POETRY TAG AUGUST 09 EDITION (Page 7) X: "Unopen Arms" by raunchy09 unwrapping your hands like foliage Budding from your Palm under your right arm, your right hand gripping at muscle which falls away -skin is plagued by gravity how age flies up fast like fever she'll never know you live life, backward on the ebb of memories that haul you beyond the the shadow of something that once was young wayward and wild these she now relish loosening her hold for her secrets to flower © 2009 raunchy09 X: "Backstreet Ambitions" by Amad3us What is found to be a cause Mostly is just a symptom We misdiagnose a sickness Because the cause can not be found Cause and effect Interchangeable at best Either one can be the outcome Is poverty the cause of crime? Or is poverty only a symptom of it? Ignorance and loss a cause for poverty? Or an effect from it? Perhaps, Poverty is an effect from Ignorance Doubt you may, or you may not even care The cause and effect The effect from the cause The effect for the cause But, always interchangeable And mistaken for symptoms of those Who live on the 'backstreets' of poverty The ones who live with ambitions Those are the ones we are deceiving. © 2009 Amad3us X: "Costful Intelligence" by X Knowledge bringeth forth misery, I maintain For the deepest misery comes from having a brain If you are blind and lack the slightest clue You remain aloof to the terror and evil around you A blind man in the ocean only knows that he's wet The sighted man with him knows land is miles hence yet If anyone dares to call you a fool Ask them what joy they learned in school © 2009 X X: "Manhattan Malaise" by Zhya Making more of an indulgence Anna had faked death for you Never seeking anymore Having conflict with its tea Away inside unknown worlds Ties a truth stillborn en mass Taking others like coat tails Are we never going to die Never again, like the lie Marking your soul's genetics After all this borrowed time Living up to take them down And lose another part Into your constellation See just as I see Eventually, I'll rip you apart © 2009 Zhya X: "Nocturnal Reverie" by Zhya I live along a reverie Landlocking nocturnally If it pleases you so To unbind this ozone Then reset my generation This new revision shockingly Deprives us of our nature A friend, foe, a child begone Who taught us well to dream So silently, he screams Time escaped us long ago Never to recapture But reminisce with glee Some never seem to fade And desire to be forgotten Whilst others strive to live on In hopes of a wandering spell © 2009 Zhya X: "The Better Self" by romanticpoet777 A state of delirium: my head upwards tilted slightly ahead the buildings stretch my imagination and universe the people below walking in a drumline discipline and without a word they march their briefcases held tight, and their ties tucked in a sea of blacknessed dotted with redness in the concrete jungle the land is riddled with the scent of war an ever pillaging with the land scape this jungle ever grows to consume us all\ all( all* but the silencer wishes to speak once more long have i seen humanity in all its glory and decay chosen i was to observe the world and appease my masters wishes he has come from the depths of oblivion to take us all long have i suffered in this chasm, long have people forgotten of its existence a truth twisted into a mere curiousity of human nature fueled and refueled to appease the masses seeking panecea but i tell you the gates of oblivion awaken again! shall you all take heart and look away from the concerete jungle when brimstone and fire come at the whimp of your foot, will you not turn and never look back? find the true part of yourselves my people rid yourself of a life of mere convienience and morbidty embrace your better selves and travel with me to the forgotten lands of delirium © 2009 romanticpoet777 X: "Enhanced" by X Everybody has something that gets them off Now and then, it's creative solutions for me However many ways I can cut corners And make the routine more fluid Nitwits come and shitwits go Coming from the woodwork to show their asses Enhancements built, fortifications patched Diminishing all that erodes the fun © 2009 X X: "Cold Ice At The Back of a Parched Mouth" by raunchy09 shooting sense through the ends of nerve endings cracking ice like the cold stares you rifle, i snap back numb words drying on dry ice restraint until they swell up my jaw © 2009 raunchy09 X: "Burying the Grief" by Deroyce burying grief like i bury the dead leaving a hole in loves stead left they me they say but mereley taken away things mended better, by end of the day tears do not cure simply wash away pain your death if anything, was not in vain i look to the sky whisper a simple prayer the father the son, holy spirt, then a wave through the hair © 2009 Deroyce X: "Jack-O'-Lantern Smile" by Out_Of_Order Pumpkin head with a smile, Thats all I see No cheshire cat lookin back at me NO brains just mush, and vanity Carved to perfection, ones own sanity Light a candle to illuminate your face Bow your head and pray, say grace Sledge hammer, swung to your demise Oh look how pretty, Pumpkin surprise © 2009 Out_Of_Order X: "Connection" by Zhya Strings of rippled foreplay Enticed by ever-lacing My selfish connection When you lack in strength I exceed with peace How they could still smell The fear in my cedar Mind puzzle illuminate Further from our temples Washed away to separate This mental self we've become Interlaced to be undone How I forget to trust in you An evanescent lover Where strings and bows Forget their ways And lyric link us all © 2009 Zhya X: "Platonic Vapors" by Nick Has Nooo Idea My heart does not skip My stomach does not turn You did not take me