision pronounced / What if this force… sign in to read more »
Everyday challenges becomes vividly more, / I can't remember, was it in the top or in the bottom drawer? / I had a meeting today but I completely forgot, / Sadly I'm told, this happens lately quite a lot. / / I don't understand, I remember my childhood memories well, / But it is these everyday happenings… sign in to read more »
Your life is an extravaganza show / With more than one admirer to make your spirit glow / Faithful investors with joyful complements bestow, / A euphoria of magic with every kiss that they blow! / / Enchanted moments that can conceive, / The idyllic picture of make believe. / Happy thoughts from memories… sign in to read more »
If the music could keep on playing, sweet are the sounds and / Bells of the song that is filled with a sensational rhythm. / Jazz it is but not as lazy as it sounds, as it fills an innocent soul with hope for a better life. / / Sweet is the sound of the music as it puts me in a station where fantasy… sign in to read more »
I am a child born of good intent / But, am I wrong for being here? / I need to know if this is true. / Who can answer me? / I really need to know who am I / I am young yet, feel besieged / Why is this so? / Where's my virtue / I'm raped of my being and feel voiceless / I'm consigned to darkness / Far from… sign in to read more »
IF I could make my dreams come through, My Sins go low / I would stand up with joy that fills my heart into the fullest and regret no new day as a new / day is a Blessing and I am a Blessing and was named Blessing / I am the light above the sky and fly within the / universe which carries an everlasting… sign in to read more »
Rain in me your tears of joy / As your lips die in mine, / leaving a sweetest taste of strawberry and pineapple. / Juicy they are without a doubt, / Enjoying every moment of them. / / I may not be your nation within a nation / but your lover within your heart. / even losing you might mean the world to… sign in to read more »
Ever wondered how it feels to be blind / live life in the dark... / And never get to see the loveliness of a Blossoming Flower / Or the Beauty of the Sun set? / / Some say "Dark is Beautiful" / Some say "love is blind" / And / Some write "ignorance is Bliss" / / "Pause" / / Through you / I have seen all of… sign in to read more »
I'm here in the corner, devoured by cold, / My little ribbed shell hides a desperate sigh, / It holds an enigma for you to unfold / Until I'm asleep to your breath's lullaby. / / My soul is rushing beyond the extremes, / Revealing the vibe that is hard to appease, / But once you discover the door to my… sign in to read more »
She let me lick into / Her being, completely / Got a taste of her / Innocence, truthfully / / So, I plunged in deeply / Into her...Faithfully / I touched... / As I was touched / / I traced... / As I was lead / To deeper mysteries / Of life - Like a little boy / / I chanted for her charms / Slowly but surely… sign in to read more »
You say you are braver, superior, smarter, / Your pride, ever swollen, has poisoned the air. / In fact, you are already deep in the gutter, / You've merged with the shades of the earthly despair. / / Your crave for respect, much more cash, a career, / But luck's velvet fingers won't grant you a touch,… sign in to read more »
The amount of children a family has / Brings an historical fascination. / From the 1700's to the present day / Regardless of the nation. / / Judging from all the coverage, / On TV and in magazines, / Having many children now, / Is still odd, or so it seems. / / There are interviews and reality shows, / They… sign in to read more »
Like a pendulum ball / My life swings / Sad... happy / Laughter... cries / Joy... sorrow / Loss ... victory / S… sign in to read more »
Guys, all you are good at is scolding a cop, / Yes, some of your statements have meaning, indeed, / But words with no reasons won't get you on top, / You're giving your fellows a casual feed / Of rhyming curse words that you cast out loud, / So over-inflated and false-emphasized, / You try to be brusque,… sign in to read more »
In search of meaning, I evaluated my life / In search of purpose, I questioned my priorities / In search of significance, I reset my goals / In search of value, I analysed my wants / In search of sense, I assessed my needs / In search of a calling, I listened to my heart / In search of conviction, I… sign in to read more »
If love is doing, / If love is action, / If love is hard work, / Then you and I / Are in service of each other. / / You and I / Working side by side, / Serve each other, / Support each other, / Stand by each other. / / If love is action, / It is this action that keeps love alive. / You and I, / In service of… sign in to read more »
He who calls himself "my father" / Doesn't know my second name / He who calls himself "my father" / Remembers that he is my father on father's day / He who calls himself "my father" / Never held my hand and looked into my eyes and said don't go there / I tried impressing him through merits / But he knows… sign in to read more »
Like poetry, / Like musical ability, / Like painting, / Like sport, / Lying is a talent too. / / Some have the inherent ability, / To create a fictitious life, / That is grander than necessary, / Larger than life. / Never mundane, never ordinary, / Always fascinatingly different, / And appealingly new.… sign in to read more »
You killed the spirit / You killed the faith / You have taken away the joy. / Good girl gone bad. / You have slaughtered like an animal / Slit the throat of hope / Stabbed the heart with the sharpest dagger. / Crushed dreams and goals. / / You have taken fathers from their children / Mothers from their… sign in to read more »
My brother my sister, / who shall I call upon today when there is nothing but pain in my heart? / mother and father who shall I come back to when the world shows me it's downside / / Neighbour who shall I call upon if I lie awake all day thinking about tomorrow / My significant other who shall I talk to… sign in to read more »
The cradle of despair. / The ever-winter air. / Is anybody there, / Beneath this dreadful moon / Evoking thirst for tears? / I'm screaming - no one hears. / I breathe the same old fear / That I'll be dying soon. / My soul strays and hovers, / My heart is under covers, / My lonely secret lovers - / The clouds… sign in to read more »
The path we lead is so unclear / many turns many hills / one task finished / 10 more appear / I have lived my life / for her you know / somehow I just thought / she would grow / she has to a beautiful rose / but her thorns they cut and tear / any who come near / any who dare / try to reach out / try to get… sign in to read more »
Under my skin lies a place of sadness and pain / I don't know why me but I just try and follow / I sometimes act mallow over small things / What's worrying me is the fact that it might not go at all / I have maps of bruises by the one who said he loved me / I have maps of the scars he gave to me, after… sign in to read more »
Don't be fooled! / The nicest words of all, don't you think? / We inherited them from one generation / To the next... / Mothers and fathers were told by our grandmas and grandpas, / I won't look into your eyes and lie / 'cause I have been there myself and believe to know the trend... / / But I repeat the… sign in to read more »
Let Wednesday come / With a world of fantasy / Sweetened with love and romance- / Dipping my soul in the fragrance / Of sweet relation, love, affection, / Facilitated by hate and attraction. / / Even though at a long distance / Her presence seems closer to me / With her innocent demeanor / Beautified by her… sign in to read more »
I learn to fall in love with myself again / and have candle light dates with my shadow... / Converse with my cerebral cortex and hope that the sound echoes off the walls like a bat / And like this creature, I will find my way in the dark / when I am unable to see by listening to my instincts / / I feel… sign in to read more »
I know now there is little hope / inside all is gone. / The darkness no matter how much light / it still lingers on. / I struggle to breath / I struggle so deep / Knowing now that it won't be long indeed for her and me. / The sun it is trying to reach out and give its healing warmth / As if to say all is… sign in to read more »
Your husband, unfaithful, and five stupid kids / Do grow the seeds of despair; / You water them amply, chain-eating with greed / Cheap sweets. Listen, quit it. Stare. / / Your husband detests you. Accept it, it's true. / He needs ironed suits and your dinner. / However, he had kind of feelings for you… sign in to read more »
I could stand there naked and what would you say? / I could stun the world's magnificence and you would only walk away. / / Written on the back of a post-it Banana's, milk, eggs. / / Do you not know how to show your love? Or am I not worthy of even a single petal, wilted. / How long must I stand here… sign in to read more »
Don't ever forget / What you're living for / / Find a purpose / Then pursue it / / Purposelessness sucks you ever deeper / Into misery / Into nothingness / Into meaninglessness / / It's not predetermined / Nor static / / It's what you make it / So make it something you love / / / Write it, Paint it, Sing it… sign in to read more »
