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In terms of mere merit, all written or spoken poetry requires a reader or listener, without which it is impossible to comprehend, understand or define absolutely how poetry works. Poetry requires or even necessitates an audience, to be heard or known to exist. Poet and audience are interdependent and related factors. Without these factors there would be no need for poetry or poets to exists. In ac...
Saturday 2nd March 2024 11:38 am
Consequences
Because I have seen
such small glory as heaven found
Lit translucent in the wing of a dragonfly serene above the dark pond depths
Lit gold in the sunlit pelt of that one white cat still beneath the tree
Lit in Spring's faint skeleton of Winter's fallen leaf
Lit in the fractal eternity of each flake that floats snow down
and know the pain each angel hears
Held in a single seadr...
Wednesday 8th March 2023 10:48 am
Mind Fog
Maybe something happens
Which propagates a deep unease
That makes you acknowledge the weight in your brain
And reminds you that you're unwell again
Volumous storm clouds roll in and take hold
As well you sit with your feelings inside your head it seems as though a thousand years drift by within yourself
As you wait for the interminable unrest to pass
Lightning strikes and thun...
Tuesday 8th November 2022 9:58 pm
Workshop
Today we’ll learn to build a wordstone wall,
substantial as the one before you now.
It must survive hard frosts; wild gales and squalls;
ride seismic shifts; endure the shunts of cows.
First we think about what it’s for.
The purpose might be to keep your chattels penned
or keep intruders out.
It may define the boundaries of your tract
or simply be aesthetic.
Conside...
Thursday 23rd July 2020 1:31 pm
Entirety (The Whole)
The sights of ourselves still shape us to divide,
immediate response to the craves and madness,
we feel the way we feel but tonight it's you inside,
burried in the senses out of the lightness.
And days are still days but the trouble collides,
for all the reasons we chose not to revile,
and all our fears, childlish alike,
echoing through our minds, rejecting denial.
Stay where you are a...
Saturday 22nd February 2020 2:35 pm
She's Snow White
Not So White
Little Snow White's daddy died
Pretty girl cried and cried
Wicked Queen an ugly old tart
Sent huntsman to take her heart
Huntsman took Snow for a ride
But felt ever so guilty inside
Snow looked up and made her plea Huntsman said, ‘Go now! Be free’
He took his knife; he lit a cig
Then cut heart out of a pig
Snow White ran he felt good
She tripped over piece of wo...
Wednesday 19th February 2020 9:49 am
Resistance
And tides are still the same as they were,
fluid numbers, one piece in folded milions,
telling us why we all need to reach the bottom,
embracing drops of broken brilliance.
Wait until it all comes down,
your whispers rest in front of the broken Avalon,
inside our shell is something we all found,
blue-red pictures reflected by the dawn.
And tides are still the same as they were,
connec...
Tuesday 7th January 2020 10:17 am
Escape
Close your eyes, escape,
one weightless breath after another,
at the time when universe slips out of your hand,
but to live, to feel and to die when
two worlds crashes into each other,
and the atoms dissolve into the sand.
Friday 2nd August 2019 2:41 pm
Wish You Were Here
Wish you were here,
to break down all the differences,
to shake down all the borders,
to melt down all the distance,
to connect all the figures
in the right place.
What else could, what else could confront us?
In the same way we breath,
in the same way we cry,
wish you were here,
tonight when the whole world is empty
and there is no one left to die.
Wish you were here,
to create all...
Thursday 28th March 2019 9:39 pm
Thursday
Take me for a walk, Thursday's pressing my veins,
going through your secrets, through your mind,
all the spots are just the same, quiet and sublime,
your milkshake soul, so hard to find.
And if you ever offer me a peace of that sound,
if you ever try to hide me from that mess,
hold me, keep me, smash me to the ground
your milkshake soul, my emptiness..
Thursday 31st January 2019 4:09 pm
Summer And Everything After
Don't look the other way
the view can take me from you.
It's all written there
what we chasing..
Now it's the other way
don't let me fall from there.
The moment that we wanted
is fading..
I am not worried
I am not worried
everything changes
I am never worried
I am never worried
time is still fading
around you..
i swear it's true..