before When will you learn The sight of you now stirs nothing Your smell drives me nowhere We were never and now still never Just platonic vapors in the air © 2009 Nick Has Nooo Idea X: "Slight" by HugoSharp A black bird, folded shut and still like an invitation to a secret society. Its breast beats a slight rhythm, a rebellious thump, and sigh. I could watch you cupping it, your hands a gentle nursemaid, forever. Your eyes are barely organs, but shuttering window shades-- a sullen child, admiring storms and weather vanes. I could kiss your half blinking questions, answer you with lips, forever. The blood congeals at your thumbs, as if it knows this is where you press the hardest. Do not think that God is sudden, or-- in the sense of thundering pulses -- a thud. He is here, in your palms, the final breath of wind across ruffled feathers awaiting His chance with you, his dance. And so, as slight as an aviary weeping, You will shiver Him, forever. © 2009 HugoSharp X: "Porecelain" by X and Out_Of_Order X: Only mud in my anxious fingers now X: To be transformed into my passion by fire, somehow OUT_OF_ORDER: Not yet strong enough to stand alone OUT_OF_ORDER: I lay pliable upon the potters throne X: Feel me with manifestation, not with nerves X: Feel me manipulate your every curve OUT_OF_ORDER: Whirled round and round between your hands OUT_OF_ORDER: Giving shape to me so I might stand X: My love, you'll harbor whatever I place X: Inside your well-rounded, earthen space OUT_OF_ORDER: Merely starting as a lump of clay OUT_OF_ORDER: Now a thing of beauty, on display X: I'll finish by etching an intricate design X: So that all the world will know you are mine OUT_OF_ORDER: Strong hands formed me, under clumsy feet I break OUT_OF_ORDER: Scattered into pieces, another me he'll have to make © 2009 X and Out_Of_Order   Zhya: Young Sapplings By: itskristinab*tch Sapplings. Wonders of earth's green creation. Find Hot Guys in your neighborhood Yesterday I sprayed you with herbicidal poison. I'm enduringly sorry. I feel so sad, and sick about my passive, and vegan lifestyle, yet i Killed for the sake of my gran's green yard. Father God and Mother Godess forgive me. I caved against your pure will, and slaughtered your children. I'll pay with my life, flesh, and suffer for enternity at the slaughter Of my green brothers and sisters. I'm so sorry young sapplings. My life is yours, if you can forgive me for needlessly killing you. So mote it be. © 2009 itskristinab*tch Zhya: Flapping Fish Gills By: xbombchellex I saw him lying there On the dock And in the sun His breath began to slow And while the air Vacated his lungs He flapped those gills The best he could ©2009 xbombchelle Zhya: Pajama Party By: Nick Has Nooo Idea I had on my lucky charms PJ's Up in my loft We had a private pajama party But the fun started when we took them off ©2009 Nick Has Nooo Idea Zhya: Fortress By: Wolfos Fortification Building my walls to the sky Just to see them fall ©2009 Wolfos Zhya: Snowstorm By: Elfy13 Bring me my bow of burning gold.bring me my arrows of desire,bring me my spear,o clouds unfold, bring me my chariot of fire...i will not cease from mental fight... nor shall my sword sleep in my hand... till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land... for i am the king of the twentieth century .I'm the boogeyman. the villain.the black sheep of the family. ©2009 Elfy13 Zhya: Snowstorm By: xbombchellex Suddenly there was Nothing. Only the bright White of winter, and Slowly I began The slow trek to you Only thoughts of you in my mind Remembering the Moments we spent together ©2009 xbombchellex Zhya: Silent demolition By: itskristinab*tch Vacuum Freezing Red giant Swelling burp Gas Helium No more fusion to support mass of nuclear reaction Core failing Silence No on will hear the last popping, recoil, and decay in the silent black abyss of space. 1. a deep breath 2. relax your mind 3. now, you are "here" Blissful, total vacuum. silence. Don't breathe No thought Watch Supernovae Magnetar Beyond Neutron Star Yet both Neutron and Magnetar. Rare. too rare No sounds of explosion No flash light Just light. a billion more years old Silent stellar death Silent maelstrom of demolition The alienation of space ©2009 itskristinsb*tch Zhya: White Witch's Garden By: Elfy13 To madame justice I've admired you albeit from a distance for quite some time please don't think it merely physical I know u weren't that sort of girl but alas that was a long time ago now you are not but an unfaithful mistress and have betrayed your worth u have betrayed us all oh you harlot you scoundrel ©2009 Elfy13 Zhya: Most Secret Desire By: Wolfos My desires, redundant The sins, abundant Many women with talents Upset the balance Far from true I am only you Human ©2009 Wolfos Zhya: Marbles By: Paws76 I think I've lost my marbles, I don't know where they went I forget if I've put them down somewhere or if to someone they've been lent. I can't find my fuzzy slippers, it really is too bad Cause my toes are getting really cold and it's making me quite sad I'm certain I've lost my marbles, or perhaps they're in the car Can anyone help me find my marbles? I really don't know where they are ©2009 Paws76 Zhya: Curiosity By: itskristinsb*tch Curiosity killed the cat Nevermind it was me who smashed the poor cat I came along Frisky and hungry I said " no, don't chew my toes, hungry cat!" Chew and naw it did I said no again The begged and insisted on food No! I said NO! Take a powder you furry ass Rrrrrrrr ehhhhhhhhhhh said the cat Fz$y off said me Rrrrrrrrr eeeeeeeeh said the cat I set out the bowl Cat stuck the head in Slap went the trap No more curiosity for food went the cat ©2009 itskristinsb*tch |