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Diana May 2020
Life is an untamed surprise
An cycle that will never end
On the way we see what lies
Around the riverbend

There’s so much for us to face
Much that we don't comprehend
But let us travel to the place
Around the riverbend

There’s much that we adore
And much we won’t befriend
So don't wait for what’s in store
Around the riverbend

We floating and dancing free
And at the same time we’re penned
But let's see what there might be
Around the riverbend

We don’t know our future plans
But one day you’ll apprehend
So why not soar to the lands
Around the riverbend

We don’t know what we’ll become
But we know it’s not the end
So don’t fear what’s to come
Around the riverbend

— OrcasTogether
“What comes will come, and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.” -J. K. Rowling
witchy woman Apr 2015
Oh sweet Atlantic,
let me sink to the most deep
for when I am beneath your waves
funny, I find it easier to breathe.

I find my unearthly paradise,
everything is suspended in
exquisite animation, for miles of
everlasting sea.

Sweet child, do you
understand the utmost power
of the tides?

They will take you anywhere and everywhere
with or without your consent in mind.

A wise woman once told me
an old native story,
about paddling your canoe through the
river of life.

There are people,
who try and fight the current
after a short while, they become
too tired to carry on;
thus, they are swept away on whichever
path the water may follow.

There are people,
who simply lay back
and expect the river to take them
wherever they want to go,
they expect, no matter what
it'll guide them home.
But, rivers have a mind of their own
and they are quickly swallowed
by the water as their canoe
shatters on the sharp river rocks.

Then, there are those
who learn to navigate the river
who know when to fight the current
to avoid the most trecherous boulders
and to also know when
the water is taking them on the
journey to love, bliss and nirvana
just around the riverbend.
More words.. teachings from my Nana.. life is a river
Desperate claws towards the fading sunset, wishing for one last duet.

Pestering pleas towards the fading trees, withering leaves as I can never please.

Inevitable tears as I accept this is the end, as I see you float away from our riverbend.
Poem on the last desperate attempts we’ve all made to save a relationship.
erin walts May 2015
Some
Bleed blue
a bitter cold
river that drifts along ever slowly
Ever peaceful
Filled with thousands of perfect downy pebbles
each the exact shape and size
as the last
it trickles down all of the hills and mountains
to lower ground

Iced and frigid
It comes from the heart
to the vein and artery
to the lung
around the stomach and intestines
up the spine
down the spine

to the wound.
Ainsley Aug 2015
Whisper "nothing like a journey’s end"
Fire round the riverbend
Toes under sheets far beneath the sand
Smoke arise the dawn is high
She laughs to let the moment pass by
Whisper why, whisper why

Approval from a distant moon
Photography, an old saloon
Oh all this time, it was always just us two
Twirling round my silver spoon
A coffee stain, a baby croon
Oh you never knew, the song was you

Whisper downstairs where the music lies
Laughing bout late nights, long drives
Forgot our blues in the radio highs
Toss away all our plans
Build a new world with these hands
Whisper we can, whisper we can
This is a song I'm writing; I've barely even started but I was so excited that I couldn't wait to post it!
Matthew Apr 2014
The bottom of the mountain is waiting
at the top of the mountain
And home is just over that hill
If more hills are the home you know.

And you will celebrate your birthday this year and next year with the same faces in different places and every time you slow down a little bit.
Which does not necessarily mean you are close to the top.
River Dec 2016
I hid away for a better day
I warmer day, a softer day
I fell into thorns
It had been day, the sun was bright
I wandered through luscious woods
The green calling out to me
But I traveled too far
And the sun grew dark
I looked straight into the sun
It blinded me
And I fell into thorns

I don't need to live this way,
Aimless and without cause
I wonder toward a cliff
I had always lived on the edge
Monotany is more dangerous than risk taking
Stop living your sedentary life,
It's killing you

I ran into the storm
And it swallowed me
I danced in the rain
I threw back my head and drank in life,
In all its glory
I let it swallow me
I let it engulf me

I became a river
An ever changing drop of water
I yielded to the curves of the riverbend
And I can never correctly see
What's right ahead of me
So, I just have to let it be

I'm a blind woman
Without her walking stick
I'm a blind woman, dancing in the rain,
Swimming in the river
Being swallowed by the storm.
And I'm laughing.
c rogan Jun 2016
Eyelids lower,
the world turns dark;
breaths become slower,
an evanescent spark.

Thoughts fall like raindrops,  
I hear them bouncing off the roof.
Winds pull mist round mountaintops,
our hearts are not shatterproof.

Our minds are mirrors,
they reflect what we see,
a silver fragment of Reality glitters,
a broken image or a broken me?

