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The End of the Rainbow

Remember the days when we all felt free
Back in the days when we were happy as can be
Not a worry in the world,where all our dreams came true
When we believed af the end of the rainbow was a pot of gold
Those were the days when we were maybe 5 years old
Days became weeks,weeks became years
The next thing you knew happiness became tears
Joy became sadness and pain
Addictions turned our tears into rain
What we once believed to be happiness and fate
Soon became sadness and hate
Dreams became nightmares and darkness
Alcohol and drugs covered up our heartbreak and righteousness 
Our smiles faded and turned us to sin
Our addictions made us believe we were happy once again
The people we believed to be our true friend
Turned on us and it came to an end
We covered our pain with lies and dope
We then began to give up all hope
As children we dreamt of a wonderful life
Instead as we grew we felt like we were stabbed with a knife
The peace and joy we once felt
Ended up being the hand we were dealt
Accept the person you are
One day you will become someones shining star
When your days come to an end
You will see who was really your friend
Categories: af, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Choice

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* ha te *

* bi t t e r, h e a r t l e ss *

* sp i t t i n g, a s s a u l t i n g, s p u r n i ng *

* ph a n t o m, v i l l a i n, m o t h e r, G od *

* fo r g i v i n g, n u r t u r i n g, g i v i ng *

* af f e c t i o n a t e, t e n d er *

* lo ve *
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8/12/2017
Categories: af, hate, love,
Form: Diamante

The Goddess Appetitey

The goddess Appetitey,
                     a figure I have known
The mirror makes it all so clear
             just look at how I’ve grown

Yes, Appetitey is a joy
                when she comes around
With her songs in Menu form
                   resistance can’t found

She always seems to know
                   just what I love to eat
Burgers, tacos, fish and chips 
          and always something sweet
 
The goddess Appetitey
                  not really known to all
She’s the reason diet’s fail
                    why we drop the ball
 
Her sister of Greek myth
                 the one of lust and love
Banned her from the heavens
                      yet she is still above  

So when you feel the urges
              to stuff your face with pie
Just go and give the finger
                         right up to the sky




 Pronunciation:
            App-a-Ty-tee

Her lusty sister
             Af-ra-Dy-tee
Categories: af, fantasy, food, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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Aa To Df - the Complete List

AA     TO     DF,    THE COMPLETE    LIST  
   

AA  automobile association – UK’s best
AB  Alberta  - Canadian province in the west
AC  electric currect  alternating
AD  anno domini  - yearsafter Christ’s  coming
AE  famous poet  real name  George William  Russell
AF  air force as in  RAF  -   and  USAF  as well 


Ba   barium – a chemical element
BB   Brigitte Bardot  - attracted every gent
BC   years  before Christ  the Lord 
BD   as in CHMN. of the  BD. = board
Be    beryllium  an element much in use
BF    bloody  fool  -  in UK , polite  abuse


Ca   California – beaches, suntanned crowds  
Cb   cumulonimbus  clouds
CC   cubic centimeters (as in 500cc motorbike)
CD   compact disc.  Or cadmium if you like
CE   civil engineer  (professional designation)
cf     means   “compare”  (Latin abbreviation)


Da    = Russian  for “yes”
Db    decibels  -  measure of sound,  I guess
DC    is where Obama  works his activity
DD    doctor of divinity
De    =  French  for  “of”  or “from”
DF    direction finder - for a plane with a bomb

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Written  for   Debbie Guzzi's Contest  "A.C, D.C.. A.D., B.C."
Categories: af, funny,
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Future World

Would it surprise you if our 
 Future world had no God?
 A 'Brave New World' offers just that
 Ones and zeros rule our habitat

 Technology has enslaved us, become our god
  And no one even finds it odd
 When babies are rolled down the assembly line
 And  each baby has their destiny  assigned

 Welcome to the world of 2620
 Anno Domini (AD) has been replaced by After Ford (AF)
 The man who built model T's aplenty
 Has taken the place of the LORD

  A world not unlike our own
 Where the super rich rule
  And control the masses
 Using technology as the tool
            -
Not for contest
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: af, future, technology,
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Spirit Walker:

I feel I must put this experience out there.
This took place about ten years ago in my room while meditating.

