Don't eat the shellfish
the sea filters through
Every thing is a dichotomy
they say in the end
This obliqueness
sows it's wild oats in
the forest where only
small shreds of light
make their way to the
ground
A starlight is worth a
multitude of sound,
a one liner, a lyric,
a pun, a religion,
you and me
and all we have on this
Earth
was meant to mean
good things to some
Categories:
filter, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Ballade
I need to filter out the world,
Just for a little while,
To drown out the white noise,
The static and the light.
I music has turned discordant
And I cannot see the sky,
Hear the rustling on the breeze,
Nor the soaring birds that cry.
The longing for some silence
Is building each passing hour
The yearning for some clarity
Drives me up this broken tower
The whispers on the winds,
Have all been blown away,
The deep azure blue sky,
Has been faded out to grey.
It's time to shut it down,
Let it all fade out to black,
As the silence comes crashing in,
I hope I can come back.
Categories:
filter, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Who I Might Have Been
David J Walker
Ever since
You came home
Things haven’t been
The same
Things that I remembered
Have been rearranged or
Discarded/hidden
in the mounds of dead leaves
Beneath the dying trees
of my youth
A small fire lit under the
rotting truth
Of that which can be set free by flames
Then who’s to say what they might have been
Ever since
You came home.
My bathroom mirror has cracked
Into a fractal filter
I spend my mornings deciding
Who I might have been
today
Categories:
filter, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
The Human Filter (Freewill)
There is only, but one, who can see black and white.
For the rest of us, it is merely perception.
We can hope for glory, but for all is not bright.
As many have followed a path of deception
Choosing right over wrong, there is only one choice
But the answer is not, always easy or clear
When intention may be, but you listened to voice
Your trusted, Jezebel, is the one you should fear
For so many have felt, and their feelings infringed
Of a world that’s selfish and derailed from what’s right
When even the righteous, have been victims of spin
As so many lose faith, I am searching, for light
We are human filters; to allow, how we play
But the more we filter, we darken the shade; gray
Contest: Your best sonnet October1-December31,2017
Sponsor: John Hamilton
Original posting: 12/21/2017
Placed Sixth
Categories:
filter, religious, strength, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Our little angels are being taken
by this horrible disease
GOD help to rid this from the
world please
It has no filter to pick and
choose you see
It could take hold of you
or hold of me
When it appears in our kids
it hits us most
Why did you pick our little
ones? They should not be
your host
They should be playing each
and everyday
Not laying up sick and hurting
we know that’s your way
Rid their little bodies of your
nasty hold
And take your sickness with you
as you go
The day will come as we STOMP
you out forever
We only wish that it was sooner
to make our little ones
better
We will jump for joy and shout
it to the moon
That day will come and
hopefully very soon
Little Owen is running and
playing in HEAVEN forever
more
You don’t have him to hurt
GOD closed the door
Tammy Arrowood 10-7-2017????
Categories:
filter, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Two years and a couple of weeks and I will be on the road again. Back from living right and ready to start living wrong. Ain't that a *****. But I got a pocket full of money gotta last me till they burn me on beach of Lake Bistineau. Not much to hope for but a redneck's dream gets lost in double wides, Pearl beer and filter kings. I'll see you in Houston. I'll see you in Baton Rouge, I'll see you Oxford if your shoes ain't too blue. Until then my friend I'll see you in the Bayou, Syd & Harry's, Foresters, Magoos, and all those place we used to get lost.
Categories:
filter, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
tank filled with green crud
on the bottom like a spud…
goldfish was a dud
Categories:
filter, animals, death, pets
Form: Haiku
Praying Mantis at basement door
I had not seen you here before
So lime green you stand out
Scarey enough to make me shout
Died next day in pool filter__gore
Categories:
filter, death, imagination, nature
Form: Limerick
The dirt does not give into words.
Blind-less in tongue and heart,
I have dropped myself in the earth.
Dark eyes wrapped in cloth,
Tilted clouds narrow my sight.
Spiral down fellow pride follows,
Relieving fires flame of it's light.
Tonight silent is the color.
And the wind is what I wear.
Tomorrow is what we desire,
Dropping the past skin and years.
Aggravation the deepness unaware-for a fee.
Quivering stories holding the once better-left debris.
Filtrate the deafening lies we're forced to breathe-sounds of fear.
You crack the glass we all feel to sing-mixed to share.
Digging farther to find what I've left behind-beyond what's here.
Categories:
filter,
Form: I do not know?
And so affection seeks to wane
without faith's holding on in vain.
I hold my thought in context's aim
to some adjustment, love's contain.
As filtering truth, I filter feign
so glories honor fits thy name.
I filter solace, peace maintain
no purpose hollow, thee might claim.
As all in all, I filter rain
that burdens thee in thy domain.
I filter sunshine to thy gain
that warming fortress wiles proclaim.
But of consent in truth, abstain
from wrong's direction, sin's refrain.
In purpose forward, lift the stain
that all creation borders main.
I filter love, as heaven's reign
would speak of time, in season's crane.
I filter rhyme to message plain
the words of why I love, explain.
But more the more, I pray, restrain
the thought that God would see me slain
to ended spill of courage ~ drain
where ever more imparts a swain ~
Who answers heart . . . then turns again!
Categories:
filter, introspection,
Form: Rhyme