Poems, short Stories, or anything.

[jan]

If you have a poem you would like to post, yours or one you just like....even a story, or want to talk about an author. This is created for that.

[jan]

i write poetry, and most of it is not too bad. I've been working on this and it seems no matter what I do to it, it does not get any better. This is not my best, but its feelings I needed to get out.

Gone
At times its hard to think of him as gone,
even now with him gone so long.
I think I hear his voice and I move towards it,
he is not there, just in my mind.
I miss him so much at certain times,
the night, in the morning, during the day.

Why did he have to be the way he was,
So stubborn, pigheaded, and just the way he was?
If it weren't for that, he would still be here,
to torment, love and argue with me.

I wake up in the middle of the night, still reaching for him,
but that side is cold and empty.
At night, I hate going to sleep, dreams, noises,
remind me of him.
I hate coming home from somewhere,
he is not there to greet or help me.

I loved him, hated him, and wished him gone at times,
until he was gone.

[Michael J Masiko]

from ~ the psalm of ephraim

awaken my brothers and sisters
salvation arrives at our own hands
our gods cannot defeat eachother
we but pawns caught by the tinyhairs

take to the battleline of love's story
just look inside and recite it by heart
our shared hatred so sophomoronic
we don't belong in their crosshairs

pull yourselves up by your bootstraps
your turn to bat so step up to the plate
we alone create our own bloodmud
we are sovereign and accountably fair

ok
so the nog is kicking in
but hey the tree looks great.