Poetry Pages

thanks Heinz, I do seriously need help formatting this stuff. am not yet literate in computerese, but I am trying. I think[and I might be wrong] that I got this last one right. anyway, see if you can straighten out "the recipe".

came a time when words like catapulted misery flew. And I in my innocence questioned many things, most of which were answered by a name.

take a heart, a precious thing so vital to your function. lay it open, expose the wires blend anger and compunction. add one part fear you never know when some might come in handy and two parts pride, now you've got something fine and dandy. now take a pinch of argument and mix it thoroughly. chill ...

[Indent] I think that I Shall never see A laundromat which pleases me. You come, you go, You sit, you wait. You stare, you yawn, You contemplate. You talk, you walk, You fold, you crease. will this madness never cease.

dream times nine frozen days land laid waste by the armies of ignorance and haste I feel it draining my soul and tearing at the strings of my existence. cold and dead. people, gagging in the streets of their land. choked by the hate they fed their children. I see a boy dieing in the street should I...

[b incidentally, Mrs. Bentley. have you heard from hubby dear. the fool comes only when he,s lonely and only then if he,s quite near. consequently, Mrs. Bentley. I think your wisest move would be to bring your blues where I lay my shoes, and greet the morning there with me. [/Center] ,

orion bat soon its done in my dreams i fly as one of the vultures but oddly cannot look upon the victim circling, circling the morbid feel persists pseudo-intellect and rationalization do not satisfy my gnaw. the victim, helpless and unknowing dies not to satisfy my hunger, only my need. closer, is...

great poem, eric. it just really speaks to a lot of things in my life

shadow but for reality I thought I saw shadow she was there for a fleeting moment hidden amongst the memories and then gone shadow are you there shadow are you real shadow can you feel shadow, don't leave but for finality I'd send shadow away

three thoughts the hand that leads the seeker through the dark caverns of experience will be the first must see the light at the mouth of the cave of wisdom

perhaps a mixture of life perhaps it was her fragile self that caused her mind to wander searching private alleyways for transcendental plunder perhaps her lack of will to live was strengthened by her father who silent and sometimes cruelly didn"t really bother she loved her mothers every breath bu...

some background: I kept having a recurring dream, I would be flying in an arc upward and as I started to level off I would awaken in a cold sweat as if death were near. just scared I guess. always in an arc I fly for if I fly just flat I,ll die so on I fly in my half-moon and hope I don't fly flat t...