Writing Mitch's Poetry

[conpiracymonki]

[b][size=1]
OK. There's only one thing I have to say about this last one. Pure evil. Of course it took a few questions to figure out what was going on, lol. But that poem is brilliantly evil.

And I liked The Last Leaf Has Fell too.[/b]

That picture is real nice, you know. At first I thought it was just half a picture flipped and inverted. But's it's not flipped. And one of his eyes is open.

Me really thinks you should send your poems off though. Seriously.[/size]

[Mitch]

[size=1][center][img]http://www.rotetraenen.de/bilder/home/tears.jpg[/img]
[b][u]Eye of The Rain[/b][/u]
Rain
And he bled tears
What you can see
It came to be

What you don't see
Rain falling fast
It can't be
For it is
The past

What past is
For worth
So near the past
That's all I hear

Rain
And he bled tears
What you can see
It came to be

Shall I make a wish
For life is a coin
Flip with a shrill of laughter
Rain
Bleed the tears

For life is a coin
What you flip
For what you see
Rain
It came to be

Flip with a shrill of laughter
When you see?
Rain heavy
Bleed the tears[/size][/center]

[Mitch]

[center][size=1][b][u]The Army Of Ants[/b][/u]
An army of ants
I came upon
Walking in and walking fro
Hear them ho! hear them ho!

For fire springs
For it is known
An army of ants
They walk to and fro
Perhaps a black one
Catch this red's toe

These armies of ants
Walking to and fro
Dance! dance!
For these ants
To and fro! to and fro!

I knew one and I knew them all
He has danced and I have withal
An army of ants
I knew them well
I came upon them
And they dance like hell

What ho! what ho!
I hath been bitten
Perhaps on the eye
I can't see: but have
An army of ants:
That is what I have to hide

They dance like hell
They dance to the bell
They dance and dance
And no one can tell

They jest
They sigh
They bite like I lie
I hath been bitten
What ho! what ho!

Hear them stammer
Hear them might
I taste war to-night
Spiders, flies, tasty delights
Bite! and bite!

Ants, ants, ants
They dance they dance
An army a one
For all for a bite the thumb
I hath been bitten! what hell!
For these ants
They dance well

In some larvae sort of rime
Pheromone dance: runic of rhyme
These armies of ants
Perhaps they squirm:
I hath been bitten! I am alive!

I hear them?they stammer
Hear them?they might
I taste: and it's something
It's war to-night

[b][u]Blown Away[/b][/u]
I was driving
Just to nothing
On the shores of the bay

I came: for the 'gulls say
Drove right there into that lake
I was never the same

I was driving
It was to nothing
On the shores of the bay

Decided to fish
Let my problems just
Blow away

But, alas, I came: for the 'gulls say
Drove right there into that lake
Was never the same

'Gulls hark 'gulls sing
But you?you should never believe
I came: for the 'gulls say
But you?you should never believe

I've been driving from forever
To evergreenmore and morever
On the shores of some November
Where the fish speak and say
Couldn't catch any though all fell away
And I came: for the 'gulls say
Fell to what's called the windy September
Should never let them say forever

I was driving
To nothing
On the shores of the bay
Deciding to fish
Blow it all away

'Gulls said that I came
Drove right in the lake
I've never been the same

Under this aquatic wet
Hopefully I'll drive?I'll forget
'Cause I've come to evergreenmore
And morever
I've been driving forever[/center][/size]

[Mitch]

[size=1][font=rockwell] Nothing too good here..just needed to write some stuff.[/font]

[center][b][u]Lust For Kicks Isn't Worth What's In It[/b][/u]
She was every and once
All she wore perfect and such
Lip stick that was thick and sure
Perfume that was pungent and pure

This woman's what we call when it rains
This woman's what we call 'cause she's a dame
Perfection's never beauty what a shame

What she put herself through
No one even knew
All they ever thought
What is never true

This woman's got ribbons in her hair
It's brown and combed full and fair
You can't tell her she won't care
But she's beautiful they all stare

This woman's what we call when it's cold
But she never comes 'cause it rains
This woman's what we call she's a dame
But she never comes 'cause it's always the same
Perfection's never beauty what a shame

She may be every and once
Her hair may be perfect and such
Lip stick may be thick and sure
Perfume might just be pungent and pure
But she's hurting, only a few fear

Lust for kicks
Perhaps that's what she hears
They know they all say it
Even as she's right by them in the halls
She's been turned an object that calls
Desire toy that's all over and climbs walls

Never knew her no I didn't
Would see her walking but forget it
I'm happy that I didn't
'Cause lust for kicks
Isn't worth what's in it

You know this face all too well
She's some innocent girl
Popular and swell

But lust for kicks
Isn't worth what's in it
Perfection's never beauty what a shame
This high school dame
High school babe
Beauty's perfections
Always the same
What a shame

[b][u]Whisper's Voice[/b][/u]
There's a voice
In my head
It's whispers
And it says:
But I can't hear
It's about love
It doesn't hit my ear

That voice
In my head
It's whispers
I shake my hands
Try to feel its said

I wonder what's life
See everything die
I ask myself
Is it all in my mind

That voice
In my head
Its whispers
I say I wanted to be
Wanted to know
To see

Diffidence
Through bliss
I remember
And I cringe as I drip
See the thoughts collect
Watch the birds as they fly
I want to forget

That voice
Still in my head
I remember
Eternity forever
It's not true
Don't want to remember

[b][u]HOPE[/b][/u]
I was riding the train one night
Just returning to Boston to call it the night

I was standing near the front
Could hear the engine as the train tracked on
The trees were flying by as I sighed long
I was alone and cold

I sat there alone and cold
For so long so old
Then there came
The rustling of steps
They were heavy and certain
Like rain falling on a curtain

Soon there came a tap on my shoulder
Hard and tapped I looked over

The man's face was blank and sober
Cold and alone like a dead man's owner
Ghost as snow and white
Gaunt and promise to the night
I felt quite weird upon his sight

With a more gaze
I came to understanding
He had no face
All about him there were chains
He looked cold and alone
I didn't want to look at him
Didn't want to know

There was something though
I couldn't turn
I couldn't even scream or yell
My throat was dry
My mouth wouldn't say
I couldn't look away

So I stared
I stared and stared
I thought I was going to run
I was scared
But my gaze stayed
I could sense some fancy

Soon he moved his arm up
His finger coming out near my hands
Through the chain and wire
Something shown; something came to stand

It was metal and chrome
Beautiful and shown
I observed it
And as the trees rustled by
I let out a marveled sigh

It was a pendant of metal
As I have already settled
I stared at it long; unsettled

It shimmered in the weak light
The chain of it was long and bound
Its entirety was certain and found

On the chain the pendant rustled
The thing's hand moving up and down
It took awhile until it came face-up
And I could see the pendant's face

At first there was nothing on the face
Just like this thing's own
Soon, though, something faded in
It was cold, it moved across my skin

HOPE it said as it etched in
It was in very straight letters
Like on a tombstone's writing

I stared at it long
Wondering, fighting
Trying to understand the thing's want
To know what and why

I looked back at the thing
There and then
I knew why

I took the pendant from its hands
Felt cold and alone as it touched like sand
Put the chain around my neck and got into a stand

Was taken on as the ghost train echoed
As I was taken by thing's hand
I realized then it was just that the time was wrong
I can still remember the engine hissing on
The pendant's still in my hand

Right now I let out a long sigh
As the trees rustle by
I'm on a different train
But I'm returning to Boston
And the pendant's still in my hand
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[Mitch]

[size=1][center][b][u]We Can Watch The White Rain Glow[/b][/u]
let me take you ever truly
we can watch the white rain glow
and you know
you know where it goes

i said there ain't no use in crying
let this everwhite be your hand
'cause does it hurt to hear them lying
i said there ain't no use in crying
it'll only rain sad

so let me take you ever truly
let me be yours ever sweetly
we can watch the white rain glow
and you know
you know where it goes

said there ain't no use in crying
'cause does it hurt to hear them lying
does it hurt to drive them mad
it's only gonna rain
only gonna make them sad

evergreen and what's white
when it's promise
it's to the night
evertear and truly
we can watch the white rain glow
and you know
you know where it goes

