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is it more beautiful
the fleeting end
of a rainbow
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Path Humble
“where time is the fly and age the fisher of men”

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”until I fell forward
into fall where time is
the fly and age the fisher
of men, then when winter
begins all will be forgotten,
where time is the fly and
age the fisher of men”


excerpt from “The Fall” by Rick Richardson

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that words from a different ionic state, jump as embodied ions from screen to the throat, evicting a guttural current of exclamation, you believe even with the half-heartedly palpitations from  remainder of my damaged pumping heart, that these words were always intended, just for me…

boy and old man coexist, the pottage of memories stirred,
and the time is fly, and I drown in the miracle of greenest grass of
Yankee Stadium at age eight,
oasis, heaven, a child reborn in a sea of Bronx concrete,
and the swallowing up of my boyhood is forever marked henceforth, the hook has caught me, and I am of the age
once and forever


not a fisherman, but a fisher of men’s souls,
mine own is my best bait,
hooked line and sinker, and
wisdom and words
elude and delude always, 
 like summer is perpetual and aging a construct,
time does not fly, but slowly laps and waves
eroding our myths and ourselves upon a continuum with
no ends

~postscript~

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yet I believe,
in miracles of
fish and loaves,
and that our individual continuums
will exist beyond the artifice of constraints
of
mortal time and that poems are
the forever chemicals within
our
bloodstreams,
even when our blood no longer spills


yet I believe!
a tribute to one of the best poets around
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ac
i have these voices in my head

with me when i’m awake or in bed
when i’m smiling and happy
they come and break my peace
telling me weird things
that make me lose my ease

they tell me i won’t get better
they tell me i don’t matter
they tell me one day ill be dead
so why not get it over with instead

the voices are evil and cold
but they comfort me when i’m all alone
they tell me to do things to myself
and be sure that no one knows

oh the voices in my head
they walk me to my death
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Malcolm
Anger keeps me dry
golden showers lack respect
then trickle downhill.
Copyright Malcolm Gladwin
July 2025
It's better to be ******* than ****** on
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mini
i like it rough
i like it hard
i wanna hurt when you're done
i just wanna feel your love

in the form of bruises
in the form of bites
under your navy leather
under your unadulterated control

do you think i can ride a stallion ?
can i ride it now ?
i feel far too empty
why don't you come ...
what has come over me i need to be cool off this oh my

REPOST FROM mollyandsex // minx !!! this one apparently trended ughhh. she didn't get the attention she deserved !

