tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587497462756704952024-03-07T20:23:32.806-08:00WordQuestIt's all about the exchange of ideas, via the vehicle of written word.but it is also about good stories, and narratives of everyday life experiences.Ozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10014376046863295020noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858749746275670495.post-48898561524437046372012-09-08T04:29:00.002-07:002012-09-08T04:29:50.336-07:00hot vid!!!!<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dG3aaZw4v9I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Ozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10014376046863295020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858749746275670495.post-86947724167665045652012-09-08T04:14:00.000-07:002012-09-08T04:14:05.261-07:00Hay all check out<a href="http://www.savethefrogs.com/poetry"><a href="http://savethefrogs.com/poetry">this</a> site</a>! 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When dusk comes, and bells toll for me? </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Who will weep? Not crocodile tears, but true springs of sorrow?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">When for me, the decree is of no tomorrow</p> <p class="MsoNormal">When angels tug at the sleeves of my heart,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Who will dare to see me depart?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">None will dare, for man dies alone</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Gasping for air, when all are gone.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tearing their clothes, of sorrow they boast</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Swearing by deities that they loved me most</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In death will live, what in life, was a ghost</p> <p class="MsoNormal">For in their hearts, love had no host.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><b style=""><u><span style="color:red;">SCARS UPON MY ESSENCE<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:16;color:red;" >I</span></b> don’t have time to grow,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I don’t want to leave here right now,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It isn’t lack of care or know-how,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">For to grow would mean to leave this place,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To drop that ace, from a familiar sleeve,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">As sleeves make room, for other sleeves,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">For if I grow, then I grow,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Into that which I don’t know.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>And grow by worth of the tears I know,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And grow by grit of the scars that show, like stitches in seams, which grow,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Like stitches in seams, which grow,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Joining to mark the path of growth,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">For it’s only through pain that I know I grow,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">As pain’s a beautiful story, with a map to show,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">By scars upon my essence, just how I grow.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">So do I have time to grow?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To let my feelings show? And let my heart know?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">That, he who dares, does grow,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And he who cares to, does know,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">That comfort shelters faint hearts,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And fair ladies don’t go,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Where men don’t wear, their hearts on their sleeves.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><b style=""><u><span style="color: rgb(255, 192, 0);">THE CLEAVING OF DAY BREAK.<o:p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(255, 192, 0);">A</span>t sunlight, I present myself before the shimmering shower,<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" class="MsoNormal">Of morning light cascading, and impaling the window’s glass,<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" class="MsoNormal">And spilling my essence, into my shadow.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" class="MsoNormal">With warm embrace, it seeks my roots,<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" class="MsoNormal">In the earth that feeds my marrow.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" class="MsoNormal">Cool winds that whisper above my cradle,<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" class="MsoNormal">Raise the dust of fathers afore.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" class="MsoNormal">And a wafting scent of yester-yore,<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" class="MsoNormal">Feeds, and fuels nostalgia,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">That takes to heart, a life of its own, like men of smokeless fire.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><b style=""><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"><span style=""> </span>PAIN.<o:p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);"></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">P</span></b>ain, makes beautiful, the fruit of labour,<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);" class="MsoNormal">Just like the agony of souls,<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);" class="MsoNormal">Is the birth of a savior.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);" class="MsoNormal">Let not the bridge of sighs beget a saint.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);" class="MsoNormal">For every aesthetic high,<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);" class="MsoNormal">Blood and tears mix the paint.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);" class="MsoNormal">And every stroke of cosmic brush,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">Paints a view, of strong and faint.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"><span style=""> </span><b style=""><u><span style=""> </span>GREEN.<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">This pen is green,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Not just any green, but royal green.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">A green of the lushest sheen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Neither loud green, nor mean green,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">But one both seen, and unseen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Green as the jungle to which,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">One look from you confounds my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Green as the abundance that,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Bleeds a meadow from every part.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Green as the presidents will,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Signed on articles of state.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Like locusts before whom all greens mutate,</span><span style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Transformed to a barren state.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">A state akin to the dying embers of,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">My heart bereft of your touch.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Green as the smouldering promise of paradise,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">That I witness in your eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">And if we part ways, the promise,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Dies a green death.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Green with envy, at the places you grace,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">That are not my presence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">And at every man who sees you,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">But is not of my essence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Green, just like this pen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">For this pen is green, just ordinary green.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Ozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10014376046863295020noreply@blogger.com0