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108 poems tagged IRONIC
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 »
Covid in the country, / And Covid in the state, / Covid has harmed people, / And reworded their fate. / / Devils birthed this virus, / Decimating many – a big number, / Causing mayhem and chaos, / Sending most to lasting slumber. / / / / Uncertain is the lockdown, / Coercing people to feel sore, / Subsist on… sign in to read more »
Dreams / of a life without pain / Dreams / of riches without spirit hunger / Dreams / of love with no heart ache / Dreams / of wisdom without a weary soul / Dreams / of liberty without b… 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 »
Tong tong tong / there goes the church bell / on white must we dress / no. leave out that bottle / put off the ciga / Western must be holy / for that blessing is our cry / to the church we hurry / / / Halelu...halelu...ya / praise the Lord today you are worth / there are behind / we did not know it's Sunday… sign in to read more »
Numbers could translate tragedy or joy, 06-05-06 could represent a new soul or one that left us, writing this got one reminiscing about how precious life is; one commodity that you don't acquire by being black nor white but you acquire it because the man above saw fit to grant you one, it's a puzzle… 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 »
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 »
Well they say you're One Lucky Guy / I couldn't write like you if I tried / Keep on, keeping on and never let / That fire die...I just shake my head / And sigh...'cuz they have no idea / How little I hoped to accomplish / Thus far, I thought in my early / Teens by now I'd be a big time / Rock-n-roll star… sign in to read more »
Contradiction the answer to the frequently omitted question, / he nibbles, smiles and giggles in the shadow, / a dark cloud represents his daily routine, / trapped in an illusion of a junkie, / frowns the norm as dreams fell apart like the roof of the shacks he grew up in, / black curtain fixed upon… 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 »
It was the sadness in your eyes, / The way you never smiled at me, / But you kept on looking, / And when you thought I wasn't worth it, / You kept on coming, / For there was something in me that kept you intrigued. / / Or was it the sadness in my eyes? / The way I used to put on my fake smile, / The way I… sign in to read more »
we unveilled the tombstone of death / he was a cruel man / reads the epitaph on his tombstone / our private jets parked in the vicinity / following the assasination of poverty / who haunted the ajority of masses / we are all smiles today / after successful coup on wars,arrests and terrorism / peace… 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 »
Thousands of eyes / Glued to a sreen, / Breaths held and / Prayers said. / / Towards the ball / He moves. / An extensive breath / He takes. / A short supplication / He says. / / The whistle blows, / He moves without / Hesitating. / He kicks. / Is it in? / / We don't know / The screen just / Turned off.… sign in to read more »
Freedom was here / We are told / She stood right there / A sight to behold / Strong and mighty / Like the Drakensberg / / Did we slumber / Through the thunder / That heralded her coming? / Did we blink / And missed her mischievous wink? / / Marikana tears of blood / Mourn the death of the noble tree / Killed for… sign in to read more »
Reality sank in when the words that meant more no longer carried the same weight, the sun rose later than usual, late night phone calls and daily texts a history to the bleeding heart, she no longer drench from the idea of love making but to the reality that your absence and presence represents,… 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 »
Too much they say / Them tall lads and Ladi / All them white collars / And fancy bred lads / With iron black suit / All tall and fine cept / Ladi, who is pretty. / / Too much they say / Them tall lads and Ladi / Talking about sky and man. / Man standing on the moon / With wings of iron soaring / Through fall… 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 »
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 »
When life is dull and kind / Accept the time to find / The inner you of who you are / Within your heart and dare / To search with great desire / That which life has to offer / / Dullness is a given gift / Not to be wasted on sorry fits / For all that life has done / Is to space a mark for one / Where 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 »
My soul reflects a woeful ether, / An arid plain borne of dust, / Landmines go as dominoes fall, / Ever wavers but never to rust. / / Cold hard steel on bare flesh, / I flit back to "reality," / Icy climax then ceaseless low, / I flit back to fantasy. / / I layer all worlds but exist in none, / Sworn to both… sign in to read more »
