Why
Where has it gone?
The leaves blow across my lawn and I’m left to ponder for few seconds between the chaos that has become the whirlwind…
where did my free thoughts go…when did my big dreams die and when did I realize that nothing exists except the thoughts of the day, the power of the shower [...]
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Contests, death, memoir, poet, salvage, savage, scream, sex
- Published:
- December 31, 2008 – 12:30 pm
- Author:
- By Richard Beck
Jack…the water is overflowing…there must be a stick – a gutter pit
Is it a ball…is it mud…when does it break
Love is shee-it, love is the muck that’s stuck…that’s bleeding from the gutter,
Rain dissolves in it man and it disappears
Does it ever stop hurting…that loss…that pain and regret?
Categories: Poetry
- Published:
- December 31, 2008 – 12:28 pm
- Author:
- By Richard Beck
This whirlwind chase of directions
to a certain place or feeling
I’ve seen many lives
just dangle in time
never reach towards
a seamless dream
the cracks appear
to deepen slightly
a quick descent
but where did you go?
Categories: Poetry
- Published:
- December 30, 2008 – 11:52 am
- Author:
- By Michael James Copley
There’s a part right now inside of me
That’s broken halfway through
And I hate to have to say it
But it’s like that because of you
Broken promises and broken dreams
That’s the way it always is it seems
The promises you make but never seem to keep
They stab me in the heart hard and deep
I thought you weren’t like [...]
Categories: Poetry
- Published:
- December 29, 2008 – 8:10 pm
- Author:
- By meme
The great betrayal of a horrid tyranny,
cold and double faced. The ponderous crush
of the unwieldy jackboot, the vacancy of heart.
Blinded to affliction and cruel throughout
jealous ignorance, swines with ulterior ambition
constantly plotting, to the utmost; The Back Dagger Treason.
Categories: Poetry
- Published:
- December 17, 2008 – 11:06 am
- Author:
- By Ross McCooey