The things we can't see are the greatest / Like love / / We cannot in a court of law / or a scientific laboratory / Prove conclusively / That it exists / / But we know it is there / Because we feel it / We feel ourselves respond to it / And radiate with it / / The things we can't see are the greatest… sign in to read more »
You detest me. The reason is clear, / And your welcome is always so cold, / But the core of my perfect idea / Has been stolen by the whole / Heartless cruel rotten world. / / You all promptly discovered the sense of surviving / And at last started thinking what means to be free. / Full of envy, consumed… sign in to read more »
I lie awake in my bed / Helpless, hopeless / My future suddenly doesn't look so bright anymore / All my childhood dreams and aspirations dead / Doesn't look like there's much for me, I am told / But I won't give up, at least not yet / / / Everyone's busy with their own stuff / Everyone has their own… sign in to read more »
Why spend days in my room in loneliness? / People wonder why I'm miserable / They cannot seem to understand the mess / I can't clean up, I'm just not capable / Sometimes too dark to even see my thoughts / The sensation always overwhelms me / Understanding when I connect the dots / Don't they understand I… sign in to read more »
While walking through the shopping mall / Just because I was bored. / I looked at all the things on sale, / That I could not afford. / / There were signs upon some items, / On sale that enticed to buy. / Showing both the price that "WAS" and now "IS" / That caught my thoughtful eye. / / Those signs show one… sign in to read more »
I was walking through the night, / never looking for the light, / no one near or in my sight, / still I stood tall and upright. / Silverbird was on his flight. / / When the darkness waved goodbye, / I kept walking with a sigh, / morning sun reclaimed the sky, / she came looking in my eye. / Silverbird was… sign in to read more »
The eyes have seen a sight of anxiety / Being brutalized on what has been planned aside / Look through these eyes and tell me what you see / A pain behind a laughter I giggle / A frown rushes to my face / A giggle my muscles replicate / Me against the world / Milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days &… sign in to read more »
a non-believer at first / as a result of a dark age / it was a lonely existence / a dark existence / / I could not understand / having someone / not as a means to an end / but just to have someone / / until one day a colourful enlightenment / came my way / she appeared out of nowhere / I am now a believer… sign in to read more »
contemplate deeply / I do / try to understand / I do / / but I do not / for better / or for worse / know why we engage in such insanity / / I speak here of matrimony / the tying together of two / the shutting out of the rest / the so called gods test / / in captivity / suppressing our urges / we will lose our… sign in to read more »
21 centuries / no answers / I ponder man's oldest curiosity / I ponder, but to no avail / / when pondering upon this curiosity / meaning dies away at a fast pace / in rebellion I choose to dwell / in an attempt to unlock the secret of the human race / / as I ponder deeply / and while meaning dies / I… sign in to read more »
The news has said it's getting better, / But who on Earth believes in it? / Now, when all dreams are bound to shatter, / I laugh at such a lame deceit. / / And I don't care this place is dying / Beneath my own fallen sky. / It is your life that I'm denying, / As you have taken mine awry. / / I tell myself… sign in to read more »
This goes to show, that my dreams consist of you. Honestly, my words cannot express your beauty. They say that love lasts forever, stay as long as you need, just keep me here. I can promise things won't be broken. I cannot fall asleep, without your breath next to mine. I can't imagine myself… sign in to read more »
I hear the sound of the organ, / so I start thinking of you, / the one who once crossed the ocean, / and left here out of the blue. / / I hear the sound of the organ, / I feel both happy and sad. / I see your boat on the water / while I recall what we've had. / / I'm sure you don't feel like talking, / for… sign in to read more »
I'm just blind and lame, / never had a name. / Life's a losing game, / ain't no one to blame. / Baby, it's a shame! / / Come sunshine or rain, / ours are pools of pain. / Ride the morning train, / take an aeroplane: / Sorrow will remain! / / I'm just fool enough to go on dreamin', / even though I'm feelin'… sign in to read more »
pleasant it's not, I should know / on your knees, facing only yourself / knowing the reflection, / the mirror always stares back / / edged in red hurt / when you dare to explore excuses / red hurt always seep through / justified in focusing / / edged in background colors / reflecting on broken promises… sign in to read more »
Her face a sculpture of a / Body formed with elements of earth / Pearls of soil, found in oddest of places / The same cards dealt with the same odds / / Find a gem, or receive a winning card / A glance for love, catching the sparkle / Eyes that flicker like diamonds under water / See clear a gem presented… sign in to read more »
From wise men and sages down to idlers, / From angels and saints down to murderers. / Symbols and emblems were bound together, / To form rich lines that will stay forever. / Heartstrings that collide, pulsating as one. / Tied too deep and tight, no man can define. / Speaking in tongues, yet we all… sign in to read more »
For a long time I thought I had none, / for a long time I did not think of him / It was as if he didn't exist. / I didn't pray for him, / didn't wish to see him, / didn't want to know him / simply because he abandoned me / simply because he wanted nothing to do with me / sometimes I wonder if he ever… sign in to read more »
Surrounded by my past, / I have discovered a lot. / I have discovered at last / The anguish of loss in my chest. / This anguish is all that I've got. / / Surrounded by this gloom, / I only want to break through. / I only want thoughts to bloom / Like weeds by a foreigner's tomb. / He fought for the word,… sign in to read more »
Out of tough skin I battle with my emotion. / Tearing through the layers, of self despising motion. / Brought upon by devils strain, thoughts I can't control. / Perpetrating every bone and rinsing out my soul. / / Whispering like jealousy, tormenting brutal fears. / Calling on anxiety to wipe away the… sign in to read more »
You are not the ones for love to know, / You are not the ones for life to please, / All you hunt is dirty euro dough, / It's, in fact, a terrible disease. / / Your infected ego is inflated, / It will burst and poison all your veins. / Even when the beast is saturated, / It is still your helplessness that… sign in to read more »
Dive into your own damned lake, / Take the turn - I'm going straight. / Your intended failed mistake / Has defined your only fate. / / No, I cannot stop the herd, / I can't drain your ego's gall. / I can neither beat one nerd / Nor by words defeat them all. / / But my keen and poignant phrase / Does… sign in to read more »
This northern city with headlights-eyes / Has buried me in its cold and gloom; / You'll see this place in a dreadful guise / And once sweet home will seem a tomb / Once you're aware there's no way out, / Once dreams of youth say goodbye and grin. / It goes farther and makes me doubt / In all the things I… sign in to read more »
Ain't got no idea where we've been comin' from, / I can't even see the reason why we've come, / nor where we go. / Sometimes things are kind of hard to understand, / maybe love transcends this life and there's a land / that we don't know. / / Love hurts, love heals, / it kills and will / give rebirth. / Oh… sign in to read more »
My tears start to rise, / they're filling my eyes. / You won't hear me cry, / not even a sigh. / / I don't need your love, / no hand from above. / I don't want no one, / no ray of the sun. / / My heart's all alone, / a king on his throne. / Blue sky's gettin' dark, / my soul's with the stars. / / This dream's… sign in to read more »
What are you? / / They ask, 'What are you?' / looking at me strangely - / wondering, whispering, enquiring, deliberating, / / Assessing me keenly - / hair, nose, skin, colour, / / Appraising me openly - / race, creed, culture, ethnicity / / Evaluating me eagerly - / mixture, combination, concoction,… sign in to read more »
I cannot sleep, / I cry and weep / an ocean deep / and blue. / / So cold's the night / moon's just in sight, / shines golden light / on you. / / Well, I look up to the stars in the sky, / once you'll get there, but the mountain is high. / Like an eagle, in my dream I can fly, / still I wake up in the bed where… sign in to read more »
Last night I came across a woman who could not reason or stand her ground, her perceptible and obvious confused mind resembled childishness and idle mind. / / I found her irritating and I could not stand her, she was the opposite of me, I really could not bear to be in her presence any longer, her… sign in to read more »
Slowly I rise from the ashes / Like a Phoenix / my flame is renewed / my wings are still new / and tight / I stretch them out / prepare myself to take off / on my new journey / BUT / I cannot, not yet / Like a giant enemy of freedom / life forces me to stay still / I cannot move / I am caged in / My wings are… sign in to read more »