little ponyboy//sugamins
Udii tra il sonno le ciaramelle,
** udito un suono di ninne nanne.
Ci sono in cielo tutte le stelle,
ci sono i lumi nelle capanne.
Sono venute dai monti oscuri
le ciaramelle senza dir niente;
hanno destata nè suoi tuguri
tutta la buona povera gente.
Ognuno è sorto dal suo giaciglio;
accende il lume sotto la trave;
sanno quei lumi d'ombra e sbadiglio,
di cauti passi, di voce grave.
Le pie lucerne brillano intorno,
là nella casa, qua su la siepe:
sembra la terra, prima di giorno,
un piccoletto grande presepe.
Nel cielo azzurro tutte le stelle
paion restare come in attesa;
ed ecco alzare le ciaramelle
il loro dolce suono di chiesa;
suono di chiesa, suono di chiostro,
suono di casa, suono di culla,
suono di mamma, suono del nostro
dolce e passato pianger di nulla.
O ciaramelle degli anni primi,
d'avanti il giorno, d'avanti il vero,
or che le stelle son là sublimi,
conscie del nostro breve mistero;
che non ancora si pensa al pane,
che non ancora s'accende il fuoco;
prima del grido delle campane
fateci dunque piangere un poco.
Non più di nulla, sì di qualcosa,
di tante cose! Ma il cuor lo vuole,
quel pianto grande che poi riposa,
quel gran dolore che poi non duole;
sopra le nuove pene sue vere
vuol quei singulti senza ragione:
sul suo martòro, sul suo piacere,
vuol quelle antiche lagrime buone!
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Ahmad Azzam
كنا في يوم رمز الحضارة والعلم هكذا يقولون  
اختلفنا وتشاجرنا وصار في قلبنا ملايين الظنون
ألم يكن نبينا رمز الأخلاق وديننا في القلب والعيون
تشردنا وقتلنا بفتنة لم تكن لتنتهي إلا وتبدأ مرة أخرى بجنون
لم اعد افهم سبب الشجار وصرنا نقول ألف مرة كنا ونكون
قلي من أنت أقول لك أنا إنسان هجر من وطنه عسى أن يجد حياة ويكون
ولكن يجب أن نبدأ من الصفر ألف مرة ونعيد ونكرر لعلهم يفهمون
ونتعلم أشياء ما كان من المفروض أن نتعلمها
ونصبح شيئا ولا شيئا ونضيع في عالم كبير غير محدود
هل تعيدني إلى حارتي وإلى كمبيوتري القديم المكسور
تعيدني إلى زمن كنا أخوة وكنا أصدقاء والحب يغمر القلب ويسهر الجفون
هل تعيدني إلى الزاهرة القديمة عندما كنت طفلا وأمسك الطبشور
هل تعيدني إلى بيتي في اليرموك وبيت جدي المليء بالعطور
هل تعيد لي روحي وشبابي وقلبي الدافئ الحنون
هل تعيدني حتى لا أكتب قصيدتي والتمس الخوف فيها لهذا اليوم
مع الأسف هذا نصيبي أن أكون جنديا في العلم أحصن نفسي من يوم أسود غير معلوم
لا أريد هذا أريد السلام لقلبي الميت وأريد عيونا مليئة بالدموع
أريد حبا حقيقية وأريد أن يبرد عقلي ويرتاح في هدوء
لا أريد أن ابحث عن حلول لمشاكل لا تنتهي أريد فقط أن أكون
هل هناك من يفهمني ويضع لي النقاط على الحروف
أعدني فأنا في هذا العالم غريب ومجنون
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Srishti
"Gender equality is like clapping hands - it's only possible when both sides make an effort."
experiencing truth of the world
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Cm
Once you taste solitude,
there’s no going back.
Once you find that
sweet spot within yourself,
there’s no turning back.
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Dr Peter Lim
Life is hard, imperfect and fragile.
How we live makes us what we are--
no one can be perfectly happy
and that's a good thing--
if it were,  we would hardly grow
En los campos de Antelo, hacia el noventa
mi padre lo trató. Quizá cambiaron
unas parcas palabras olvidadas.
No recordaba de él sino una cosa:
el dorso de la oscura mano izquierda
cruzado de zarpazos. En la estancia
cada uno cumplía su destino:
éste era domador, tropero el otro,
aquél tiraba como nadie el lazo
y Simón Carvajal era el tigrero.
Si un tigre depredaba las majadas
o lo oían bramar en la tiniebla,
Carvajal lo rastreaba por el monte.
Iba con el cuchillo y con los perros.
Al fin daba con él en la espesura.
Azuzaba a los perros. La amarilla
fiera se abalanzaba sobre el hombre
que agitaba en el brazo izquierdo el poncho,
que era escudo y señuelo. El blanco vientre
quedaba expuesto. El animal sentía
que el acero le entraba hasta la muerte.
El duelo era fatal y era infinito.
Siempre estaba matando al mismo tigre
inmortal. No te asombre demasiado
su destino. Es el tuyo y es el mío,
salvo que nuestro tigre tiene formas
que cambian sin parar. Se llama el odio,
el amor, el azar, cada momento.
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MacGM
Each of my companions are stars glittering in the midst of my troubling night.
I cast wishes on them for all good things in such absurd abundance it makes them shine as bright as the Sun itself.
I hope the kindness in their cores is rightfully returned in infinite luminosity.
There may come a day when I no longer walk along their beams,
but presently I gladly welcome them into my orbit.
Dedicated to all my friends in real life
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Amado Nervo
Bien sé que para verte
he menester la alquimia de la muerte
que me transmute en alma, y delirante
de amor y de ansiedad, a cada instante
que llega, lo requiero
diciéndole: "Ah, si fueses tú el postrero!"

Es tan desmesurado, tan divino
y tan hondo el futuro que adivino
a través de las rutas estelares,
y de uno en otro de los avatares,
siempre contigo, noble compañera,
que por poder morir, ¡ay, qué no diera!
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Moshiri Himeka
I hate some teachers,
They are the worst creatures,
You'll say they help us learn,
but what about the mental trauma
they give in return.
You made me cry
I cried-cried-cried,
Causing pain in my eyes.
I wish I could see the same pain
in your eyes.
I will never forget,
How you made me dead,
Still getting nightmares in my head.
Students go through this,
Isn't it sad?
Why these adults don't understand?
OUR PAIN!!
to be a perfect student.
Why can't we live our dreams?
forced to do what makes money.
We are human,
But not treated as one,
Isn't it funny?
Its about all my those teachers who crushed my confidence,who made me cry for a whole day, who don't even know how to teach and yet blame us for complaining about it....its also about those people who have a pressure to be a perfect student and can't live their dream...for those whose teachers are friends with devil and never leave their chance to give trauma....most of teachers dont understand that Even a single statment of their words can traumatize a student for the rest of life.... I also got dreams( kind of nightmare) twice related to something that happened.