Ten thousand miles away
your shadow is danci...
Friday 25th January 2019 4:34 pm
February Scars
Take your pills
bury them somewhere,
on a road
that leads to nowhere,
we fall
like leafs on the ground.
Melt your swett
drope it around me,
turn the radio gatter the fallen stars,
bring your february
scars.
Let's pretend
we have no money,
close your eyes
lay upon me,
the whole world
is what we are trying to forget.
Let's pretend
we have no problems
get your things
and ...
Friday 25th January 2019 4:20 pm
Veronica
Veronica,
with a bullet in hands
with a smile on her face
with eyes full of betrail
she walks down the hill
Veronica,
this night is'nt fair
you just can't compare
your eyes with the grail
underestimating pain
And she walks
with a bullet in hands
and eyes full of betrail.
God knows
they're just a silver
scrapes in
may.
And she hates
her steps in the sand
and her crown has...
Thursday 24th January 2019 2:18 pm
Try
Take your every step you've walked,
pretend you walk a mile from here
and go again
Show me how'd you get so far,
show me your forgotten call
and i'll be there...
Building up your silhouettes
building up your silhouettes
and going out again.
Take your dreams and fake them right,
fake them right once in a while
and walk away.
All you are is step in time,
dust is grey and rain is...
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 6:09 pm
Catching Signals
With every visible light
shades dissappears along the way,
burned to the ground,
invisible coloured sound,
restless needle in a hay.
Siting on the top,
catching signals with my brain,
exhausted, terryfied
from the crowd below
how is it possible to feel
so stuck in time, so alone?
With every visible light
shades turned out again,
arising from the ashes
visible colourblind man,
...
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 7:09 pm
Tokyo Lights
We are not siluets,
we are above them all.
The red stripes in my head
keep running with no control.
And then the long street keeps
all the blue lights i am calling home,
forever banned for me
without coming and return.
I see the color blindness,
seeing sides of you.
Delighted with any moment
that i am stuck into.
I am far away from myself,
far away from you.
Tokyo lights i am ...
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 4:33 pm
She
She's a creator
She's always bright
She's a general
in black and white.
She put's her problems
down on the line,
She's out of control when
nothing is fine.
She means something,
she keeps something,
she means something,
something away,
to me,
from me.
She is so calm
when no one is around.
She's a believer
with hands on the ground.
She's a poet
fingers on the screen.
She's ...
Monday 21st January 2019 4:09 pm
Melancholia In May
Sun is now on the top again
swallowing the rest of our memories,
protecting the remains of the day,
keeping all the moments,
keeping them all the way....down.
Hey, forget your pride
there is nothing left to say
nothing stronger, nothing deeper than
melancholia in May.
Don't collapse, stand up to your sense, your life,
store them somewhere else,
keeping them away, breaking them apart,
...
Monday 21st January 2019 1:36 pm
Move On
Don't close your eyes
as you used to do
I am just remembering stuff
considering you.
All the welcomes are allready told,
perfect and round,
straight and unfold.
Stay the same as you are,
provoke the life in a same way
and if all the roses turns to ash
you stay yourself anyway.
Climb those mountains
as you climb your dreams,
don't step aside
it hurts...but it's all just a play.
So, d...
Sunday 20th January 2019 10:48 pm
Echoes
Echoes,
echoes in the dark chasing us away..
chasing us..
away.
Echoes,
echoes.. are still down there,
..there they are trying to hear our call,
call them to come around we are almost free, almost there,
almost there..
..fallen angels on the ground..
on the ground..
broken needle in a hay ..
in a hay.
Echoes,
echoes .. forever and before,
..before we weren't the same in their e...
Sunday 20th January 2019 9:04 pm
Dream About Absolute Freedom
Doesn't always have to be right
dream about absolute freedom
fading boredom, breading soil
remember the world's silence
through the spark of the time
calm and sublime, calm and sublime
dream about wisdom?...No,
dream about absolute freedom.
Changing morbid statues
around the neck of the nature
spelling words, creating magic
fading moments hard to catch them,
leaving you in thoughts, le...
