Best Gouges Poems
What’s in her mind, sharp lines slice her in half,
Into faded dark red, green and blue,
And the flowers cover up each emotional scar,
From ever even shining on through,
To show the gouges ripped from her thoughts,
To show the bruised, shaken, and torn,
Slit while she slept, in a nightmare of hell,
For her public body to remain an unborn?
What does she think, where does she go,
When her eyes are wide open to black,
When her eyes are blank to all of the noise,
After her soul escaped the attack?
Does she remember those days that’ve gone,
When she obeyed every little demand?
Does she remember those days when she sold her soul,
Just to hold onto his hand?
Chasing Cars 3
You can drown in smoke
In huge breaths
Sucked in on the choke
Of ever wishing air
And you can lay yourself bare
Your soul on the concrete
Spread before the stare
Of every loving heart
Its not that I see
Not the pain in me
Not the hammer that crashes me constantly
Into you
This mirror I hold
Everything I do know
Turns the reflection of your eyes always
Into mine
Can you see
How you break me
Shatter me into the rainbows
Of the every word of love
“All that I am
“All that I ever was
“Is laying in your perfect eyes
“And they’re all I can see
If you feel lost
Then I wander in the same step
My feet can’t find a single path
Not without you
And though I hold true
Stronger by the gift of you
Still I huddle in the same corner
Contemplating the worst of me
How can this really be me
It just falls out of me
Into a pool of tears
“And if I lay there
“If I just lay there
“Would you lay with me
“And just forget the world
Would you hold on to me
The desperate strength you need to be
And turn with me
Out to face the world
Has this cut me as far as you know
These gouges deep in my soul
Bleed out their martyrdom
Just for you
It shakes me to the core of who I am
As I stand here in the darkness
And reach out my hand
To you
“All that I am
“All that I ever was
“Is laying in your perfect eyes
“And they’re all I can see
Stanzas six, ten and fourteen taken from “Chasing Cars”
By Snow Patrol
With much respect and many thanks
I knew you well many years ago
So full of passion
A cathedral where multitudes
Of lusting souls gathered
I watched intently at the images
You allowed me to see
Such a majestic creature
Towering high into the darkened sky
You gathered the light from a million stars
To power my imagination
A haven for teenage love
Your warm summer breezes caressed my heart
You showed me laughter, joy, love and sadness
I was your legacy, and I worshipped you
Time faded my memories
Progress devoured your simplicity
I lost youthful desires, hopes, and dreams
Replaced them with responsibilities, anxiety and conformity
I left you to die alone
Discarded like an animal’s carcass on the side of the road
Rotting in the rain and sun
Slabs of your silver skin decayed
Fallen to the ground to reveal the bones beneath
Tree limbs from the encroaching woods
Stick their boney fingers through the gouges
Like demons trying to pull free
From their eternal darkness
Nature is reclaiming you…
There is no one left to care
In hushed whispers, Mariners told stories,
Of a octopus like cephalopod creature;
With a tentacled beak and jet thrust power,
A creature as long as a school bus.
Scientists dismissed all this as just myth,
But they did admit that there may be;
Giant creatures roaming the dark, deep oceans,
However in 2007 one was netted.
The New Zealand trawler San Aspiring,
Fishing in the Ross Sea of Antarctica;
Netted something, 34 feet long, 1000 pounds,
A giant monster, it was a colossal squid.
But more amazing was that this female,
Was considered a comparative midget;
Colossal Squids can grown to 46 feet long,
They are the largest creatures on Earth.
Having the biggest eyes of any other animal,
The size of basketballs with huge pupils;
Also, it is said that they are highly aggressive,
Even attacking predators like Sperm Whales.
Gouges and battle scars on whales, unexplained,
The gigantic female, in a lab somewhere, frozen.
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August 21, 2015
Verse
For the contest, Giant Animals
Honorable Mention
A mighty force lurks out of sight
Far out o'er the sea
About to bring a monstrous fight
Like none we've ever seen
The time winds by and on the air
The wind is first to show
It starts out as a breeze so fair
But endless is it's flow
It picks up strength and close behind
The waves march up in force
Starting small but larger still
They crash upon the shore
Sheets of rain pour in and bring
Lightning with thunder booms
The storm is here its clouded rings
Over the city looms
Stretching vastly north to south
It surges on full steam
A powerful force within its clouds
To flood the streets and streams
Abandoned towns lie in the path
As well as cities large
A war upon this nation hath
This storm declared its charge
It turns the day to black like night
Invades the cities holds
Upon the shore it bears its might
Reshapes it in the cold
Boardwalks fall into the waves
Their hungry mouths want more
It gouges harbors into caves
And floods the lower floors
The rains join in and now they lay
To waste the country land
Two northern storms join in to play
Snow is now at hand
Lakes are formed in valleys low
Where cattle used to graze
While higher spots are cold with snow
The world all in a haze
Hours pass and now the storm
Its strength starting to fade
A hope is seen and human forms
In streets now start to wade
A mighty cry goes up at last
The storm moves on its way
The time has come and now alas
The cleanup will take days
Surviving souls will always see
This storm in their minds eye
Though the hardest times are yet to be
The sun shines in the sky
A nation rises up to save
And help life start anew
For we are all one and the same
The red the white and blue
The ground gaped garishly, gored with ghastly gouges of glowing, gravelly gobs ...