To those who might say that i am disrespectful.... please let me tell that i wrote it for those teachers who are bad towards
us students... not all are same..as i have a teacher who is the best for me.
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Octavio Paz
A la luz cenicienta del recuerdo
que quiere redimir lo ya vivido
arde el ayer fantasma. ¿Yo soy ese
que baila al pie del árbol y delira
con nubes que son cuerpos que son olas,
con cuerpos que son nubes que son playas?
¿Soy el que toca el agua y canta el agua,
la nube y vuela, el árbol y echa hojas,
un cuerpo y se despierta y le contesta?
Arde el tiempo fantasma:
arde el ayer, el hoy se quema y el mañana.
Todo lo que soñé dura un minuto
y es un minuto todo lo vivido.
Pero no importan siglos o minutos:
también el tiempo de la estrella es tiempo,
gota de sangre o fuego: parpadeo.
Roza mi frente con sus manos frías
el río del pasado y sus memorias
huyen bajo mis párpados de piedra.
No se detiene nunca su carrera
y yo, desde mí mismo, lo despido.
¿Huye de mí el pasado?
¿Huyo con él y aquel que lo despide
es una sombra que me finge, hueca?
Quizá no es él quien huye: yo me alejo
y él no me sigue, ajeno, consumado.
Aquel que fui se queda en la ribera.
No me recuerda nunca ni me busca,
no me contempla ni despide:
contempla, busca a otro fugitivo.
Pero tampoco el otro lo recuerda.
No hay  antes ni después. ¿Lo que viví
lo estoy viviendo todavía?
¡Lo que viví! ¿Fui acaso? Todo fluye:
lo que viví lo estoy muriendo todavía.
No tiene fin el tiempo: finge labios,
minutos, muerte, cielos, finge infiernos,
puertas que dan a nada y nadie cruza.
No hay fin, ni paraíso, ni domingo.
No nos espera Dios al fin de semana.
Duerme, no lo despiertan nuestros gritos.
Sólo el silencio lo despierta.
Cuando se calle todo y ya no canten
la sangre, los relojes, las estrellas,
Dios abrirá los ojos
y al reino de su nada volveremos.
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Traveler
How long will you look away
and pretend it doesn’t matter?
See our world in decay,
all our children getting fatter.  
Pesticides, herbicides, aluminum in our rain!
PSAF’s in our blood cells, plastics in our brains.

Corporations chasing profits as the empire gasp for power.
The time is now to rise and fight and stop being a bunch of cowards!
Traveler Tim
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Kaiden
i gave up,
took the sharpener out of the drawer,
resetted the streak.
it's pointless,
the addiction scarred my mind
like the blade scarred my skin,
the wetness of the blood
and feeling of the skin opening
won't leave me like the people in my life did
so they're good, are they not?
i can quite literally feel myself becoming less functional every single day and i honestly dont know how long i can stay here
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DKN
I am lost in the sea of your tears
My heart beats to the banking of its waves upon my life raft
I lie, strung across the frame, wishing the sea would quench me
but I remain parched, longing for you
The seagulls call your name into the sunset
Your touch exists  in the wind--It ruffles my hair and brushes my cheek
Your glance is a diamond shimmer in the horizon--at world's end
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Nat Lipstadt
"These days
I'll sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them"
Jackson Browne

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these days,
you can come by tween
the mostly soft warming cracking of Dawn,
and the early born-ing of
the first peek of a full grown
but yet
sleepy sunrise,

you'll find me siting on a
asshard dock,
two seagulls staring at the
human interloper,
alone with the threads in my
hardened head,
beating time in casual rhyme,
because that's what poets do,
to warm up their
tongues & toes,
clear their eyes
and
sniffling nose,
their partly opened,
party closed,
throats, eyes and
give up, sacrifice
the longest list of little lies,
that makes (forces) us to get up  in the undimming earlies,
when it's just me, the gulls,
& the minnows poking around,

the fluke,
smarter but not wiser,
further out in deep water,
waiting to be caught

and
the cool blood barely flows,
until the rising orb warms
our fragility,
and we review the stories old,
that make us cold at night promising ourselves that
today you'll do that thing(s)
you've been putting off for years,

"Don't confront me with my failures"
Jackson pleads, but I concede,
thinking tell me them
one
mo' time,
make me unrighteous,
make me whole,
then take me,
holy displayed fully,

and the
first poem of the day,
will be my
confession total,
without reservation
and yet muse on
honor
something I thought I knew,
but needing a
closer examination
it might've been
dishonor
that was what
I was truly
knew
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Sunrise
July 5
'25
sitting on the dock
by the bay,
would I

lay down with a lie?
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Germaine
you saw the earth hidden beneath
hidden with

the fallen leaves

so wrap my body
with
pink ribbons

as i say sorry
for polluting the soil

i was born in
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Sacrelicious
Just lay me down
In your bed of lies.
Look me deep into my bedroom eyes
and off the lights.
So I can wear my disguise.