[b][u]Put Down My Tired Head[/b][/u]
Around bend after bend
I walk in this hall
My books fall dead

Days when I still felt alive
I couldn't wait to say couldn't wait to know
I'd see you there in my mind
My books fall dead

I can't wait until I get home
To pass this nothing in my room alone
When you're cold
You're cold
This door creaks
The floor says old

I open the door
I put my books on the desk
Watch as I fall dead
Watch as I twitter and ding
Wait for the time
Try to see

My books fall dead
Is it worth it
Around bend after bend
To say as I could
That I'm good enough

My books fall dead
I sigh and sigh
As I say
Wonder what these books
Would ever lay
Ever wonder
Ever say

All these days in this door
Locked in this room
In a desk just tapping the floor
Something on the board
Something telling me
What's life what's in store

My books fall dead everyday
The teacher speaks
But I drift away
I wonder
Wonder here today
Wonder if I've learned enough
If I can ever say

These markers and pencils
Paper that's blank but for me
Writing on it and you just feel
Markers and pencils
They're real

Whatever's real should say something
Maybe to you
I wrote on this paper
With pencil and marker
It's black as charcoal
Smudged or thin

But to me
My books fall dead everyday
I tilt my head down
As I breathe
Murmur my way and
Cease

It's black as charcoal
Maybe to you
Smudged or thin
Doesn't matter
All that matters
That's on this paper
Is the numbers

Today I put my head down
That's on this paper
I don't care about the numbers
Doesn't matter
Smudged or thin
These lines
They're not the same
They're close and in

Around bend after bend
You wonder and say
Want to know if it's been
Or if it's ever going to say
Think to yourself
It's worth it
For today

Today
My books fell dead
Walked in that room
Put down my tired head

Was dark for once
The movie was playing
Was about tornadoes
About disasters and end
But I put down
My tired head

Put on some headphones
Led Zeppelin buzzed instead
Instead of the movie
That was playing in my head

Closed my eyes
Let the music think for me
It's like I'm dead

Was listening to Achilles Last Stand
The lyrics're still thinking in my head
And it's about nothing
It's like I'm dead

The teacher was tardy
She's sick or something
I can't say for sure

So we watched that movie
About disasters and end
But I put on my headphones
Led Zeppelin buzzed instead
And I put down my tired head
Thought to myself
Wondered if I'm anything

I listened to the Zeppelin CD all the way
Almost fell asleep just thinking away

And as I changed the CD
Put in Tool's Lateralus and let it play
I did fall asleep
As The Patient played

I wasn't asleep long
The Patient was still playing
Buzzing in my ear
When the bell came

I woke up
I'm still tired
Sick of this same

But I went up to math
Got a good teacher
Mr. Riehl's his name

I walked in his room
Around bend after bend
I set my books down
They fell dead
Took off my headphones
And walked away

Talked to my friend Ryan
It's what I always do
We don't say much
But he's one of the few friends I've got
So it's good to have one
And just good to talk

We don't talk long
Only got seven minutes
Then it's gone

And you know
You wait so long
Wait for the day
To end and be through

Then it starts all over
And you know
When you're cold
You're cold
The floor creaks
It says old

All you've got in the end
Doesn't matter
As long as I can lay down
My tired head
Lay down my dead books
It doesn't matter

Least you've got those you know
You've got music and it all goes
Least you've got those you know
Love 'em think about them alone

At least you've got those you know
Like breathing
It all goes

[b][u]Dance In The Sea[/b][/u]
Step-by-step you dance in the sea
Fire and love it goes in rives
You let it be
In the arms of the sea

It goes to the river
It lands in and you fish
Step-by-step you dance in the sea
But it all goes to the river
You soon see

Over the mountains
The seagulls sing
They sing how it's
To know me
Something about
A step-by-step dance in the sea
Something rhythmic and free

Step-by-step this dance in the sea
The water's up to my knees
Can't even let go
Can't stop and even see

Over the mountains
I heard her voice
Something about me
To know me
Something about how
The seagulls sing

A 'gull's something I've rarely even seen
It's a bird that's certain in being
Like this step-by-step dance in the sea
That's about all I know
Nothing else hits me

Even as far as rivers veer
They still end up here
As the 'gulls hark
And sing
They're still over here
Doing this two-step dance
In the sea

Those mountains
Over there
They're evergreen
She's like a summer rose
Can't even dance
But she can leave
Like fall's wind
She Breathes
Hits me

On those mountains
I should also say
There's so many trees
Raccoons and squirrels
That's all I've ever seen
On these trees

And when I'm doing
My two-step dance
In the sea
Acorns are golden
Like corn in the breeze
I can see it
As I gaze and be
Over on those mountains
Away from the sea

It's evergreen
Like maple syrup
That's old
And green
Beautiful
Green so

The 'gulls
They always sing
She's evergreen
Like clouds
That're squalls
It never rains
She's evergreen

But I'm still here all alone
This two-step dance in the sea
She's talking to me
Like a rose in the summer
We always have to leave
Though
Sad it is to me
But that's what it's like
On this sea

I ride the wind
As I dance the sea
Tell her I love her
Give her a kiss
We leave as the bee stings

If one 'gull should sing
It's got to be her
She's evergreen
We always have to leave
Though

Leave this salty sweet sea
Leave the 'gulls that sing
Leave everything and all that's green
But that's what it's like
On this sea
It's evergreen
As you two-step
On the sea
It never lasts
Time's ream

At least I can say
As it's evergreen
And the acorns
Are gold like corn
In the breeze
At least I can say
It's worth it
And that
Forever is green[/size][/center]

[center][size=1][b][u]Happy Birthday Shy[/b][/u]
creature in the sky
should know ya
la la la but why
name's something
shy

were climbing
the sky
used to be
shyguy

creature in the sky
should know ya
la la la but why
name's something
shy

josh if your name is frost
then we know you're lost
you're lost
josh if your name's frost
we're lost we're lost

shouldadig in the sky
birthday is timing
la la la but why
bosko knows ya
shy

creature in the sky
were climbing
used to be
forever

birthday's come
however
mimi like skin
dress and then
pink panther comes
in

shy
shouldadig in the sky
birthday's come

la la la
this couldadig in the sky
like love that sighs
should know ya
shy

cut
and this size
disneyland ride
year dreamdig by
happy birthday
shy

[b][u]Gone Under[/b][/u]
cease to exist
given my good-byes
don't say much
just let it go by

if i'm sixteen if i'm sixteen
then you're one then you're one
if you're one
then this whole thing's gone under
this whole thing's gone under
yeah under

cease to exist
given what's been
don't say much
just look to the sky

if i'm sixteen
then you're one
you're one
if you're one
this whole thing's gone under
gone under
yeah
under

i've been saying
i've sure been saying
this whole thing's gone under
with this wail
and i've just got to
exhale

this whole thing's gone under
yeah baby
under
if i'm sixteen
then you're one then you're one
yeah baby
under
this whole thing's gone under

been digging
diggin' down under
yeah baby
this whole thing's gone under

[b][u]Subconscious Dive[/b][/u]
i once knew a guy
he was quite different
he loved to die

i'd take his hand
as he was falling down
he'd try to pry my hand
almost fall
down

he lived in missouri
where the girls are pretty
and the grass is green
and sitting
but this guy
this guy

this guy
he loved to die
a few times
yeah a few times
he just let go
and dived

he'd pry and pry and pry
take his hand from mine
and he'd just
dive

every waking hour
every single of every single tower
he'd pale to his knees
every waking hour yeah
every single of every single tower
i think i'd see him try
as he dived

i think i'd see him try
and that's me on that tower
that guy falling down
i think i even saw him try

but that was just a dream
just a dream
that was just a dream
just a dream just a dream

he still holds my hand
as the chill hits his face
he still holds my hand

every single of every single tower
he holds on
every waking hour
i'm holding his hand
on this tower[/center][/size]

[Corey]

I really love the White Rain poem.

Very nice.