See, this is not for you. / / I'd give you the praise and glory but I'd be a bigger liar than you. / / I'd bow at your feet but I'd only be wasting lastnights dinner. / / We've had our fair share of lies, greed and deceit, thats all we had going. / / Enjoyed it while it lasted? / / Here's to the past… sign in to read more »
He wants me to juggle my trade with his wordsmith / I want him to juggle his wit with my songs / with our everything in common we make an equilibrium tug of war between us / his ammunition is complete with a scribe and scroll / making sketches of meaningful calligraphy is his hobby / his mission is to… sign in to read more »
"Happiness", an understatement / Just no words to precisely express my sentiment / Words at large simply fail me / / Forward the "tic tacks" of time / Hearing your name at play to my ears awakens the senses I never knew I had / You are my music / Rhythms play / Spasms my heart gets / Beats it skips / Trips… sign in to read more »
The waves of that night / Were wilder than could be / There was no safe or sound place in sight / And the vessels bobbed like corks upon the sea. / / The churning of the mailstrom with mouth open wide / Pulled me violently nearer with each twist / Deeper still sank i, struggling against the tide,… sign in to read more »
The tide is marching in great velocity / Like a plane sweeping through the air- / Who can stop it? The wind is sweeping / The wind of change, about birthrights / About human rights, civic education, / Even greater change is in the scope of gender equality? / Who can stop the wind from blowing? / Who can… sign in to read more »
The blind man saw, / and confessed to law, / that it was the limbless who draw, / bringing anarchy to law. / / Which… sign in to read more »
My words are like an untrampled dew...meaningful without being tampered with, my tears are like a winter's rain...so rare but a necessity, my heart is an orphan with much to give yet no support structure, my whispers make more noise than the actions I portray, my touches are invisible to the eye...… sign in to read more »
There's a popular time worn belief / That older people have a hunger / To date or have a relationship with / A person that's much younger. / / At the risk of sounding sarcastic, / There may be a concern to mount. / That, "Age is just a number" relates / To what is in one's bank account. / / Now, dear… 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 »
There is nothing more decadent / Than how we portray innocent / Fifties ideals, white picket offence / White skinned white washed fence / Marriage with father writ large / The family under his charge / / He's the doctor, she plays nurse / Replicating misogyny's curse / Sheeplike youth prepare to be led… sign in to read more »
It was in ninth grade English class / And my teacher was Miss Joan Frank / It was because of her love of poetry, / That I now have her to blame or thank. / / Poems came alive in her classroom / As we absorbed Lewis Caroll's whimsy / And many years later I still wonder what / And why, Borogoves are mimsey… sign in to read more »
He holds his bat with all his might, / The bowlers bowl with full of fright. / He is the man, he is the king, / He smashes every ball out of the ring. / / Once he entered the pitch by chance, / And changed the game in a single glance. / He is the man depended on hard times, / For he is the king of all the… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Pitter-patter; tears on the roof, / The world sleeps knowing not the grief, / And in dawning hours the gage is proof / Of a tear shed for life... oh so brief! / / The face of the sky is darkly troubled, / Unnoticed by the sleeping world below / Unconcerned nor woken by the tear drops doubled / Weeping o'er… 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 »
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 »
Insane! Girl you are plain insane! / That's what they would all tell me if they knew / that I was still in love with you / after everything you have put me through. / / Insane to even allow myself to come second / when I could come first with someone else. / Insane for being insane enough to / fall for… 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 »
They are everywhere these things / I visualise them as extraordinary species / Moving in circles at an incredibly high speed / Mysterious shadows maybe the devil's angels / Like humans with animal features / Cat claws and vampire teeth... / / These things...only visible to my eye / Whose eery sound only… 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'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 »
A Protestor burns tyres / For services he desires / But ain't it strange? / He talks about the new nobility / But won't vote for accountability / Won't risk real change / / Because voting booths ain't so fun / And in a war costs are only counted / When the battle's won / / The mayor he sits secure / He can… sign in to read more »
Don't embrace what's beautiful, / don't come over when the glass is full, / don't hate love when is empty, / is so easy mistaking... / / Reality is embraced over, / look around / force over the latitude, / I change duality, / come over when you know I know. / / Step down to feeling, / water's over my entrails… sign in to read more »
