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ForlornI've gone for years, forlorn,Forlorn1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
In search of You,
On my own quest for truth
And enlightenment
With little to show
In my tender years I subscribed
To the Doctrine;
Catechism was enough,
For what I'd been taught to believe
Required that certain amount of blind faith…
And though I was a good, adherent boy,
I never knew You
It was as if I'd been abandoned,
All my prayers for naught,
For aught I should've heard
An answer, by then –
What had I done to deserve darkness?
And so here I am,
Restless and tired,
Wondering if I'll ever know You
Or the peace that comes from being in Your Graces
That others know so well…
Of Deep SnowPrancing through the snow driftsOf Deep Snow1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
Between the leafless trees
Our ever-high mood lifts
Yet further, as we release
Into gravity, and fall
On our backs into the powder
And lay there in the cold
During such a sweet hour
As this.
And I look into your eyes
And I inhale deeply of your scent
And I know that this is all right,
That we're finally together
Means that we should be here.
Oh, it was worth the wait – now,
We have all the time in the world.
I never want to get up and leave you.
Event HorizonFreaking, on the edge of the world,Event Horizon1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
I'm at the event horizon
With my head in a rope,
Ready to kiss it all good-bye,
No more worry, anxiety
For I can no longer face this hell
But she's pulling me back,
Back into my shell
Where reality is firm
Where there's a remedy,
An end in sight – an end
Which does not result in termination
And I hug and kiss her
Knowing I can never thank her for what she's done
A JamaisLocked in mortal struggleA Jamais1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
With he who was once my brother,
I slay him coldly, serenely,
As if cutting down a sapling,
His life soaking into my clothing,
Splashing across my face
Whilst calmly quartering him
I wander aimlessly home,
Trudging through the snow
Which falls softly upon me.
I have no-one left,
None to love and be loved by,
And though I am home now,
By the fire so adored,
No heat can warm me
And rid me of this chill
That will ride my back
Forever
Night Just NearsAs the fog sets inNight Just Nears2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Obscuring all that is kind
(To the eye and the ear)
Her voice is a physic
That cuts through the
Migrainous haze
Her dark eyes o'erwhelm
Beset 'neath murky locks
That form loveliest helm.
Tall stands she, though it be
Wit and intellect that
Feature most prominently
And her smile is a sunrise
That pierces the everyday gloom
CrunchRiding along a winter riverCrunch2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Glimpsing the afternoon sun
Through the trees on the bank
I exhale warmly into the crisp
Cold air, steaming
There, I see his body
Lying still in the shallow snow
Freezing in the waning hours
Of his last day
Stiff, I pick him up
And load him onto the boat
That his family may see him once more
Before we send him off
Into eternity
Gazing into the golden, lightly
Cloud-streaked sky
Out over the sea
We see how short is life
Black MassBereft and strungBlack Mass2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Along and drowning
In blue and pink
A black mass
To inaugurate the coming
Of my final moment
An exit of glory
Or ignominy; yet to be
Decided
I flourish with flowers,
But am left alone
And so I wilt
Internally, eternally
With the only company
Everyone fights to circumvent...
Myself
Impending Ruina warning againstImpending Ruin2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
ever falling into
the stream of life
and all that is conscious
for all that is good
all leads to ruin
and the attachment therein
will kill slowly
slowly you'll hang
by one short noose
for just one moment
everlasting as you strangle
and writhe freely at its end
with your own seeming
so far off
where is the blackness
when you need it
In the HillsideUp in the hillsideIn the Hillside2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Deep into back-country
In the woods, past the cold trees
Of a quiet forest
Crying silently in fog
Sits my empty house
Mournfully quiet
Painfully isolated I sit at the table
Looking out a window at grey noon
With the loneliness in the chill room
Months since a visit
Years since familial death
No more blood, I'm the dead-end
I can hear the sounds of earth-life
But no civilisation from miles-around
It all weighs so heavily upon my shoulders,
I can hear the vast silence
And in this silence, I reflect
How none will hear that shot
Which has me cooling, now
AndMadness that searsAnd2 years ago in Songs & Lyrics More Like This
Anger and paranoia
Cut through the mist
The haze of existence
A bleak contrast of
Harsh grey daylight
Madness that sears
Pain and hatred
In tears that run down my face
The fog of sorrow
That clouds my nights
Newly set in
Madness that sears
Obsession and compulsion
Feeding hallucinations
That drive me up the wall
As though in the dark prison
Of a fully sealed room
Where I can dwell and sulk
And the inward-turn'd anger
Will fester, like infection
A sour pus draining in my mouth
Every moment of each day
Like the voices assure me
That it or he is truly outside
Awaiting my slumber
When it can set upon m
TumEat the fourTum3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Meet the floor
Beat the door
See the moor
Feel the stoor
Flee, the whore,
Plea, the gore,
Be the more
Steal the score
Bleed the sore
Fail the war
Seal the roar
Of energised life
Running out on a knife
With infection rife
Lay dead with Thy wife
RUN
Answer to LifeMother Earth, my one love,Answer to Life3 years ago in Songs & Lyrics More Like This
Her worship spoke
And gave me a secret;
She spake in the woods
With the bright October sun
She told me of how
There is beauty around me,
And I, too, can have it,
But, I wondered, how?