Times are slow, / I just go / ahead. / I don't know / where to go / instead. / / Roses grow, / they just show / the dread. / I feel low, / I've been so / misled. / / Sadness is fallin' down on me / and there's no light. / Madness is callin' now for me / but that's alright. / / Come what may, / one more day / defined… sign in to read more »
I wing the wind and, as it warms / Draw beam upon the brightening rim / Beyond which, so the ancients lie / Are golden trees that touch the sky. / / Above a vault of fading stars / Encompasses my loneliness. / Below, the ocean, green as time / Rolls to the edge of the abyss. / / The garden at my journey's… sign in to read more »
Modern technology's a wonder / Just amazing this I know / If I get lost there's my GPS / That will tell me where to go. / / If I am bored at home alone / And want to have some fun, / I can play against Nintendo Wii / Although I have never won. / / For my mathematical prowess / I realize there's no flattery… sign in to read more »
There's a little tradition on Thanksgiving / In which the family and each guest / Takes a turn before the dinner / To tell how their lives are blessed. / / Each person speaks of gratitude / Within their minds reflection / As she listens and waits what does she think / In her personal introspection. / / Does… sign in to read more »
I've been struck by lightning / A bolt out of the blue / Caught me unawares / As through the sky it flew. / / It pierced my hardened heart - / Shot through every vein / Setting fire to baggage / Gathered from past pain. / / Paralyzed pretenses / Denial opened wide / Damaged all defenses / Cracked my paltry… sign in to read more »
On this Emotional Holiday / It is time to take a rest / From all the pressure that is life / That just might get you stressed. / / Never mind the constant running / From pillar and to post. / Time to stop the pedaling / And just lean back and coast. / / There are forces out there / That can turn your spirit… sign in to read more »
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of luck. Illness, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test limits of your soul. / / Without these small tests, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere; safe and… sign in to read more »
For the intangible concept of Freedom / There has been many a loss of life. / In the name of her script for "Freedom", / I was forced to lose my wife. / / It was her sad solution, / For her personal evolution, / Freedom was her revolution / From loving marital institution. / / In conflicts concerning… sign in to read more »
Putting pen to paper makes / Inner voices very clear. / Of a desire no longer secret / For the cosmos (plus one) to hear. / / Positive thoughts are focused, / Projected strong and true. / Encouraged within my spirit, / By the joy of knowing YOU. / / Some logic here for you to see, / Although… sign in to read more »
A fighter I used to be / No battle no war would ever get me / The demons the people who dressed their best / attacking the young and innocent / They had no affect on me / I was made of rock and stone / but now that she is all alone / she has no one to fight the battles for / She has always gotten up once… sign in to read more »
As I walk the dog each night, I stare into the sky. / The stars alone bear mute witness to my daily weary sigh / I still ask the heavens of what went wrong to love that went awry. / And I think of the things we could have done but she would not even try. / / Writing rhymes about our problems is a great… sign in to read more »
It's not me / I say again and again / It's not me / So don't pretend / to think you know everything / because it's not me / who cries and screams / It's not me who's afraid of the dark / It's not me who fears everyone, everything / Although it's the way it seems / No it's not me, not at all / It's someone else… sign in to read more »
If I can't make it tonight / Know that life forced me / To be / So that I could be / A man / Just like others / With smile on their faces / Each day back home / With a loaf of bread / For their family / / If I can't make it tonight / Weep not for me / All your life / Block not / The flow of love / From your… sign in to read more »
The phrase "I'm Sorry" you may agree / Has turned into a social amenity / We say "I'm Sorry" more than Brenda Lee / Which was a hit song for her back in 1960. / / You may not want to acknowledge the damage you've done / The pain that you've brought to spouse, daughter or son. / But if you've done wrong… sign in to read more »
My contented smiles and reverie disturbed by the loud and intrusive pound, / "Who, just who can that be that dares my solitude and bliss thus disturb?" / Barrel-chested, bulging biceps, conceitedly the illusion strikes the curb, / He licks his lips, secure in thought that yet another victim he has… sign in to read more »
On a hot and steamy summer night, / While eating Italian lemon Ices, / I thought again of the dismal plight / Caused by her Mid-Life Crises. / / Say what you will to defend your 'change' / Deep inside you know what's true. / Our lives you hurt and made re-arrange / Yet my prayers ask, Where are YOU? / / You… sign in to read more »
When the going gets tough, the tough get going / That's a proverb we've heard before / That doesn't mean for your marriage / You should be quick to use the door. / / You made a lifelong commitment / And life isn't always sweet. / Marriage is not like computer spam / You just can't click on DELETE. / / You… sign in to read more »
The new leaf sprouts into existence, greeting the universe / Uncurling, revealing, playing out to nature's wishes, / The warm rays of the sun touches her veins, she stretches, / Her siblings try to reach her in their attempts to nurse. / / A caterpillar too submits to nature's insistent laws, / Chewing… sign in to read more »
Their hands are clasped, / Smiling - for the gift of time / Has been granted to them. / She is dressed in a snow white sari, / He in an equally hued kurtha. / Into the temple they gingerly enter / And their daily obeisance / To The Lord offer. / They emerge - still holding hands, / Smiling, greeting, just… sign in to read more »
She said that she'd "changed" / On a journey for her gnosis. / Was this a real spiritual walk? / Or form of psychoneurosis? / / She was gentle and kind, / A true modern Isis. / Then she screwed up our world, / Could it be, MID-LIFE CRISIS? / / As many get older / Some folks will insist, / That there's more to… sign in to read more »
A razor-sharp sliver of ray slits the dark and leaden sky, / Unzips it slowly and deliberately to reveal a hue of orange and red, / A fish eagle calls soulfully, mournfully, echoing in his head, / The screen enlarges, brightens, figures are born, change and die. / The dark sky swallows itself, spews out… sign in to read more »
New eyes flicker open / Good Morning / Yesterday's eyes forgotten / Prayers said just mechanically / He steps out of himself like a shadowy soul / Duplicity / His eyes dart about wickedly / Slits narrow menacingly knowingly cold / Today he shall not be meek but bold / The halo spins and twirls to remind him… sign in to read more »
When the love of my life left us / And wrote us out of her script / She left her family sad and hurting / And me emotionally ripped. / / I spent the days in contemplation / Sifting through the all years / Until comes night with lack of light / When shadows can hide the tears. / / To find a little glimmer… sign in to read more »
The morning rays dances across the shimmering seas, / Reaches land and laps up the sweet dew served by the dawn. / Dancing across the fields, it hears my persistent pleas, / And within me despite my duress, new hope begins to spawn. / And as the warm rays my fears and neurosis begin to still, / I arise… sign in to read more »
You're shallow as a pool of dirt, / In which your semi-force has drowned. / Your words are pointless and absurd; / You spread your helplessness around. / You hide behind your ego brand, / You contradict your each demand. / / You're freedom-proof, yet still aware / Of all the grieves of your position.… sign in to read more »
The tired sun barely whispers "Goodbye" to the distant hills, / Than they turn from green to orange and then to silhouettes. / That insidious nagging thought my mind cajoles and flirts, / And like the water from my shaking hand all the days hope spills. / A vicious cycle - the knowledge of the… sign in to read more »
Of everything in life / The only certain thing in life is change / It is change / Change is inevetible / For without change / Nothing would be / Everything would just stand still / Life would just be...dead / Change means growth / We might not always like it / sometimes things just have to change / Change can… sign in to read more »
It is what it is / a line I say / when I know something won't go away / I accept it / I challenge it / do what I must do / It is what it is / no use coming unglued / Take the necessary steps / to make it all go away / to at least gain control / to have a say / It is what it is / take it down step by step / then… sign in to read more »
Just before dawn on a lonely shore, / I trudge the sands walked by many before, / The water entices me with her cool glaze, / And I find myself swept back by her - in a daze. / I look around me and all I see is ocean and gloom, / Oh! An overwhelming sense of loss and impending doom. / The darkness… sign in to read more »
