a
single,
beautiful,
clear, golden note
starts a symphony,
and a fresh, new Spring bud
becomes a pretty flower.
an acorn grows into an oak,
just as a young lad once made a life.
but that's only half of the story.
even an oak's limbs one day dry,
and a blossom's petals drop.
when the music's over,
the glory lingers
as an old lad
wistfully
shuffles
out.
D r i f i n g
observations from faraway places
dreams drawn from Beta born curios
traveling through limitless faces
distant glow of conscious realities
from here I see
wedding rings around Neptune
sleepwalking awake
weightless again
the ebb and flow
of Light year therapies
meditative monologues
threadbare Thetas
my return Home
Alone----together
singing telegram
madonna at my bedside
coded falsetto
Walked through the fire, now you will smoke;
Adversity has made you strong;
Be seen, crazy like nothing before;
Everybody go get famous
everybody don’t forget ‘us’;
Live for Summer, concerts, and weekends;
Now we leave you to change the world,
But remember where you are from;
Chase your dream, follow your passion.
*ClassOf2020Strong*
nocturnal nature nimble
taunting tainted treble
felon feelings fumble
airy atmosphere gobble
rustic rhythm birthed
moaning melody tremble
dark dances complement
callous concerto's crest
bounty biddings bent
lanky coda lurches
nature hanker surges
puking punctured confetti
bruised skin blushes
under mystic massages.
'20:02:29:11:50
A harpist sent a note
That felt rather sharp.
It left me feeling flat
As a worn-out tune.
Out of rhythm and sync;
Too lento to make the play,
I lacked the harmony
To counterpoint her melody.
Cadenza like, my heart once surged;
Now it drums out a dirge.
The key to her heart
Lay with a noted composer.
This heartless rat made her a coda;
Turning her into a decomposer.
i never
figuratively
but literally
try to make
a point
and my puns
are always in
tended with
out me
having to make
finger quotation
marks in the air
while
trying to find a
synonym for the
word synonym
lies
made it arduous
to find a coffin
that fit
Buuurrrpppeth!
Prithee, f'rgive me.
(I thanketh thee)
Humans are moving into space and beyond
The planet they call home will soon be dead
and gone
They succeeded doing what none did before
Killing a planet where life prospered millions
of years or more
Destruction began with animal resources
Then draining the earth of all its life forces
Earth's atmosphere didn't escape the
decimating act
It was the last to go in actual fact
They built a space vehicle …a latter day
Noah's ark
And they're now lost in space in cosmos'
frozen dark
They haven't a plan on where they'll go
But found the universe is a rocky horror
picture show
Sudden eclipses blare
Thoughtlessness…thrombosis…
The only room opens and snakes drip
From broken windows as leaves hiss
Ghosts try to form bodies…turning…
Into the silent agony of madness shuffling
Into the wordless expression of immensity
Into the vivid darkness of coma black…
FREE FOR ALL-A CODA
Less than 100 years now have passed
since my grandfather’s kind threw off the yoke
and had the vote. Seventy short years have
flown like days since my father came back
from war to vote and ensure free education
health & hope .
And for what ,(without consent) a neo liberal
elite replaced the yoke.Now no longer free
we bend to the will of an EU oligarchy.
When all is said,& done the English common man
returns again to square one.Whither democracy?
stolen away in one century.
Listen to me recite this and all my poetry on youtube under my pen name ichthychiro
Go go Super Mario
1...2...3 fight!
I will get through the maze
before I end for the night
blast blast punch splat
it's tricky to rock around
eat all the pellets
collect all the flags
and in the end your
number one
and your initials
infused in stone..
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