Sunday 20th January 2019 6:52 pm
Trace
Take me away,
far from nuances of life,
far away through different times,
different truths, different minds,
hiding the dust, stretching our hands
closer to our dead, misguided breed.
Take me away from these wild,
lost in a crash, elevated rivers,
green tables, empty crowds,
part of the glory still lingers,
through laughter and torrent
it will never melt down.
Feel the emptiness as а p...
Sunday 20th January 2019 6:31 pm
Write Anyway
So it's cliche,
write anyway.
So it's not
gramatically correct,
write anyway.
So it doesn't rhyme,
write anyway.
Don't let judgmental
"experts" distort
your perception
of poetry
or silence
the part of
your soul that
longs to make
sense of life.
Just write
any way!
Tuesday 15th January 2019 2:44 am
Secrets Inside
{Secrets Inside}
So many different
secrets inside of
my mind that
makes me want
to know how it
would feel to
embrace my lips
with yours as we
lock eyes lost in
that loving gaze as
we both slip off to
that time slip place
where we can be
on automatic repeat
because this is one
of my favorite secrets
©Tina Glover All Rights Re...
Thursday 28th June 2018 7:51 pm
Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #31 {The Nerve Of Some People}
{Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #31} {The Nerve Of Some People}
The nerve of
some people
these day's
`n` then you
think way me?
`n` then you are
thinking it would
be nice if the
military would
just nuke your asses
already
©One_Pissed_Off_American_Ghost_Writer/Tina Glover originally written May 29,2017 but posting ...
Wednesday 13th December 2017 1:10 pm
Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #16 {I Am All Confused?}
{Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #16 {I Am All Confused?}
I am all confused
I am unsure of something's
I am finding myself like a chicken ? running around with my head cut off these day's
I am dazed
I am here trying to grasp my reality before I lose what little insanity I have left
I am beaten
I am broken `n` scared up good for nothing diseased infected big ...
Sunday 10th December 2017 7:16 am
Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #14 {My Story}
{Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #14} {My Story}
The word's of
inspiration,
dream's from
that certain
person has been
beautifully
written on the
walls inked
down `n` linked
straight to my
soul that gives
me that courage
`n` strengths to
fight `n` my
battle because
I'll always
survive if it
takes the last
breaths in me
`n`...
Saturday 9th December 2017 11:44 pm
Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #12 {White Snow Flakes}
{Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #12} {White Snow Flakes}
The white
snow flakes
began to fall
down like
the coldest
december
weather
outside
pearched on
my doorstep
`n` through
the darkened
dark of ?
night's of the
meadows that
once was
glistening white
`n` the white
snow flakes
began to mix
into a black
convoy ech...
Saturday 9th December 2017 9:07 pm
Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #7 {A Story About Me I Will Always Tell It}
{Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #7} {A Story About Me I Will Tell It}
If there's
a story
about my
life that's
a story
that I
will have
to be the
one to
tell
because I'm
the only
who knows it
`n` can
tell my
story so
well `n` until
then my
story will
remain untold
©One_Pissed_Off_Americ...
Saturday 9th December 2017 6:29 am
Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #6 {His Rhythm}
{Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #6} {His Rhythm}
His rhythm of
his songs played
like the sickest
twisted dead of a
deafening whistling
whisper's through
the cold northern
lights that only
the animals could
hear that kept
them howling
by the bay from the
amusement of his
meaningless song
that continues to
play his sickened
twist...
Saturday 9th December 2017 5:01 am
Satan's Child
{Satan's Child}
He was born into
the world of
darkness with
the markings of
his father's
mark~of~the~beast
in three numbers of
six~six~six hidden
beneath the darken
fleshy flesh on his
corrupted body this
he had to bear
upon this world
causing chaos and
ruckus throughout
this evil land of
his father's Satan
...
Friday 8th December 2017 6:01 pm
California~Birmingham Skies
{California~Birmingham Skies}
He was twisted up into the California skies always needing that extra special gift of love that would feel his ? heart with happiness for the rest of his day's on this planet but he painting his words of wisdom across the skies in California with the wanting to dedicating his self to this world the way he should have so long ago before his hair got all gr...
