poets...priests of something

[JazmenFlowers]

we've had a couple of poetry threads before, but damn it, I can't find them. anyway, if you have some favorite poems that you've written or by other authors, share!

here's the last one I wrote. see, jazzy isn't always nelly fabulosity without any substance.

desaturation
(12/29/06)

I don't remember when I first saw the spectrum
but I remember the way my eyes burned when I realized
there were hazy places I could go
fishtails spinning into the blackest browns
pinkish whites never worried of
absence of color or sanity
words and phrases my mind released as new colors
flooded my senses
swirls were morphine on my tongue

and I don't remember when the message came
it said you had seen the destruction of reds
(will you please just take this pill?)
[she refuses laughter these days]
they wondered where they had gone wrong
others said you had it coming and I learned
shades of violet splatter

I walked downtown, looking at my reflection
in store windows
windows full of frills for bachelorettes
and poppy people I will never be
sensory overload as the streams flowed in
and out
in
and out
still, beauty queens expose themselves
on palettes of seafoam and cornflower

I ran to the bus barn behind the school
hiding my hands - languid - there I closed my eyes
electromagnetic radiation was my name
(please make me colorblind)
[will this break me well and clean?]

and to this day
I still wish to lose lavendar

[carrie721]

^ very nice, jazzy. i like color poems.

here's my favorite poem ever:

Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

[ELIUD]

My Words
by Bobby Beemer

When I am quiet...
When I am blue...


for a while...



for a while...


You wanna do some blow?

[xdreamsunwindx]

I can't write poetry for beans. However, I love this poem that Patti Smith wrote upon the death of Edie Sedgwick..

oh, it isn't fair
oh, it isn't fair
how her emine hair
turned men around
she was white on white
so blonde on blonde
and her long long legs
how i used to beg
to dance with her
but i never had
a chance with her
oh it isn't fair
how her ermine hair
used to swing so nice
used to cut the air
how all the men
used to dance with her
I never got a chance with her
thought I really asked her
down deep
where you do
really dream
in the mind
reading love
I'd get
inside
her move
and we'd
turn around
and turn the head
of everyone in town
her shaking shaking
glittering bones
second blonde child
after brian jones
oh, it isn't fair
how I dreamed of her
and she slept
and she slept
and she slept
forever
and I'll never dance
with her no never
she broke down
like a baby
she suffocated
like a baby
like a baby girl
like a lady
with ermine hair
oh it isn't fair
and I'd like to see
her rise again
her white white bones
with baby brian jones
baby brian jones
like blushing
baby dolls

[JazmenFlowers]

^^^
gorgeous Kate.

[xdreamsunwindx]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

^^^
gorgeous Kate.

Isn't it? I wish I wrote that. I wish I had written pretty much everything Patti Smith has.

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by xdreamsunwindx

I wish I had written pretty much everything Patti Smith has.

I know. I have a website of her poetry saved that I like to read at random times to find inspiration.

[BlackWidow]

I have a poem..I will find it and post it..damns..I already feel naked thinking about you all reading my expose on loves won and lost..and YES..there are
a COUPLE OF STEVIE-ISMS IN IT..LOL!!!

[CelticGypsy]

I am a mother and grandmother so this poem is a really special one.



Children Are A Gift From God
by Sandra Tolson


God sent me three packages
That needed special care
"Take care of these tiny gifts
For they are very rare."

"Watch over them with all your love
And let them feel your touch
Take care of their every need
For you are needed very much."

"These gifts will grow up very fast
As you soon will see
Love them with all your heart
And let them be what they will be."

"When these gifts have fully grown
Look at Heaven up above
Know they exist because of God
And all his precious love."

[GODDESS6]

these are all gorgeous, thanx for sharing!!! ~