I see the fall leaves
Turn'd to bright colours...
And I saw, then,
Beauty is in death
The trees' adornments
Veritable fire in the sun,
Brightly painting a living sky
Are not soft with life,
But crisp with death,
And they
Fall to the ground
Commencing decay
Fading away
...fade, will be forgotten
And eager to abandon
This constant frustration,
Welcome is mother's answer.
So I'll lay on the walk
Unaware at the s
Just a DaySplittingJust a Day1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
From end to end
And side to side
It oozes forth
Putrid green nothing
And anxiety – lots of anxiety
The world crushing in on itself
Bottles talking
The Vibramycin and the valproic acid
The phone shakes my arm
So I throw it away
The television speaks to me,
Saying to kill him
The man following me
Intent with murder
The people at the mall
Intense with bloodshed
Just a day
RainlightFighting the nighRainlight1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
Irresistible urge
To drown my sorrow
Once and for all
I gaze into the mirror,
Upon my loneliness
And all I don't stand for...
It's not enough to suffer,
But by myself, loveless,
A wretch
I walk into the cold
Of my rainlit room,
Recline on the bed,
And drink to toxic oblivion
Mama LibertyMama I am off to explore the world!Mama Liberty3 months ago in Free Verse More Like This
My petticoats and dresses are folded and packed
My hair brushed into obedience
My tongue carefully laden
With this heavy, guttural language
No more will I hang onto your apron strings
Gone are the days I suckled at your breast
For my bones are strong enough now
To carry my weight into new lands
And so I say goodbye
As I board the steamboat
Eager to see what the world holds for me.
---
Mother mine I am home!
But-
What is this?
Do you not recognize your little girl
Of so long ago?
I will admit I have been changed
By the beautiful country
I now proudly call my motherland,
For she is a rosy woman
Who live
So What if I'm a Slytherin?Yes, I'm in SlytherinSo What if I'm a Slytherin?3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
You gotta problem with that?
So what if I like the colors
Green and silver?
I can do whatever I want!
I'll be a Slytherin!
I'll hate Gryffindor!
I'll like snakes!
What? You don't like Slytherins?
Avada Kedavra!
CrestfallenWords are futileCrestfallen3 years ago in Urban & Spoken Word More Like This
when I speak in
certain silences
that set the mind
alight in anguish.
-Brian Shuffett
August 26th, 2010
Final ReposeI've seen and been toldFinal Repose1 year ago in Concrete Poetry More Like This
A lifetime of promises.
Spare me your wishing well,
And damnèd premises.
I've walked this road for years,
And have reached its murky end;
Now before me the sum of all my fears,
And the hole in my future that they rend.
The only chapter of this book I've known
Has finally drawn to a close.
Now settling in, a diurnal depression,
Terminating in my final repose.
GhostEmbarrassed and ashamed, fully scathed and raked across the coals, I stand withering in the cold. All my feelings are dead, everything was for nothing and thus is the end of things. I come and then pass as a ghost before the mirror, just like all the rest. Sugar is carbonised and left as ash to cool amongst the rocks, whenceforth scattered by the wind and buried at sea, 'til dissolution. A bell tolls in the distance to sound my time, and I leave with due haste. My heart is bound for home, never to return to the outside again.Ghost1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
Flying HighAs a hawk flying high above,Flying High1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
Shot and falling to the ground.
My head aches from all of this,
And my will to get up and carry on
Is sapped; if I've already tapped out.
It is a never-ending dream
From which it seems
I shan't awaken
A never-ending nightmare
That has its roots planted
Firmly in my mind
Alone I've fought,
And now,
In the darkness
I see the light
Fade from my eyes
VerlorenOn a night when I'm all alone,Verloren1 year ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
A night just like this one,
I can but sit, and think as
I bleed. And that washes
Down, down the drain,
Like all my love, in vain,
And all that just disappear;
So it shall continue, I fear.
And so, it's on a night when I'm all alone,
That I wonder if I'll have to turn this heart to stone
To prevent it tearing and breaking once again
And proving to be mine end...
Of Naught and the Bleakest FutureAs the sun vanishes beneath the horizon ever earlier,Of Naught and the Bleakest Future2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
I, too, fall into the abyss, whence I won't be extricated,
To rot and decrepify in painful solitude,
To be forgotten and abandoned, my hole digs deeper
The air is freezing and my skin is wet...
Hope is cast out of my cold, weak heart...
Fortitude is at an all-time low
As I careen down this steep path
Of naught and the bleakest future
To be forgotten and abandoned, my hole digs deeper
Eternal night, lined with frost,
Claims my soul, which shall never again
See the light of day, buried first
Under a tremendous weight
In my hole deep, abandoned and forgotten
Sta.sh
