You practice and you train,
you wrack your damn brain,
you push through the pain,
it still goes
sideways.
You’re up before dawn,
give it guts and brawn,
till the last ounce is gone,
it still goes
sideways.
You have all the tools,
and follow regs and rules,
like all the other fools,
it still goes
sideways.
You do it all right,
keep it in the fight,
hustling day and night,
it still goes
sideways.
No matter what you do,
how much you go through,
all the s*** you knew,
it still goes
sideways.
Sideways.
Sideways.
Always goes sideways.
Off the rails.
Off the track.
Backa**wards.
Catching flak.
Sideways.
Things get crazy.
S*** hits the fan.
Goes **** up.
Gotta pay the man.
Sideways.
Things gone south.
Went to the dogs.
Gone to hell.
Lost in the fog.
Just sideways.
Sideways.
Categories:
sideways, endurance, military, work,
Form: Dramatic Verse
sun radiates heat
onto a sideways lizard
on a cinder block
Categories:
sideways, animal, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku
I took an unexpected trip to Accidental city,
bruised ribs, torn ligaments, a state most
would pity..
Yesterday I experienced a trip and a fall on
uneven asphalt outside a local mall..
There weren't any witnesses to observe
my little feat.
I focused on getting back up and safely
from the street.
My left hip's been iffy for quite awhile so
I pulled myself up in a downward dog style..
If it were only a few bruises I would just
say tsk tsk but once up I realized my pelvis
I had twist..
After reporting it to security I went directly home.
A night with heat and arnica and several mournful moans..
I could bear weight on my right leg so I hobbled thru the day,
until I discovered if I walk my left foot side ways, it keeps the pain at bay..
The author of this poem is still hobbling and hurting so
would some one out there kindly get up and close my curtain?
Categories:
sideways, health,
Form: Rhyme
Oh soooo pretty
So wonderful to watch
My heartrate kept increasing
You kicked it up a notch
Stealing little glances
When you turned your back
Beauty in abundance
None of it you lack
Turning 'round you caught me
Quickly I looked down
Too late to not be noticed
Your blue eyes caught my brown
But I was not embarrassed
I wanted you to see
That I was looking at you
You've captivated me
Your attributes I study
To me you're just the best
So far ahead of others
Much better than the rest
I picture us together
A duo and a team
Making some great music
Loving out a dream
Categories:
sideways, dream, for her, i
Form: Rhyme
salmon swim sideways
while nature does take its course
to start of each branch
Categories:
sideways, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
it was just …
a look
one …
it was my reaction you saw -
a recoil
emotional … untethered
it wilted, blue
in louvered columns of moonlite
long before it bloomed
but you plucked it anyway
one petal at a time
a wish on each
for my annihilation and doom …
but my ruin was long ago
your eyes
whispering me
a breeze through the cedars -
gravity to a sparrow -
first gaze and on
I was done …
now
for sake of my fool’s song
and a glance
we’ll never know …
what might’ve been.
Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, March 7, 2023
Categories:
sideways, break up, imagery, love
Form: Free verse
The wind is up and roaring.
Thrashing tree's fling Autumn away.
Clouds scud like ghost ships
and we struggle to keep steady
on backyard decking's.
Most heads are down
as we walk alone leaf-blown.
Some miss the late sun,
most breathe deeper
the cooler air mussing hair
as lungs billow like sails.
Color and gray vie,
they battle in the sky
and who or what will win
is up for gusty grabs.
Categories:
sideways, poetry,
Form: Free verse
OVER UNDER INSIDE OUT
(It still doesn’t fit)
The hospital gown
Makes Greek statues frown
You can see it in their sculpted faces
And they say in disgust
That they always will trust
The fig leaf that the gown replaces
Categories:
sideways, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Watching with a glass of water in case the clouds
are thirsty
when they stop
Categories:
sideways, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lady Love Under-Over-Sideways-Down..
I miss the sun sparkling in your eyes, the moon glow of your skin
the air, as fresh as your shrug that conceals
all pain matching my acceptance of my fate
I can feel the breathe of yesterdays saints
Categories:
sideways, emotions, good morning, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Egyptians walked sideways I figure
to conceal the fine points of their figure.
In a desperate scrimmage
with their own body image
diet mania they would prefigure.
Categories:
sideways, body, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
head straight
ahead
as the bulb
snaps
it’s only
a phone
record
that old smile
delivered
painfully
his vertebrae
reverberates
back
to its normal
state
a nurse
pushes
him back
to his room
6/25/2019
Categories:
sideways, pain,
Form: Free verse
LOPSIDED and SIDEWAYS
Severe blindness and handicapness
Of double mindedness
I can't stand
It pierce under my skin
Ever so deeply to leave no room for open discussion
Only confusion that leaves me with nothing
But lies to myself and unsafe untread waters
that fails miserably to quench the thirst of my true understanding of what is me
What is real
And what is trusted
Which ever so leads me
Unbalanced and confused
Categories:
sideways, destiny, inspirational,
Form: ABC
small particle
of light in the
free and infinite space
what is knowledge
what is karma
she seems perturbed
white sand spreading beyond
an injured crab walking backwards
we are
our whole nature is freedom
we curb it we listen to false
teachings and get entangled
and we are in bondage
you are the horizon
where earth meets the space
no gravity in space
you are
free and floating
the weight of our habits
are old and heavy
darkness is traditional embrace
the light just realise it
she is embracing me now and
the crabs are walking sideways
Categories:
sideways, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
Dear
single guys,
open a pet shop
that just sells kittens,
and let the single
ladies come
to you
Categories:
sideways, funny, relationship,
Form: Shape
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