Into a million pieces the lightning shattered the night sky; / Incessantly the thunder rolled, awaking every living being. / Every nerve in his brain, circuiting the news, he could not deny; / Cold, clinical, concise thoughts ricocheted, as played out previously in a dream. / The scorched earth… sign in to read more »
How deep do you want me to go? / All the time you're talking about this other friend / coveting your things for $50.00. / For what it's worth, you might as well hand it over. / You are not thinking straight. / I gave you a good deal and it's not the deal! / You're actually thinking twice to make another… sign in to read more »
Is it wrong to use whatever title you like? / It's whatever you make it to be. / I have a parenting responsibility over my work. / You would know I excel when it comes to this. / I am not superhuman; I want you to think that too. / I hold the magic and my life's work is the miracle I see more every day… sign in to read more »
You cannot predict when you will fall, / If the mountains move or the floor shakes, / Should the heavens open, / Or the earth quake. / You may be able to foresee it all, / But you can never envisage when you will fall. / / Falling uncontrollably / / You cannot prevent a trip and tumble, / Tug on a rope… sign in to read more »
Life is a never ending circle that continues no matter how hard the day may seem / We tend to dwell upon the hurt and pain that we in counter rather than the joy / Find the joy in your life / / Can you not stand up and decide that today is the end of the tunnel of negativity / No one can bring us the… sign in to read more »
For years I thought that life / Was meant to be a race - / That we were made to run, / To hurry and to chase. / / Somewhere in the madness / I stopped to catch my breath / The urge to run the race / Had strangely met it's death. / / The music in the air / Was calling me to dance / So gingerly at first / I… sign in to read more »
You pray to angels with dirty wings, / Buy mercy and sell it, / Your rotten selfishness fucking stinks, / Dozens of cities smell it. / Your dirty sluts own golden cunts, / Justice smells just like dough, / Bribes, euro-bucks and some public stunts / At crusty First Channel's shows. / / Your cash green eyes… sign in to read more »
I sit myself down in the electric chair and press the button. / The one that says eat me, I'm 900 calories and I taste good. / I clip the tweezers to my arms and legs and face, / All the places I look at myself in disgust. / I cover my face with the sack of shame / where I've written all my failures and… sign in to read more »
Tattered dreams soon disappear / Inside my soul there is no fear / The mask removed I know see / Inside my heart it's meant to be / / Alone I walk my head held high / Inside I know I've lived a lie / It's not too late to dry my tears / Inside I know I wasted so many years / / Searching for my other half… sign in to read more »
No one sees the fighter in me / Perhaps because she tires more easily / She has won so many battles / Fought so many fights / Attacked so many wars / but not tonight / Tonight she need a little rest / so tomorrow she can be at her best / I look forward to spending some time with you / My daughter of whom I… sign in to read more »
Like a glitch in the system, that never really happened. / Like a shaking glass on the desk by the window, moving on its own, no force of nature, no divine intervention, purely just a moving cup, that seems to obscure itself from everyone else's vision. / Like when they play the creepy music in the… sign in to read more »
No matter what you said or how we fought / How I loved you / Whether you cut me off or broke my heart / How I loved you / Through the lies and the pain / How I loved you / Whether or not it would ever be the same / How I loved you / I gave you my energy and my pride / How I love you / Wanted to be a family… sign in to read more »
Close your eyes and describe what you see. / Nothing, I bet. You mind it? / Open them up, it will nothing still be. / Cheers! They've got you blinded. / / Poison or wine? / Taste and decide, / Dull thoughtless swine, / Make up your mind! / / Make a small gulp. Taste the drunken grape juice. / Swallow. Wait.… sign in to read more »
I fell yesterday, but that does not determine my today, / I fell today, but that does not determine my tomorrow. / What is falling then? / Is it not equal to failure? / Does it mean I can't stand again? / No, it means I can stand up again. / It does not mean I'm stuck. / It's so great to know that falling… sign in to read more »
Based on actual events- As I lay here, in the dark. Staring up at the ceiling. Trying to force myself into sleep. I begin to hear them. The ghosts of the night. I hear the soft footsteps of the dead coming to life a mere five feet from my bed. I hear them in the kitchen. The drawers that hold the… sign in to read more »
Again I know it's not true / everything they say about you / I know things, don't let them show / Stay a nurse stay in control / So much control have you / when your in your nursing shoes / No one allowed to get through then / You've should them all / this is not pretend / You have become someone that truly… sign in to read more »
What is in a word is an emotion / Is it but the vocalisation of perception / Is it soul-extracts incarnated / Or merely portrayed will be clouded by vowels and consonants? / / If words mean so little / If the language of skin overrides / If the pitch change meaning / Why then spoken words are judged?… sign in to read more »
Right now I feel so lost / Not sure which way to turn / Unhappy where I am - / Which bridges do I burn? / / Everything that held me / Has strangely lost its grip / I'm totally alone - / And tears refuse to drip. / / I need to haul my mind / From where it wants to go / Thoughts it has been thinking / Just make… sign in to read more »
Is truth be told valid / Is vice a virtue / Can money solve your aches / Or merely dull the sensation? / / Wealth the route of all evil? / Poverty the mark of poor education? / Then surely life sucks for the slow / And the fast gets first bite? / / If a poor man cries / are his tears more wet? / If a poor man… sign in to read more »
If I were a flower / And you a buzzing bee / You'd stop a little while / Drink deeply from what's free / / You'd fly away again / With nectar that you sought / You'd take it to the hive / Just like a good bee ought / / Queen Bee would welcome you / Be pleased with what you brought / There would be more honey… sign in to read more »
Frost now covers my once loving heart / Ice replaces my flowing warm core / Hatred is tearing my caring apart / Nothing is the same as it once was before / / All my good intentions have grown sour / My happiness has taken a turn for the worst / My evilness is growing stronger by the hour / My joy is now… sign in to read more »
This open book without an ending / Is everything my life reminds of. / You, shallow souls, were just pretending - / You're out of touch, I'm out of mind now. / / I was a slave of my devotion, / A pillow for your worthless tears, / And you just played with my emotions, / Then in a moment disappeared. / / I… sign in to read more »
I know now that I must let you go / Please spread your wings and fly / All my feelings to the world I show / With every tear I cry / / It kills me in every way / To know your longer mine / How I wish that I could say / That love is truly blind / / How I miss holding your hand / And kissing you goodnight / By… sign in to read more »
I hear her at night, she calls my name, when I am trying to sleep / Her voice so calm, so clear, so crisp, it runs through my mind so deep / I've heard her before so many times, but never did I listen / Now it seems I hear every word, as my eyes start to glisten / / Come with me she asks so soft, let me… sign in to read more »
I made mistakes / In the journey of my life / Some decisions I made / Believing I was right / Some were wrong / And left me wonder why / That I couldn't see them / Even when I saw others cry / In the journey of my life. / / I have gathered wounds / That can not heal / And the scars too / That cannot be… sign in to read more »
I'm the light, but for different shadows, / I'm a shadow of different lights, / A perfect muse for an hour, / The one with no past for a stranger, / For the others - the one with no life. / My destiny has been so cold to me / That my tears have turned into ice. / / When the dream of tomorrow died, / Giving… sign in to read more »
Positive thoughts / Positive point of view / Stop sitting staring / at the same old you / No one can change / the place you're in / Only your determination / will help you win / Though you're afraid / and are struggling / The battle is worth it / for what it brings / A day perhaps without suffering / A view with… sign in to read more »
The higher a man soars on wings of success / The greater his potential to fall / And the loftier the horseback of achievement / The longer and harder the fall. / / The more a boy raises his head above the rest / The greater the tendency to look down on others / And the taller a man becomes / The greater… sign in to read more »
Beginning as a worm / We creep and crawl around / Fighting for our food / And to the ground we're bound / We find our favourite plant / And cling on for dear life / Munching as we go / Our teeth cut as a knife. / We all look much the same / We like to blend right in / All we do is eat / Be faithful to our kin… sign in to read more »
