impulse warns the fly:
the spider web is knotty ---
it gets ensnared, yet
Categories:
recklessness, animal, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
When law and order broke down on the street,
And people run riotous, with no retreat,
Looting and destroying city's core,
Youth, in their recklessness, yearn for war.
But only those who've witnessed war's cruel face,
Can truly cherish peace and its embrace.
A youngster clamoring for battles to wage,
Knows not that war brings death and endless rage.
Until, suddenly, hundreds fall before your eyes,
And by a mere whisker, you escape demise,
A bullet spins past, grazing your ear,
And you question yourself, Am I still here?
Or have I gone there, into the great beyond,
Where souls depart, where life's thread is frond?
Then you pinch your cheek, to feel your own skin,
To confirm you're alive, and not a ghost within.
Only then can you truly comprehend,
The premium value of your life, and its precious blend.
Categories:
recklessness, death, scary, violence,
Form: Rhyme
I lost my mind
somewhere
between the seconds ticking
God left
and the devil punched in
Stray winds
dark and long
blew coldly on my paper sails
as
things I thought I knew
sank away
down into lightless fathoms
And when
in answer to my begging letters
a bashful dawn bled in
I made her promises
that somewhere
deep within
I knew
I’d only go and break
Categories:
recklessness, drug, emotions, loneliness, lost
Form: Free verse
tapping on the bottom of the chair,
hoping for an alteration of essence
strictly of the background noise
withstanding only what i can hear
i endured a barrier around a chasm,
one within my body,
to which the walls are water
and the center is my breath
i may drown for the recklessness of my visits,
on red pluses and shimmering silver
a peculiar feeling where i dont do much
and everyone else does
its much like living in a tomb
how of course i would never know,
i have never lived in a tomb,
but something tells me its not far away.
Categories:
recklessness, death, sad,
Form: Free verse
If recklessness,
Doesn't leave the rudder of humanity's boat
Into prudence hands,
Man would soon have to face the typhoon of
Nature's wrath!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
13 June 2021
Categories:
recklessness, humanity, nature, wisdom,
Form: Epigram