Poetry Contests

Daydreaming

I took it all to heart,
each hasty smile,
every modest gesture,
each syllable of dispassionate word,
to a stage where even I was persuaded,
the rays veiling your face,
in perfect symmetry,
were by your own hand.

Hell—you were the rays, as you were
the smile, the gesture, and the word.
Everything created, then destroyed
by your own unadulterated hand.
Such feats you could reach.
I coveted you so,
for what were you incapable?
—but all only in my sight.

Now I mistrust.
There are words I thought were spoken
and actions I thought were displayed
by you—but also me.
Illusions and Trickery
by me—but not you.
I see it now:
how you were a dream,
borne of a skeptic in dangerous reverie.

This guise I had burdened upon you,
how could I be so thoughtless?
For it had seemed,
that when I said move
—you moved.
And when I said speak
—you spoke.

How does something appearing
so concrete, so essential
be confused with truth?
How can you savor another's words
and have them be your own?
How could I be so selfish,
with dreams of distant realms—
but forget it.
Happiness has gained on me,
now knowing the best of truth.

I hear no more whispers,
no more apparitions of smiles,
gestures, or words—
no matter how hollow,
cryptic or empty—
such trivial necessities,
conceived by a fool
in want of an actor.

A Fool's Errand

In dreaded famish, he beckons his famulus,
" Take a brisk walk down the stream;
Buy me that delicious stimulus" ;
As he was starting to lose his dream.
On wind's wings he floated away;
Down the road he vanished from sight
The hungry begins to measure his way
A second's waste could hasten a fright.

Galloping down the slippery road;
He steps on a plump croaking toad,
Stops a moment to mourn the dead
And wrapped it in a colourful thread.
He stuffs it in his brown leather bag
Bearing his Master's monster tag;
That little moment he's thrown awake
Fetch the meal and the Master, wake.

The hand on the wall is past his fear
His ensemble shrugs off his wrinkly skin
He hopes Chufuna is dead or near
It matters now he's not his kin.
Discomfort sunk him in a chair
Daylight hurries from the clouds
The weather he sees outside is fair
His gentle patience fury beclouds.

The vendor serves him in a piece of cloth
Attentions whisked off by a naked thief
He stole meats from a farmer's broth
His back his whipped till its grief.
" This scene so gory,
I must tell Magacula the story" .
He bolts like a fuel tank torched,
On the desk lies the cloth untouched.

Magacula is weary
Whispers the gods to spare his life
His sight on Chufuna is bleary
But hears him mumble his walk of strife.
Thud!
He wakes his Master up. His shoes hissing mud.
He picks the bag in a careful tread
And hands him his 'meal' in a colourful thread.

Like A Rose

She wears a fragrance so refreshing
Her gentle countenance sparks a light;
Beauty clasps her skin like a fleshing
Her allure no one dares fight.

Whenever she smiles, a merry band plays
If I say, she signals it stale
So much I've heard their replays
Still my words bear a tale

Thus, I treat her like a rose
She sees not the beauty I behold
If I write a poem or prose;
The truth I have yet untold.

A Fantasy

I cry
But tears won't flow,
I speak
But words won't sound;
My thoughts
All seem so blunt
As thought from Earth
I'm cut afar;
I can't find how
With you, to love
Except to live
With hopeless dreams
Of having you, someday, with me.

CHOICES:

Contemplating Life
And Retrospective Views
Help Me With The Past
To Help Find All The Clues
Looking From The Bottom Leaves Us Lying In The Rain
The Only Way Is Up
Yeah How Can I Refrain
Stretch Me All The Way
Away From The Black Edge
So Close To The Bottom
Yeah Just Like A True False Pledge
Do I Have A Choice
Yeah I Decide To Play
We Always Had A Choice
And It Works Out Best This Way:

We Are The Ones Who Will Face It All
Yeah We're The Ones Already In Our Own Stasis
We're The Ones With Real Faces
Yeah We're The Ones
Yeah Already Strengthened Our Bases
We Are The Ones Using Our True Voices
We're The Ones With Our Own Choices
Yeah Shout Our Own Choices Now
Use Them Now, Yeah Not Then
Forever
Yeah Never Lose Them Again
Yeah Shout
We're The Ones Who Don't Fake It
Yeah Even If We Don't Make It
We're The Ones, Always Facing It
Now
We're The Ones Who Create It
Yeah Always Create It
So Now Just Fly

Don't Plan To Make Believe
Leaving No Place To Hide
And Don't Plan To Deceive
To Reach Any Side
Choose Wisely This Time
Yeah You - Just Decide:

Oh, It's Good To see You
Yeah Haven't Seen You For So Long
Been Busy With Accomplishments
Yeah, Hope That I'm Not In The Wrong
You're Looking So Much Better
Such A Low Descent
You've Gone Through So Much Trauma
Yeah, What A Compliment

Each To Their Own
It Works Out Better This Way
Do We Have A Choice
Yeah So I'll Always Decide To Play:

Hey There, What You Doing?
For You Are Just Not Right
People Are Mysterious
Yeah They Don't Understand
The Places We've Gone To
The Customs, All Of Ours
Yeah The Customs Of Our Wild Land

So Superior Are You?
Out Of Your Mouth Comes The Law
So How Can I Therefore Contradict?
Yeah Contradict What I Saw
Yeah What We All Fucking Saw
We Are The Ones Using Our True Voices
We're The Ones Sticking To Our Own Choices
We're The Ones Who Don't Fake It
Yeah Even If We Don't Make It
We're The Ones, Always Facing It
Now
We're The Ones Who Create It
Yeah So Never Debate It
So Now Just Fly

One Thing I Have Learned
And This I Have Learned Slowly:
Pay No Heed To Others
As A Lot Think They're Holy
Take Care Of Yourself First
And Get Back On Your Feet
You Have To Take A Step Back
Off This Seat
Yeah Off This Perceptual Seat
You're Potential Is Enormous
Don't Ask The Question Why
Just Go Ahead And Do It
The Sky Is Yours
So Fly...

the danger comes the blood runs deep the dark comes the bodies go cold and feel cold now that buried deep in the ground where the worms eat the fleash of the corpses the worms bleed them dry

Made a mistake.
Drove home after I drank.
Swirving, couldn't stay awake.
Came out of no where, couldn't hit the brakes.
Three days later leaving prison to a funeral, his name was drake.
We live like it won't happen to us.
Buts it's enough.
It can happen to any of us.
I made a mistake.