[Mitch]

[size=1][center][b][u]Dreamsickle's Cold Cold Night[/b][/u]
Does it not see or seem
That life is a dream within a dream
That we are puppets
We can't move (as it is so)
Strings as bones
This sinew is crude
All I know (that's true)
Is that we are

Flesh is flesh
Perhaps I shall (and will)
Express
Does it not seem
That life is not worth what it's seen
If we are beings (as it is so)
We are creatures
It is dreams that go

The reality is much more cold

If you take your hand
Let it go in the wind
And blow and blow
Like never again
What will be left
Remember as you will
Flesh is flesh

Emaciation
Is age but feeble (as death is fetal)
Living is but
Neither nor fatal
Death is certain
Like a worm (we have this home)
Dig our holes 'til we are lone
And we blow and blow
(Just like wind in the low)

The reality is much more cold

It is dreams that go
Perhaps I shall (and will)
Express
Our finger's print
Our hand's stress
Comes to us again (like always)
In the dreamsickle's cold cold night
We are those given
Fists of empires is our fight
And as we raise our nails in blood delight
As there is not a word heard that cannot relate (nor has to irate)
Perhaps I shall (and will now say)
In this dreamsickle's cold cold night
We are those given (in this worm dirt's plight)

[b][u]Got A Heart Hold It Red[/b][/u]
What I say here and now
Of heaven of something
Of what's in and down
It doesn't matter now
Got a heart and I hold it red
Give it rest a how can we say no

Got this claim of those out there
Sands in my head until I can't think
Come something like almost dead
And I'm running it through my head
Behind a cigarette

Got a heart and hold it red
Bleeds and bleeds and bleeds
Dead
Behind a cigarette

If one smoke got to be
Got this claim of those out there
Nothing better but to tell 'em
Like it is
'Cause I got a heart and hold it red
It bleeds and bleeds and bleeds
Dead

Going through this in my head
Behind a cigarette
Tastes like nothing
Tastes like regret

What I say here and now
Of heaven of something
What's in and down
Doesn't matter now
Got a heart hold it red
Bleed dead as it says said
Give it a rest a how can we say no

[b][u]Deadmoreever[/b][/u]
i am so high
i can feel ever
i am so low
i can feel never

i flew up to never
i hold on to the wings of the blue jays
i am so high
i can feel ever

it's in the taste of the mud
of the sky and of the blue
dirt and soil and what comes through
of the high and of the ever
i can't feel god i can't feel forever
deadmoreever

i am so high
i can feel ever
i am so low
i can feel never

i flew up to never
i hold on the wings of some blue jay
come out reaching out to me
blow this deadmoreever over
some sky some mud some rain
come out reaching to me
snow like rain and slush
i can feel ever i can feel never
now the blue jays hush
their wings are cold and touched
i touch and fall
deadmoreever

ethereal as hell
heaven on ground
lifting up my feet touch the ground
fall down from the blue jay
whatever will be will be
i wait as i ride the spiral to the end
want to go want to be where i've never been
fall down from fall away

catch the raven talon is sure
ethereal as hell
heaven on ground
lifting my feet
touch the ground
raven came dropped me
i'm on the ground i'm down
i hear the everdoom dog drawl
loud and low the doom dog howl
i'm on the ground i'm down
rain is starting to come down
i hear the everdoom dog drawl

ethereal as hell
heaven on ground
touch this ground
i was never
i was here ever
loud and low the doom god down
doom dog chimera falls
cockatrice as sphinx in drawl
i hear the everdoom dog howl
now the blue jays hush
i'm still falling but their sighs
so real touch
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[Mitch]

[size=1][color=gray][b][u]Going To Bleed Until I Bleed No More[/b][/u]
I remember walking
As the cement was cracked
And my head was humming
As I can't forget
The man on the side
Of the road
He was just walking
His face said he was alone
That he was cold
He needed someone to love
I wanted to know
I wanted to know
Why he was so cold
Because he was wearing
A large coat
When you're wearing a coat
Like that
You shouldn't be cold
His face also said
He was alone
I didn't know why
There was kisses all over his face
A cracked smile of teeth you can't begin to erase
I cannot forget
As I sit here
And regret
A cracked smile of anything
A crack of the cement
My head was humming
As I can't forget
The man on the side
Of the road
When you looked
At his eyes
You could tell
He'd lived and told
Those eyes weren't
Certain and sold
They were cataract
And old
When I walked up to him
I knew there'd be nothing to find
As I put my hand stern on his shoulder
I knew how much it would hurt me
How much these emotions would toil
Just like everything
Imagine hard
It all disappears
This man's the same
Now as I tell you
As I tell you how it haunts me
Once I tell you
Imagine hard
It all disappears
When I walked up to him
I looked in his eyes
I looked at his meticulous hands
Looked at every crack
Every line that spanned
Now as I tell you
Tell you how it haunts me
Don't forget
Imagine hard
It all disappears
His eyes his hands
I soon noticed
How and what stands
This man
As it is
This man was me
Is chance and destiny
What a paragraph
When a period
It all begins as one word
And it all ends as another
Don't forget
Imagine hard
It all disappears
These things as all
Are meant to be
I'll tell you how it haunts me
To see this man to know
Apparitions are ghosts
As hands are lined
And palms are smooth
To see this man and know
You'll never feel anything
No
You'll never feel anything
When I put my hand
On his shoulder
He spoke to me
His voice was off key
It was mine
But wasn't me
Age is like that
Does these things
You and I know it
Too well
I showed a smile
As he began to speak
It's just like that
Knowing the reflection
Wondering what came to be
The man smiled at me too
And his smile wasn't mine
It was crude and cut lined
Like a straight curve
A paper's thin line
His smile wasn't mine
It was too cold
Too weak
Too dead
What he said
I've dug far away
And on this page
It certainly isn't
Going to come out
Today
All I can say
Is I can't believe
How I'd changed
The pendulum swings
Over a pit
The blade is ready
Serrated and slit
Time is not one to know
But father time is cold
His blade is as sharp as death's
Like utter and incantation
Mouths of time have clefts
Teeth saws and fret
Now imagine hard
It all disappears
Choice is hope
You can't quite understand
Can't even taste this elope
Nor can you know
Its slope
This man
As I've said
Was cold
Was old
It's sad to know
Sad to be cold
To be old
These emotions grip hold
Of how I could become like this man
If I didn't change the course
My repose as I write this is cold
Aberrations of late have told
This man isn't too far down in me
I've been bleeding over this cross
I've turned and looked away
I've been bleeding over this thought
And I've walked and walked
As I've bled and bled
It's all going to bleed from me
Until I bleed no more
This man has said
He has spoken he has read
He's given he's been dead
Yet through all this
He still hasn't forgot
He remembers meeting me
When he was younger like I am now
Said he knows what I'm feeling
Knows that when he's gone
I'll still be around
I'll meet again
At this same spot
As my head's humming
On the cracked sidewalk's cracks
I'm going to bleed and bleed
Going to end up here and lead
Going to bleed and bleed
It's all going to bleed from me
Until I bleed no more
When I can't bleed no more
Then I'm going to be nothing
Going to imagine hard
And disappear
Like that cold man
That old man
I can remember
Such are the memories
Inside my mind
This man meets with me often
He says many things to me
He's so much older than me
As I lay dead as he whispers to me
I am wasting away
I'm going to bleed away from this cross
Going to bleed right on Lucifer's loss
Going to bleed and bleed
Until I bleed no more [/color][/size]

[Corey]

Wow... Um... I really like this last poem of yours. It's very long but well worth the read.

I really live the repetition of the poem. It's smooth and not very noticable. The rhyme scheme is unpredictable but also smooth.

Definitly a keeper. *saves*

[Mitch]

[size=1][color=gray] I'm going to revise these two poems I believe. Especially the second. I wrote it last night at three in the morning. oO.

[b][u]Cold Kisses For A Still Night[/b][/u]
Mary sat musing the knife in her cold hand
Sipping her glass bottle of beer through her rose lips
The baby was crying in the other room
She just kept watching the tube though
And sipping her glass of beer

As she sat musing the knife in her cold hand
There was the thud of the door being slammed
Mary knew this noise as Tony entered the kitchen

Tony came to her and he froze
"Mary, what are you doing?" was all that came out

"I don't know what I'm doing," she said simply
And she took another drink of her glass bottle
"I don't know."

