Grey and grey and grey.
The Alps are gone and here is
dawn in Italy.
A man from Amsterdam is
sleeping in the lower bunk.
TOPIC -- intoxication
Grey and grey and grey.
The Alps are gone and here is
dawn in Italy.
A man from Amsterdam is
sleeping in the lower bunk.
TOPIC -- intoxication
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Skin pricks, buzzes with
this heady kaleidoscope.
Arms of lamplight dance.
Careening into bed as
the sleeping pill takes affect.
TOPIC: a locked door
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Every mind is like
A locked door. Impervious.
Except for keyholes
That give a light upon the
Internal world of others.
Topic: mountaineering
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
Sorry, man, I know *nothing* about mountaineering. I tried, I can't even begin. Just heeping the thread to the top of the pile. Maybe someone else will notice? Den? Az? Ever climbed something resembling a mountain?
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
at 12 years old i had a very close encounter with the sheer face of yosemite falls when i decided to take a "short-cut" down - ended up on my hands and knees holding on to reddish-orange stakes in the rocks for dear life and too scared to crawl back up.
now as for the figurative mountains...
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
Oochie. But the figurative kind... good thinking. I guess I don't think of problems in terms of such imagery, but maybe I can brainstorm and come up with something.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Ascendency. Peaks.
We always want to climb high.
Progress. Growth. Success.
Until the summit we reach
Our pleasures still lie dormant.
Topic: Peace
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
bitter you are like froth
on the ocean but this deep
water will soon sooth you.
hate shaves away at your heart;
war is just a boomerang.
boats
Last edited by amuse; 04-25-2004 at 10:52 PM.
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
estuarine love
of the sound of sails and masts
flapping in a wind
floating through the summer surf
and coming home once again
topic: sea views
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
We are stalworth oak,
lashed and tarred against the world,
cutting a blind path.
We are sinking, creaking and
bubbling to the bottom.
[edit: oopsie!] sea views...
Rumbling blue dips and
swells, blindly ominous, to
dash itself apart.
My eyes caught in the rage of
their roaring doppleganger.
Okay, it's all in order.
Last edited by emily655321; 04-26-2004 at 05:35 PM.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Weathered leather's best.
Softly stroking satin skin
Touching tender hide
You pull me closer with eyes
That shine brightly through the dark
topic: laughter
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
Children laugh at the
Slightest thing. Repeatedly.
And we who can still
Remember laugh too. We know
What we lost, what we've become.
Topic: Loss of feeling
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
Why do your eyes dance
and glitter life in their pools...
I cringe at the sight.
It seems to me I knew once --
It escapes me now. Oh well.
(God sakes, I wrote like ten for this one, but they all seemed slightly off topic. Maybe I'll tweek all the extras a little and make one big poem for it's own thread.)
TOPIC: facing a wall
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
The sun beats down hard.
My heels are sea-swamped.
The beach drowns under
Ceaseless pressures of water.
The sea-wall falls over me.
Topic: Cities
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
You were once an oak,
Now you're an ant just like me,
amid all the rest.
Once two, we are nothing here;
Snowflakes melted in water.
TOPIC: the countryside
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
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