Soft and tender / Leave you dry / I am a gold digger, / quit school I'm still an 8th grader / Looking for a deep pocket so that I can reach deeper / Neck pains, am used to them / Back pains, had them from since I was twelve years old / Got introduced to a world of pure lust / Got in and was reeled in fast… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
the future has been raped / she lay half dead in the dark alley of progress / her frail body motionless / waiting for the dignity of death to devour her flesh / the wind to scatter her bones / her beauty once like sun kissed lilies / now a withering rose kissed by the cold lips of winter / I feed her lamp… sign in to read more »
I honestly, truly, have absolutely no idea of how the hell you ended up stuck in that chamber of mine - I don't even know if it's an atrium or a ventricle - but there you are...together with the addiction, the pain, the sometimes joy, the shadow of always promised and never gotten happiness, the… sign in to read more »
Somehow I know this one won't last / But still I find myself succumbing to this lust / As if his presence in my life is an absolute must / Knowing well that he is the forbidden fruit / Yet everytime I try to end it I become a lovestruck mute / I know it will be over soon but even then won't face the… 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 »
The paradigm that 'leopards don't change their spots' / always rang true / until this leopard / grew tired of her spots / wanted something different / longed for something new / / until this leopard / threw off that oppressive spot / that before would never change / refused to change / / until this leopard… sign in to read more »
Forgive this my people / It's the kick of a toddler / Full of sound and fury / But to little effect / / Wonder I how Africans are are Africans in Africa / Land of plenty of wealth / How can we be a people of extremes / Dark, poor, dull, rich in resouces / As they would say...poor at home and dull at school… sign in to read more »
what's this I hear? / / Is that what you say of me... / fair enough / it's your opinion / judgments are the matter to the owner / all is welcome / / it's not a guarantee / / I enter your prism and make your special entrance / you capture the scent, my radiance, my fever, my glance / / I'm proud to be… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Let us explore the hypotheses / Put forward by some fractured / dilletante fringe, / That all art is self-creating, / Although there is a common belief / Held by layman and artist alike / That it is man who creates art. / / Let us ponder / Whether that Italian lady / Whose smile disturbed the new awareness… 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 »
I'm tired in my restlessness / As I endeavour to understand / Why I'm around here. / / I find myself so rich / In my poverty and hunger, / So homeless in my home; / So happy in my misery. / / I… 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 »
I actually thought you loved me / You told me that every day / How was I so blind as not to see / That you could do me wrong in such a way / / I gave you my love, my heart, and soul / But yet you just tossed them aside / I flew over oceans on wings I feared most / Just to find the deadly secrets that you… sign in to read more »
Your heart is filled with treason / Turning your back on me / You do not have a clear reason / For why our love can't be / / Your laughs have turned to hate / Your smile is now a frown / Anger from you is what I take / No more up just the down / / People say that true love is real / I actually thought that's… 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 »
hail Mary full of grace / a virgin made to save face / gave her only son to save the world / save for today's illegitimate sons / sacrificed on the alter of shame to save face / for god so loved the world / is nothing but empty words / hail Mary full of grace / what a disgrace / / hail Mary full of grace… sign in to read more »
Mangled faces, distorted love / Strangled feelings, an angry shove / Tangled emotions, hurting bruised / Dangled Guilt, like being abused / / Is anything better than being alone? / / Countless nights, I've waited / Blindly believing, so frustrated / Wishing honesty, time wasted / Rewarding Care, often… 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 »
Chalk dust clog my nose / As I work for all those / Who in a few years / Are bound to forget. / / Bad handwriting twist my eyes / As I figure out what the guys / Are trying to mean / With their crawly script. / / All this for nothing but peanuts, / You're supposed to be humble, no guts. / To be initiative… sign in to read more »
If it was you sleeping on the park bench making it your home. / Would you have the audacity to moan? / Complain about everything, under the sun because you live below the poverty line, / You might as well run... / / Away from politics, conflict & distrust. Do these things exist to you? / Is having a bath… 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 »