"Yeah, you do know what you're doing. You've done it before.
And you're not going to go through it. I love you too damn much."
Tony walked over to her and stood her up

Mary's eyes were intoxicated and thin
Like two death stones just skipping in a pool
Her face was crooked and sad and all over her hands
There were scars and wounds

Tony took these scarred hands and placed them in his
And he moved his face right next to hers as he spoke in a whisper
"Mary, I love you too damn much. Now listen, there's a baby out there
In his room that loves you. And there's me, too. I love you too much to
See you like this. Now please, please tell me what's wrong. I probably
Have an idea of what's wrong, but please tell me."

Mary began to cry and sob with a wail so loud
That hit and touched all around
And fell to the ground
"I..my Dad's dead," was all that Mary said.
She stopped as soon as she spoke as her face turned to tears

Tony grabbed onto her scarred hands even tighter
"Your Dad's been dead for a month, Mary, you know.
I remember the day the death of his news came
As well as you do. I was really surprised you
Didn't even cry when it happened."
He stopped and let out a very long sigh
:"But here we are Mary. These tears in
Your eyes are fine. This knife, though."
Tony took the knife from her shaking hand
"This knife isn't fine."

He walked over to the wood knife holder
And set the knife where it belonged
Mary sat back down in her chair
She shut off the TV as Tony came

He sat down in a chair across from Mary
And Tony noticed
He grimaced at it as his eyes fell on it
"Dear God Mary. Why did you do that?" he said
As he stood quickly up and came to her

All across Mary's shirt there was dried blood
Tony ran his hand over it
"I couldn't help it," said Mary.

"Show me what you did."

She pulled up her shirt, taking it off
All across her stomach there were large wounds
They were deep and thick
Some were still bleeding

"I am so sorry Tony."

Tony's eyes darkened as he ran his hand
Over the wounds all over her stomach

"Mary I don't know what to say. Just don't be sorry
About it. You could've called me at work."

Their eyes locked at one another as they spoke but didn't
Mary felt very guilty for what she had done and she didn't know what to say
As she looked in Tony's eyes and heard the pain

Mary stood up and gave Tony a very long hug
She held onto his back until Tony couldn't even breathe

"You're right Tony. I should've
Called you instead of
Letting out the pain like this. I couldn't help it though,"
Mary said as her face and arms hugged Tony so tight

When the hug was over the baby was still crying
It was still the middle of the night

They kissed in the dark until they couldn't kiss anymore
They kissed and kissed until their minds were fuzzy
And their lips were sore

When it was all over Mary was still crying just like the baby
And the sun was coming up the horizon in red light

They stared at each other long through the sunrise
That was when Mary finally spoke
"I love you too much too Tony," was all and what she said
They hugged as they went to bed
She fell asleep soon after
Her dreams were about him
About him dead

[b][u]Fire And Ice (Hercules and Achilles)[/b][/u]
The lights flickered
In my head
The lights went out
And it was dark

I was breathing black
There was nothing
Not even a cry

Ice was on my face
As the snow felt on my cheeks
The sky was icicles above me

In my head
Numb so I can't feel
Dead there was nothing
Not even a cry

I'm wailing in here
I was breathing black
The lights still flicker
Until they go out

I'm floating because it's there
Some soul of ice some river's stare
And as the skulls float me by
Hades' snow is flowing in my blood

The river
River Styx's love
It's so cold and
I can't feel my hands
Can't feel anything but my head

My head that's where I breathe
There's a man in this head
He's talking to me
Talking about bleed
Talking to me

I can't taste carbon
I taste nothing
The river
River Styx's hum
It flickers in my head
Until these lights go out

I was dipped in this water
This skull's tainted of breath
I'm breathing black
Breathing until Achilles whispers back

All I could feel
Was this ice on my hair
And this feeling
That I needed someone bad
I was dipped by my head up
Held on the ice's touch
And this feeling
That I needed someone bad

I learned how to love again
In this dead skull of this head
I can't feel any more
I was dipped in this ice
It's so cold
My entire body was frostbite

When she took me out
When Aphrodite kissed the water
Touching everything but this head
I learned how to love again
In this dead skull of this head

The river
River Styx has a price
Achilles knows this
As he whispers to me
And Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ
I learned how to love again
In this dead skull of this head
There wasn't a cross on my head
I breathed and breathed again
I was dipped in this ice
All I could feel
Was the lights in my head
Flickering and flickering saying dead
Aphrodite I learned how to love again
Touching everything but this head

As I breathe until my breath is cold
My mind is numb
The lights in my head
Went straight to my heart
I was dipped in this ice
The river
River Styx's ice
And Jesus Christ
River Styx has a price
I learned how to love again
In this dead skull of this head

The lights flicker
In my head
And if I had to choose
If I had Achilles and Hercules to be
Fire and Ice if you please
I would die by Ice

Achilles Jesus Christ
The River Styx does have a price
I am like you
My head wasn't dipped
I'd die by ice

As the lights flicker
In my head
It's too late I'm too dead
It's three a.m.
I've got to call it a night
I can tell you the River Styx does have a price
I would die by ice

For each a Fire and Ice
Each as beautiful and good deaths
Hercules was Fire
Achilles was Ice
And Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ
I learned how to love again
Choosing to die by Ice
In this dead skull of this head
I learned how to love again[/color][/size]

[Red]

[color=00203B]Mitch, regardless of what reason it is for, double posting is not allowed in this forum unless it is because your post exceeds the character limit - which yours most certainly does not.

As a moderator, particularly of this forum, you should know that. I don't want to see any more double posting in this thread.[/color]

[Mitch]

[size=1][color=gray]Nothing extremely well here..but writing is writing.

[b][u]House of Sand[/b][/u]
The daisies tear
As they fall to the side
And moan and lie

Their leaves
Begin to rot
Like decay
As they fall to the side

The raven by the window
Where the daisies tear
Is letting out a wild sneer
As he caws until
The daisies fear

Their leaves
Begin to change
Even more
As they fall to the side
Not like decay

Their leaves
Begin to rot
Like a cadaver

These leaves
Change to good-byes
And rot and lie
Until they bleed
And die

The daises fear
As the raven caws
In his smiling sneer
That is when
The daises
Are no more

The daises
By the window-sill
Are no more
And what's left behind
Is human

Everything
In this house
Was made
To die
And moan

The daises
Are no different
As they bleed in my hand
Dreams are red
In this house
Of sand

When the
Daises are
No more
What's left behind
Is human

As they bleed
In my hand
All one can do
Is sigh
Across this land
In this house
Of sand

[b][u]The Birds Do Love You There[/b][/u]
Find another place
To feed your green
When you have it
You don't even know
It's all over you
Though

Though
Maybe the birds
Will love you there
As you feed your green
And don't care

All they know
Is that when it's green
And you don't care
The birds do
Love you there

I kissed the bird
The one you bought
On the cheek
Its beak

It felt dismal
I couldn't see what it was
But all they know
Is that when it's green
And you don't care
The birds do
Love you there

That's all I can
Tell you here
But they all know
The birds themselves
Eat the seeds on the ground
And that they even aren't green
As they suck the ground
Until there's a worm to be found

I remember that kiss
From the bird
The one you bought
On the cheek

All I can say
Is that when it's green
And you don't care
The birds do
Love you there

[b][u]Changes Through My Head[/b][/u]
Changes through my head
That's all right with me
Though this course will change
My skull will still reach the sea

It kind of makes me feel
Makes me feel like I can breathe
Like my head's not dead
These eyes can see

Like it was before
It will be
On these wings of maybe
Rotten logs will bleed

In the midst I think of you
Like how it should always be
On these wings of nothing
You is all I see

Consider my dreams
Like it was before
It will be
On these wings of maybe
Rotten logs will bleed

Changes through your head
That's all right with me
Though your thoughts are lovely
Your soul will reach heaven's sea
On these wings of maybe
Rotten logs will bleed

In this swamp
There's this bog
Changes through the night
There's something in the air
When you hold it
The air breathes

On these wings of maybe
The air breathes
In this swamp
Like how it should always be
My head's humming?
Rotten logs will bleed

As your head falls
And you go to sleep
When you hold it
The air breathes

With one word
You get what you came for
When you hold it
These eyes can see[/color][/size]

