Poetry

[SigmaChiCard]

I know we've got a few poets around here, so I wanted to start this up...there's a really old one somewhat like this, but I want a new one, so I'm mkaing it....hope you head GC people don't mind.

Here's mine....Every poet out there needs to contribute.
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The Stars of My Life

“ Rhyme without reason
Brings repercussions
En routes hail storms
Through your Soul form
Chilling the ventricles
Housing the desires
Of your soul

My rhyme was to the beat
Of treason
Two Seasons
Found me meandering
About the stars
Confusing Venus for Mars

Mistaking my past for my future

When I should have been
Concerning myself with now

Though you’re with me
At the present time
Via the wonders of my mind
And my imagination
I’m living life
Loving a ghost
A transfigurant recreation
Of love’s fickle fancy

Mistaking my past for my future?

Nothing is ever SO certain
Except that to me
You are a present
And that

Love lines
Last life times
And stars shine
In your eyes
Quixotic celestial skies

Like an infinite abyss
Of mystery

Combed with beauty
Stealthily piercing my person
Collecting the contents of my soul

When I look into the sky
I see what comprises me
That I exist in uncertainty

But certainly
My future yields a path
That merges with your own
Let it be known
That I see you
As my Soul mate

My sole fate
Is to be with you forever
And a week
There’s nothing more to life
I seek
You are my every reason
Yes,
You are my entire train of thought
The contentment I’ve sought
I’ve found
In your eyes

Those quixotic celestial skies. ”

[SigmaChiCard]

a 2nd one.

Apollo 86

“ She Sits Across From Me
As We Recite Our Life Stories
Into Two Streams Of Drifting Smoke

Like Star Dust
Traveling Through Space

Always Stumbling
Always Falling

Up

Like It's All Fucked-Up

Twirling Together
Unifying As A Cyclone
Unicycling It's Way Around

All Fucked-Up

Maybe That's Why They Came Together
It's A Drunken Hook-Up

Maybe
It's A Sign
Damn, I Wish I Had My Magic Eight Ball
I Could Ask If It's A Sign
Then I Could Assign To Myself
Plans For My Future
But Instead I'm Havin' To Try To Figure Her Out
And She's So Damn Vacant
Or Maybe Just Well-Hidden

I Explore this Maybe-Vacancy Through Her Eyes
Using All My Fuel To Get Here
Cause Now That I'm Here
I Need It No Longer
So I Release The Tank
And In A Minute It's Gone

But Where Did It Go?
If There Was Nothing Else Out Here
I'd Still Be Able To See It,
Right?

So This MuthaFucka Ain't Vacant
And Now Parts Of Me
Are Hiding Behind Hidden Parts Of Her
Playing Team Hide-And-Go-Seek

Me Against Her
And Me

Now I Wanna Go Home
Cause Everybody's Gotta Go Back To Home Base Sometime
But I Can't
They Musta Put An Obstacle In My Way
So That They'd Get Back First

Then She And I would Have To Switch Partners
And I'd Have To Start All Over
Looking For Myself
With Someone Else.
Maybe After Time I'd Find Myself
With Someone Else
And I Would Win
But Would I Really Be Winning At All?
Cause The Other Part Of Me
Would Be Looking Just As I'd Been Looking
And So Would She
Be Looking

And We'd Always Be Traveling On Anti-Parallel Paths
On Roadway's, The Audobon Most Likely
Always Going Straight Ahead
Quickly
The Way We Should Go

Getting Further And Further Away From Each Other
And Getting Further And Further Away From Each Other

Man, I Don't Wanna Search My Whole Life
But Shit, I Don't Wanna Hide My Whole Life Either
Not Behind Any Woman
Not Behind Any Woman Who Is Hiding From Me

I Fall Out Of That Space Between Her Ears,
That Not-So-Vacant Space Behind Her Face,
In The Form Of A Tear
Although Maybe It Was Just A Damp Memory
Like One of Those Real Sad Rainy Days
With No Romantic Qualities At All
Cause I Mean

The Only Reason I Fell
Is Cause She Quit Making Room For Me
Kid, I Was Holdin On Like A MuthaFucka
If I'd Seen It Comin'
I Woulda Grabbed My Ropes
And Hooks
I Woulda Been Hookin All Over Tha Place
For Stability
Like All Her Friends Do

But Fuck It
I Fell

But Got A Present When I Hit
As Compensation
Cause I Hit Hard

My Present Was The Present
My Present Was Now
These Words I Write Are Presents
As These Words I Write Re present
Me
Now

Cause B4 When I Looked Into The Future
I saw A3 Written Backwards
I Was Lookin' Tha Wrong Way

My Future Was The Past Reflected
My Future was The Past Refracted
My Future Is The Present, Past Subtracted

And I know My Now Has No Worries
Cause My Tomorrow Reflected
Over My Yesterday
Gives Me A Much Clearer Screen
With Which To Watch My Now

And That Makes Me
Very
Fuckin'
Happy. ”

[damasa]

Here are a few of my own:

A Box

We are all caged animals,
frightened and trapped,
in a tight cold box;
in a dark box.

Hate and violence
graffitied on the walls.
Little air holes for some escape,
and some clean air.

Giant glaring eyes,
jealous,
deep, insensitive stares,
peek in and watch us.

The box is opened,
we fill it up,
and anger and hate
take a form

It creeps over the edges
and smiles with a hatred grin
it quits smiling
and soaks into our heads.

Hate in the mind.
How far will you take it?
How far will it go.

So we act like animals,
barred in this world,
caged with violence,
sharing crowds; and overcrowded party.

So let's all party.
Throw around some words,
and make some people cry,
let the hatred once again come alive.

