Poetry
- Sadakichi Hartmann, "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Across the dunes, in the waning light, The rising moon pours her amber rays, Through the slumbrous air of the dim, brown night The pungent smell of the seaweed strays— From vast and trackless spaces Where wind and water meet, White flowers, that rise from the sleepless deep, Come drifting to my feet. They flutter the shore in a drowsy tune, Unfurl their bloom to the lightlorn sky, Allow a caress to the rising moon, Then fall to slumber, and fade, and die.
White flowers, a-bloom on the vagrant deep, Like dreams of love, rising out of sleep, You are the songs, I dreamt but never sung, Pale hopes my thoughts alone have known, Vain words ne’er uttered, though on the tongue, That winds to the sibilant seas have blown. In you, I see the everlasting drift of years That will endure all sorrows, smiles and tears; For when the bell of time will ring the doom To all the follies of the human race, You still will rise in fugitive bloom And garland the shores of ruined space.
- [OC] Timber
The prompt was "Trees." If you know how to format line breaks instead of paragraph breaks, please let me know.
Timber
I have heard that wood will warm you many times,
When you chop it,
Split it,
Burn it and cook-
I find a standing dead.
It's no good taking the fallen,
The wet gets in so quick around here.
Leave those for the beetles.
Abraham Lincoln said
If he had six hours to fell a tree,
He would spend four
Sharpening his axe.
My father once asked me
"Why not use a chainsaw?"
I could let another man
fuck my wife.
Sweat slick and
Sore muscles
Never felt so good.
Life shorn of its artifice.
- [OC] Pro-Choice
I wrote a comment recently in response to a senator describing himself as "pro-choice" in defense of his refusing to repeal child marriage statutes. I recognized a poetic rhythm and have adapted it to hopefully fit as a submission here.
Pro-Choice
Yeah, he's pro choice-
Pro choice like a gunman asking, "which kneecap?"
Pro choice like a lioness stalking a herd of gazelle.
Pro choice like a homeless man can choose a bridge.
Pro choice like deciding between financial and medical ruin.
Pro choice like a rapist asking, "ass or cunt?"
Pro choice like choosing which bill to put off this month.
Pro choice like a backalley crackhead choosing another hit.
Pro choice like forcing a mother to choose between an impossible baby and an illegal abortion.
Yeah. He's pro choice.
