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general malaise and some happiness

Submitted by victor dyck on Fri, 2022-10-21 17:36

a big city n the fall has depressed parts of everyone there is joy in the sun
not usually cold sometimes we have to seach for any joy like watching squirells or birds
watching listening or t.v. music sports.anger like beeping horns cars goes with the malaise

LAMARIN

Submitted by Mr joghe on Fri, 2022-10-21 15:03

Lamarin, you have eaten the eye of the earth
A betrayal shall perish in the soil
You have eaten the bait
And whoever does what no man had done before shall see unusual thing.

Ha- ha, he shouldn’t be you!
Lamarin, you have broken the tie
You know Esu does not eat black kernel- oil,
Does dog eat kolanut
Have you forgotten that one must not use bitter- kola sticks to make fire?
Or use its leaves to preserve pap,
That Orisa- oke will get angry with the person.

Reaching Out

Submitted by Rosewood Apothecary on Fri, 2022-10-21 08:37

Stuck again inside my mind
Thoughts will hold me captive there
The more I search, the less I find
Futile hands left grasping air

The feelings and the anger swirl
Through the maelstrom I must sail
I hope my vessel’s large enough
Or something comes to my avail

This happens to me all the time
I’ve finally found by reaching out
My friends will place their hand in mine
When I am drowning in self doubt

Proximity Of You

Submitted by Flower Girl on Fri, 2022-10-21 07:08

Sometimes I feel the pull towards you
Other times, goes unnoticed
The agonising proposition

Cause no matter how I try
You still lurk in my head
A reminder of my weaknesses

Void of confidence and certainty
But with you near - more so
When I want to cry but hold empty eyes

Will you answer my queries
For this beast cannot be kept at bay
Slowly extinguishing the flame alight within

Hello

Submitted by Jame Saul on Fri, 2022-10-21 03:25

I play your strings to my symphony.
I am the artist that has painted your life since infancy.
I am your faith, your will, your joy, your hate I control all your emotions
simultaneously.

You will search for me and you will hold on to me,
You will cry because of me and you will loath those around you, that
I guarantee.

I am a weapon that can be used.
Play with me and you leave those you love so confused so utterly bruised.
This is how I will stay so ever amused.

My last day in a small town.

Submitted by Jakub Zoltowski on Thu, 2022-10-20 22:59

Trees, their twigs and branches intertwined,
I stay,

in the middle of the street. My arms,

just like the bird’s wings.
Thinking about,

how scared I am.

Local Errand

Submitted by Michael Anthony on Thu, 2022-10-20 18:23

The old man was standing
in the post office lobby, waving
to the security camera there

He appeared disheveled,
dirty clothes, and an unruly beard
that seemed to be assaulting his weathered face
A man with no home to call his own, I surmised

As he turned, I smiled and said,
"Everyone is watching these days."
With a look of disagreement, in a gravelly voice
he replied, "I don't know about that.
I was just trying to let people know I was here."

vanity's sanity

Submitted by ember on Thu, 2022-10-20 15:26

my vanity stares at me,
i stare back,
through the glass, it is confined in.

i mouth to my vanity,
'you lack the freedom that i, myself, have to roam this reality,'
mouthing back to me.

my vanity is lovelier,
my vanity is more kept.
confined it understands,
the sanity in my vanity,
i vow to protect.

Of The Movie, Signs

Submitted by Lavender on Thu, 2022-10-20 13:03

"Are you in my dream, too?"

Circles -
ultimate engineering, guidance, maps
understood only by those who
have never been there, those who are not lost.

"Please stop calling me Father."

Dilemmas -
lack of faith,
direction,
logic,
cognizance from those around you.

"Felt wrong not to swing."

Instinct -
the need to question,
the need to act,
the need to define,
the need to fulfill a sixth sense.

"I don't think they like water."

Dual

Submitted by Depressed 1 on Thu, 2022-10-20 09:44

I know deep down that I have a very dark soul

I am branded by everyone everywhere I go

Whenever people they first take a look at me

All they can seem to see is my dual personality

People always like me when I first do arrive

When I leave, they all wish that I were not alive

They do not hate me as much as I hate myself

I do not love myself; how can I love anyone else

As time goes driving by, I know that eventually

I will end up under the grass where I am meant to be

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