Poems...

[Reza 0]

Patience is the best

Shock – absorber.

Patience is the highest

Peace – discover.

Patience is the greatest

Perfection – believer.

from - Sri Chinmoy

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Patience

Patience is a virtue that everybody knows.

Its opposite is one of mankind’s greatest foes.

Without patience in our lives we are destitute

Because without patience man is just a brute.

But liberally sprinkle life with patience with everyone you know,

And your relationships and friendships I can attest will grow.

When you use it with your children their love is you reward.

You’ll see a change in family life because there’ll be less discord.

So when your ire is raised be careful how you speak.

Say things with great patience and you’ll get the reaction that you seek.

by Duffy

[Rings 10]

Swept away in a sea of sorrow

Drowning in a barren wasteland of hurt

I know not where I am, land nor sea...

Dry and bitter, yet moist with thy tears.

Reaching out to grasp your hand

Knowing it may disperse into rays of dust

Waters rushing to blanket me in darkness

I see no light, just emotions...ache

Floods that become one with sour roots of land

Places adorned with bleakness and gray

I seek for you thee man of the thrown

Burning inside my skin, buried in the cold winds

Time does not ask me for which I shall choose

Not ye it grants a path untried

For whispers keep to themselves in dire

And longing is only in the deepest of waters

Shall I go on with a battle ere dawn

Until the liquid from thy eyes shall cease?

Or succumb to my betrothed titled agony

And victory, where then will the river flow?

[PlatyPius 5]

crawling urban cesspool

running faces-infectious drool

acidic rain erasing

urban scum freebasing

toxic waste

vile water taste

boiling cauldron

politician’s hard-on

smiling, he causes your demise

nightmare growing underground

exploding, spraying all around

toxic waste polluting streams

erasing all our silly dreams

leaking glowing ooze

all life will lose

radiated landscape

Earth-mother rape

melted forms of human trash

hands gripping charred cash

intent on buying Salvation

nightmare growing underground

exploding, spraying all around

toxic waste polluting streams

erasing all our silly dreams

grotesque twisted forms

raging plutonium storms

the ultimate Matricide

this is our suicide

toxins dumped in streams and lakes

mutated forms-food chain breaks

what goes in the ground comes around

nightmare growing underground

exploding, spraying all around

toxic waste polluting streams

erasing all our silly dreams

Stop.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Morpheus

Once I thought I was a turtle

But I climbed over that hurdle

To find myself thinking I'm a fish

Only to be filleted, broiled and served on a dish

So then I pretended to be a spider

Saw a lovely girl and spun my web beside her

She waved her arms and left me in a mess

I quickly left that scene

Seeing her in such distress

So I forgot about my limbs and became a snake

I ventured in her garden

But she scared me with her rake

So now I just imagine myself a manatee

A hopeless consequence of inhumanity

Dirty water was never my best shade

Nor was this lump of clay

Meant to be man made.

~ Steven

[Kathryn41 3,205]

There was a kind curate of Kew

Who kept a large cat in a pew.

He endeavoured each week

to teach it some Greek . . .

but he never got farther than 'mu'.

[Reza 0]

That's Why

You ask me how I love you

I answer...

If I had a thousand pages,

I could never read them all,

each subtely portraying reasons

of why that I love you,

For they are too numerous.

I love you for the music,

that floods my heart at your name

I hear it within and hold it in my soul.

The way you hold my love,

A captive, but by choice.

I love you for your gentle hands,

That melt away my pain.

I love you for your loving heart,

That made mine beat again.

now every other beat is for you

I love you for always

I love you forever

I love you for you

that's why...

Kyle Jones