[color=gray][size=1][b][u]Eating A Dream[/b][/u]
Eating tastes like nothing on these teeth
On this tongue: on this dream
Something through this head
Never shall be seen

Brain whispers back
A message perhaps
Messages of this morsel?
This food

It seems when all has died?decayed:
It seems that even then it all changes
When this head's given its ravens
When it's given its loving embraces
Even then:

Even then it will taste like nothing
On these teeth
On this tongue: on this dream
Something through this head
Even then
Never shall be seen

[b][u]Conception of The Current[/b][/u]
Alternating currents
Of some conception:
Some surrender
To this burden:
The truth

The point of a journey
May as you will:
Is not to arrive

Of some conception?this alternate
This current
Deserve is to have:
Purpose is not until the candle burns:
The point of a journey
Is not to return

I set my hand on the machines:
I activate the copper: the metallic
I watch the world go round

To the points of conception:
To laugh in these arms and not to drive:
To say as I will is to arrive

I set my hand on the levers: the machines
I active the alloy and my heart
Through the beats: conception starts

The point of surrender: shall it be anything can happen
These alternating currents of my machine's brain
Hereto this skull holds and whites the vains

To think I'm here: to sail away
The point of this journey: to rock the sands I've craved
These alternating currents of this brain
Memories and thought: sand learned

The point of conception
To say as I will: this is to arrive
The point of this conception is not to breathe:

This machine's idle is when it's alive:
May as you will: for I?
I will not arrive

[b][u]My Mother Earth[/b][/u]
"Love me until I die,"
My Mother Earth said through half a sigh
As the trees rived and lied
As her lips were moving on the sides
She said that until her words
Were blown away
She said that until her words
Were in the leaves and in their hearts
As everything swayed
As it was all
Blown away

With a long pause as she turned
And the trees turned with her and on
She looked up to the sky
Saw nothing of God and heaven
Only saw the black stars that were dotting eleven

With a long pause as she turned
She turned to them with one look
Saying, "Love me until I die," again
As if this time without a sigh
Without the wind riding her eyes
And her sighs
For as it was all
Blown away

She was no longer My Mother Earth
She was something altogether different:
When she spoke this time
The trees did not willow and lie
The wind?oh the wind?the wind did not even speak
It only was nothing as she said those words again

And she looked up to the sky
For it was all
Blown away

[b][u]On Their Lips Shall Be Cold[/b][/u]
When the grave turns
It turns to them all
These skulls and these dead
Memorial of what turns to them all
Memorial of these that fall

It is wholly to be breathing
When Winter is on Their lips
In this summer when flowers are warm
Let us tell them not with flowers which
On Their lips shall be Cold

Let us tell these skulls these dead
These Dogs of War these lips Cold
When the grave turns on a day as to-day
Let us turn it to them all

Let us cry with a laugh in Their arms
Remember what it was like to feel
To wholly be Bullet and Steel
To be hit with this Bullet of God
Let us turn it to them all

There are those that claim: they claim
They know why these graves are stone
On Their lips they say this Cold:
Say this Snow is fell because it was owed
It is wholly to be a Rose in the Winter
To say what is known: and say it like you know
These names etched on stone can tell you
That they died Cold on the lips of Winter?
They will say that they saw the Snow: it was Cold

Only God should know when he took these deaths:
In Summer it is wholly to be a fool to Warm the Cold:
And the Bullet of God is a mighty heaven from the Cold
So they say as they say that these deaths were bold:
Like Blood and Bleed and Cold they fall
So on a day as it is to-day
Let us turn it to them all

On Their lips in this Summer it shall be Cold
For when you remember it is in Gold and Silver and Medals of Purple Hearts
That and those that survived will tell you these Medals are not what is important:
Like Blood and Bleed and Cold these Medals mean nothing without a memory
So on a day as it is to-day
Let us turn it to them all: these Medals don't mean anything at all
Let us Cry these Tears to these stone graves
We can wait until God should tell:
On Their lips a wait like this shall be Cold

The Snow is really pilling up outside these skulls:
You'll never find a flower or a Kiss when all you do
On a day as it is to-day is say Their lips are Warm
And their Blood was like a Summer in Cold:
To say so is to wholly be a fool:
Wholly to be a fool and never find a flower or a Kiss in all you do:
For memory only lives on in these dead skulls and heads:
Those that are alive know that flowers and Kisses aren't bad

But like Blood and Bleed and Cold these mean nothing without a memory
So on a day like to-day
Let us turn it to them all and never forget this memory
Nor forget what it gave[/color][/size]

[color=gray][size=1][b][u]Fool In The Rain[/b][/u]
Fool in the rain;
He dances like I

As the rain falls on puddles
This smile starts a-burning;
It's manical:
Quite discerning

When it rains like this
He finds the puddles
To be wet and unsymmetrical;
As if he can't remember symmetry

This fool in the rain;
The birds take him as shadow
They perch only like rain birds shall;
And they puddle his mind

This drip drip
Is of his find;
The clouds, as they be
Are of a heavy kind[/size][/color]

[color=gray][size=1][b][u]Sweat And Bleed[/b][/u]
When the house is built
From Needles and Pins
Inside its mouth
It shall breathe
In a shout

When this house is built
From Wood and Stone
Outside its mouth
It shall breathe
In a weeping pout

When this house is built
From Blood and Sweat
Inside its mouth and from Every pore
It shall breathe
In and out

With a hammer and an axe
Hack and hack

With a tree and a boulder
Rock and roll till it's all over

With a open cut and an open hand
Take the pail and take your stand

For when this house is built
With a hammer perhaps an axe
Or maybe a tree even a boulder
It is built with an open cut and an open hand
You got to love how it just happens
It's like sand
On my hands

Don't worry you boy
When this house is built
From Blood and Sweat
I can tell you will not regret:
Won't even let the pail evaporate
Nor forget

You got to love how it happens dear boy
It is built with an open cut and an open hand
Take your pail and take your stand
It's time to work your time to hell
Or heaven as God calls it up in his own house


'Cause I got to tell you boy
Needles and Pins will stab your jeans
Fade them out and make you bleed

'Cause I got to tell you boy
Wood and Stone don't last forever
It gets beaten till it's down to ashes and something like leather
Then to hell goes your shelter
And it's like sand
On my hands

By golly boy your house has just started
It's too early in this game
To call your names and make your chips
Too early to even care and let it hit
'Cause I got to tell you boy
In your teens you'll be able to build:
Build till you hit the gold
Some chains of silver and something you can't hold

Now don't jump that far to this game
You're only as many years as your mailbox names
Don't even know what your house is going to be built to
Kind of a shame
'Cause it's all like sand for me
My house ain't holding up 'cause there's a storm
No it ain't anything like clouds and rain
It's more inside my own veins

Don't know if I'll be able to see your house in its glory
And really, it is kind of a shame
But boy it's too late in this game for me
So listen?listen goddangit?listen to me
I's your Grandpa I lived to see
Soon I'm coming on eighty-three
You better Sweat and Bleed
Don't be like any of them others:
Do good deeds

It's more rewarding, you see boy
Sometime you'll realize you don't even care
All's I can say is remember what I said here today:
You better Sweat and Bleed:
It's the right deed

Mayhap there's no heaven;
Mayhap there's no hell:
But do you know it's best to die
And mayhap it's also best to cry
If you can't do all these
Just do one thing:
Love someone till you die

Oh dear boy I can see how strong you'll be
Do something great I see
Write a novel; maybe play soccer and frisbee;
All those good sports that set you free
But don't you forget 'cause it's gonna go like this anyways:
You're going to Sweat and Bleed:
Eventually your house and your whole body's gonna leave
Yes even your Heart and your Spirit and that Tree

Sure is a lovely thing I have to say boy
You're going to do us all proud
Going to come out a freshman:
Get a job, build your house;
Love someone till you die

Sure ain't going to build your house with Sticks
Nor even Stones: 'cause really they don't even break Bones
They do but you'll learn that Pain's something more
No you don't always need band-aids for all those sores
Didn't you hear a frelling word I've said?