Daydreaming

I took it all to heart,
each hasty smile,
every modest gesture,
each syllable of dispassionate word,
to a stage where even I was persuaded,
the rays veiling your face,
in perfect symmetry,
were by your own hand.

Hell—you were the rays, as you were
the smile, the gesture, and the word.
Everything created, then destroyed
by your own unadulterated hand.
Such feats you could reach.
I coveted you so,
for what were you incapable?
—but all only in my sight.

Now I mistrust.
There are words I thought were spoken
and actions I thought were displayed
by you—but also me.
Illusions and Trickery
by me—but not you.
I see it now:
how you were a dream,
borne of a skeptic in dangerous reverie.

This guise I had burdened upon you,
how could I be so thoughtless?
For it had seemed,
that when I said move
—you moved.
And when I said speak
—you spoke.

How does something appearing
so concrete, so essential
be confused with truth?
How can you savor another's words
and have them be your own?
How could I be so selfish,
with dreams of distant realms—
but forget it.
Happiness has gained on me,
now knowing the best of truth.

I hear no more whispers,
no more apparitions of smiles,
gestures, or words—
no matter how hollow,
cryptic or empty—
such trivial necessities,
conceived by a fool
in want of an actor.

Work To Play:

Take Life For Today
Don’t Let It Go To Waste
Make The Memories Stay
Deliberate To Haste
I Hear The Morning Cry
The Birds, They Sing Then Fly
Catch Fish With Some Rods
And Overcome Impossible Odds
Let’s Drink The Great, Sweet Wine
To Join Us When We Dine
Feel The Music Within
Life Too Can Be Devine

I Often Play The Fool
Jump When You Say Go
Race Within The Pool
How I Want To Take It Slow
Yes Fine Tune And Bloom
Fine Tune My Tools
What Ever You Desire
I’ll Always Want More
Let’s Sing And Then Regret
To The Places We Forget
The Times Of Our Great Friends
I Wonder If We Met
Believe In Reincarnation
Keep Potential Alive
Because In The Sea Of Damnation
Only The Strong Minded Survive

When The Fun Is Over
How You Want To Sing
Life Then Can Then Surprise You
Surprise To Anything
Look Up To The Sky At Night
See The Shining Light
Life Again, I See
Infinite And Free
The Potential Vast And Silent
Hope We Aren’t To Late
As We Work To Play
Yes Sometimes We Work To Play
Play Out Our Fate

Know Your Limitations
Life’s The Only Thing I Own
I Know Not What I Want
But How I’m Nearly Grown
Take Me As I Want It
Don’t Give Me All That Sort
Of Rubbish And Assorted
Life Is Way Too Short…

Work Fast/Fast Work


I Want To Wake Up
Wake Up In Your World
Today, With No Pain
And Tomorrow With Little
To No Heavy Rain
But When You Want It
Yeah It Goes Away Fast
And When You Hate It
It Always Seems To Last
Yeah Sometimes We've Gotta Be That Fast
Yeah Work Fast

Just Back To Work For Me
I've Already Finished My School
Yeah Already Finished Swimming
Yeah I've Already Fished That Pool
Looking For More Answers
Trying To Get On Back
Yeah Trying To Get On Track
Look A Little Closer
Yes You're Sure To Find A Crack

Go From Here
From Here To There
Don't Be So Weird
Yeah You'll Go Anywhere
Look At Their Faces
Simple, Yet COnfused
...And All Of These Places
Yeah So Ironic, But Still Amused
Out The Back Door
Getting Sick Of Thhis
Going Back For More
Yeah I Wouldn't Like To Miss

Tell Me The Answer This Time
What Am I To Do
Find Every Pleasure
Yeah Every Pleasure From Me To You
Now Let Me Go Home, My Work Is Finished
Yeah Just Go Home
Where Is Home For Me
The Jungle, City Or Highway
Or Just Running Free
Yeah Just Roaming Free

Take Me There, But Don't Lose Me
Yeah Take Me There, But Don't Please Me
Just As Long AS I'm Free
There's Nowhere Else I'd Rather Be
Waking In The Morning
The Best Time To Awake
Kind Of Like Spring
Yeah The Spring I Want To Take
Take It And Then Leave It
Yeah Leave It, Then To Sprinkle It
Grab A Chair, Then Decide To Sit
Anywhere Hey, This Is It

Are You For Real
Yeah So Hard To Forget
How You Made Me Feel
But No Bitter Regret, Cause
Nobody Knows Me
Knows The Ins And Outs
Yeah Just Let It Be
Yeah, There Or There Abouts
Confused Or Mesmerised
Don't Be Such A Sook
Lost Or Maybe Hypnotised
You've Gotta Know Where To Look
Yeah You've Gotta Know When
When To Read My WorkBook
Yeah My Fast Work Is Where To Look
My Fast Work Is Just
My Own Hook.