Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 1618 Location: Manila, Mandaluyong city Country:
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:59 am Post subject:
Hi there Guys!!
Aya your Poem's Great!!!
Some Things the Romans Did
Workers, soldiers, slaves,
all the trappings of royalty and agriculture.
Watching a documentary on ants
I question why you would take offense
at being called �gantlike,�h
such ingenuity and cool precision, willingness
to get along with your cohabitants
who, genetically and environmentally speaking,
are also you. What you lack
in diversity you make up in artistry, easy enough
when every move is a dance.
You attack in legions, colonize
whole continents. You are the dream
of the Republic realized
and suddenly gone.
Like Etruscan, your language is indecipherable.
I know this much: you herded cattle
made small by memory; your banquet-floor
mosaics depicted scraps and bones — no need
to clean up. Coins
under the tongues of the dead
paid for passage, so I have no choice
but to feed you the quarter
you saw coming. You, well-off,
engraved skeletons on chalices
as a reminder of mortality,
that the soul exists
and exits through the mouth. _________________
Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 1170 Location: New York City Country:
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:
today its raining so while im out, ill write a poem about it
for now here is a poem that i really luv
its by Gary Langford
RAIN
We are together in rain.
I hold you closer than usual,
flesh soaking together.
You decide I am your umbrella,
at least for a day.
I don't mind.
Your eyes turn green.
We laugh, breath warm as steak,
hands under each other's raincoat,
warmed by the fire we expect is there.
It isn't,
forgetting how to heat each other,
without opiates of disorder.
I am your Shelly.
You spell this Shirley.
I go rowing out on a lake,
heavy thoughts from the clouds
that become us.
Lightning cracks chords.
I try to make out your cheeks.
I still try to smile but cannot.
All I see is teeth.
Each one gets closer and lunges,
forceps to the full,
in bare stony rain.
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 1618 Location: Manila, Mandaluyong city Country:
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:36 am Post subject:
Hi guys!!
LOSS
There is some sadness
In hearing conservation stop
Or finding out a loss of friends
The Feeling hallows out
Your Soul...
And leaves you by yourself
Staring at the details
Like frogs and snails
And what to do
The sadness grows and grows
Like a tree without leaves.... _________________
Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 1170 Location: New York City Country:
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject:
though it snows ,
the sky is dry,
as from wrinkeled slits,
a soul does cry,
my own is sober,
yet numb to touch,
a chain of crystal beads,
hang from the sill,
rob my skin of emotion
for just a while
it will return,
as the sun shall burn ,
if only it,
could only share this
influence,
with the rest of me.
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