All's you got to do boy?
Listen to me, listen?listen to me:
All's you gotta do?it's just one thing:
Gotta Sweat and Bleed

[b][u]Story Forevermore[/b][/u]
A story
At three
Ms. Lander set her coffee
Down on her knee
She read to me

A story
At three
The hobbit: she read it
To me

Bilbo Baggins was just
Realizing that the time
Was wrong

Remember his head humming
Like it had been ran over
And been dark all along

If I were Bilbo Baggins
I wouldn't have said
A thing
As that ring
Touched my hand

I would've thrown it
To the side
It'd only keep a beat
Bad company

A story
At three
Ms. Lander was done
With her coffee
Took it forever off her knee
And The hobbit: she closed it
Finished reading to me

And Bilbo Baggins
Was just realizing
The time was wrong!

Wanted to tell Ms. Lander
That Bilbo was still
In the dark
I could see it
There was something on the side
It was dark

A story
Done
At four
Goes on
Forevermore
Till the book
Is opened forlorn
It is closed
Forlorn

[b][u]Too Late[/b][/u]
"Open your eyes."
Delanie on my lips

"Open your eyes."
God gone nothing sits

Carryon?, carry on
Because nothing really matters
Too late
Delanie off my lips
God gone: nothing sits

Good-bye
I have to face a truth
Good-bye
I don't want to die
So, can you?

"Open your eyes."
My mouth is every
And where
Everywhere

I saw a little bough in the wind
Something saying and it's spared
Let me go?, or is it too cold
Little bough in the wind's
Stone?

Carrion, carrion
Carrion you're dead
I have to face a truth
Blood is in the bough:
On the wind?

Nothing really matters?,
Delanie off my lips
No God and nothing sits

Bough had this
Hand?
Bough had this
Dead?
No I will not let you go
No we will not let you go
Little bough in the wind's
Stone?

My little bough in the wind
Something did say?,
Wasn't it spared?
Too late?
Sends shivers down my spine

"Open your eyes."
My mouth isn't
Isn't breathing
I don't want to die

So you think you can
Lock me?
So you think you can
Love me?
So you think you can
Leave me to die?
So you think?
Too late?

Too late blood is in the bough:
On the wind?
I payed the dues?,
Did you see the moon?
It was blue:
Cold like you

"Open your eyes."
Feel her on my lips?
Delanie I don't want to
Die
Delanie I don't want to?
Cold like you?

I feel?
Fell from the bough:
Delanie caught my hand
Delanie I love you
Did you see the moon?
It was blue:
Cold like you

Look at me
Look at each other
Too late?
I can't breathe

Lives rearrange them:
Bough bleed
For them?
For us?
Delanie I don't want to?
I payed the dues?
Cold like you?
Raining like you?
Delanie I don't want to?
I don't want to die:
I want to live
For you?

Can't
I can't breathe
Delanie I don't want to?
I feel her on my lips?

"Open your eyes."
I don't want to die
Delanie, I don't want
To die
Bough bleed?
Did you see?
My tree?our tree
I want to live
Cold, I can't breathe
You?

You?
Delanie I don't want to?
Die
Delanie I don't want to?
Tomb
Delanie?
I love
You??

[b][u]Facade To The Ground[/b][/u]
Do you ever believe
You're stuck in the sky?

Do you ever believe
You're going to die?

Do you ever believe
You're going to fly?

Do you ever believe
Your blood's going to dry?

Don't you ever believe
Your God's going to try?
Don't you ever believe
You're going to fly?

When your sun is fake
Facade to the ground

When your moon is cold
Freeze to the sky

Like rivers flow
Red water the moon goes
Freeze on the sky
Is cold
Cold

Do you ever die?
Do you ever fly?
Do you ever dry?
Do your feet
Ever walk
Do your hands
Ever crease
Do you veins
Ever cease

Was it the power
Of the belief?
Was it the power
Of the crease?
When your veins
Cease?

Beliefs that the bullets of the
Wicked
Beliefs that the bullets of the
Gods
Beliefs in the bullets of the
Martyr

When your veins cease
When your power
Is belief
When was is about
Blood that dries
When you fly
When you die
When your feet aren't dry
And blood isn't die

Don't you ever freeze
On the moon in the sky
Don't you ever dry
On the sun in the lie
Bask in one thing
Bask in what you are
Freeze it till you can't apart
Until you can't have a heart

Bleed in the bullets of the
Wicked
Bleed in the bullets of the
Gods
Bleed in the bullets of the
Martyr

Bleed until you can't apart
Until you can't have a heart
When you're all done
Freeze it till you can't apart
Until you can't have a heart

When your sun is fake
Facade to the ground
When your moon is cold
Freeze to the sky

When you can't apart
Facade to the ground
Freeze to the sky
Love everything in death
And don't ask why

[b][u]Dandelion 'Lion 'Lion[/b][/u]
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Dandelion
Cant stop denyin' 'nyin'
Denying

Oh Dandelion you can't stop
Denyin' 'nyin' 'nyin'
Denying

I sure haven't been lyin' lyin'
Lying
When I tell you it's true true
True

Down on your hair
Like nothin' and everywhere
When I tell you
I care

Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Dandelion
Can't stop denyin' 'nyin'
Denying

Never thought I'd see your face
Didn't think you'd be on this head
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Your breath's been in
My ear
Can't stop thinkin' and wondering
What's to fear

Down on your hair
Like nothin' and everywhere
When I tell you
I care

Dandelion 'lion 'lion
There's this feeling I get
When I can't sleep and the wind's not
Right
Can't stop denyin' 'nyin'
Denying
When I can't sleep and the wind's not
Right
When you can't see sun
Night sure's bright

I can see you growin' cold in the sun
Can see you breathin' in
My ear
Somethin' grey
No yello' like I hear
Can't stop thinkin' and wonderin'
What's to fear

Oh Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Oh when the wind blows?
When the wind blows you know
Dandelion 'lion when the wind blows?
You know
'Specially when it's cold

You're somethin' grey in the cold
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
No more yello' like I hear
In my ear
Growin' frail like
Crumblin' stone
Everthing so cold

Want to hold you close
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Want to hold you close
Everything so cold
Want to hold you close

My head's hummin'?
It won't stop
Everything so cold
It crumblin' like stone

And I can see you're growin' grey in the sun
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
See you growin' cold
In the sun
Growin' grey
Crubmlin' like stone

On them grassy fields
Of last childhood's feel
On them cold rocks of mouth
Of last childhood's exhumin'
I can feel you an' it's quite
Movin'

Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Growin' grey on them
Grassy fields
On them cold rocks of mouth
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Don't know what to call this
Growin' grey on them
Grassy fields
Got somethin' to tell
I can feel you an' it's quite
Movin'

Love 'ove 'ove you
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
You dandelion 'lion 'lion
In the wind

Want to hold you close
In the wind 'til there's nothin' more
On them grassy fields
Want to hold you close
In the wind 'til there's nothin' more
On them cold rocks of mouth
Everything so cold
Everything so cold

Growin' grey
Crumblin' like stone
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Everything so cold
Got to tell you
An' you whisperin'
In my ear
Let me tell you
You growin' grey
With fear
Growin' gray
With stone

Stone
On your fingers
An' in your mind
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Sweet an' stone
Don't go together
They don't go together
Got to tell you
They don't go together
Taste bitter together

Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Always?you always been sweet
Been yello' an' so beautiful as sweet
An' Dandelion 'lion 'lion
People been pullin' your beauty?your yello'
Been pullin' it an' pullin' it 'til you not yello'

Got to tell you
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
You always been sweet
Been yello' an' so beautiful as sweet
An' I just gotta tell you
It ain't
Just ain't right

You growin' grey
With stone
Growin' grey
An' you pull back
'Til you're alone
Pull back
With stone

You ain't been throwin'
No you haven't even been
Goin'
Oh Dandelion 'lion 'lion
You always and are sweet
Been so yello' an' so sweet
Want to tell you 'til I can't speak
But you growin' grey
With stone
An' I just gotta tell you
It ain't
It just ain't right

Been thinkin' 'bout this
An' it's so strange
Like I know you
An' it's so strange
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
Been thinkin' 'bout this
You always been
Sweet

Love 'ove 'ove you
An' I just gotta tell you
Dandelion 'lion 'lion
You growin' grey
With stone
'Til you're alone
An' it just ain't right
You meant to be sweet
An' I wanna tell you?
Tell you 'til I can't speak
I love 'ove 'ove you
An' you always been
Sweet