Finally unfettered from a frigid firmament, flames flung fiery, flaring fingers
ferociously forward ...
The blazing bastions bent on burning the backwood bluffs bare with bitter brutality ...
Unholy hoards of heated horror hailing the heavens with heinous, heckling howls of
hellish hostility.
One was when it was new.
Shiny head calling to me from days of childhood.
Pick me up and make a wish..Surely you know this to be true
for people have told you your whole life it is.
Having doubts I grasped the penny
Heard the voices of the past Make a wish and it will be true..
and i wished for you.
Second was when we were one and strong
I saw the heads again.whispering their taunts.
Pick me up and make a wish, surely you know this to be true
So I grabbed that penny and held it close
And thought my wish and blew a kiss
and once again wished for you
Number three was tough,dirty and worn.
Hidden under and could barely be heard.
Right at my feet as the connection had ended.
It rasped pick me up and make a wish surely
you know this to be true
I glared at that penny through eyes fogged with pain.
I bet on two others and look at the cost.
My spirt is tattered my hearts at a loss.
I dug it out and rubbed it...
My you've had it rough
Your surface is worn with deep gouges through out
Still it called again in a voice barely heard..Make a wish
surely you know this to be true but went on..those others
you bet on where shiny and new, my surface is beaten but it's what
I've been through..My magic still works of this I assure you.
And I grasped that dirty penny in hands filled with hurt
Kissed it rubbed it and once again....
I wished for you.....
There they were
Dirtied like untreated cavities.
There on the mirror
Our benighted oblivion for actualities
Somewhere across or below
The solution is not shared to bestow
Nor mercy allowed to freely stand
But only is granted to be banned
The truth gouges our knowledge,
The truth that humans are cavities
Without shelters nor ailments
The truth refuses to gouge our heart
But only accepts to gouge our knowledge.
To be under our sky is to be under their sky.
Thus we are the same people.
THE GHOST BAR
gangrenous chains
rusted and burdensome
lambast the oak plank
etching ethereal gouges
the serpentine length drags
with warlike screams
ghoulish intensity
grabs each bony-disk
with heartlessness
the ice cold floor and
daggered eyes, seem
but a hallucination
to the drunken lot
but the barmaid sees!
she screams
as the breathless apparition
howls with wrathful laughter
she faints, fast and dreadful
the chains coil about his neck
in retribution for his act
yanking him about
the floor gives way like quicksand
and he plummets yet again
to certain death
covered by miles and miles of clanging chain
the barmaid’s brought about by salts
she tells the tale over and over again
until the legend of the ghost bar
becomes famous
detailed in rusty chains and eyes
...one peeks through
10/23/2017
Find me here
Within graphite words
breathe me deeply
until the lines are blurred
let my smoke fill your lungs
I desperately want to be felt and heard
Ash rises from my bones
from my mind to your heart transferred
my thoughts are paper thin
Yet they levitate upon my imperfections
Two three and four dimensions
The things I can't scream
without fear here I mention
Maybe it's all a cry for attention
is it really me these absurd expressions
I lay it out for the world
Find the holes in my communication
plug in your extension
Maybe the light from your lamp
will illuminate my apprehension
My record silently skips
a soundless sensation
The needle gouges deep
with its intimate groove penetrations
Is this any indication
of my faltering perceptions
or do I have frayed wires
stripped by my preoccupation
So here now and from yesterday
I form words into weird collections
maybe you can find me here
amidst my verbose fascination
I'm here somewhere
in all of these indentations!
