The rabbit wants to run.
Prance about the fields for fun
Show off its talent to someone
But its cage wont let it.
The rabbit dreams to be free.
Chase the butterflies and the bumble bees
Burrow by a big birch tree
But it has a limp.
The rabbit wishes to feast.
Snack on daffodils, feel like a beast
Hop away from the wild geese
But it has a clipped ear.
The rabbit hopes to be brave.
To finally leave this cage someday
Find the joy and glory it craves
But the rabbit drives the fear.
With the cage open.
With its limp healed.
With its ear fixed.
The rabbit still wouldn't run.
Why, rabbit, do you still wish to run?
In truth he was a cowardly snake,
Who left when my life was at stake,
Who I forgave in a new take,
Yet he will never be someone for my sake.
I hope someday his heart will break,
Because of how he left mine in ache.
I am sad his soul is another I cannot wake,
Even after trying after realizing he is fake.
He is a cowardly buffoon
Less cowboy than poltroon
Cringes in fear at the moon
Afraid of bubbly lagoon
Doesn’t make anyone swoon
Terrified of a small raccoon
Shrieks and hides from a blown-up balloon
A forever alone weird little goon
Funny we idolize, admire, imitate
Stars, politicians, elitists aggregate
Living in their hollow lavish luxury
As demonic robotic cultic zombies
Chasing the next pleasurematic high
Regardless soul depravation deprive
Sold out to their life utter perversion
Hiding from true light truth aversion
All the while remaining silent passe
Allowing the masses to be led astray
Feigning strength and superiority
Cowering to their lifestyle sorority
Afraid to say what's right n powerless
Living a secretive lie of cowardice
Nonsense feeders, just useless
Impeders, slow and lazy in a walk
To cake, sluggish decievers wasting
Space; even though theres plenty of
It they still waste it we're sure of it
Coulden't they be in canary yellow?
So all could avoid the stupid fellows.'
Have they got familiy? Who'd own
These bums, david hurly might be one?
He's quite the lyre-bird we've heard.'
In thrall to the who-lers mark my words!
Sack the lot.' Kick them out.' Carping
Skiters, that have no clout.'
We are the wind, the air, the ether
Our separate souls connecting teacher
Adrift upon a shifting essence
Allowing life its ever presence
A beam of light, an ocean wave
Heroic knight, cowardly knave
Passing through a moment’s now
No where or when, no why or how
We are the wind, the air, the ether
Our separate souls connecting feature
©10/1/2022
Sans mind-body who are we Poetry Contest
As Russians choose to wipe out lives -
Putin plays at god with a coward’s soul.
Quote by Poet
COWARDLY BEATDOWN OF SUNFLOWERS
marvel at suff’ring
yellow is new red
pushpin set in Spring
abhorrent with dread
3/22/2022
I'm a coward.
I let people assume that I was born this way when in reality it was bred into me to be so defensive.
I let people belittle me because I fear being by myself, so it's better to be a mat they walk all over than to be nothing to them at all.
I don't speak my mind because all my life I was told to observe , you learn more about people that way they said.
I constantly have to put on a fake smile to keep people around because getting replaced is a regular occurrence.
I don't know how to love properly because I fear it's him touching me again.
people's assumptions of me always seem so legit but I sometimes wonder if they actually got to know me ,would they be so okay with the things i joke about.... the things that traumatized me?
I would rather be by myself all day than face the judgement of people who are supposed to be supportive.
I'm a coward you see.
I let people step all over me because it's better than them walking away from me...forever.
Cowardly terrorists caused many people a great deal of sorrow.
On September 11, 2001, 2,996 people would have no tomorrow.
Many people died because a few planes were hijacked.
Almost 3,000 people died and they won't be coming back.
At those innocent people's funerals, many people showed respect by sending flowers.
All because those terrorists caused those planes to crash into the World Trade Towers.
Twenty years ago today, many had good reason to be afraid.
Time sure does fly, it doesn't seem like it has been two decades.
Mom donated $100 to the families of the people who passed away.
She was truly sorry that those people perished on that terrible day.
That tragedy is something that people can't forget, it's something we will always remember.
Because of cowardly terrorists, many innocent people died on the eleventh of September.
(Dedicated to the people who perished on September 11, 2001)
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Time time return me through the years
back to the time, where Egyptian chariots flew
back through the ages went one such as I,
and down the hole of time,
for I am the wicche and so the wicche is me
for I am the past which sings to the future and call to you the present
whilst the path is set the Dragon approaches and death with him,
while storm and lightning rocked the earth
I sought to live in the past to escape my wrong the curse that was laid, the doom of humanity
"A Recipe for Antonym"
the opposite of
didactic
ulterior motive
Elastic,
bend over for receiving
patronising missives
presumptuous, friendly and deadly
with lol and smiles
then genuflect
then somersault backwards
it’s part of the ceremony
in the soupy wash
Socratic passive is us
plastic, pernicous, piquant and plural
sipped slowly and loyally steadfast
scratching backs towards the shadows
of whispered never me's (sic)
to mirrors gushing sibilant soliloquy
the opposite of lost is now moving in
with a bent halo
and sewn off blunderbuss
inscribed on the handle
I’m sure glad I'm not one of you us
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
"Twice" / Little Dragon
https://youtu.be/TrpMncSZe-I
Society Is no cowardly want to know what's cowardly? Women being judgmental. When continuously turning me down when i ask them out. Do you know how it feels to be alone lost and not felling loved. Bringing someone down to the lowest point they can possibly go. Yes my family loves me but is not the same i fell alone lost and not loved. There is an emptiness that no one wants to fill. You wont be my companion my best friend or my lover. Because you take just one look at me and i am judged by you . How can you judge me you don't even know me. You wont even take time to get to know me. Instead you just ignore it and act like it's no big deal or that it's not your problem. Do you really know how it feels when you are all alone and feel lost and not loved. It makes me feel like nobody cares and that my life is pointless. That's just women being judgmental.
Suicide is not cowardly.
Want to know what's cowardly? Continuously making someone feel so low that they feel like death is the only option. Bringing someone so down to the point you put them six feet under, the lowest they could ever possibly go. Instead of helping them or seeking help for them you ignore it and act like it's not a big deal. Making that person feel like nobody cares and their life is pointless...
THAT IS COWARDLY.1/23/13
What does it feel like to die?
I see that bird flying there
It feels so free
But birds have hurt and pain too
I forget about other peoples hurt and pain too much
do I think about myself too much?
Is that the essence of my problem?
Am I a coward?
Is it cowardly to live or cowardly to die?
I guess Fear overpowered Hope and Faith. I guess
that way
is best.That way no one hurts. Just
right. No
mistakes. No
mess-ups and
broken hearts.
Foolishness, like a bird
sees no cat ready
to pounce. To kill.
To make it suffer.
Well that bird
had hope and faith,
but forgot about the simple facts of life.
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