love
what love is
love
where love lives lovely
love
where hate lives wickedly
to make lovely
love all
like the brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers
like the better half, darling beloved
love
the peace, happiness
to be grateful
love
the disturbance, sorrowfulness
to erase the self-grievance
love
the love key
it's humanity
-18/11/19 CTG, BD
Categories:
sorrowfulness, love,
Form: Free verse
Gum - A Haiku
laugh sorrowfulness
a resinous, lark gum hoots
before the happy
6/8/19
Categories:
sorrowfulness, assonance, bird,
Form: Haiku
Diane Perna
BURNT TEARS
I remember a tormented childhood with
Dad’s words laced with poison and Mom
tossed acid on my tears by saying no words
to stop it and even joined it.
I remember that even though I was a small
and frail child that didn’t stop them
these parents left me to thrash about life
with their painful insults.
I remember because my spirit was crushed
I wore an unmistakable frown
the wounds of my heart were inimitable too
as was the damage to my character.
I remember Mom laughing when I swallowed Clorox
and should’ve warned it wasn’t apple cider
what I was left with was swallowing burnt tears
and always wondered if anyone could tell.
I remember my sorrowfulness like
hot molten metal running over me but
I kept it locked up and bound because
I only found judgment that silenced me.
I remember pressing on through to another year,
month, week, day and minute with the blare in my
head of the brutal belittlement so evermore
I carry the memory of those burnt tears.
Categories:
sorrowfulness, angst, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Deep in the shrine, sins
Deep in the courtroom, injustice
Deep in the costume, exposure
Deep in the constitution, lawlessness
Inside the adulthood, puberty
Deep in motherhood, breastlessness
In the paternity, womankind
In the smiles, sorrowfulness
Inside the forces, idleness
On the holiness, sacrilege
For the oaths, hypocrisy
In those appeals, bendlaws
In the beddings, no siesta
Deep in the dreams, nightmares
And in love, hatemongers
In friendship, betrayals
Deep in charity, parity
Inside volunteers, opportunities
In the nations, stations,
In the stations, nepoties
In a professor, knowlessness
In the schools, copiers
For the democracy, demos
Inside the hopes, pessimism
Categories:
sorrowfulness, betrayal, evil, humanity, sad,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Least of the day before death
I want to be a silent man.
Without a word, I will be viewing your happiness
Sorrowfulness, lifestyle.
I will see how to cry, laugh.
How to speak with others.
And how to understand others.
Don't take tension.
I will not bargain with you like now.
Because I want to be a silent man
Least of the day before death.
Categories:
sorrowfulness, change, depression, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
In strides evil walks
Good has been left far behind
Sorrowfulness' joy!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
27 January 2018
Categories:
sorrowfulness, evil, men, sorrow,
Form: Haiku
I could not cry enough tears or wallow in such regret
The crowds taunting jeers as upon His way they beset
Unable to express such inner pain such utter sorrowfulness
In realizing such gain and how much God truly does bless
As my heart begins to weep with each passage that I hear
My mind soon begins to steep knowing His Mother Mary was so near
Watching Her Son on that Cross oh such a sight I can not face
For my whole being is at a lose in this amazing showing of God's Grace
Such a sacrifice I could not imagine oh the pain He went through
To set us free from our sin out of His Amazing love He did this for You
But with every image that I get in looking closer at His Cross
The more such emotion does overcome in the feeling of such a loss
For who was I to ever deserve this and what could I ever even do
But that's the point that you can't miss, He did all of this for You
So there before the Cross I kneel such an unworthy servant am I
And thus the need that I so often feel to just break down and cry
Categories:
sorrowfulness, devotion, happiness, joy, sad,
Form: Rhyme
If only you can disappear,
And conceal your existence,
If only I can run,
Away from my un-lasting resistance,
Endless nights of suffering,
My eyes are imprisoned by tears,
I would always revive myself,
When I see you in my dreams,
Reality and make-believe,
Confuse all my thoughts,
Leaving me seek desperately,
For all the answers,
Ruthless words echo in my head,
Erupting all my sad feelings,
When I look at the mirror I see,
A bruise prevented from healing,
Shattering on the ground,
Like broken pieces of glass,
The happy memories are gone,
And are replaced by sorrowfulness,
If only I can expose my soul,
To you, my deepest fear
And leave you powerless
So you can disappear,
Set me free,
Erase the immortality of you in me,
And let the air you inhale,
Be the air I breathe out…
Categories:
sorrowfulness, angst, life, lost love,
Form: Free verse