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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nite

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Nite
I wish we can all die from old age
Life is a book death is the last page
Brave, be brave against the dying of the light

The ignorance of temptation makes desire feel right
Though roses have thornes you thirst to own one
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Nite

The ones who survive, though gutsy, remember the fright
Be it luck or having blessings from one
Brave, be brave against the dying of the light

Children dive to safety as brids take flight
This affair is normal to some
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Nite

The young are hard-head, and the elders are right
Live by the custom die by the gun
Brave, be brave against the dying of the light

And to you, my brother, I pray you stay strong
Life is a book, may your pages be long
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Nite
Brave, be brave against the dying of the light.

Copyright © Jay Porknbean | Year Posted 2010



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When Love Becomes Easy

When loves becomes e-z the world will B a better place
holdin you will B more often N kissin U will have a better taste
spendin time will not be spent but it will B remembered
When loves becomes e-z the doubts U have U wont remember
N When loves becomes e-z we will walk hand and hand with our enemies
when greed becomes powerless we will sail back from overseas
When loves becomes e-z it will B e-z 2 love,
sympathy will have a name N it's name will B love
When loves becomes e-z we will finally let our guard down
when i find love U'll B safe when i'm around
i could love 4ever and hate just once,
and that hate will back fire on me like a broken gun
hate is so e-z and love is so hard,
we love to hate the devil and fear to love God....

if we could love jus 2 love, my love will be everlasting
it will be bullet proof instead of plastic
When loves becomes e-z i will love like the 1st
mayB my mind will unfold, mayB this bubble will brust
it's better not to love at all then to love and lost
because trying to gain that love back is a debtly cost
and when loves becomes e-z a smile will become a gift
5 fingerz will become a hand N that hand will become a lift
When loves becomes e-z the most meaningful word will B friend
and When loves becomes e-z i will love you again

                                                                                          9/18/06

Copyright © Jay Porknbean | Year Posted 2010

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I Wonder If She Likes Me Too

She's a pretty young thing I can't help but glance
She sits four desk away from me in my class
She wears glasses that's that good girl look
Attends ever class like a good girl should
I'm really diggin her style and her smile too
I hope she likes me becuase I like her too
I'm diggin her smile I wonder if she digs mine to
I like her I wonder if she likes me too

She's got a vibe like my radio her frequency is high
Her voice her words the look in her eye (hmm)
She's Likes this song by Alicia Keys and I do too
But I don't think she like Alicia Keys the way I do (Ha)
I'm feeling her vibe I hope she feels mine too
I like her I wonder if she likes me to o

Good movies I can sit and watch all day long
That's only if the Fresh Prince is not on
She looked at me and said "you like the fresh prince too?"
And I answered back " of course I do"
Good music cartoons and eating cereal too
Now we got puppy love the way 4th graders do
I know she likes The Fresh Prince the way I do
I like her,
I wonder if she likes me too

Copyright © Jay Porknbean | Year Posted 2010

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24 Hours Without My Love

Never had there been a sky so grey
This rose doesn't have smell 
I have chances getting through the day
Like an ice cube in hell
Water is the flavor of life
Plan and dull to swallow
The emptiness off today leaves
No belief in tomorrow
Tomorrow? Tomorrow. 
No joy in knowing tomorrow
for it is mysterious yet
Leaves hints to follow
Hard to believe that love will come
And for this time stay
Never had there ever been, a sky so grey

