Sponsor |  lovingpoet | Mar 6, 4:42pm | Time is but a tease
You want it here
Lose it there
In constant state of leave
No way to stop it
To contain it
No reprieve
Some bits you oh so long for
Segments from before
Of living, loving happiness
The sensual feelings you feel no more
~Yet~
There are times
You want to end
To shorten
To bend
To some how twist reality
Into a soul soothing blend
These times seem to have
The power of long life
The energy to slow
The loneliest night.
~Yes~
Time IS but a tease.
By: M.C.C. (LP) |
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|  scribbler17 | Mar 6, 8:49pm | 'Sympathy from the Devil'
I never once saw the crossroads
Yet I've lived for 2,000 years
We never once spoke, nor made any deals
Yet he answered all of my fears
For I had so loved to think and to feel
That I dreaded each day that I'd lose it
For life was to me the shortest of things
And my time, I'd never abuse it
I believed in no God or Demon
Yet he had belief in me
I'm the victim that which cannot exist
Of the devil, his sympathy
It was out of his pity not malice
That he came to undo my fears
But he never once thought of the consequence
To let me live 2,000 years
I've lived a full life, maybe ten maybe twenty
And I've lost more loves than you'll know
I've lived on this earth for 2,000 years
And this poem is all I've to show |
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Sponsor | | MumZau | Apr 6, 6:33pm | Oh I give up! My latest poem 'With The Press Of A Button' refuses to print itself here, so if you want to read it, feel free to visit my page!
Looking At Butterflies
L is for lassitude
it seems to linger so
it's not that I have an aptitude
for doing nought at all
in fact I do a lot you see
well in my mind and figuratively
I surely do the best I can
it's just the hours come and go
they move as fast as I move slow
and before you know it
the day has gone
L is for latitude and living
and letting live
if I had more Spring and less of Fall
I wouldn't be the current me at all
L is for long in the tooth and that
says it all and that's the truth!
L is for reflective thought
in a house that time and effort bought
L is for loving life and leisured
days that cease to hurry
the lines creep in but I don't worry
for all is fine with me
(C) Phoebe Francene Andrews
2008
Hay
I cannot understand you
we walk in different ways
and yet the sun smiles benignly
as if we were one
We walk roads of deflection
I do not follow your lead
as you do not follow mine
I wonder at you
at the workings within
a frame that seems ostensibly
the same as mine
We are not one
and never mind
and never mind
But there are times
when I want to shake you
and shake you and shake you
And then the sun shines
and I feel I want nothing more
than to be at your side
And never mind
the disparity
and never mind
the compression of lips
at times
And never mind
the inadvertent
passion of words
that flick from lips
uninvited
That make us so mad
Oh never mind
never mind never mind
(C) Phoebe Francene Andrews
2008
Smile Like You Mean It
Turn back Sheila!
don't be a fool!
trouble's in the offing
turn back Sheila
that's the girl!
the truth could send
you packing
turn back Sheila
don't you look!
the boat is barely rocking
turn back Sheila!
mark my words
the journey
can be shocking..
(c) Phoebe Francene Andrews
2008
A Short Trip Through The Graveyard
Margo trips and falls among
the weathered sticks
and flurried dirt
of the long dead
Margo feels a slight unease
as if the bearer of disease
and horrid things
has bid her enter
this place forlorn
this antithesis
of the daily norm
Margo shudders
on the ground
her long full skirt
her downfall
Margo sighs
and feels the cold
in tired bones
growing old
a soft curse forms
like a sibilant sigh
Margo closes
weary eyes
again the sound
of Margo sighs
she should have worn
jeans after all
(C) Phoebe Francene Andrews
2008
Swell
I should have seen it coming
but it was so nice
the lull before the storm
the moment
before Hell's spawn
sent me running
I should have seen it coming
but the sun kissed me
with such warmth
and silence
spread softened wings
and I believed that
everything
was good and good and even
better
I should have seen it coming
and I want to tell you
everything
but I can't I can't I can't
such hell-bent
malevolence
I'm under siege I'm under
siege I'm under siege
I wanted
to believe
that everything
was just fine and dandy
that at this point
the fangs of hate
no longer slathered
The rage of tide
walked
and nullified
and I tried I tried
I tried
The sun has died
and being right
can get you crucified
and I
I should have seen it coming
(C) Phoebe Francene Andrews
2008
Commonality
Smug and snide go walking by
within the grit of teeth
their arrogance
waved like a flag
their stupidity
beyond belief
All bellow and bellicose
all yell and scream
and vicious mean
their middle name
malignity
and not a shred of dignity
between the two of them
Bluff and bluster
pout of chests
neanderthals at their best
boorish clowns in human form
bare risen from the pond
No giants among men are these
their vices worn like victory
making life a misery
for all for all for all
Oh god of vengeance
show your face
deliver us from this scourge
if you would but smite
and purge
no one would say a word
(c) Phoebe Francene Andrews
2008
Cope
Tired faces
impassively set
each mind it seems
turned within
as if to avoid
the world without
the track itself
often traversed
and the minutes tick by
as platforms are passed
expressly sought
this train is fast
homes will be reached
again again
and then again
and then tomorrow
it will be the same
the getting on
the rush of feet
each face an island
in waters deep
endless click
endless clack
the loaded dice
decrees
and consigns
the barriers up
no guard is down
no carefree smiles
no happy clowns
days move in
days move out
tired faces
averted eyes
(C) Phoebe Francene Andrews
2008
Esse
Free she said
is a state of mind
a way of drifting away
the body a chattel
may very well be
a physical thing
an entity
given to one
at the time
of their birth
but the mind
she said
for what it's worth
is a priceless commodity
(C) Phoebe Francene Andrews
2008
Spiffle
Oogonium is hard to say
it doesn't find it's way
into conversations
of no import
like politics
and who will win
some game of sport
it's a word to stir
to trip you up
in spelling bees
and knowledge tests
it's a word to climb
like Everest
a word to say
when you are glum
and just for laughs
and just for fun
have a bite at
archegonium!
(C) Phoebe Francene Andrews
2008 |
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