Demoted and downgraded
to quarter of a patient.
Diluted and disremembered.
I wish I could go back.
The walls remembered my name not my voice,
My existence faded by the hourglass,
I could feel the weight capture my chest
Felt like a taboo down my throat,
Memories swept, diminished, downgraded
Like words on a wet paper,
I found a letter in the rain
My name on it, my existence erased.
©?Written Whispers
Stumbling along the worn down pine,
Clamoring like a babe against floor and a table leg
I found the stool to shame all other stools.
Propping my bony bottom atop
Like a laggardly old lion,
Done with denunciation,
Dismal and downgraded,
While awaiting the minstrel's mentions
of a certain sort of sustenance.
"I have here for you soup
My little lamb."
Yet a lion here I sit!
With letters here I writ!
While in my bowl
She spills the same.
Despite my place.
Despite my name.
I take a spoonful
Maybe more.
My taste buds take off
Beyond flavor's shore.
I've now flown the coop
Just for poetry's soup.
She is out of her mind her relatives said.
They wanted her embalmed, cremated or dead.
Lucinda had her wits and was not to be dissuaded.
She gave them all the boot, they were downgraded.
She had a dream, and intended to put it into action.
Wanted a gingerbread house to give satisfaction.
Builder and construction crew were happy to do it.
Relatives inheriting nothing had a huge hissy fit.
I got what I deserve.
A third-rate circumstance of my own making.
Over the decades, I've downgraded a few times.
Tossed the good ones aside and swallowed the rotten.
Now I dream in burlap and wear the jesters' boots.
It's too late; I've made my bed.
Too late to upgrade
I'm old
The pitch is too steep.
Karma has been more than fair to me.
Why would I give up someone
who cares for me,
for someone who never did?
Why would I give up someone
who shows me off,
for someone who kept me hid?
Why would I give up someone
who thinks I'm worth it,
for someone who said that I'm not?
Why would I give up someone
who doesn't hurt me,
for someone who hurt me a lot?
Why would I give up someone
who compliments me,
Someone who treats me with respect.
For someone who always downgraded me.
My wants and needs,
always met with neglect.
Why would I give up someone
who's there for me.
For someone who was never there at all?
Why would I give up talking
to someone everyday.
For someone who, said I'm not
even worth a phone call.
Why would I give up someone
who doesn't disappear,
in my life they choose to stay.
For someone who everytime we got close,
would turn and run away.
Why would I give up someone
honest and faithful.
Someone to me who is true.
Why would I ever give up him,
And go back to someone like you.
Life has changed we live in fear
Stay safe take care are all we here
The lockdown has started but when will it end
Will the system break or will it bend
Will this world ever be the same
Who’s to punish who’s to blame
Marshal law is now the rule
As the virus searches dark and cruel
Ones you care for and love so much
Are locked away denied our touch
The Streets are silent the laughter faded
Our first class lives are now downgraded
Distances, a thought in constant motion
Provokes alarm creates emotion
Relationships suppressed devoid
Programmed now to swerve avoid
survival and self preservation
Cover and Consume our nation
Armageddon holds its breath
fills its lungs with every death
Waiting in the wings of life
To make its entrance flail its strife
Goldilocks
Mercury is too close, extremes of hot and cold
Venus is better placed, but not a home to hold
Mars may have been considered, millions of years ago
Jupiter is far too gassy, never an option, No!
Saturn looks attractive, adorned with cosmic rings
Uranus too unstable and all the storms it brings
Neptune is a big rock, but much too far away
Pluto is off the radar, it’s been downgraded anyway
That just leaves Earth perfect for all our needs
Not too hot, not too cold, Goldilocks theory agrees
Constant denigration
wears you down
you feel so small
as your efforts are
downgraded with cast-off scoffs.
Your pearls bedraggled,
lack lustre,
displayed dimmed and dulled,
squelched by doubt,
smeared in fear.
Duet performance discordant
sung in disharmony
with lead player out of tune,
tone-deaf.
Belittled, you be,
and bedraggled becomes you.
grant is granted of love
grant is granted of science
love is downgraded to love
love is downgraded to science
grant is granted to a downgrade of love
grant is granted to a downgrade of science
science is science's downgrade of love
vision is vision's granted of love
vision is vision's granted of science
vision is a granted vision
vision is a granted science
science is science' s vision of love
science is science's vision of science
love is a vision of science
downgrade is downgraded to science
downgrade is downgraded to love
love is love's science of love
love is granted as love
science is a love of science
love is granted as science
love downgrade love to science
Celestial Dance
The sun and the moon bowed to each other
as they pass on their orbital routes.
The stars did a heavenly dance of honour
the planets glistened bathed in deep purple
Mercury orbiting closest to the sun
fastest of all of the planets are you
Venus (twinned with Earth) the planet of love
lighten our hearts with your femininity
Earth our own planet only known source of life
Mars the red planet and bringer of war
Jupiter you are the jewel in the crown
we gaze at you breathless with wonder and awe
Uranus once known as Georgium Sidus
you are the enchanting ringed planet of beauty
Saturn, he languidly goes his own way
quietly, quietly just doing his duty
Neptune almost last but not least of the planets
you tip your trident, saluting the Sun
as all of our planets delight in celestial dancing
we watch hearts struck as they do their run
Posted: Apr 14, 2013
About this poem:
Pluto has recently been 'downgraded' to be a dwarf planet - and is thus not now usually included when listing the planets
She was the love of my life
But was never much of a wife
Which caused a whole lot of strife
Her hatred cut through my heart like a surgical knife
Once full of life now praying for a change in life
The love faded as the hate invaded
My thoughts persuaded while my presence was degraded
Always making me feel like you downgraded
All along my soul forever shaded
Wishing I knew the reason I was hated
Or why the feelings were abated
Dreaming of the day that I will be extricated
We were definitely mismated
What a fool as I stand here life deflated
Can only hope it will be mended
Its always myself I'm defending
Time to stop pretending
No more room for bending
The unrelenting ending is impending
3/29/2017
wings of security
silence of words
bubbling crimson drink
atrocities of the last
war
eloquent lips of wants
loiter in the dark corridor
of greed
i am downgraded to
a different dimension
A bird has
changed its body,
downgraded to
a requiem of light bones,
a lost map of flight,
a bag of foreign coins.
Black as old water,
empty as a gutted fish,
still as a prayer,
skinless as the
crashed sky,
eyeless with dismay.
Black umbrella pupils
Unfurling as my lips
Hold my tongue hostage
Your arms batter my heart's door
Howling winds ripping the roof
Off all our broken promises
But then your lashes shuttered stuck
As my fingers danced in your rain
Your lips downgraded
A hurricane
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Knew it was a matter of time before I wrote a hurricane poem. Hurrah for being a Floridian.
Downgrading storms= storm weakens/ends
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