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  1. Missing – poem

    October 8, 2008 by shishnit

    You never know what you have until you consider for hours what life might be like without it.  I can’t quite shake the feeling of unease and yet I feel like life is a beautiful blue lately just because I escaped my worst nightmare unscathed. 

    Missing
    There is no poster

    No crowd gathered to search

    You are still safe in the frame on my desk

    But now you are also

    the lump in my throat

    I am gaining no oxygenMy heart has lurched

    I keep looking and looking left

    Some things just not right

    Where are you?Will you come home alone?

    Are you all by yourself?

    That ringing in my head

    Why is it?

    Please…

    Why not the phone?

    I am your motherI didn’t bail

    The proofs in the stretch marks

    The one’s I earned

    With your father’s help

    The silence is a thunderA storm I endure

    Where did you go?

    “He’ll come home”

    He sounds confident

    But I can’t be so sure


  2. Love’s exquisite freedom.(live your best life; poem) – Maya Angelou

    September 27, 2008 by shishnit

    I’m currently enrolled in a Human Nutrition course (midway) and I’m beginning a “Creative Writing” course on Tuesday.  As part of our required reading, this poem was listed.  This poem struck a chord with me…it is the history of love (me).   I’m glad to be taking this course when I am at a place where I can truly enjoy every stinking minute of it with the realization that I am in the final courses of my undergrad journey. 

    Love arrives;
    and in its train come ecstasies
    old memories of pleasure
    ancient histories of pain.
    Yet, if we are bold
    love strikes away the chains of fear
    from our souls.
     
    We are weaned from our timidity.
    In the flush of love’s light
    we dare be brave
    And suddenly we see
    that love costs all we are
    and will ever be.
    Yet, it is only love
    which sets us free.
     

    Maya Angelou
     

     

     


  3. i’m clean and sober these days

    May 1, 2008 by shishnit

    I am so music addicted, it’s like I need my daily fix.  I cruise iTunes like a creep on the street, around every curve and bend in the electronic road to find something that jacks my jill.  Tonight I found one to dedicate to the former man of my life, otherwise known as the ex.  This one sounds lighthearted….in the past I was ”pathologically addicted to what we call a “dick head”. 

    I’m not much for dope or drink
    And that’s thanks to Dr. Shrink
    But one thing I can’t kick is
    I can’t kick a man

    I’m pathologically addicted
    To what we call a “dick head”
    Cheaters and liars seem to light my fire
    And god, I gotta get clean

    So I did, yeah, I did

    I took a bath with a sociopath
    I took a bath with a sociopath
    And I’ll be sorry, but for now I’ll laugh about it
    All night long

    ‘Cause I like a little coffee with my cream
    I like a little dirty with my clean
    And my baby’s really filthy
    My baby’s really somethin’
    And my baby can dysfunction

    I took a bath with a sociopath
    I took a bath with a sociopath
    And I’ll be sorry, but for now I’ll laugh about it
    All night long

    ‘Cause I like a little coffee with my cream
    I like a little dirty with my clean
    And my baby’s really filthy
    My baby’s really somethin’
    And my baby can dysfunction

    I took a bath with a sociopath
    I took a bath with a sociopath
    And I’ll be sorry, but for now I’ll laugh about it
    All night long

    -Anya Marina


  4. the fence went left

    April 29, 2008 by shishnit

    A section of the fence fell down today and it kinda sorta rained a little bit, I think.  And I found another song that made my toes curl.  I’m a music junkie lately.  Even more so than “reading” I am lost in melody.

    YOU AND ME

    I won’t tell anybody
    I swear to keep it a secret
    You and me
    We can be alone
    Walking through a world of our own

    I don’t care what they say but
    I don’t want to hear their opinions
    You and me
    We can be alone
    Walking through a world of our own

    Don’t think it’s only silly
    If I go you’re gonna miss me
    You and me
    We can be alone
    Walking through a world of our own
    Walking through a world of our own

    Jesse Harris


  5. you’re the cocaine

    April 15, 2008 by shishnit

    Well I broke, I wrote a song
    About our love, and how its strong
    How your kisses keep me warm.
    And even when I make you cry,
    I’ll still sing you lullabies.
    Make those grey clouds bright blue skies.
    Because you’re the cocaine in my veins.

    This is something I regret
    Not confessing how I felt,
    How my heart beats quicker still.
    So melt your body into mine,
    Become as one over time,
    Lord shake her bones and make her mine.
    Because you’re the cocaine in my veins.

    And darlin the dirt beneath your feet,
    And the scars that line your knees,
    Are what keep me moving on, are what keep me moving on.
    When broken down out on the streets,
    And not a sign that I can see
    You’re the compass that I need.

    You’re the cocaine inside my blood stream
    You’re the bright light, the constant moon beam
    You’re the north wind that will carry me home.

    You’re the woman I’ve been looking for
    Because you’re the cocaine in my veins

    - Joshua James