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Showing posts with label street poetry. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Sugar Baby
Sugar baby
plaything for daddy
showers her in money
she’s his honey
Fulfills her lifestyle
widens his smile
hugs and kisses
never his mrs.
he’s paying her college fees
she’s often on her knees
has a child to feed
gives her what she needs
Is it prostitution?
or business transaction
Is either getting hurt
is it all just sport
Sugar is nice
to life adds spice
but too much can be bad for you
I hope their actions they don’t rue
by Susan O'Reilly
http://hellopoetry.com/-susan-oreilly/
Sunday, May 5, 2013
A World of Lost Minds
The morning sun had set
now the night would beget
the sparkling stars that shine
speaking to this heart of mine
now the night would beget
the sparkling stars that shine
speaking to this heart of mine
Where art thou Lord of dreams
I watch the ethereal streams of
haunted souls go by bringing
tears to my eyes for all of their
needs
I watch the ethereal streams of
haunted souls go by bringing
tears to my eyes for all of their
needs
For I am not content until I get
consent to enter the depths of
discernment to learn the measure
of your design so that you may
define my deeds
consent to enter the depths of
discernment to learn the measure
of your design so that you may
define my deeds
The systems of the world are meeting
manic minds scheming to lay waste
causing hell in haste, as the liars who
live in lairs , can't get away from the
truths they fear, minds now lost
manic minds scheming to lay waste
causing hell in haste, as the liars who
live in lairs , can't get away from the
truths they fear, minds now lost
At what cost, the ignorant and numb
rely on the common sense of some
to save them from, the trials that lie
before us hoping to stem the evil course,
while they just find a place to play
rely on the common sense of some
to save them from, the trials that lie
before us hoping to stem the evil course,
while they just find a place to play
Must the past be repeated, by the
indifferent who will retreat, allowing
things to pass them by, without even
trying to understand that our
nightmares have become a reality
indifferent who will retreat, allowing
things to pass them by, without even
trying to understand that our
nightmares have become a reality
by E T Waldron
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Hidden Mystery
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is but a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.In the deepest depths of you and me
In the deepest depths of we
Lies the most beautiful jewel
Shining forth eternally
Within that precious jewel
Within that priceless piece of we
Lies a time beyond all time
Lies a place beyond all space
Within that sacred source of radiance
Lies a love beyond all love
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Ever so patiently
Waiting for you, waiting for me
Waiting patiently for all to see
The beauty that is you inside of me
The beauty that is me inside of thee
In the deepest depths of you and me
In the deepest depths of we
Lies the love and wisdom
Of all Eternity
By Fred Burks
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The Journey of Life
Walkin along the street,weary and down.
Unhappy at heart,my face had a frown.
The path was long,but i had to walk,
Lost in the world and no one to talk.
Suddenly there was a sound,
That was familiar to my ears
With an urge to hear it,
I had waited for years.
Seated on your bike,
You passed by my side.
My heart skipped a beat,
And I silently cried.
The time had stopped,
My eyes were wet.
Flashing came the thoughts,
Which i wanted to forget.
Two long years without your sight,
I had faced with all my might,
Oh God!!So long is this night,
And a battle so difficult to fight.
But never lose hopeis my belief,
Your thought is my greatest relief.
So true,a double edged knife,
Oh friend,that is the journey of life…….
A Bikers Prayer
May the sun rise in front of me.
May the rain fall behind me and the wind follow me.
May the angels of my brothers and sisters who have gone before me
Guard my travels,
For they know the perils of the road ahead of me.
Keep me safe through the rough city streets
On my way to the land of the swirling turns and rolling hills.
Let the turning colors of fall keep me warm.
Let the eagle guide me to the mountain tops.
Let the Moon's light guide me through the night.
May my tires not fail me, nor my engine grow old.
May my bike draw life from the streams I pass.
Keep my seat soft and my mind sharp.
Let the air of spring breathe life into my soul,
To journey to another adventure
Beside my brothers and sisters.