(Whilst in a trance-like state) I looked up facing the sunrise through a great trilithon, I was at Stonehenge. As I walked through the huge trilithon, I turned my head back to see a great Owl perched on top of the archway I just came through. Which I found quite odd, considering that I have no affiliation with them. Then turning back to the right of me I could see my spirit Wolf pacing nervously outside another great trilithon staring directly at me.

Turning now to the near centre, a hooded black cloaked figure appeared to emerge from a green fire in the centre. 

 All I could see of his face was his old grey chin. But what happened next astounded me. Telepathically, I spoke directly into his mind saying, "what do you want?" He laughed replying, (into my head) "is not the question what do you want?" Then I laughed saying, "I want to be the best Shaman I can be." With that, he drew up his right arm, palm down holding something. So I, in turn, placed out my right-hand palm up and he placed a little leather pouch in it. systematically, I raised my hand up to my heart and the bag went in. I thanked him and turned around and left. Never did catch his name or meet him again. But I now carry the Crane-Bag. 

Update: since this experience, I have recently developed AF, (atrial fibrillation) so make of that what you will. But I still maintain that my heart is good. 

Also, found out later that The green Flame is the Flame of balance and Truth. It leads to analysis and development of ideas, especially Divine ideas and impulses that have been conceived in the First Ray of the Blue Flame. Those ideas ultimately and inevitably produce wisdom and light.
 
Second update: funny, now after an ablation my heart is fine. 
Now I know for sure that he was looking out for me.
© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: af, spiritual, travel, truth,
Form: Narrative


One Year Alcohol Free

365 days of the Alcohol Experiment
After 30 days the need to continue was evident.

Italian adventure to Rome Florence and Venice, cosy restaurants and no wine a penance!
Elation on completion of a holiday with alcohol deletion.
Real rest, renewal and recuperation.
Not hangovers, exhaustion and a turn to work depletion.

No barriers of painkilling built up around me but open and available and at last truly living!

A feeling of real health never known, 
sober sleep the deepest.
3 am awakenings not repeated.
Weight more stable than for 35 years
Alcohol free means energ--ie
Faced my AF fears and after 8 years trying, succeeded.

Now Coffee and company with intimate conversation not superficial chat, slurred speech and inebriation.

AF tribe explosion. Deep friendships unfolding.
laughs and special moments. Discovering worthyness and self love and whaw that I am enough!
Lliving in the moment not for the alcohol moment.

Sober socialising discovered.
Alcohol companies, brainwashing adverts pedalling lies uncovered.
Culture driven by alcohol is epidemical
Profits & Taxes guaranteed by a chemical.

Facing trauma and grief with a stable mood. Alcohol as the cause of anxiety and depression understood.
Just 10 months AF with my beautiful mother.
Such quality time above any other.
Emotional transparency, expression and facing the pain. Not numbing and smothering self again.

It's a brave new world of no regret experience. 
Just wished I had known and not spent years delerious.
I'm not looking back not giving in now!
This new life I've found will much more than do
Cause it's wonderful, beautiful, amazing and  true and I wish for a total culture that's new!
Categories: af, addiction, celebration, change, drink,
Form:

Going Keto

just saw myself in the mirror 
after feasting a box of pizza
cannot stand the sight of horror
and realized 'twas a bad idea

the main goal is to get lean
have my ass busy and active
but i'm lazy af to go clean
i guess its fate to get massive

got advised to get balanced diet
to lessen on sugar and carb
but the cravings are hard to quite
even giving up rice for lard

so this is what they called keto
gobbling more on fats and grease
less on meat, rice and potato
and more on veggies and cheese

some of you might get irked
but i need options and hope
please advise will this work
before i eat up this whole loaf
Categories: af, health,
Form: Quatrain