Wednesday 6th December 2017 11:32 pm
No Guarantees
{No Guarantees}
There's no guarantees
that you actually ever
loved me at all
And
There's no guarantees
that you was even
worth my tears over
these year's
And I'm not gonna cry
and I sure as hell ain't
gonna shed no more
tears for you since
you left me to be with
her and tore my world
apart while breaking and
wreckin...
Wednesday 6th December 2017 11:02 pm
With This ? Rose
{With This ? Rose}
I will keep it with me even after it withers and died
And
I'll place into a book to hold our love that way until the very end of all times
Because with this ? rose is delicate to the touch so protect it with your love
And
Your love is forever real
And
As the day's is lon...
Sunday 3rd December 2017 10:26 pm
Sadness Has Stolen My ? Heart
{Sadness Has Stolen My ? Heart}
My ? heart is hurting so much beyond any word's I can ink down
And the pain is tearing up my? heart and soul up
And someone please tell me how I can retrieve it
Because now the life filled with sadness of a lost love has forever stolen my? heart away
And as I'm still trying to revive it today ...
Friday 1st December 2017 9:49 am
Popping Pills
{Popping Pills}
A bad habit of popping pills like that old tapped out addict that is looking for their next fix like a cocaine rockstar on their best high of their life
But when they come down off of that rockstar high then reality set's in then they withdraw from friend's and their family while trying to hide their pill popping addiction
But now they cannot do it anymore...
Thursday 30th November 2017 7:09 pm
He Told Her Today He Doesn't Love Her Anymore
{He Told Her Today He Doesn't Love Her Anymore}
As she walked through the front door of their home he stands up and looks her in the face and says to her I no longer love you anymore as she took off running to the bathroom upstairs while he ran after her but she slam's the door in his face and then locks it as he knocks on the door saying I'm so sorry darling but he hears her sobbing insi...
Thursday 30th November 2017 8:30 am
Delicate Rose Bud
{Delicate ? Rose Bud}
She was a pure gentle delicate ? rose bud that needed tender love and care because she was in fact so fragile that she had such a beauty that made her stand out on her own but the ? rose bud was so scared that she would eventually break with the wrong little bitty move but she pushed on through to grow so big and strong that she could set out on her own way
...
Wednesday 29th November 2017 8:57 pm
Brave
My mother calls me brave, so I am brave.
She takes me to the bus stop on the first day of school and I am scared. She smiles and lets me go, so I smile and go. I am brave.
She sits me down and tells me we are moving. My father will be gone a while, and I will have to make new friends. She tells me not to be sad, so I stop crying. I am brave.
I want to dye my hair blue. I...
Thursday 5th January 2017 9:39 pm
The Pen
- In general, I guess that's true
But mine's a lazy blighter;
It treats sloth as a damned virtue
It's always at a halt
It likes staring at blank paper
As though that's the thing at fault
It lives a charmed sedentary life
Full speed is torpidly inert
It charges around at the pace of a slug
When flat out and a...
Sunday 3rd April 2016 11:03 pm
Self Image
Full rounded heart,
Eyes that are sore with weeping,
Dark like and arrow piercing,
And ever the hand is writing.
You draw yourself, so many new lines.
Role after role you sketch, and toss away.
Mind that is ever writing
My own hard epitaphs,
Blaming my eyes for weeping
Over dusty photographs.
The past is a well told tragedy
And you a...
Monday 13th May 2013 12:08 pm
Five Thirty am
In the utter darkness the fine piping of birds begins another dawn.
The insistent cat pushes between my fingers and the open page.
There is a meaning in the poise of my face and pen before the page,
But the cat has no knowledge of it.
She pushes her whole black purring self across my face.
Her paws step softly on the paper.
She thrusts her head against the moving p...
Monday 19th March 2012 9:44 pm
Discomposed
How slowly turn the thoughts inside my head,
Searching for sentences that are not dead.
How difficult to find the looked for word,
Without descending into the absurd.
How hard it is to make a simple rhyme,
Yet poets do this nearly all the time.
Iambic phrases slip out easily,
But making sense is much too hard for me.
I reach for feelings, - but my thoughts are nu...
Saturday 27th November 2010 12:00 am
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