Some say there is no reason
To be so wary of everyone
I want to say they’re right
How can I say you’re right?
There is no reason to hide the truth
There is no reason to tell you the truth
I can’t vindicate myself for this
I can’t clear my... – by j-p-n | 0 Views added 13 days ago
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If you were to say you were sorry
Would you gouge your eyes out for me
To unsee what I’ve seen
Would you cut your tongue
To forget what I’ve tasted
The vile blood, venomous and crucifying
IF YOU WERE TO SAY SORRY
THE LAND OF THE DARK MEMORIES... – by j-p-n | 1 View added 13 days ago
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I found a hole for me
To make a dwelling in
Beneath the earth and their trespasses
Beneath their wandering ecstasies
I found a pit beneath the ground
I found a place for me to rot
Where Frank and Vicky lay is not for me
Where strangers come... – by j-p-n | 1 View added 13 days ago
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The birch of ashen bark
Could smile for me awhile
I bleed to drink your cup
I bleed to meet your glee
Would the trees entertain me
When no one else can sustain me
When no man could set me free?
The shore is a’lap and awash
Upon the banks of... – by j-p-n | 0 Views added 13 days ago
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I grew up
as a child
i live my life
like i don’t know
where it’s going
because i don’t know
if days will follow each other
the night seems
to have swallowed my youth
and it’s harder
to say to you
that i love you
and i need you
and that... – by j-p-n | 3 Views added 13 days ago
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On the evening train
I found a man whose house
Was an old church off Blackwell
He did not know of God
But could tell me of his rites
Like the lines in his palms
Like the taste of cigarettes
He had seen the towers gleam
On the waves of the... – by j-p-n | 1 View added 13 days ago
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cried more than i could contain
more than i needed too
more than i could take
because i can't take it anymore
i can't keep saying it's okay
you're not okay
and i’m not okay because of you
because of what you've done
there is a photo of... – by j-p-n | 0 Views added 13 days ago
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Will you sell my bones for broken arrows
And break twigs and snapping turtles in your hands
I’m an Iroquois poet hanging a feather from my ear
I’ve chased the jutted shores of Susquehanna
from length to length
But I’ve never lost momentum in... – by j-p-n | 1 View added 13 days ago
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Those swans in your lawn
Do they ever swim?
Because they sit by your front steps
wearing old grass stains on their breasts
and their eyes carry elegance
in their masked reckoning.
Your lawn
is my littered mind
and your lawn
is your... – by j-p-n | 0 Views added 13 days ago
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I think I'd feel better
If I never told anyone
If I self-diagnosed
What I've been creating inside
Where I am burning up
Dissipating feels like warming up
Until you're too sharp to touch
And you toss and turn because you can't sleep
Thinking... – by j-p-n | 1 View added 13 days ago
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If this reflects me and you
It was not meant to be wondered on
It was meant to be the natural state
The thorax of the beetle
Lifting its wings and spurting the venom
I’m not the natural artist you thought I was
It’s taken the sweat of lakes... – by j-p-n | 1 View added 13 days ago
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I love the birds you’ve planted
To nestle in my trees
Knowing that all the while
They do as you please
They flutter and a-flounder
Across the breadth and bath
Knowing that all the while
You’ve set them on their path
I pray for wings to... – by j-p-n | 2 Views added 6 months ago
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it’s a little bit like aching
when I wake up early on
before the light of the day
before the waves clash and wash
splash against the hulls of pearly sailboats
while the wind torments aqua and vermillion sails
a technicolor kind... – by j-p-n | 4 Views added 10 months ago
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Tonight I wept a good deal
Tonight I nicked my skin
By a dull fire light
Whose name called mine.
Tonight the rain never came
But the air was dry and cool
As the winds swept over me
Plucking me from the earth
Sweeping me away.... – by j-p-n | 1 View added 10 months ago
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i've been afraid
to write about my thoughts
instead i've kept them bottled up
and i've hidden them from myself
lately i've been thinking about the sun
about her departure and why she left
lately it seems like everyone is leaving
... – by j-p-n | 9 Views added 11 months ago
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