Finally / She drank a bit / From an empty glass of wine, / Finally / The pieces fit, / Yet they fail at matching fine. / Endlessly / Her sore red eyes / Turn to vast but shallow lakes, / Endlessly / She'll pay the price / For her salty sweet mistake. / / Finally / He found his core / In her pointless rotting… sign in to read more »
In a corner crouching / Underneath the shade / Her fragile body hurting / Dripping dry tears fall upon the cement / / Listed as a married / Confessed as lost / Tamed to behave / / The missing puzzle within her soul / Screaming to be found / Sacred is the time as we / Fall upon words / / She breathes so hard… sign in to read more »
He lived his days by someone's rules, / He broke his hands, became the tool. / He played the game with life at stake. / He won. He made a great mistake. / / Life is action, / Don't surrender / When the heartlessness decides / Who are fighters and defenders / On the different inner side. / / Some beer in… sign in to read more »
My pen is bleeding on the paper, / As love is bleeding in my heart. / Each word's the bare truth - / Put these words to music, / Play this music on the strings of my soul, / If you don't tear them, I'm yours. / / If you see me dying, / Will you hold my hand through this hell? / Will you save me like you… sign in to read more »
What is a life of a mixed individual / confused between two races? / Where are the roots of a person who lives in a country / with a variety of faces? / / I am concoction of cultures, rich with stories & history. / Waiting patiently to be discovered along with unsolved mysteries. / I sit and ponder about… sign in to read more »
Has it been a week or a month, I can't remember / I do not know if it is October or November / The days they come and the weeks they go, the months are never ending / The time I spend inside my mind continues my pretending / / I know I'm right but think I'm wrong to ever start life changing / Until I… sign in to read more »
I wake in a fog after the night before / And swear yet again, it will happen no more / The bottles are broken and the tables in disarray / My habit I'm afraid is growing more each day / / The pills the booze and the staying up all night / Have taken my soul and there's no answer in sight / I fight with my… sign in to read more »
My life sits still between real and what is not / I sit here dazed at what I think about a lot / Crazed and ruined by life's experiences / Tells me now that I should not have kept those acquaintances / / Woe is me that I stand before you / Shall I ask forgiveness, or bid life adieu / I tell you now that… sign in to read more »
If only they knew / They wouldn't reach / Just meters away / The journey would end / / If only they knew / They wouldn't last / Just after the honeymoon / The tension would begin / / If only they knew / They wouldn't take it / Just as they part / Loneliness would set it / / If only they knew / There will be war… sign in to read more »
Once again I am haunted by the chilling air that surrounds me / The bridge is long and no traffic at hand as I look into the sea / To jump into the darkness below and have my life flash before my eyes / I know that halfway down I will want someone to hear my cries / / But they won't hear my muffled… sign in to read more »
The candle has gone out, / My dream's deceived by fate, / I'm standing at the bound / Of 'then' and 'now', / But it's too late / To turn back, / Walking on the edge of razorblade. / Eternity is close, / It knows no time, / But through each silent night / I hear your voice / Implore "Don't die..." / / The… sign in to read more »
Every time the darkness reminds me of you, / Of those mysterious evenings, / When, walking down the narrow street, / I was listening to our favorite song / Speaking of what you had saved me from, / Again and again. Still walking alone / I knew you were there, waiting for me / By the fork of the way to… sign in to read more »
Years ago when I was young and "dumb" and looking for some fun / I knew in my mind, it would not be long before the excitement begun / Drinking and carousing was an every night thing and soon I got used to it / Not realizing that as I went along, my mind was decaying slowly, bit by bit / / Oh those days… sign in to read more »
In the still of the night it looms, its way of ever knowing / The wisps of wind and chilling air you feel it ever blowing / My bones they ache from head to toe, and sometimes feel so brittle / My tattered clothes and worn out shoes and blankets do so little / / I feel so bad and broken hearted, with my… sign in to read more »
These devils and demons that rush through my brain / Night after night, they come again and again / I try to erase them and still they come in the night / They chase me, they haunt me and give me such a fright / / In the mornings still sleepy, my head aching all over / I wish for once in my dreams, I… sign in to read more »
As I sit in this room of darkness, hiding from my past / I stop and look around me and think - my life has went so fast / It has been some 64 years ago I came into this life / And from the age of 21 have had wife after wife after wife / / Drinking was my downfall, it happened from the start / I never… sign in to read more »
For years and years I searched for her, after she vanished / Her mother took her from my life and I found myself banished / I searched through Google, and the World Wide Web / I did not know whether she was alive or maybe dead / / Time went by and I was more and more in despair / Wondering and thinking… sign in to read more »
I wanted to ask you / Even when in turmoil / Of your life / And all doors closed / That tomorrow's tunnel / Seemed to have no light / I wanted to ask you / Why did you still smile / / I wanted to ask you / When your dreams / Have no glimmer of hope / When your efforts / Are just a drop / In the ocean / But still… sign in to read more »
As I sit here all alone in a time of life's reflection / I look at things and realize, it never had a direction / Though decided by me that path I chose to journey / Sometimes ended up with these lone words, "you have the right to an attorney" / / Shunned by many for what I have forsaken / There have… sign in to read more »
Today I saw a butterfly, / as it floated in the air; / Its wings were spread in splendor, / Unaware that I was there. / / It was such a thing of beauty, / It was a sight to see; / It was the perfect masterpiece, / Full of grace and majesty. / I found myself thinking, / to what can this compare? / And then… sign in to read more »
Would you let me know / When the flame of your emotions / Is burning low / That my relation with you / Is now but just a show? / / Would you let me know / When the river of our love / Is drying up / That in your heart / My thirst of love / Cannot be quenched? / / Would you let me know / When the lyrics of my… sign in to read more »
Kill the cops, / Destroy the gooks, / Break the wall / Of vice-shaped looks, / Break the rules, / And do it twice, / It's your life - / You've paid the price. / / Cock the gun / And change the orders - / Mess the puppets / In this show. / Speak your mind / Beyond the borders, / Win to live - / It's all you know… sign in to read more »
Fuck all the life / Out of me, / Making me squirt / All my pride and ambitions. / Give me a drink / Which is flavored with lies, / Turning my weakness / To your ammunition. / Then shove your dick / Into my throat - / My being helpless / Will bring you orgasms. / Tasting your juice / Will just hurt me much… sign in to read more »
Once upon a time is not how this one started / It's more like 'Once upon a girl Broken Hearted' / Lost a promise of love, that's now departed / And took the road less traveled, love uncharted / / After years of rejection which caused such pain / In your time of loss, I was your gain / Going through the… sign in to read more »
I've torn all the beautiful letters, / Each writing love just as a script, / These odes to the hopeless romance, / The shield and the sword for the broken, / For real - a couple quick notes, / Saying that everything ends. / / I've buried my once cherished dream - / I'm tired of living tomorrow, / Tomorrow… sign in to read more »
She wore silver-golden rings, / She drove the newest Ferrari, / She was so incredibly scary / That stuff from the labeled glam bliss / Would still never help. / Yet he paid for this. / / They said they were so in love! / He loved her blow jobs with eyes closed / As much as to hear her boast / Her fucking… sign in to read more »
Just consider me alive, I can see your perfect world, as I try to keep myself alive, I've been here before, as I dreamt of this place, in my head. In my small world, I can't let go, all this suffering, just consider me alive, And I will be there for sure, and this moment is heaven. This is the place… sign in to read more »
The same nasty job and the same decorations, / The desperate faces of helpless sweatpals, / Bright shouting ads at half-dead metro stations, / Then evenings with you in a dark empty cell. / / The price of ten dollars for some inspiration, / Some spirits, some sex and a pointless nightmare, / Brain… sign in to read more »
There is something about / A comforting hug and a tissue at a funeral / That brings contentment to a devastated soul / That brings contentment to a plight when sadness, pain and death prevail / / There is something about / The fear of a black thunderstorm / That brings knowledge of the peace to come / That… sign in to read more »
