Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2009

Mother is the word for God


Mother is the word for God


The first we see.
The first to console.
The first to give peace
in a new world out of control.
You are everything.

It must be amazing to be a mother.

You give nutrition.
You give discipline.
You give comfort
both on the outside and within.
You are the one.

It is the most awesome responsibility.

Even now that I’m older;
Even now that I’m a father;
Even now that I pray to our God;
I look to you, my mother.

Mother is the word for God to all children and I am no different.




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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The Gift

The Gift

One in the world
None even close
Outshines a diamond
Brightest, I suppose

Unique like a snowflake
Tasty like some fries
Music to my ears
Symphony for my eyes

I’m lucky just to be with you
To be with you this morn
The greatest gift I ever knew
I’m glad that you were born


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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Who Stands to Gain

Who Stands to Gain?

Who stands to gain
From the pain that
Comes with the rain

Who spins the wheel
That picks the meal
That begins to heal
The pain that the poor feel

I’ve seen the answer at
The bottom of a bowl
I didn’t know what it was
So I just ate and ingested
And later in life when I heard the buzz
It was too late because the answer was digested

I had it again
It was in my notes
I had written it down
I found out the reason it floats
It was clear to me for that one moment
It was clear to me what those rocks at stonehenge meant
But then again with the flick of a pen
The words that I wrote
Became just marks of a chicken
And I knew that my life which had never been clear
Would be cloudy again
Would be not without fear
The fear that exists in the back of my mind
In the pit of the places that only I find

The irrational scare that can start from a tear
A nick in the fabric
That makes a healthy man sick
Sick in the head
Sick in the soul sick in the heart
And loose his control

So out on the streets
Out on my ass
Out in the rain
To feel the pain
The pain that came with the rain
And flooded my being

And of course the answer was me all along
I caused the pain
I take responsibility
But do I stand to gain.


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Sunday, December 7, 2008

Truth

Truth



They say the truth shall set you free
and why not, the truth shall be what it be
but then again as long as you feel within
that you are with out sin
that truth that you feel
that truth that you know to be true
the one deep inside of you
that truth
not the one you claim is not false
not the one that memory recalls
and plays out your mouth
like a pre-recorded sound-byte
or turning on and off the light
the one that stops you
makes you hesitate
makes you question about your fate
makes you re-evaluate
and exfoliate
the lies from your life
like the dead skin off your face
to face the world, to face your life
to face... the TRUTH.
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Four men and one death




Four men and one death

a flick of my wrist
a snap of my fingers
a crack of my whip
a tap on my shoulder
I’m gone
I’m down
I’m dead
I should have been a salesman

there’s a body on the road
from the looks he’s quite a load
I could pick this body up
I could put him on the truck
there is quite a lot of room
for a quick and temporary tomb
we will drive him to his grave
for he’s too far gone to save



they brought me this corpse
this man, this life that’s run it’s course
I will cover up his face
I will dig his resting place
I will put him in the ground
I will fill it to a mound
when I finish with my fun
God will have him His will be done



As I wake I have this fear
for no sounds do I hear
it is dark and it is cold
does death have me in its hold
I cannot move my hand and arm
there it is again, I’ve bought the farm
but wait a second I must protest
there’s a beat inside my claustrophobic chest
it is my heart it does not lie
I’m alive I did not die



I hear a cry
Its from nearby
And while it is awful faint
Just a dream I’m sure it aint
I’m walking near the cemetery
And now I am awfully weary
But still this cry I can’t ignore
So I begin this dreadful chore
To find what it is I’m looking for
I zero in on that shrill whine
But its source I cannot find
I take ten minutes then ten again
The noise stops and that is when
I find the grave, I dig and dig
I find the box, it’s a big gig
I pry it open and there I find
A body that a soul has left behind



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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Soapbox 1

Soapbox 1

I do not want to know
the future we’re creating.
“Morals” is a strange word,
a concept quickly fading.
If we look inside ourselves,
I know what we would see,
a billion private hells
and scared uncertainty.
We lack the strength, the courage,
the bold hope we need,
to make a worthy stand
to stop the growth of greed.
Instant gratification
is how it is these days.
Our conscience is all but covered up
by a numbing, congealing haze.
All of life has yet to be damaged
by this lecherous and baneful muck.
And that my friend, dare you be
is where we are in luck.
For in everyone there is some Good,
and in some, that Good is what is most.
Good can heal, Good can grow.
But Good needs you! as a host.



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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

As The Rider Rides Away

As the rider rides away

As the rider rides away
I suddenly feel my heart sway
the pull, the pull away
seems to make my blood like clay
forming clods inside my veins
holding all the pain inside my chest
leaving me to do what I do best
feel the pain, feel the pain, feel the hurt
the ache, the sting, the grief
like a robber, a burglar, a dirty thief
the rider rides away



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Sunday, November 9, 2008

What will be

Just to let you know what will be.

This is just a forum for poetry written by me.  Simple enough.

Hopefully I will reach some sort of audience.   I do write for myself but as with most writers, I enjoy having my work read.  Go ahead and make a comment if you like.  My stuff is free to interpretation, but is usually about conveyance of emotion, which is what I feel most good poetry is about.

Most of all, I hope you enjoy what I've written.  

Should have first poem up within a couple days.  So check it out.

Thanks.