Rowdiness drives though your eyes
It builds a freeway, leading to consistent roads
I can’t explain your stunning beauty, making my passion jam-packed
I can’t explain this heartfelt feeling inside—it’s so inconceivable
Your nature is like a vermillion, impeccable rose; your scent is gratifying
I can’t explain this addiction I have planted inside—I want to overdose
On your genuine desires (that is most appealing)
That last a lifetime, pouring forth glee
Upon my contemptuous sorrows and kisses
Your tone of voice burns like a wildfire…penetrating me like crazy
It tears down the habitation that once existed and now gone
I can’t explain this fishy sensation plunging inside—it’s so absurd
Your nature reflects a treacherous passion like a whirling sea
I can’t explain this admiration I have drilling inside—caught in the waves of motion
Pounding lightly and ardently
It only lasts a few milliseconds… pouring forth notions
Upon my overwhelmed mind with gouges and blisses
These excruciating scars left a mark
That lasts a century, accumulating my glory
Running over my heart …tearing me apart…
Pounding me with affection…showing me the direction
Where I could drive through the rowdiness of your eyes
Oblivion
Fear caresses my heart,
An eminent doom alerts my intuition.
The sun sets below the horizon.
As I prepare myself for the inevitable.
Encased in oblivion,
Left alone with my thoughts.
Drifting in and out of consciousness,
Relinquishing the authority over my mind.
Emotions rupture my heart,
Devoured by tidal waves of guilt.
Engulfed in translucent apprehension.
Where will I be taken?
Curiosity gouges my eyes,
Put on display for the amusement of others.
As I overindulge in scrutiny,
Oblivion corrupts my vision.
I lust for tranquility,
Foreshadowing my own demise.
Uneasiness punches my kindness,
An eternal love for all living things.
Disappointment intertwined with serenity,
An unfulfilled hope for humanity.
Lynching my morals for all to see,
Struck in the skull by oblivion.
I execute my fear
As I climb out of the hole I’ve dug.
Covered in empty promises,
Versatility in disguise.
Swearing to change my habits,
Lifted above moral reproach.
Exorcising my immorality.
A boy becoming a man.
Imputing my negativity,
Exiting my self-inflicted purgatory.
Crucifying my positivity,
Now I fall in reverse.
Tainted by dishonesty,
Replaying my mistakes endlessly.
Sacrificing my sanity
To differentiate between lunacy.
Forcing my happiness to include normalcy.
Why am I different?
Melding my heart and mind as one,
I become oblivion.
oh sweet, sweet mutilation
i feel for the ones that know not your ways
carried in throngs of masochism
you need not know of the devil to know easy deeds
cut, slice, wash petty harms
some new kind of knowledge through some kind of lust
cry, sweat, piss pretty waste
there's no truer art than the art of outraged disgust
i'll haunt for shock value if they bury me in censorship
so just cover me all up before some drone short circuits
forgetting their becoming
all in spite of what they became
so tell me one thing
no two
are you easily harmed?
do you get queasy
at the sight of blood
or sharp objects?
do you quake
at the mention of
abrasions and slits
and gouges and sutures?
or are you
just as i may always be
dead eyes that see everything
oh sweet, sweet exasperation
in the act of infidelity
you wince at the thought of affairs
yet you weep over petty harms, easy deeds
(no, i don't "cut," i'm just trying to bother some people; maybe you're one of them.)
GLACIER
Silent boasts
The mass of coldness.
Its grim whiteness
In slow-motion anger
Tears and gouges the land
Into trenches and holes.
Its deep claw marks
Show a cold-hearted deliberate
Desecration of the land.
The massive coldness
Of a salient beast.
Welcome to a world of imagination,
Where nothing is what it seems to be,
A world unlike any other,
A world,
Where being mad is normal.
"Come sit with me,
Care for a cup of tea,
Come, come be seated please,
We have much to discuss",
Exclaims the hatter.
"About shoes and ships; and ceiling wax,
Cabbages and kings,
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings."
"Peculiar you say?
My child; I have no idea what you mean,
What is so peculiar about me?
Do I have rat in my teeth?
Or is my hat too big for my head?"
"What do you have to say Hare?"
He looks over to the old dingy rabbit,
Whose eyes seem to droop forever,
Watering every time he blinks,
As thick drool,
Spills from his open mouth.
"I say kill her,
slice her throat,
I have the jelly knife here,
I wonder what she'll taste like in me tea",
Says the hare with an evil cackle.
The hatter speaks unto the girl,
"I'm sorry to inform you,
But the tea party is over for you,
You wandered into our garden,
And were never invited."
Out pops the door mouse,
From his cracked sugar bowl,
Running towards the girl,
With what seems to be rusty hooks,
He jumps onto her head,
And gouges her eyes out.
She screams in utter agony,
As the hatter removes the pins from his hat,
And begins to impale her heart,
In jumps the hare,
Slicing her throat over a cup of tea.
They all resume their seats,
And sip their tea.
"I say, this is a fine cup of tea",
Says the Hatter,
With tea drizzling down his lips,
"Such a lovely party,
And so glad you could have come,
With so many memories,
This is the last one of our song,
Goodbye Alice,
You were one bad child".