"You've failed in writing" - you were told, / And you gave up. You quit. / I saw one more young talent fold, / And they just laughed at it. / / If you are told life's hard to play, / Your breath will still not cease. / How one should breathe, one cannot say, / As well as what to breathe. / / You generated… sign in to read more »
You wake up at six: intercourse with your spouse. / You're under the blanket with tightly shut eyes. / At seven a postman arrives to your house / With two printed portions of scandals and lies. / / You turn the TV on. Your damn daily dose / Of lies is exceeded with fresh morning news. / You firmly believe… sign in to read more »
For every wrong step that you take / I pierce your heart thrice on a bender. / However, my fury is fake. / You bleed your remorse - I surrender. / My sharp poignant words of no shame / And spirits are such a bad mixture - / I've never been easy to tame - / They paint such a frightening picture, / They… sign in to read more »
Where can you go when there is / nothing let but yourself. / life is hard and so much to deal / with I just don't know. / So many problems and worries. / Sit and thinking about where to / go when there isn't noone around to / talk to. / What can I do. / I have lost so much in life. / Sad to think that no one… sign in to read more »
Peripheral Neuropathy. / / I have peripheral neuropathy. / I suffer everyday with this nerve disease. / I deserve a better life. / Then to have to suffer with this problem that I have. / It used to be just in both of my feet. / But now it is in both of my legs. / my arms. / Had to have a shot yesterday… sign in to read more »
Pesticides got me petrified. / Feelings still scrutinised. / A kiss I've longed for; / Got me yearning for more. / I felt your heart beat, / I climed and unthinkable feet, / running awya from pesticides that / clouded my lungs and left me petrified. / / I love you, you love me. / so, let it be. Hold me and… sign in to read more »
I am so angry at my dad. / My dad was a bad dad, / I must add he left me and I am sad and mad. / My dad left me and Chad my brother. / / WE both were unclad. / My dad did not want us. / He claim us dead. / I ran a ad and hoping to let others know they are not alone. / / Sometimes I am glad that my dad was… sign in to read more »
We got to know you through your voice at 11 years old / You led a life that we could not understand / Whilst others chose to judge you / Many chose to cherish your talents / For as much as a man lived his life / He too can give something valuable to the world / / You started with the man on the mirror… sign in to read more »
Work, Friday parties, chores, spouses, kids, / Fashion to follow and patterns to be - / Standards of living. And now repeat: / "This is my life as I want it to be". / / You think you're perfect, you swear it's true, / But nobody is, you are nobody then. / You're welcome to Fail - population is you, / Enjoy… sign in to read more »
Politicians, / Despots, / Prexies, / Evangelists, / Naturist, / Legislators, / Capitalism, / Communism, / Anarchism, / Extr… sign in to read more »
Did you know that / We're born in order to die / And death is part of life? / Did you know that / We're sad in order to be happy / And happy in order to be sad? / Has it ever occured to you / That we're poor in order to be rich / Or ignorant in order to be wise? / We're young in order to grow old, / Single in… sign in to read more »
Triangles of half-open doors / Reveal all the truth that is hidden: / Just condoms and cans on the floor, / Black papers with verses, forbidden - / Unfinished remakes of the song, / Deprived of the right to speak loud / Of wicked intentions gone wrong - / Erasers have muffled the shout. / / The only… sign in to read more »
The streets are embraced by this threatening night, / She's sunk in his warm, not yet sober embrace. / They promised each other that things would go right, / Yet all their hopes stand for counting days. / / The morning will frown - one desperate kiss, / The sign of unfortunate parting for two, / Will… sign in to read more »
If I did not say I love you yesterday, / That does not mean I don't, / / If I did not say I love you today, / That does not mean I don't, / / If I don't tell you that I love you tomorrow, / Don't faint, because that does not mean I don't, / / I love you more when I don't tell, / I appreciate you more when… sign in to read more »
Light requires a source, / Darkness requires nothing; / Yet / While the light shines, / Darkness cannot overcome it. / Why is this? / / Life requires a source, / Death requires nothing; / Yet / While there is life, / Death cannot destroy it all. / Why is this? / / If there is no God, / Why is there light and… sign in to read more »
It's the soul that seeks, / words unspoken, / floating angels, / from ships broken. / Happy endings, / captured and forgotten, / anguish forseen / and left to go rotten. / The soul that's alone, / not tied or marred, / desolate but not empty, / left under a pile of scars. / Tugging on strings, / to contend the… sign in to read more »
Fasten them tight / let us run till we see the light. / If I fall promise you will hold my hand / and run with me till we see the promised land. / / Tidy up make sure all is neat / draw the curtains fore you kill me with heat. / Enjoy my last rands worth it was all from todays work. / Fasten them tight,… sign in to read more »
The Power of your kiss makes me shiver in my knees. / Your touch is so divine one I cannot define infact it creates arch reflexes on my spine / I reminisce on the time we've spent and look upon the lesson I have learnt, I realise that I owe my being to you for you have me to be true. / Your curvatious… sign in to read more »
I have learnt to live my life expectantly / Even in my dreadful journey of darkness / I have learnt to positively sustain myself / Regardless of the hurdles I stumble upon as I live life / I have learnt to believe in the energies of the universe / And to define and clarify my purpose through these… sign in to read more »
One time / I thought I was strong / But now / Pieces are my hopes / Ashes are my dreams / Blown away / By the wind / / There's no eye / That has not wept / There's no pain / That I have not had / And scars of life / Are my tattoos / From the highway of life / That I have walked through / That sometimes I wonder… sign in to read more »
When we start at the end and end where we started where have we really gone or have we just been standing still all along, with no beginning to our journey and no steps… sign in to read more »
Adulteration almost complete / understood the posible agony, / amass those blazing insults / intimate with a dream. / / Irresolvable issue to lend / bittersweet blindness to me, / bite abroad again the abdication / hurtle out the single act. / / Adventure myself in the blade / of rushing up above the rest,… sign in to read more »
I let my hand touch / a flower one day / when a leaf fell to the ground. / With no hearing / I look at it / and there it is falling / softly, without any a sound. / / I look at that / beautiful flower / and a thought came into my mind, / there are so many / beautiful memories we have, / without realizing what… sign in to read more »
Life is like a gamble / Where some things are at stake / There are times you may encounter some troubles / There are times where some difficulties are hard to take / / Life is like a basketball game / If you missed the ball / Then an opportunity just grasped out of your hands / And it would be the other's… sign in to read more »
There is a first time for everything / So don't be scared / There is a first time for everything / Learn to take some risks / / You are here to live only one time / And ofcourse to die only once / So don't fear... / / I know there are fears of every kind / Still take risks as many as you can / Whatever… sign in to read more »
I dreamt for you, / of paradise on earth / Carpeted streets, / with nothing like dust / Of flowing streams, / to quench your thirst / In return you give, / your love to me / In turn I keep our promise I made. / / I crossed ridges, / rivers and hills / No matter the price, / I paid the bills / As your love I… sign in to read more »
Why, oh why / Sky, dear sky / Why are you / Why are skies so blue? / / You are the fancy bed of love / For all those silver stars above / You watch the sunball rise and set / You touched the angels that you met / You fed the pretty birds that flew / So why, oh why are skies so blue? / / You are good grandma… sign in to read more »
Of earth we are created, / Like trees that stand tall, / as of earth they are born and fed. / Like all creatures, Mother Earth nurtures and nourishes us into perfection. / / Look at the stones by the river side, for them all the tides pass and shape. / For we are like them as God is the tide that shapes… sign in to read more »
Its amazing how small the world really is / I've met a lot of people in my life / Only a few take life for what it is / Not many people really get to know me / The ones I let in, get the real story and get to see / My life's story unfold / Right in front of many, still only a selected few see the stories… sign in to read more »
The tasty temper of temptation / on the balcony of the mind, / like a lone lanky figure / looms. The shadow of evil, / a lingua franca of minds, / permutate messages of serendipty. / And, to the shingled shore / arrives the tsunami of temptation. / Ghoulish natty nightmares / all awake keep us. / Risque, on… sign in to read more »
