#poetry

"Nothing Stay Forever""Nature’s first green is gold,"Her hardest hue to hold."Her early leaf’s a flower;"But only so an hour."Then leaf subsides to leaf."So Eden sank to grief,"So dawn goes down today."Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost"

"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go."

"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."

"Depth of Love [10w] The longer the time between relationships,the deeper your love."

"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife"

"I just bought a bag of poetry, but it was mostly air. The author must have learned from the potato chip industry."

"Family {Couplet} For my misery, family brings relief,tripling my joy, halving my grief.This aesthetic arithmetic's quite poetic,an accounting surmounting odds unsympathetic.Now there seems no hardship I cannot withstand,accompanied by my exponential, familial band."

"part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you"

"When no one is looking,I swallow deserts and cloudsand chew on mountainsknowing they are sweet bones!When no one is lookingand I want to kiss God,I just lift my own hand to my mouth."

"Each month is gay,Each season nice,When eatingChicken soupWith rice"

"May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours"

"What Women Think Women don't care if you got a six pack if you slurp you soup."

"Control [10w] Don't lose control by imagining you can control your lover."

"Babel [10w] Building a tower to reach God doesn't require any bricks."

"California Haiku "After my boob jobI'm taking acting lessons.Fuck's fifty, no anal."

"I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers."

"What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms."

"The Squeaky Wheel The squeaky wheel ~will put you $374.43 in the holeafter replacing the brake pad, rotorsand $500 with a new master cylinder."

"Pale Oak Leaves Scatter Pale oak leaves scatteraround my father's grave."For this I pay $30/month maintenance?"

"The Sacred and The Scared. Which of these two categories does your love fall under? I should write a love poem on a rolled-up scroll so you’d know which one categorizes mine."