Out Of Sight : Out Of Mind Poems

I sit in the back of a traveling train 
The exit to the left guides me to the thoughts in my brain 
So hop on board to take a ride 
On the train of thought with me to see what's...Read More

Dressed in black
Can’t bring you back
So I cry in the rain
Smile through the pain
When I close my eyes
And I see your face
A bit of me dies
Because you’re in a better place
You’ve broken my heart
So I better fall asleep
Before I fall...Read More

Things Have Legs

Sometimes, I swear, things grow legs
Car keys, scissors, recipes set in place
But when I look they move away
To floors and underneath the newspapers.

I almost hear them laugh, or sneer,
 “Catch me if you can.”  “Look, over here!”
Out...Read More

Homelessness  is not a illness, 
People have lost their damn mind with a bunch of silliness.
People who are homeless get stereotyped as Alcoholics, Mentally ill, Panhandlers,  Drug users, 
Whoever says this about all homeless people are a bunch...Read More

For many years, the creek, ran passed as a drain,
Polluted and unloved; a poisoned murky vein.
A favoured dumping place, for household unwanted things -
out of sight, out of mind; and no good what it brings.

Life was almost non-existent in the...Read More

Drop me into the sea of dark.
Where my journey has no certain end.
Out of the atmosphere.
Of what I know was your hands.
You don’t need to cry about it.
I’ve seen this before.
I’ll walk this storm drain now and forevermore.
We’ll see about...Read More

Her picture fell behind the stage
where life and memories pretended a grave

An open casket as I saw her eyes
for long ago I bitterly cried

Under the lamp, the pictures sun
near the clock that mornings rung
by the things I use everyday
and things...Read More

His sins, many thousands of them, 
Lie buried in the anonymous soil.
Over his mantelpiece a proverb hangs: 
"Aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn." 
On his shelf "Mein Kampf" is visible. 
"It must never happen again," 
he is quick to reassure...Read More

I can’t bring myself to go to my room right now
And I don’t expect you to see
But my room is currently dripping with things 
That remind me to much of me

My likes and my history suffocate the air
Where my problems...Read More

While Still Have A Choice

You thought you had time
To call them again
Faithful close classmate
Long time ago friend.

Then you get a call
From out of the past
Too late to visit
Their tombstone’s been cast.

Guilt over the should’ve
You should have found time
Before you knew...Read More

I hate falling in love
For love is wicked and blind.
And weird and wild.
It gets me hypnotized.
As though I was a sheep to be sacrificed
I hate falling in love.
 
Love is full of empty promises and euphoria
It is out of sight,...Read More

Secrets every family have them
Secrets that are sacrate
Hidden away in a vault
Buried deep within the sand
Like artefacts out of sight, out of mind
Secrets we all have them
It's apart of who we are

Secrets are like a treasure chest
Cast out on a...Read More

Most people avoid her because of her heart.
One minute she is caring, the next she is overbearing.
The next she pours her heart the next she takes it all back and remains silent.
Too many mood swings, too many off brand medicines.
This...Read More

Silent thoughts


Candles burning brightly bring visions to my eyes.
Shadows dancing in the corners give this room a supernatural vibe.
As I sit here under the covers, all fears are held below;
I gaze into the broken mirror, in a room with no...Read More

Drowning in utter pain
black dog bites
Once again
I can't breath
I cannot cope
Heading for the torrid gutter
via the slippery slope
Lost in the srounding confounding darkness
Where I blindly fear to tread
I crawl into the sanctuary of a shell
of my bed
A bed of nails...Read More

I left a breadcrumb trail back to you.
There were photos, what was left of them
after years of handling,
Hiding them in the back of my desk drawer, daily,
worn and folded, and some in pieces.
Out of sight, out of mind?
No.

And your written...Read More

The walls are too close for comfort to high to climb
The air is hard to breathe to weak to fight and find the light
Arms giving up nowhere to hide the frustration deepness 
Gray skies ahead covering the suns rise in...Read More

Does the motto out of sight out of mind really work

Yes it does due to the fact you don't think about something or someone who's a jerk,

As long as there is no constant reminder for you to see

Your thoughts are...Read More

I thought of you today
 I never imagined I would
 Out of sight out of mind
 Or so I hoped

 You flew
 You grew
 You were too close to the sun
 I thought I told you
 Not to fall
 Fall...Read More

Torture’s Toxic Contagion
                  by Odin Roark

From where comes these perpetrators,
These conscienceless mortals
Whose senses are quashed by orders,
By fear of demotion,
By allegiance to evil?

Who...Read More

Children At Risk







Every time I hear a child has been neglected 

and vastly un protected.

Parents and caretakers have the most important

job of the world,

To raise and mold a boy or girl.

It breaks my heart.

We are tearing the children apart.

We have...Read More

out of mind
out of sight
was what you said last night
as the light was turned off 
and I walked away shackled in shameful handcuffs
skillfully placed when I wasn’t looking

out of sight 
was what we used to be
strutting our stuff across the...Read More

Broken pieces of our shattered lives 
Are packed away and forgotten 
Like unwanted items in the attic 

Hidden inside a box that 
Holds the crushed dreams 
And un-kept promises 
Of more hopeful times 

Near the torn bag of trust 
And...Read More

I tried to put my Jesus in a jewelry box
So I could carry him around
Take him out when I had the time
Marvel at my image of him

I wanted him to be a certain size
Just big enough to make me smile
Genie...Read More

"In twenty four hours" after "dancing with the devil"
Begins the "lifting of my veil" you'll see I'm totally being level
"Silence is golden" was snickered when "my confession" was read
Head nun said, "look before you leap" but yet I ended up...Read More