Ain't no longing in life / but the longing for love. / I've been longing / for so long. / / Ain't no limits to life / but the limits of l… sign in to read more »
I'm wild and sometimes even heartless-can-be, / I'm fond of collecting illusions to ruin, / I'm breaking the rules life has written for me, / "Create to destroy" best describes what I'm doing. / I'm scarily dangerous, silently loud - / A walking disaster you'd better ignore, / The pain in the neck of a… sign in to read more »
Don't let a man tell you who you ought to be, / and don't let society stop you from being free, / Don't let that pressure exceed your expectations, / And don't let others choose their own depictions, / Don't let your past freeze you from moving forward, / And don't let your unruly choices move you… sign in to read more »
Two strangers walking down the street, hand in hand like they have no cares in the world. / With an Embrace they part, promises whispered and hearts heavy. / Forever is what they thought, together is what they yearned for. / / He/She ducked as bullets flew and in return with stones they were avenging… sign in to read more »
When the skies are blue / Over the mountain, over the sea, / The eye's shinin' bright, / My ol' blue eye, too. / / Come dark clouds or rain, / Heavy and pourin', hard as can be, / The eye keeps the light, / I don't mind the pain. / / Eye in the sky, / Ruler of my spring, / Songbirds they fly, / Let the new… sign in to read more »
Earth is my greatest home / Where every living thing roams / Land that is full of colorful things / That the mankind must unite in nature preserving / / Water for rivers, seas, lakes and oceans / A symbol of life that should not be ignore even for once / It's for everyone's duty and call / Because the… sign in to read more »
Ain't got no dishes, ain't got no bread, / Ain't got no wishes up in my head. / Ain't got no nickel, ain't got no dime, / Ain't got no watches, ain't got no time. / / Ain't got no flower, ain't got no sun, / Ain't got no power, ain't got no fun. / Ain't got no ocean, ain't got no earth, / I don't remember… sign in to read more »
Sometimes you may feel / Your problems are too much to deal / Sometimes you'll see that the heavy loads are all on you / And you'll say, you're in way too blue / / Try to look up in the sky / Just maybe you can seek some light / Never hesitate to call my name / Always bear in your mind that I am your… sign in to read more »
I'm sailin' through a hurricane, / through stormy winds of loss and pain, / the waves are troubled, they are blue, / like a wild beast whose hunger grew. / / Is there an island / in the sea of my tears? / I need an island / in this ocean of fears. / / I can't help but think / my boat's gonna sink / into the… sign in to read more »
dark clouds are looming outside, / lightning strikes, "is it a bad night, it could not be worse than yersterday", he thinks to himself, / / what worse could beat the pain faced but not conquered, the misery goes way back before his birth, / / his mother was the mother of pain, had a cracked womb,… sign in to read more »
What if life is the direct opposite of what we think it is? / What if existance is the dream that depends on ones interpretation? / What if humans are not what they think they are? / What if life is just a fairy-tale? / / We ask ourselves questions that we never seek answers for. / Where we Born to Die… sign in to read more »
There is no second chance. / They say it many times, forgiveness is an act. / You can make the changes, you can change your life. / Pick your self up again, get yourself a grip. / There's always next time they say, / there's plenty other fish. / If we make mistakes, we only have to change. / This second… sign in to read more »
I have a wish / I wish for absolute silence / I wish for a place where I could define me / I wish to be just me / / I have found that Existance is a constant struggle to impress / We daily contend to earn approval and acceptence / Fear of rejection is what drive us / We are slaves of this world's… sign in to read more »
These months were a battle / Of love and my pride, / Pride chose to surrender, / But I didn't mind. / I sang my own ballad / Along to your chords, / You failed as my shield, / I kept being your sword. / You asked for the world - / I could give you much more. / True life was somewhere / Behind the locked door… sign in to read more »
Sense is it all about for you and me often without / and fooling around in circles where we find nothing else / but meaning all around us in this endless search / in which friendships and concrete crumbles. / Where does it lead, we ask, this meaningfull search for meaning? / Where does lead this limited… sign in to read more »
We are born into sin / Yet we are Angels in our beloved / mothers eyes. / / We grow up with smiles and tears / in our eyes, but yet we grow up / to forget those hurts and pains. / / Teenagers so care free, yet so cautious. / We would not dare to stand in corners with boys, nor hold hands in public. / / Now… sign in to read more »
This seems impossible the experience I had tonight, / This brief meeting experienced in flight. / A couple of hours hardly enough to know you, / Yet memorable I experienced this too? / / Somehow this flight deliberation / Did more than meets the eye... / Somehow this slight interaction / Revealed a… sign in to read more »
How like an old tree you are: / Admired for strength, endurance-- / Graceful and tall / / At a glance. / / Time it takes to look longer-- / See the scars grown over smooth / See the abrupt places cut / For room and light / See the twists where gravity, wind, and weather / / Touched you. / / Time is where you'… sign in to read more »
the one story of our lives / Boy, girl, meets / Girl loses boy, boy loses girl / But it's seldom happily ever after / And yet the only teaching we get is happily ever after / / at a point when it doesn't work out, / we tend to believe it was someone's fault / When it works out whose fault is it- / could it… sign in to read more »
Some times it is hard to accept things. / And sometimes it is hard to understand. / But the most important thing in a time of need / Is to reach out your helping hand. / Not trying to first figure things out. / / So to get your point of view. / Because sometimes you have plenty of time to help. / But… sign in to read more »
What special masks must actors wear? / One to hide, one to dare. / When they pretend they're someone other / Someone different, without a mother. / They perform their tasks with laughter and tears / For those around with joys or fears. / They share their souls, their life to cope. / A bleeding wound or… sign in to read more »
A smile that sparkles in your eyes, / One that can touch and warm any heart... / An attitude that speaks volumes about the goodness that lies with in you, / One that draws people to you like water in midst of a desert... / A touch that assures a friend in crisis that you are there and that you care,… sign in to read more »
Why do you taunt me with your devilish ways / The demon that haunts me / My mind is where he stays / My dreams become nightmares / I cant sleep at night / So I sit in darkness awaiting his fright / The shadows of darkness that dance when eyes are closed / Play tricks on your mind while your indesposed… sign in to read more »
Hello to you from the gray gloomy city, / Where crowds unconsciously worship despair, / Indulging in dangers of constant self-pity / With naive belief in the world's being fair. / / They have no trust in a man's inner power, / And fortitude sounds like something unknown. / They have no poets, just ones of… sign in to read more »
When I took a chance on love / I told myself I am brave, / I look life in the eyes and challenged it, / / Life took the challenge and spared no rod / It feels no sorrow, feels no regret / It does not care it doesn't bet / It doesn't mind a tear or fret, / / The road you travel, that is your own / The… sign in to read more »
My cheeks are aching / My belly shaking / My heart is pouncing / By you announcing / / Time has healed / The broken shield / The anger and frustration / Has triggered my imagination. / / A journey has begun / A lot of love and tons of fun. / Never ending joy for you / A willing heart forever true / / Set you… sign in to read more »
It is just another sleepless night, / It's the breath of spring that we await. / One more gulp of wine, and I'm all right, / One more secret till it's way too late. / / One more song for no one's reached your ears, / But you think it's happened by mistake. / Every time by chance you see me near, / But you'… sign in to read more »
Eyes sparkle, lips full, / Bosom round and firm / Joyful heart, silver trim / Happy Spring moments fills the brim / / The summer of my life went by to fast / I grabbed onto life's anchored mast / I held on tight, each day, a life time long / Each night for ever, ever gone. / / The autumn days now are here… sign in to read more »
Pleasure is a feeling that / is easy to be find. / It's joyfulness and happiness / are settled in our minds. / / But from most people it's sad to say. Pleasure is a word they do not know. The reason is most problary / They reap just what they sow.… sign in to read more »