Our souls swim in wanderlust.
Blood pushes in and out like a noonday tide.
From us our bodies turn to stardust,
a Heaven forever by the oceanside.

You are the Infinite in one being;
a dream with no beginning and no end.
In the lake between sun and moon sleeping,
stars float like lotuses to the riverbend.

Wake before the sunrise,
wait for colors to wash the sky vast as our love.
From fleeting darkness Light meets new eyes
painters dip  brushes into Endless Undreamed of…

Breathe the morning in,
my longing for you has eclipsed my heart.
The kaleidoscope sun warms my skin,
Every day we restart
...
Use my creation to start yours,
kundalini is the force.
The universe expands when every breath swirls,
earth and art born from one source
...
My hands have begun to shake,
like constellations all of us are connected.
If I happen to lose my grip we all will quake,
ripples of world within worlds are reflected
...
I will remember you in my glass mind,
crystallized and refracted, a consciousness clearest
Elements fade as nature undoes time,
in death be unified by mystical spirits

alavandala Sep 2017
clementine
you are gone
dreadful sorry
you are dead
not asleep
you've gone to swim and play
with the fish, down in the deep
it's my soul you keep
clementine
what happened to that girl i used to know
you had to go
had to leave
some would say it was your destiny
some would say it was your fate
i fear i learned to swim too late
the ducks won't stop
it's on repeat
i hear it when i'm mining
i see it when i sleep
clementine
please come back home
i'm all alone
clementine
i'll come to you
with this world, i'm through
goodbye, my darling
i'll see you again
fear not, my haven
you're just around the riverbend
Andie Sep 2019
with you my energy is full like the milky moon
you're the sunshine to my moonlight,
the sunset to my moonrise
the golden hues to my dusky tunes
she's everything you could want from a friend:
a summer without end.
the softest riverbend,
a path to transcend.
energy in its purest form
she's more blur than body
a playful mirage in summer cerebra
I have many poems called Nina
but she's more song than poetry
she's an unopened letter
a song yet to be sung
she'll share it with someone
but it'll sound better to her own ears
a soul that only she hears
she's lush life when you feel desert
she's the botanica among blues
and together we be, just be
earthly but on a different energy
forever my sister
not through blood,
but through air, fire, and sea
Ken Pepiton Jul 5
Life is smarter than **** Sapiens.
I bet.
All in, autotelic influency swirly moves, turmoil

shaking up the royal authorities holding title deed,

granted by God, they all swear, by law, God makes kings,
using priestly authority passed on since Peter, most assuredly.

Middle minds, ones on no one's side, unbiased, unbent, just
good for goodness sakes, granted grace
to bet right work's sake artfully
aspires to spiritually weighted
familiarity, inspiring
sleight smiles.

Attention concentration, centering
formerly completely incoherent points

right where your most valuable focus
aims assisting imaginary morality

x change from gold apples
in silver settings,
for fitly spoken
words… re, re means do over, right,
rethink re-al re-adjured

"to put (someone) to an oath,"
from ad "to" + iurare "swear,"

init run… nutec new tech old ideas
classic
kings and priest responsibilities,

NPCs at the
edge o'they Barco Loungers,
pre thinking the turns in the car chase,

believing that Mustang did that landing,
boy o boy, gotta wanna have that power,
best Ford ever, until those 68 Torinos
428 Cobra Jet V-8s, those were no ponys,

those were stallions, and I put a hole in one,
just was not looking, on a run to the hospital,

with Plastic Nancy, who came with Brian, who
lived in Flushing and knew Bill Levy with me, we

who went on to grand adventures against evil, we
defeated, laughing
to our selves, Arthur Lee wrote the score,
Love,
it was adventure,
of the highest sort,
out of conscience calmly settled,
at life's edge, Life's Stigian Phrygian shore,

south of Bullhead, east of Needles, Arizona side
of Riverbend, where it all went south, that was 1966,

unrelated to all of this,
this is b-roll… just in case,

never can tells just so happen, to be so easily told.

To have and to hold as if the one holds the other,
it could just be, we got old, and we remembered how.


It was likely all thought out,
ahead of time, before we thought, we ought to plan
on living to the end, until we think we must be dead,
to be ready
and, having planned so far ahead,
we had these extra days added on, by chance,
once, we died, near a team of trained resurrectors,

lo', imagine me, Socrates, looking Plato in the eye,
and laughing, so we classically consider, from a noble,

never slave race, as were the Pharisees, or so they said,
reportedly, we are seed of Abraham, never were we slaves,

as a whole, no doubt, the whole enterprise, the spoken vows,
the solemn oathes, the claiming of redeemer's right, mine,

my shoes are off
to the games designer, the shame is ingenius,
my greeting, Phi, del, I test, Phidelitus, first token
of our cognition,

see, high holy richer than Midas, maker
of fissionable material
actively radiating a future
with energy for every little thing you do,
Love it
and Leave it, American's, citizens born,
to mediate metamorphosis,

who's using your liberty to conserve whose fortune?
Lucky me, cashing in all the unredeemed time spent
touring the M&M stores at all Disney destination ports.