I wanna hold you in my arms
Wanna hold you 'til there's nothin' more
'Til you ain't growin' grey with stone
'Til you ain't alone

Dandelion 'lion 'lion
I wanna hold you in my arms
'Til you ain't growin' grey with stone
'Til you ain't alone
An' I won't let you go
Everything so cold
An' I won't let you go
Everything so cold
An' I won't?no I won't
Let you go

[b][u]senseof kisses[/b][/u]
will i eversee a
parabola?

when you cessation;
senseof kisses:
'sphyxiation
i see the roses' elation:
parabola;cold it says
belated

cold it says to me;sovery lovely
if i eversee a
parabola
it willnot matter
to me

for when you cessation;
senseof kisses:
it willnot matter
to me
for since feelings comefirst;
i won'tsee:won'tbreathe
all i have: as your hands
touch me; cessation these eyes;
these senseof kisses willnot even
matter to me:deep down in
my brainthatbreathes;
i want i will see

breathing in i cessation;
senseof kisses:
'sphyxiation
to love you in my arms
so lives are gone
i want i will see
thesesenses of kisses:
my brainthatbreathes
when flowers parabola:they leave
greenblood is sensation;bleed

[b][u]on the highway[/b][/u]
i drive
on the highway
saying something:
"An' he don't know why"

hold on for one more
day
i drive
on the highway

my lights i fixed
yesterday
though he say::
"Light ain't so great"
fixed it
anyway

i drive(liketheotherday)to her house
and wish
i could stay
park on the side
of the highway and i tilt
my hat
and i give my car a tap
though he say:
"Do you really love her; you're just going to die
anyway"

i can cry:dear god can i mope
at her house i just can't elope
tell her i love her:then she spoke:
"Hun, you sure ain't ever gonna
get the second base, even with a rope"

i tell her everdaythat i want to elope
as i said i can cry:dear god can i mope
i usually leave till i can't hope
leave her and she say:
"Bye hun, love you
can't elope today"

i cry tears when i get headed
on the highway
and i just drive the tears
away

back in my car
he say:
"We should call it a day
today"

by this time i collect myself
and itell him the day neverends
maybe same stuff
different day
but you got to love it
on the highway

that's when we
call it
the day

day mightbe young
but what the hey
we all die young anyway

[b][u]Jack Death[/b][/u]
what a ploy what a play;
(when the grass is grain
move then say , say dazed
forgiven? forgotten? splay?)
i stand i say:don't loveme;
it'll all fall away

breathe now and today
(i love to hate and love this sway
build me a house, and build me a
stairway)
give me this redheart and kissesofyours;
i'll give you forlornkissesofhorns

what a wight what a crave;
i tire and in my houses' stay
build my stair and giveme a way
it'll all fall away, anyway

i need to breathe now and today
when it's all a plot what a play;
it'll all fall away
i need something:a stairway
not heaven not hell not a new life

i need jack death
he knows me and he often tastes
my let:even gives me,as it may,
silhouettes
i need to taste this wine taste this fret:give me
jack
the drink of death

[b][u]Apparition Kisses[/b][/u]
apparition haunting asphixate:
those words i would say;
i'd share with you,'pparition,
i'd give you me in time just for
a taste of
your wine

apparition i'd smile my smile
my fake smile that doesn't matter
only says defeat
i'd tell you how it haunts me:
those thoughts i say,and you tell me:
only these stark nothings though;
leaves and branches
and twigs and bones

cold as i build my snowman
till you and i are alone
wish it was snowing
but apparition it's summer
i can't feel it though it only rains;
i think i have something:a drink
for all the pains

a kiss on her even though she's gone
kisses ofsense always kisson:
is love yours:a cessation you too
put on?
good to know you:
it's good you like song

i can't wait to meet you,hear the way
cause i am sick of these stark nothings;
these hands and smiles
and crushes and love-miles
still love her even though
i never met her smile

just tell me one thing apparition;
one thing that's as small as my pandora's hope
small as love's boxofkisses that spoke
tell me these hands and these smiles
leaves and branches:

apparition,will i still love her
even though i never met her smile?
i knew you as one couldn't tell me;
i love her:these hands and smiles
twigs and bones
it's a puddle-puddle
as i walk
a kiss on her even though she's gone;
it's good to know you:
good you like love's song

[b][u]breathein[/b][/u]
baby
in
these arms
breathingin is like
losing aworried
mind

to love
in time

close this door
of when:
just breathein
again
the sunsets
lady:by all flowers
i swear

in these arms
breathein
again
isn't the light
ofthe sun
beautiful?

baby
in
these arms
sunsets don't mean much
to kisshere,baby,in these arms
i tell you
in these arms
breathein
close this door
of when;

just breathein
again

[b][u]of course dear sleep[/b][/u]
of course
dear sleep
i love you
and keep

when
tears don't touch
when
breatheingin is hardtolove
of course
dear sleep
i love you
and keep

hush nowhush
soft pillow
pillow
i love you
and keep

o baby
when
tears don't touch
and roses aren't daffodils
hush nowhush
tears don't haveto touch;
on thisbed i lie

if you want to
i can sleep
on thisbed i lie

of course
dear sleep
i love you
and keep

softpillow you
brush
myhair
hush nowhush
on thisbed i lie

of course
dear sleep
i love you
and keep
if you want to
i can sleep

hush nowhush
tears don't haveto
touch

o lady
i love you softpillow
you brush

i wanted to
cry nowhush
i love you softpillow
you brush

nowhush
[/color][/size]

[size=1][b][u]Luckey You[/b][/u]
Luckey you luckey you
Got a coin and a quarter
Worth ninety and love for two
Numismatic and ain't it through


I saw you I saw you
Luckey luckey luckey you
Saw the quarter go in the arm-man
Saw worth ninety and love for two saw it grew
Now it's worth a heed of gold
And I ain't got nothing like that
So you might as well know


By darlin' luckey you
Got a pricless and a hand
You know luckey you
You know what we have to do
Numismatic and translucent it goes through
And ain't it true
Luckey luckey you

[b][u]the sands of day[/b][/u]
when i was but on (the sands of day)
skies were (andthat'sallihavetosay)

when i was conceived (on the sands ofday)
i didn't seegod but i was given baptism (to my father's dismay)
jehovah's witness he was (and i maysay is today)

so whereis this god (for theyall see him theysay)
i shallgo tohell when even i was but on (thesands ofday)
breaths conceited (my handbleeds,nay)

my hand bleeds (touch the vein)
whereis god what is it hegave (love forflowers isnot thesame)
taste is bitter onthesesands (of clay)
i wasbut cellsandzygotes (but love forflowers isnot thesame)
repeat isashuman as godandhisname (for ifheis then god and i are ofthesame)

i was but here (on these sands ofday)
somehowand way (i havegone astray)
my breath;myway ,theseflowers andbreath andearth (that hegave)
my loveforflowers isnot thesame (andthatisall ihavetosay)
loveme lady ihave somuch togive
for when i was but on (the sandsof day)
somehow,someway ilovedyouthen (on the sandsofday)
andthatis allihavetosay

[b][u]rainoftrees[/b][/u]
i was just at a walk
when puddles dripped and i puddled
at thought

standing on pavement and slippery rainoftrees
learned it's hard to forgettheleaves
hard to forgetheleaves

dear granpda,gravel gets wet from
standing on pavement and slippery rainoftrees
and when thelightning sings
on that gravel it's hard to forgettheleaves

i hope youhave just a walk
and it puddles and drips
as your lips

i hope youhave just a walk
that fathers love and haveto talk

dear grandpa,stand on thatpavement wet from rainoftrees
be thefather
the one you'll alwaysbe