We used to be like Jack and Rose. / "You jump - I jump" - a stupid oath. / But they all failed to figure out / Who had survived and who had drowned. / They all have taken me awry, / They call me she-who-loves-that-guy. / They wait to see how far I'll get, / And I just quit with no regret. / / You fall - I… sign in to read more »
The day is revealing its new morning face, / And I've disappeared - without a trace, / Without a sound, without a sign, / As you'll never care. Well, dear, it's fine. / I left half to midnight for reasons unknown / To make half the way to nowhere by dawn. / I come back to earth or I drown in your eyes -… sign in to read more »
All days are the same: morning, city, the crowd. / Life's not going forward, it's moving around. / And masks of all shades on those ignorant faces, / A few made-up stories in cheap street newspapers, / Sluts looking like stars, dirty queens of attraction, / Gross idols of so deceptive perfection / Are… sign in to read more »
Words are like a powerful tool. / You can use it as you like. / It can be like refreshing dew. / Or it can be like a snake that strikes. / / But all the words you ever said will come back to you again. / It may come back like a snake that strike. / Or it may come back like… sign in to read more »
I hate you, guys, I wish you pain. / It never causes any strain. / I can't care less for all this shit / You say to me. Get over it. / Yes, spirit is my perfect friend - / It's always there by my demand. / Yes, I detest the whole mankind. / Yes, I deny, and I'm denied. / / I'm misanthropic, deviant,… sign in to read more »
In silence my lips have been drawing the shapes / Of phrases, so vague and deprived of a meaning. / My dreams are about to find an escape / To where the end always meets the beginning. / My black and white fears have got an excuse: / I still have the world - in my heart and around. / I'm no longer free -… sign in to read more »
Going away, / I take one last look behind, / And you can't believe those winter days / Were nothing more than lies. / / Knives in our backs, / Dying memories inside - / Maybe I've become so heartless, / Maybe free, or simply blind. / / Dear, we are done, / Drink your tears of regret, / Find the answers by… sign in to read more »
A mindful eye reminder to the hurt / Living within a space by one / Faced in the clutches of love and pain / For the cycle of life unaware to many / / A visitor no more / In a soulful house for many to see / Occupying a neat little time within my soul / Take a moment and pause / I am home- / / Like… sign in to read more »
A glass of cheap vodka tastes just like depression - / It hurts to be sober tonight. / The mirror reflects such a hideous expression / That I promptly turn off the light. / Some porno, then casual sex with my hand... / Oh damn! This is something I shouldn't have said. / Why don't you believe that I need… sign in to read more »
Love is only some sense / Of the absence of sense, / It invades our lives / When we have other plans. / It devours your days, / Then it eats you inside, / It erases your face, / But you don't really mind. / It is gradually making you blind! / / October is counting time / And turning to dust all the letters… sign in to read more »
She's sitting, sitting alone / With brandy and Winston in hands, / Devouring with her mischievous wild glance / Her already coupled-off friends. / "I'm fine" - her red eyes shout loud, / "We see. What the fuck?" - says the crowd. / She sets her lust racing around the hall, / But no one hears this hopeless… sign in to read more »
She's out in the rain, on the verge of despair. / The smoke is twirling in fresh autumn air, / Ten cigarettes stand for three-four minutes each. / She's waiting for him - he is out of reach. / At last he shows up: "Hey, I'm sorry I'm late", / She sighs with relief. What a wonderful date! / He looks like a… sign in to read more »
She's wearing a plait and a plain floral dress, / Her skin is so pale, and her fringe is a mess. / She can't link three words in the simpliest phrase, / And ignorance left dirty marks on her face. / Her look is so frightened, her thoughts are a dump, / She's shallow, naive, indecisive and numb. / She won'… sign in to read more »
Numbness arouses the very pinnacle of being / Pins and needles from head to toe / For a moment in time I feel no pain / I feel free- / / Letting go a vacant emotion, I sweetly clench / A heart beat lost / Within racing pulse / For I must bear / This is the only way- / / Shimmering sweaty hands… sign in to read more »
Sweet memories play childishly / In the play ground of heart / My mind spinning in essence / Of ecstasy once experienced / Now lost in life's life- / / A twinkle catches me / Putting me in those / Moments back in time / But just for a moment / All is come and go / You and I- / / Sadness wiped away… sign in to read more »
Time motionlesss / No where to go, no where to hide / Barren I am- / Feelings of emptiness-my friend / / A simple life a loss / Decisions made and unplanned hurts / My soul longs to find its spirit / / My shadow behide a shadow / Knowing only darkness, / As its light / I am who I am... / / Sorrow creeps… sign in to read more »
I sail my ship in search of / The forgotten land / Only known to sailors brave enough to survive / Wild waters and savage storms / / I brave the current so strong, / Of pain and sorrow / Endured thought life / In an endless stream of wrongs / / I sail my ship against wild waters / In the quest to find… sign in to read more »
Deceptive freedom. Honest lies. / A charming, yet so dreadful guise. / Forgotten memories. Two hearts / Are in my chest, both torn apart. / Strong weakness of a wilted rose. / My two reflections, one disclosed. / A shadow of changing shapes. / The sorrow of different shades. / A bleeding wrist of… sign in to read more »
I'm walking alone / In dark empty lanes, / Each trace is well-known - / Each belongs to no way. / Here I'm a stranger, / My home is far. / Somewhere my heart waits - / It's right where you are. / Streets meet me with rain, / And cold winds bring just dust. / They know - on this way / There is no one to trust… sign in to read more »
Dissolve all your pride in your misery, guys! / It's only your pathos that shines in your eyes. / Your words are important just devil knows where, / Your mirth in the voice is a sign of despair. / You've never seen life, as you've been colorblind; / It's painted by poets in all undertones / While you… sign in to read more »
The heart in my chest is bleeding, / But blood never shows a stain. / If only behind this mask of tranquility / You could see a soul that is grieving... / My heart has the same ability / To suffer - to drown in pain. / If you knew how much one word could mean... / If you only saw me falling / Apart right… sign in to read more »
"Me, love and you... Three halves of something whole, / If one is missing, everything is clear." / These words can paint the sorrow in my soul, / But once bright colors fade away in years. / Once sweet anticipation of your arms, / A shard of dreams, by now has turned to fear / Of someone else's charm.… sign in to read more »
My days remind me of the endless autumn rain, / The fascinating, charming melancholy. / The sky is crying for my bitter loss - / The loss of one hour's eternity. / And I know the rain is bound to cease, / But my sorrow will shape just another rain cloud, / And the steps on our crossing ways / Will be only… sign in to read more »
The yellow and frayed eternal pages / Are crying, just with ink, still of the same. / The years turn to words and seem like ages / Of grief in such a thin and subtle frame. / / This memory-evoking prose of sorrow / Is life... or scattered pieces, left of it, / Of looking forward to the damned tomorrow… sign in to read more »
It's money that matters / When I walk these streets of old / Money matters when we're growing old / Many times these stories have been told / / And still we face it / any time / any place / in letters typed bold so / anyone can see it better - / It's money that matters / / I built this garden around us / Am… sign in to read more »
As I stare into / the rear view mirror of / my BMW / And watch my baby daughter / sleep / I think of summer approaching / And where and when the next trip on / my Harley / will lead me / / As my wife pushes buttons on / her mobile phone / And chats with a girlfriend / I remember the times when / there wasn't… sign in to read more »
Woman / I hadn't got one / I was 18 already / and my classmates had their / girlfriends / ex-girlfriends / one-night-stands. / I thought I'd never make it, / remain. / / And then, / having moved into my very own apartment, / SHE / moved in. / Now we're in our third year, / have spent every single one of those… sign in to read more »
By your Holy Cross, / You have redeemed the / Whole mankind, / With your kind and / Sacred heart: / / At the first station, / Jesus is condemned / to death / / At the second stage, / Jesus carries / His Holy Cross. / / At the third station, / Jesus falls the first time / Under the Cross. / / At the fourth stage… sign in to read more »
If it was up to me you would have been walking on air today, / Read it out now you’re here the very next day. / What a dunce assumed had gotten for what I prayed,good lord its just an other who wanted to play. / Is it my love that she wants or just a place to stay, / I have got both said the prey. / At… sign in to read more »
Be good, Be happy, / Be Kind, be yourself. / Try to avoid conflicts.… sign in to read more »
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