]]Album in the back ground, Love, Forever Changes [[
Music and lyrics by Arthur Lee.
A call and a raise,  one reader in seven days, that's enough...
Bones Dec 2019
with the year ending,
i have a confession,
what do i really want in life,
keep me steady, rowing this boat,
down the river, keeping me afloat,
lift me up, reel me in again and again,
keep me up, i am not steady again,
i'm peaking on adrenaline,
down the river, over the ocean,
i don't want to drown today, so
lift me up, keep afloat
don't let me fall down,
patch the holes, in this ship,
that i call home,
make me smile, and make me cheer,
for what i've got to give,
so i can't row myself around this bend,
i want to soar, like the sea birds
don't let me swim with sharks,
until i've spend my all,
don't let me drown again,
and wallow in my tears,
just lift me up, keep me afloat
and keep me rowing down the riverbend
so lift me up, until my untimely end
Bones Jan 2020
Well know one has to know,
what i dropped down the fountain,
no one has to see my crimes against humanity,
and they will never found out
if you are loyal to me,
trust me, i'll set you free,
and you and me will fly away,
just you and me

laying down in ***** sheets,
memories of broken dreams
Have no thoughts, i'm incomplete
i'm trying to hold on,
falling down in my fountain,
no one knows what happened.
running down the riverbend,
i wished this would never end,

quickly down the fountains walls,
mossy vines cascading,
water up to my feet,
can't feel anything,

Down the fountain, i fall for you,
want to fall down, into the water
on my knees, grabbing to something,
i'm drowning in your fountain
we love gettin' feelings
Strangerous Jul 2023
Defective products everywhere.
I stepped on one while walking
across the grass that grows like hair,
where lovers were sitting talking

about the money they’d make
by selling defective products.
Anyway, it wasn't a snake
or a squirrel or a pair of ducks

mating, it was an escalator
coming up out of the ground
from Hell, like the old dumb-waiter
in the haunted house around

the riverbend, that used to be
run up and down in the old days,
until the Yankees came and we
each dug a few graves

for the bodies that belonged to
the souls that returned to Hades
after the war. It caught my shoe
and jammed -- ****** and defectively made.
© 1991 by Jack Morris

Hear the song on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dXF2N7UHd1yBNC16QoXcK?si=64d1aa9085fb4fea
Kazy Cua Jan 10
Beyond the riverbend,
Lies the tombstone nobody could see
The initials spell out D. Y. M. M.
"Do you miss me?"

Wrote the girl who, at 14 wanted to die,
but made it to 23, —half burried alive

The blood around the creek,
coincidentally too dry
Just like the tear stained marks you could see
Peeking from beneath her hollow eyes

She knew how to be perfect,
All her life - to always be clean
But God what she would've given up
For a day, instead, to be seen

All the heroes she loved,
and the pretty girls she wanted to be
Turned out to be villains in disguise
and empty chested barbies

There was no hope to be mentioned,
Everyday was a futile war
And yet somehow she can never quite bring herself
to wander or stray too far

Injustice for others,
is a song she has long been accustomed to,
What started with "I need to stand up for them"
ended in "If I should suffer, then so should you"

The intertwined threads of her life
Has become too much of a mess to untangle
What seemed like a perfect knitted sweater on the outside
Is really just lose yarn all scrambled

And perhaps that is why she - ended up in the grave
Except...

Except for that one man, she stayed for till 70
Whose light led her loudly across the dark tunnel
Mind you she never found her way out
But now she would not be afrtaid if she fell

And at the times when he is not around
It matters not for his eyes, she would forever keep
And should his death come quicker than expected
Her soul will be next to reap
lana Aug 9
they say “seize the day”
they say “everything is going to be okay”
but those people have never been in love
those people have never had to die
so i cry

because so many things go unresolved
so many things go unseen
so i hold on to the hope of so many unfinished dreams

the man sitting on the moon says it’s okay to have regrets
the woman who has conquered doom says it’s okay to lose bets
the people who have lived
and tried
failed in the process

the ones without the unfinished dreams say it’s okay
because if you leave this life with so much undone
so many battles that you haven’t won
it is okay

because just around the riverbend
the spot where you thought everything had to end
someone will pick it up
take your dream
and live it all over
again
this is probably my fav poem of my own. i hope this gives y’all comfort and confidence to slow down and stop for a second

— The End —