Monday, January 7, 2013
I Told Myself
I stand alone
I told myself that life
With all its misgivings
Had much to offer, I struggled
I wept into my hands,
Feeling the cold winds
Of change and transition blow
I equivocated, whispering
Sweet nothings to myself
To carry on.
To believe in myself.
To embrace independence.
Mayhaps it was never enough.
No matter who told me that
It would be alright,
That I was smart and kind
That I was special
I never believed a word.
Whispering those same words
I tremble violently with
Uncertainty and fear.
I stood alone and felt helpless
I braced against my desire
To renounce the courage I had felt
Remembering how I felt alive again
Knowing that I was worth it
Enough to believe in
Enough to hold on to
Having faith in what I will become.
I cannot stand behind the safety
Of what is familiar and comfortable.
I feel empty and torn, standing alone
But I will fill that void
With my hopes and dreams
And know that I am strong.
...for everything.
by ♪ Erica ♪
http://ericawonderswhy.livejournal.com/
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Voice Of An Angel
I commited so much crime,
It was pretty much like a flood...
And then one day i shot the wrong way
And I shed an innocent person's blood...
Now, the cops had me surrounded
There was nowhere I could go...
So, I threw down my gun
And got on the ground real low...
Well, they cuffed me and they stuffed me,
And then they hauled me away...
And they locked me in an ice cold cell
Until my trial day...
Now, the courts proved I was a terrible person,
You see...
So, the jury found me guilty
And the judge threw the book at me...
The sentence I received was harsh,
he gave me twenty-five to life...
I knew right then and there,
I've lost my children and my wife...
So, from that moment on
It seemed like all I could do was cry...
Because everything I love I've lost
And I just wanted to die...
Then I heard this voice
Ask me why I'm falling apart...
I said, because I'm lost and alone,
There's emptiness in my heart...
This voice said, If I accept Jesus as my savior,
Then he will come to be...
The one who fills my heart with love
And truly sets me free..
So, I listened to this voice
And I did everything just right...
And before I fell asleep
The Lord came to me that night...
And now that he has set me free
And helped lift me from my hell...
I owe a thanks
To the voice of an angel in my cell...
by Robert A. Vorce aka Tony
(written at OSP - Oregon State Penitentiary - 2001)
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Monday, April 16, 2012
You, Therefore
—for Robert Philen
You are like me, you will die too, but not today:
you, incommensurate, therefore the hours shine:
if I say to you “To you I say,” you have not been
set to music, or broadcast live on the ghost
radio, may never be an oil painting or
Old Master’s charcoal sketch: you are
a concordance of person, number, voice,
and place, strawberries spread through your name
as if it were budding shrubs, how you remind me
of some spring, the waters as cool and clear
(late rain clings to your leaves, shaken by light wind),
which is where you occur in grassy moonlight:
and you are a lily, and aster, white trillium
or viburnum, by all rights mine, white star
in the meadow sky, the snow still arriving
from its earthwards journeys, here where there is
no snow (I dreamed the snow was you,
where there was snow), you are my right,
have come to be my night (your body takes on
the dimensions of sleep, the shape of sleep
becomes you): and you fall from the sky
with several flowers, words spill from your mouth
in waves, your lips taste like the sea, salt-sweet (trees
and seas have flown away, I call it
loving you): home is nowhere, therefore you,
a kind of dwell and welcome, song after all,
and free of any eden we can name.
by Reginald Shepherd
Thursday, February 16, 2012
"Life" - A Poem By Marilyn Monroe
Life,
I am of both your directions
Existing more with the cold frost
Strong as a cobweb in the wind
Hanging downward the most
Somehow remaining
Those beaded rays have the colors
I've seen in paintings--ah life
They have cheated you
Thinner than a cobwebs's thread
Sheerer than any-
But it did attach itself
And held fast in strong winds
And singed by the leaping hot fires
Life-of which at singular times
I am both of your directions-
Somehow I remain hanging downward the most
As both of your directions pull me.
Written by Marilyn Monroe
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street poetry,
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