Thread: poems

These are my most recent poems (i.e. written in the past few weeks); generally when I write I do it to put it to some music I've made or something along those lines.

poem one

A dry riverbed is the best I can do
It looked like it’s far away father
It looked just like another
But your papers don’t even know you
And your papers can’t even tell

I’ll follow with just a hint and a notion
Maybe the dust will succumb to water
Turn heel from your mother’s daughter
I’ll search for a sky in motion
To bring life to these bleached bones

poem two

This empty feeling
Staring straight ahead
You’ll never know why
You’ve answered everything
But it haunts you
Like a thin sheet in the cold
And it gets at you
More than anyone would ever know

And with your stories to tell
Your mouth does motions
You find yourself in circles
If you manage anything at all
You know better
Wake up before the dream
Makes you really think
There was ever really anything at all

poem three

Pointing my eyes toward the clock
I shoot it stares I would never dare-
Send through the air to try to scare
And I think and I think and I think.
It calmly replies with a cool tick-tock
A single line that would fit my mind-
That is always there but never on time
So I wait and I wait and I wait.
If it knew the worries it made
Would it forget it all and retreat from the wall?
Or if it knew the money I’d pay
Would its hands fly around and around and around?

poem four

I could go on
Continue my disappearing act
You’ll know when I’m done
When you see me
Only in your memories
Until I disappear
The beads of sweat will remain
Falling with a crash
Thinking every step will be my last
But I will go on




In before sycld comes in and tries to convince me that I'm less of a man because my poetry sucks.