Actually, I will leave it at that for now..

[SigmaChiCard]

so damasa & I are the lone poetry-composers? I sincerely doubt that....I least I sincerely hope not. We stand before you exposed, allowing you into our heart's mind....return the favor...

[pbpck]

I do believe it is out of sheer intimidation that none have posted. One may fear paling in comparison to such talent.

[KSig RC]

OK, I'll bite - and I'll drop a couple more when I get home

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Have we no shame?
Could it be, that trapped inside that brain you'll come to find that thing that we all feared you wouldn't,
even as I felt you as you be?

As the saying goes -
Fool me once, shame on me - fool me twice, well, to be perfectly honest I knew better anyway-
No joy in filling in the rest.

Abide well this,
See everything that may be - only when you have found that which makes you less, can you find that
which ultimately makes you free.

And I shall take it to the banal,
but make it seem so far from coarse, or perhaps I just say that to feel better - but honestly,
don't forget the horse you rode in on.

[Senusret I]

stab
(March 7, 2001)

pierce my flesh with the shards of your broken promises
slash at my heart with the blades of your l’s
look
listen
like
love
club me with the heaviness of your lies
never, ever, forever
and when you’ve done all that
nail my coffin shut with the dots in your i’s

i
am not the one

i
am not the one

you
might love me with all you got
but what you got is not enough
i cannot
live like this
betrayal with a kiss
betrayal with your lips
i could wonder whether you loved my
body before you loved my mind
but it doesn’t matter
as the body was given up by the mind
in exchange for love
but the mind doesn’t understand
even after countless experiences
that i can’t make you love me
with my body
because my body
cant keep you

you
say you love me with all you got
but what you got just ain’t enough for me
because i have inhaled men who promised me more
and i have been with men who done me better
maybe i got entranced by your eyes
enthralled by your lies
and by the music i was hypnotized
but i hope you don’t love me because
i ate you out the best
and i hope you don’t love me because
you might get a poem written about you
and i’m not saying i’m stronger than you but
you don’t have to worry about my blood on your hands

so
pierce my flesh with the shards of your broken promises
slash at my heart with the blades of your l’s
look
listen
like
love
club me with the heaviness of your lies
never, ever, forever
and when you’ve done all that
nail my coffin shut with the dots in your i’s

i
am not the one

i
am not the one

i
must now love you with all i got left
because all i got is the words you left me
i create my weapons
with those words
i exact my revenge
with those phrases
i lure you into the land mines of my mind
and your world evaporates into nothingness
because you forgot and slipped on my simile
and i exchange your body for your mind
because i gave up my body for your mind
but it doesn’t matter
that the mind doesn’t understand
because now
i have no body
now i have no mind
i am verse
and verse needs but a voice

you
cannot love me with all you got
because all you got is the shadow of a fraction of
what you think love is
and that for damn sure ain’t enough
just as my body wasn’t enough
to capture your mind
and your mind wasn’t enough
to tame my verse
and my verse still can’t change your lies
and i hope you don’t remember me
because i wrote a poem about you
and i hope this doesn’t make you love me
remember me because i was the voice
the unspoken word that made you say
“i wonder what he’s doing now”

so
pierce my flesh with the shards of your broken promises
slash at my heart with the blades of your l’s
look
listen
like
love
club me with the heaviness of your lies
never, ever, forever
and when you’ve done all that
nail my coffin shut with the dots in your i’s

i
am not the one

i
am not the one

[Senusret I]

THE FOLLOWING POEM IS RATED R. NO CHILDREN UNDER SEVENTEEN WITHOUT A PARENT OR GUARDIAN

black light fandango
(March 28, 2001)

dear sir and ma’am:
under the black light everything felt right
bet you wished it could have lasted all night
three parts and three hearts and no false starts on that night
(this is no explication but a dedication to him and her and me)
three thirsty souls in the center of a sea
of bodies like two sharks we encircled her
obeying the Miami bass we grinded and freaked and grinded and freaked
like ticking and tocking like a grandfather you’d been clocking
like the sucking and fucking that you wished you were doing
her and me at the same time so when we came together (to dance)
you got a snake in your hips and started to prance
because you’d never been in a circle of three degrees
a circle of amour but you didn’t know what was in store
it was just a fucking party and we were just freaking this girl
this girl was the last one on earth because she gave me my first hard on in years
and i had no fears, even if “oh, shit! what if I am straight?”
through the stench of cigarettes and sweat, i still made you and her wet
we encircled her and you touched my arm and i touched your hand
and suddenly we three understand that if ever something like this was to happen
it could only be her, you, and me and only that night
and the crowd disappears around us and all that’s left is the black light
stranding us in the inky, infinite sea - i just see her, you, and me
i touch you, you touch me, we touch she but
does she even need to be there for you to know that I am aware
of the erectile function touching our conjunction
we are fucking each other through her but
does she feel pricked, does she ride it, does she feel like a queen
inspiring the manhood of two to arise in between
you cannot look me in the eyes because you know that i have caused this show
we each had someone else but they didn’t know
that she was the only woman that could make me think twice
and i was the only man that could make you think twice
but twice plus twice is nice only when its thrice
we were live we were hype we were the essence of sex
raw energy bubbling under skin threatening to explode
as the fluid crowd evaporated
you and you and i, he and she and me, girl and guy and guy
we are free
love: me

[SigmaChiCard]

Damn son that shit was brilliant

And the uncontested winner is: dardenr

[Senusret I]

Thanks, I try!

Sent you a PM.

[Optimist Prime]

I hope you guys have copyrights. It would be easy for some one to plagarize on the web. I liked them all.