Copyright © Jay Porknbean | Year Posted 2012

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Beauty

I have come to see that 
beauty is judged in that wrong 
way
 Beauty is what you make it to 
be like the day
  I’ve heard an old saying and 
it goes like this
  “Everything has beauty but 
not everyone sees it.”
  When it comes to human 
form beauty is only skin deep
  But some say it’s sightful, 
only physical, and only pretty
  It’s in the eye of the 
beholder, close your eyes and 
see beauty
  Open your hands and feel the 
gentle touch of a newbie
  Art in its prime is beauty at 
its finest
  A picture should not be 
judged on the light and color 
around it
  Beauty is a prisoner of those 
who judge it
  Have beauty in your heart 
and live a life of fortune
  I heard an old saying and this 
is what it read
  “Thinking beauty is 
breathing; don’t think it and 
you are dead.”  
  Misuse beauty in your heart it 
will be left on the lawn
  Those who pretend to live for 
beauty, have yet to see dawn
 Judgers of beauty, cease, for 
there is no need
 It’s in the eye of the beholder, 
and beauty is in everything.

Copyright © Jay Porknbean | Year Posted 2011



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The Hunger Doesn'T Help

I have a paper due on thursday
and i haven't started
Bills pile up like laundry
Specking of drity clothes, I'm wearing my last pair of underwear
and my heart hurts
not emotional, phsically,
like its about to cave in
been look for a job the last few weeks like christians have been look for Jesus
Not enough bus fare to get to class
My head is pounding
...and the hunger doesn't help.

Copyright © Jay Porknbean | Year Posted 2010

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Winterfresh

Im chewing this gum to cheer myself up
I wanna be happy but my love is chewed up
it was kicked out the door, and blowen away by a hurricane
lost on this earth, rotten like a sugar cane
if she decides to come back i'll wait
I would've been str8 but i killed my own faith
if I could i'd make one wish
to find my love like the lost fish
emontions running in and out, like a house with no door
I did the crime so what am I crying for
I can sob and try to hold on
but the world and her heart will still carry on
what about me im feeling crazy like your boy on drugs
what about her, now she has no love
4rm the 104 to the 35 to the 71
I can still taste her lips like I taste this gum
Winterfresh.

*i worte this poem in 2004, hope yall liked it

Copyright © Jay Porknbean | Year Posted 2010

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A Beautiful Rainy Day

I learned to appreciate the quality time of a bad situation
      We should have left the earth the way God created it
      Recoloring the world, why shelter from it?
Like the junk artist beauty is what you make it.

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Give a Lot Take a Little

Give a lot take a little
Give a lot take a little
 
Searching for love her heart aches from longsome
 
Give a lot take a little
Give a lot take a little
 
This pup is skin and bone no food and homesick
 
Give a lot take a little
Give a lot take a little
 
Late for work his car is ungased and has no will
 
Give a lot take a little
Give a lot take a little
 
Four kids two rooms and over due bills
 
Give a lot take a little
Give a lot take a little
 
A boy with ambition no support no way
 
Give a lot and take nothing
Give a lot and take nothing
 
Old man wise mind soon will past one day
 
Give an ear and learn something
Give an ear and learn something
 
Love thy neighbor
 
Give a lot take a little
Give a lot take a little
 
Earn blessings from kind human nature
 
Give a lot take a little
Give a lot take a little

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Soup For Dinner (Dedicated To My Fellow Soupers)

Hi My name is Jay Timmons
I resently sgined up to Poetry Soup a week ago.
Even though I have hunderds of poems sitting at home, I have
only posted three so far.To make a long story short I feel welcomed to 
the up mosted welcome-est (lol) Thank you to the wonderful poets who
left the nice and heart-felt comments in my comment inbox.
I don't know if im going to get in trouble for naming names but
Thank You Scarlett Williams,
Thank You The Sweetheart of P.S.,
Thank You Carol Brown, 
Thank You David Smalling 
and Thank You Sara Kendrick,
I really appreciate the love.This is the home of
"if you don't have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything."
It's all love at the Soup. Even though I've been writting for years,
I feel like the new guy at the company dinner, overwhelmed by the 
talent here, like a kid in a candy store.
I Love Poetry, and i'm glad i found this site.
Thanks again.

p.s
i tried finding you guys on facbook ;-)
is that illegal? LoL

Copyright © Jay Porknbean | Year Posted 2010

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