I Roll Bowl, Lawns I Know, Anti-Pestcontrol -Last Piece To Goblin Girl Trilogy

Breeders' Cannon Ball plays for days and decades even onto eras
Feeders on the bottom plus top down voodoo economics, no trickle
De-weeders? Why? Lawns are hype realistic so fake AF and anti-kith
Xeroscape like rape by statute not as consent is all we had and glad
as if LOVE LOVE like that is not welded onto the iron of our blood
our ICHOR revealed by the metal of my worth so all stop [fragment decay]

WE_SHE_BE and been found in the lost items bin or your heart box
Where few claim what they lost except employees that skim on whims
And random kids pretending to collect those sacred scatterings adding
Us all into the folk flying all stars from three to seven points and more
Up up to eleven and 127 plus 1 and another tenner and we are TEE H EX

Kate Bush ends spell of chant sans rhyme or beat and only written tell
By me that if your analyses searches for perfect supra-asymmetry balanced
By three points like MOEBIUS STRIPS or the landscape and felons well met 
By the grads and all the Parises of Helen not Troy or Sparta or Hades subjects
Troy how you fell and flowed onto us oh Troy built but no Dear John JUDY Green

WE ALL LOVE YOU THEAFANIA MI MAYOR HERMANA o ONEE CHAN WO AI NI
all ways and four eve her all believe her and such is lillith plus you LADY^4
Categories: af, absence, abuse, age, allah,
Form: Personification

Die Lewens Gang

Die Lewens gang 

So dwaal ek rond in die lewens gang 
vol van verlange en oral teen di mure 
hang potrete van herineringe. 

Die tyd het geloop sy eie loop 
geloop. Hy het ons mee gesleep en 
wys gemaak. Tyd het geleer ons 
geleer dat ale wonde genees, maar 
tyd was ook te kort om vergaane 
geliefdes weer te groet.

Soms is  ons spyt gewees, soms het 
ons net n sug van verligting, tyd sal 
ons weer verder vat, Die onbekende 
in die lewens lange gang af en oral 
sal daar weer nog potrete by kom 
van vriende en geliefdes wat in die 
niet verdwyn. Maar die herinepringe 
sal weer trug kom waneer ons stil 
raak en trug blik na tye wat verby is.

Daar loop weer 2rye spore deur my 
lewe, soos in die lewens gang van 
ons lewe, verskyn daar ook n potrret 
van jou op my muur, en ek weet uit 
eindelik is jy ook op geteken in my 
lewe. My gemoed raak stil want soos 
van soveel kere van tevore moet ek 
woner sal die potret bly hang, want 
hier in die gang van di lewe is daar 
onbekende dinge, dinge wat kan 
uitwis dit wat eens mooi was. Dinge 
wat gedagtes kan sper en gevoelens 
kan koud laat, en ek skuif die prent 
weer reg want met vetroue en geloof 
sal die potret ook bly hang en die 
kloue van liefde sal hou en nie laat 
gaan.

Want die gang van die lewe is nooit 
reguit nie.  

Nuwe uit dagings wag. Om elke 
draai, maar as ons om ons heen kyk 
is ons geliefde daar, om te help te 
hou op dit wat reg en eg is. 

Want die mense rondom ons sien n 
masker n masker wat niemand 
behalwe ons geliefdes weet wat 
agter aan gaan nie
Categories: af, absence
Form: ABC

Die Wereld Draai

As jy jou pyn buite wys 
sal vriendelike,
Irreterende vreemdeling 
jou inlig dat die wêreld 
aanhou draai.
En hulle is reg.
Dit doen.
Maak nie saak hoe hard jy 
dit smeek om te stop.
Dit hou aan draai.

Ek word wakker en is 
gelukkig vir drie 
sekondes.
Dan onthou ek,
Dit draai en kantel mense 
uit 
hul beddens
In hul karre, hul kantore.
'n Stortvloed van klein 
mans en vrouens
Wat deur die lewe tuimel.
Probeer om nie te dink 
wat daar onder wag.

Soms draai dit en stuur 
ons
Wankelrig in mekaar se 
arms.
Ons kleef styf,
Opgewonde en laggend,
Vreemdelinge saam 
gegooi op 'n bewegende 
prethuis vloer.
En dan draai die wêreld 
weer.