The truth never comes out in the dark.
That's why we've chosen to be blind.
We're content,
paying no mind.

And we're not okay.
Okay?
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Àŧùl
What Abhinandan left incomplete,
Vyomika rendered it complete.
And she wasn't alone this time.
She flew with Colonel Sofiya Qureshi.
Together they bombed terror camps.
Eliminating terrorists and leaders.
Operation Sindoor runs deeply.
My HP Poem #2055
©Atul Kaushal
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Amisha priya
Haters
Proud to be
Hate
Good people
Lairs
Proud to be
Liable
To
Wealthy people
Richie Richie
Proud to be
Rich
Infront
Of
Lower voice
Likers
Proud to be
Likers
To
Share their
High profile
Sort of
True love & Affection......
                                              - Amisha priya
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Anais Vionet
Our land of stars and stripes, now glows,
with screens that flicker in hallowed halls.
Entranced humans shuffle, with eyes fixed below,
on small gadgets that have us enthralled.

Should the Statue of Liberty, our symbolic girl,
be holding a smartphone up to the world?
While tweets fly like eagles and hashtags swirl,
foreign disinformation trends as fast as it’s purled.

In lunch halls, real conversations take rest,
as influence is sought—in hoity-toity, binary quest.
Friends are backdrops—originality in short supply
as likes and shares make our dopamine fly.

America’s zombies, though ******* drained,
shuffle endlessly on, with Wi-Fi stimulated brains.
Once the land of the free, we’re now the land of tech
with minds wrecked by truths unchecked.

As we rock and sway—the new robot way—
will our old, analog-republic simply fade away?
.
.
Songs for this:
Airhead by Thomas Dolby
.
Oh, and a Christmas playlist because—it’s December!:
https://daweb.us/xmas/Christmas_01.mp3
BLT Merriam Webster word of the day challenge 12/04/24:
hoity-toity = snooty or pretentious
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AM
If you saw me

unvarnished,

unscripted
would you stay?

You'd know the cost
of loving someone
who's learned to disappear
before she's left.

You might step back.

or worse,

what if you stay?

and see me crumble

in your kindness

I don't know
if I could survive

being loved like that.
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C Jakes
Words veiled, thief in night,
Hidden meanings softly creep,
Truth now seeks the light.
Viens, cherchons cette ombre propice
Jusqu'à l'heure où de ce séjour
Les fleurs fermeront leur calice
Aux regards languissants du jour.
Voilà ton ciel, ô mon étoile !
Soulève, oh ! soulève ce voile,
Éclaire la nuit de ces lieux ;
Parle, chante, rêve, soupire,
Pourvu que mon regard attire
Un regard errant de tes yeux.

Laisse-moi parsemer de roses
La tendre mousse où tu t'assieds,
Et près du lit où tu reposes
Laisse-moi m'asseoir à tes pieds.
Heureux le gazon que tu foules,
Et le bouton dont tu déroules
Sous tes doigts les fraîches couleurs !
Heureuses ces coupes vermeilles
Que pressent tes lèvres, pareilles
Aux frelons qui tètent les fleurs !

Si l'onde des lis que tu cueilles
Roule les calices flétris,
Des tiges que ta bouche effeuille
Si le vent m'apporte un débris,
Si ta bouche qui se dénoue
Vient, en ondulant sur ma joue,
De ma lèvre effleurer le bord ;
Si ton souffle léger résonne,
Je sens sur mon front qui frissonne
Passer les ailes de la mort.

Souviens-toi de l'heure bénie
Où les dieux, d'une tendre main,
Te répandirent sur ma vie
Comme l'ombre sur le chemin.
Depuis cette heure fortunée,
Ma vie à ta vie enchaînée,
Qui s'écoule comme un seul jour,
Est une coupe toujours pleine,
Où mes lèvres à longue haleine
Puisent l'innocence et l'amour.

Ah ! lorsque mon front qui s'incline
Chargé d'une douce langueur,
S'endort bercé sur ta poitrine
Par le mouvement de ton coeur...
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ahintofpoetry
And as you kissed me I silenty wept,
I wept for me because it was not you I wanted,
And I wept for you because you were the victim.
Your love was only met with my desire.
I really need to tell you something S.
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unnamed
I was preyed upon
my heart left with open wounds
that human touch healed
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collin
i’m still the same words in a new font
same old punchline but more nuanced
the same marathon you’ve been running
under all the layers, an onions still an onion
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Tokitou
seeing for the ones with doubt
is believing
believing for the ones with faith
is seeing
i see,yet i dont believe,but i shall see more if i do
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bob fonia
now we waitt for the smokes to arrivee and we be bcak in bussiness
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