[b][u]forhuman[/b][/u]
there's a knife in his hand
like a sword his mindstands
as it is as it will
things shall always be the same
no matter what is killed or what is
blamed

take this knife in his hand
like a sword swing it,bleed it likeman
for human is what stands

forhuman i kissyourmouth
tongues,breaths, take your arm
this stress
tale this knife in his hand
like a sword he doesn't want whathenever had anymore
swing it,bleed it likeman
head dromes humming marionettes gone
mad

forhuman ikissyourmouth
tongues,breaths, this knife
in hishand

all ihave is the sign
onthewall
it has forhuman written,dripping,
i can hear
calls

this stress this
stress
mentalimpress marionettes gone
thewall has forhuman written,dripping,
i can hear evenyou call
take this knife take this hand
kissyourmouth kissyoursteel
i lovehate and lovehate thisfeel

forhuman thisfeel ilovehate
i can hear evenyou call
kissingyourmouth kissingyoursteel
lovehate i want to die
kill

take this knife in his hand
marionette i love you,you moveon
myhand lovehate thewall calls
head drome forhuman
the truthwill haunt you for
long

this hand this stress
marionette take this knife from hishand
forhuman
forhuman bleediwant todie
i feel feel head drome on
ikissyourmouth ikissyourbreath
bloodbleedbreathe lovehate
this feel
idon'twant what idon'twant when
this feel feel
lovehate i wantto die kissingyourmouth
kissingyoursteel
just hitmewith the knife
i don't havereason
forman kissingyourmouth kissingyoursteel
lovehate i lovehate this feel
tobe dead tonot feel
take this knife takethis hand
thewall, for human, my mind iswhatstands
dripping,eschew this cold call
i hear evenyou moanthefall

the truthwill haunt for too long
marionette take this knife from hishand
marionette don'tbe don'tbe
mad
take this knife in hishand
dripping,puddling, count thehourglass
and lovehate thesand

[b][u]et tu love[/b][/u]
et tu et tu et tu?
what's done is done (what was][said)?
et tu love (like far and breathe) [mist is bleed]

et tu et tu et tu et tu?
i heard (voices) when he (i) was {[done]}?
[what was (said)]? et tu good night
(far and wee) 'there was "wind" [cold [like death

hither (to) just (breathe) et tu [like death
{es} is [i heard] done et tu love
et tu love, what's done [is done];?
deus [ex] machin(a) [like death
what [blood]? is (blood)?
et tu tu et tu et tu?
et tu
love

[b][u]skeletons that sing to me[/b][/u]
skeletons (that sing) to me
narrow eyes (still skin that maggots) bleed
slap! slap! (broke the wall) did he?
[i believe (believe)] god i want to (believe)

[i breathe (breathe)]?skeletons haunt (they see)
slap! slap! (not as strong (you see])
how (much) does it hurt you (me){i want to believe}

"i raised my son (me) to believe; in my (eyes) house he must (believe) believe"
(skeletons) angels (that sing) [slap! slap! what a sting]
have you (me) ever turned (wanted) to dust? (like still skin that maggots)?
(i raised him [i want to--]believe) flaky (maggot skin) bleed;
skeletons (help me skulls) [i breathe (breathe)} is it meant (slap! slap! the sting)?
you (do [not]) perceive (me) [what maggot skin be]
[believe (i don't) believe]

slap! slap! (face the [broke the (wall)]?
you (i) not the son (me) take the bleed
[remember tom left (long ago) in his truck}in his truck away from the trees (like maggots that believe)
is love [isn't] (i don't) to believe?

he (awakes) in another place (head)
[confirmed] turned away (no cross to [suffer] he])
i saw (blind) [all the way] skeletons (they sing)
just little (me) (so carefree) [easy to [][believe]

hit (remember?) the wall [broke it away)
lie awake (but asleep) in another place [slap! slap! fall over and see]
grown up (me) [not little] [not carefree]
lighter this time [less slap!] (can you believe?)

just (bleed) go on [less still maggots slap! slap! skins]
to not [let me} let (me) believe [in what i say]
god (they say) [those skeletons under ground [where the maggots skin} (they sing)
just (bleed) go on (and [breathe])

[b][u]The Claims[/b][/u]
The voices and the moans
Expletive loves and expletive drones
Exasperation in the veins
Like haunting mud of never ever change

To yammer is to chisel with a skin
Gravel turns your hand in salty pools of rain
Ever to stay and ever to say
That is what voices change

In this head in this blood
This hand says leave it be
And there's a whisper?
Whisper in the leaves
Drenched skin that prints this hand
The leaves say the wilt will come
Gone and long and never ever
The wilt shall come

To these words to these memoirs
To have angel and to have wing
Yammer and yammer and to be speaking
On these hands and in this far
To have reason that is what voices change
And to take this hand
Like haunting mud of never ever change
Is to have what when there is say
In the garden of what is and what is same

There these words shall speak a tomb
For what and not and what's too soon
Under dirt they shall find the moan?
The voices will bleed their home
That is when conception will brush it all
Away to any kind and any way
And then to their voice they will wave
Speaking silently and close with wide skulls in eyes
Speaking ever to stay and ever to say
To finally learn that words are stone in stakes

And the words shall bleed from them like nevermore
Incessant and smiley glad-hands that whisper in the leaves
This hand says leave it be
For it shall be

When the last hand is placed on mouth
Death-numb without even a cat's eye to doubt
The dogs shall have their meat
They will utter their single word of singled tang
Defeat will claim like never there was a claim
Like haunting mud of never ever change
In the garden?
The garden of what is and what is the same

[b][u]over the hills and far away[/b][/u]
come from thesands ofwater
where the trees are green
and the ocean seas
my river isyour overlord

i havelong wingsof fish
on my wing i wing a wish

i come from thesands ofwater in a swish
and can't youcatch mywing and come my way
will you wing a wish on the fish
please tell them to stay
tell them to stay
sandsofwater and seas don't need a bay
tell them to stay

but overthehills and faraway
i still tell them and all i can do
with a wave like trees and a hand that wings
is tell them what happens but by then
they are far and wee

they turn from my river of treesgreen
and the ocean seas

i am the seagull overlord
and many wings i wing a wish
many fish i wish
but overthehills and faraway
they turn away

[b][u]Whale Bones[/b][/u]
She's my fave
Could tell you
She's in

A pet at my side
Washed over the
Sword-storm for a ride
So far and gone
But could tell you
She's in

I'll meet her
Over there?

Aft' the steel-strikes,
O'er the green,
Where, o'er sea
Th' whalebone sings

Could tell you
Sure as the waves
I'll meet 'er
An' undress with her
In the sea

O alas, alas?
I have many
Steel-strikes
To sting on
Till the whalebone
Sings

O'er seas
I write her letters
Of th' many steel-strikes
And stings

Alas, alas?
Washed over the
Sword-storm for a ride
After th' steel-strikes,
And yes, o'er seas,
I'll meet her
An' the whalebones
Shall sing[/size]

[Corey]

I, um.... like them all.
Each and everyone of them.
Yes.
All of them.

Especially that last one. I love the references to the sea. The sea has always held a feeling of danger to me. Perhaps that's why I identify with the more seductive side of this poem.

[Mitch]

[size=1][b][u]A Wish of Even Words[/b][/u]
I walk in the nursing home
Like I told myself I wouldn't
And said, wishing, "Never again."
For what's done is done
Even words, strong as they are
Don't have a powerful enough gun

Oxygen flows to her mouth
Sounding as Darth Vader as it resounds
I turn to your face, the wrinkles, the age
Something covered up with ashes and smokeaways
"Why," I ask, "must things go this way?"

And you turn to me, your voice so gone
The hiss hitting the words on
"We're born only to die," you say, "and this is the choice
"I have paved." Then you tell me, still as steel,
Nothing matters anyways.

I remember you kissing flowers with your love
And that fish you caught, the one that was so big
That died alone, cold, on the shore never to live
The look in your eyes like the cancer that came
It said to me a hypnotize. But still you smoked the same.
Muttering under your breath, "Nothing matters anyways."

Oxygen flows to her mouth
One day I can imagine the same for you
Like that fish caught, the one that was so big
Like you and your smile, the way you walked away
In the smoke I see you fade
Sad smile-glad wisps that claim

On your death the hissing words
Will hit on

That something covered up in those ashes and smokeaways
Those endless puffs that went to your lungs and veins
That murky, so very sour
Hiss and hiss, and then, "Nothing matters anyways."
As the heart beats, dies, and falls to sway
Uttered, so unfair, to me and you like the fish
That died, alone, on the bay
Flowers, so cold without your kiss, wilting to nothing, away
In the smoke
I see you fade[/size]