Can, can't, don't know High, middle, low Our forever fight Never sure whose right Not worth the pain Try it again Go grab your fame We never agree Which way to go So want to know Always I choose Always I lose Feel so torn Foolish and worn Feel so unsure Lost and obscure Wish …
Tag: poetry
As if…
As if this dust had never been a person And this right had never been wrong As if this debris had never been a city And this discord never been a song As if those divided had never been one And those invisible never belonged As if cruelty had never been pity And those vulnerable …
Vanishing Act
Vanishing Act Grief drifts envelopes erases till there is nothing left
Pain
DOMINANCE Grunt and thump Past death past hell and beyond Again and again and more SHE Maelstrom of evil Tempting in pretty colors Don't open the gift Cover Photo by Kat Smith on Pexels.com
Merciful Mary
Winds of change Please do carry the voice of truth far and wide Across battlefields And burning skies Over charred remains Mothers' empty sighs Over homes laid bare Hey sir, can you spare Some Love and some Mercy? So much hatred Blacker than the sea Rife with fear Let everyone hear Our shouts our screams …
Self importance
You Have A staggering need to overpower Be the person of the hour With your far and your wide Versus others' steady ride Convinced your setting the world on fire With your blinding blazing pyre You say I am pure submission Simply because I ask permission You say I tremble and I please Ignorant of …
Jessie the cat
Jessie the cat Lived in our flat On the last floor Behind the green door Jessie sat on the sill All curled up and still Watching the world go by Six floors up in the sky When dad came home She wouldn't leave him alone Till he played hide and seek So cute to see …
Poetry for the everyday guy and girl
Poetry gets a bum wrap most of the time. It is erroneously considered, by the masses, as exaggeratedly cerebral, requiring a massive intellect and purposefully obscure and abstruse. In some cases this may even be true, but as with all stereotypes there is more to be found in the particulars of the generalization than the …
Manu writes 