why can't you just go away? / why won't you leave me be? / youre always in my nightmares, / your face is all I see. / / you tore my heart to pieces, / you even saw me cry, / but even though your far away, / I feel you're so close by. / / It doesn't make me happy, / it makes my heart ache more, / to know that… sign in to read more »
my eyes / my vision / my window to the world / my beauty / / they define me / although some cannot see it / they define the true me / / I can do a lot of things with them / I can love / I can hate / I can talk, cry, lie / but most of all / I can seduce / / I haven't altered their vision / cause I appreciate them… sign in to read more »
I repent from growing / and have remorse for being, / what do you think? / I'm a recipient for hate. / / I have a reckless remorse for you / and repent from succumbing, / What do I think? / I'm a torch for torture. / / I repent from revealing my life / and have a remorse for loving, / What do you think? / I'm… sign in to read more »
Fun is never dramatical - / It's nonsensical, comical. / / It's how you li… sign in to read more »
I will believe in my convenient fall, / to mind my religious belonging / to your blessed body / full of courageous lies. / / I contained my songs / built upon your fearsome curves, / i endear this gird / that affected me in behalf of you. / / I brighten my flaws / that bred my deafness, / I date my ownself… sign in to read more »
Things are getting rowdy / And stuff is thrown about. / Cracks appear down the lane / And our home has broken down. / / Lies are peddled for survival, / Thugs are compensated for forgery / Comradeship now knows no valour / Affairs in our home are down - / The glorification of falsehood. / / Nhlanhla asked… sign in to read more »
I flatten down my hopes / a scarce escape for what would be, / plough into me... I'm a newcomer / I pray for foolishness. / / I pull you up and push you down / I've been somewhere in between, / sorting out the bruises / can't stand still... is so certain. / / By tomorrow I fall down again / recognizing that… sign in to read more »
Commercial love to fulfill, / they race against the comma / to bedim my beauty / and narrow the commotion. / / They comfort each other / with coltish combat and influence, / fake and burglar intentions / become those busy bastards. / / the Approval of this fetish passion / to complaint and pact about… 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 »
Critical practises of divorcing values, / Marriage of centralized division of choice. / Time never betrays, / Ignorance denies education, no advantage, / but limited capacities of knowledge. / / Penetrations of life's fascinating flamboyancy, / Modern fatigue diagnosed with intelligence, / and abilities… sign in to read more »
Duality makes life seem unfair, / Nobody ever wants to share, / But everyone needs what they do not own, / From little child, to fully grown, / Yet everyone wants other people's sight, / Those in darkness, pray for light, / And those with sunshine in their eyes, / Their own selves, they do despise, / For… sign in to read more »
On our national seal / is a peculiar engraving / of a lion. / Bright, bold and gold, / it looks out with a snarl - / always. / / It used to be different / in the days of old . / It used to be different / in the days gone by. / It used to be a farmer / in a green field / harvesting tobacco leaves - / I wish.… sign in to read more »
What's going on, / A cheap glam slut? / You spread your lust / For miles around / Till some old drunkard / Rents your butt, / You wanted fun - / That's what you've found. / You were a smart / And pretty thing, / You were respected / And adored, / You dreamt of golden / Wedding rings, / On one D-day / It got you… sign in to read more »
Victims queue in rows upon rows / Brainwashed by T.V. talent shows / Fodder for the shrewd bloodsuckers / Trinkets to self esteem abductors. / / Manufacturing rivers of tears / As the ultimate descision nears / It's unsightly and slighlty profane / When nirvana depends on fame. / / There's no value in… sign in to read more »
I press the button and renew / The page with someone's masterpiece. / I see a so-called review / Of letters less than letters missed. / The comment's author claims to be / A bard, a critic and a muse. / This three-in-one, or none-in-three / Can't get the core of someone's views, / Of thoughts in their… sign in to read more »
We stand naked before the truth / yet we are blind to the naked truth / it seems we are all at sea / as it reveals naked parts we don't want to see / / we struggle to swim against the currents of our acquired ignorance / while leaders swagger clothed in brand new designer arrogance / / our police break… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 feeling of being lonely weakens the inner me What more can there be, if not the darkness in my eyes? / The feeling of the world on top of my shoulders, is only when I'm on top of the world / It's ike everyone has turned their backs on… sign in to read more »
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