En iemand val af...
Dis so 'n lang pad af
Koud van skok,
Kan ons net staan en kyk 
hoe hulle val
En geleidelik kleiner word.
Onttrek stadig uit ons 
geheue
Tot hulle nie meer 
sigbaar is.

Ons versamel in 
begraafplase,
Stil en gespanne,
Asof ons die impak gaan 
hoor;
Die plons van 'n rivier klip 
in 'n donker put,
Probeer om die diepte te 
meet.
Probeer om te meet hoe 
ver ons val.

Geen impak kom;
Geen plons.
Die oomblik gaan verby.
Die wêreld draai
En ons draai weg,
Gaan aan met ons 
lewens...

Ons vou ons self toe
In gerieflike 
voorspelbaarhede
Om ons warm te hou 
teen die koue.
"Tyd is 'n goeie 
geneesheer"
"Ten minste was dit 
vinnig"
"Die wêreld hou aan 
draai"
Categories: af, angst, death, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Gramps Is Not An Acronym

My gramps was a long-staunch Baptist of the sort S.B.C., 
Until his local congregation got beholden to the R.N.C. 

Gramps was a hoot – on a Friday he joined the K.K.K., 
Saturday, he quit because it wasn’t a branch of the Y.M.C.A. 

Afterwards, he feared a knock on his door from the C.I.A. 
Would negate all his years working with the B.S. of A. 

Gramps continued his strong support for the N.A.A.C.P. 
But said he was canceling his membership in the B.B.B. 

He was a coal miner, but Gramps never joined the A.F. of L. 
It was years before he learned the union was not a U.R.L.
Categories: af, character, grandfather, humor,
Form: Couplet

Beethoven-Haus

we drove late afternoon
              over the dark Rhein,
              the sky fake with orange,

to Bonn : to a house with cool, emplty rooms,
              white with words, dark with chords,
              to an elegant Hammerflügel ;

for my father the end of a journey,
              but the start of the sublime

( for A.F. Philibert)
Categories: af, anniversary,
Form: Elegy

B-A Story2

As my story begins, 
I was born on 30th March 6889 AD with beats audio in my ears, 
With a pen in between my index finger, 
So make no err, I’m a playwright and so was my Queen Mother,
Even when I never had and I have no cheese, music fed & feeds me.
My ears don’t listen to this, that & those!
Music is my sovereign princess because it never breaks my heart & it will never,
So I fell in love with music because it’s Y.A.S,
That’s why I #8ryan I will never refrain from listening to music & writing!
I got all music genres in my favorite playlist, after all music is my, mind control,
So let’s, bass, stereo, pop, jazz, classic & rock my playlist,
Killjoys, don’t yah make a name against #8ryan’$ music club life,
Because there dwells only one club life at time in Amagoro!
My music room is my habitual writing room!
30th March is a Celly day for my birth-date & my music club life, so STFU, 
Cause’ music qualifies to inspire me to write,
This freedom at 21st century makes me to be cool #Af 
Cause’ my music club life speaks for itself, 
Now shall you take my name & use it, let me be,
Cause’ I’m the minister of words!
And the winner who will never quit on himself
Enjoy the funkin poem.

T.m.Ts ©BryanDePoet
Categories: af, birth, birthday,
Form: Personification

Sonnet 2 'I Am a Broken Man Without a Home'

I am a broken man without a home*,
My teeth don't feel right... and I sometimes shake.
There is a difference, now that you are gone.
Of all these, only pain keeps me awake:
Sunsets, cold breezes, heat, and pain, and time...
Of all of these, just pain keeps me awake!
I have a scurvy mood, and there's no lime...
And I am dumb and blind and full of ache.
...And yet, I dream, and Live and Love to Sing!
I go outside, am struck!  I can't stay numb!
I pray like Joy's my only steadfast thing!
I bleed, and hurt, stumble... my Voice goes dumb...
But none of these can equal your sweet Smile!
And so, I'll stop, and SEE it, for a while!

*NOTE:  For Honesty's sake:  I am not homeless, AF
Categories: af, depression, loneliness, longing, loss,
Form: Sonnet
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