By Heart 4 poetry on February 2, 2010
Things needed: 1. person (you or someone in need of a smile) 1/2 cup of love from the heart. 2. heaping loads of Joy and gladness 1. pinch of care 2. cups of laughter What to do: Mix together The two cups of laughter with the heaps of joy and gladness. Stir constantly to make [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Desire, forever, Fresh Start, Happiness, heart, joy, kiss, Kisses, Lad, Laugh, Laughter, love, pain, smile, Spoon
By jivepoet on January 10, 2010
(1)If you’d found a way to hold your own against the playground bully, Would you go to school reunions now, and share old classroom tales? If you’d opened up, so counselors could understand you fully, Would the knowledge they’d acquired have taken more wind from your sales? (2)If you’d stood up to your father, when [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged alone, Brain, child, childhood, Choice, Christian, class, considering alternate outcomes, destiny, Father, Foe, Friend, Friends, girl, Lad, leaders, Life, list, Mom, night, nostalgia, Rain, reviewing one's past, School, Travel, Voices, war
By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
At 16 young Eben designed a device which would rapidly miniaturize The boy and then teleport him to the place of his choosing at much reduced size. He used it at random, and found himself suddenly out in a lady’s backyard. The 21 year old housewife soon detected his presence; and his way was barred. [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Fate, forever, giantess/shrinking male, house, joy, kiss, Lace, Lad, Laugh, Life, Lost, love, Presence, Prey, Remorse, Romance, sci-fi, sin, Stomach, Surprise, Tea, Truth, vore, war, wife, woman
By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
(1)Young Tom visited his great aunt, until he was ten years old, And soon after his next birthday, her old mansion would be sold, Since she died, and he would miss them both, as nine years changed the date. He completed school, did two years work, and started college late. (2)At the end of his [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Angel, Ash, Awe, Break, change, Cheeks, Chocolate, Clouds, cry, cycle, dark, Desk, Ears, eyes, feeling, Feelings, Flower, flowers, Friend, Ghost, ghosts, girl, Grass, grief, Guess, heart, house, joy, kiss, Kisses, Lace, Lad, Lain, Life, Lips, lonely, Lost, Lost love, love, memories, memory, Mother, Mud, Nec, night, Nook, older woman romance, Picnics, Rain, School, Sea, shared nostalgia, sin, sleep, smile, Stories, Sun, Surprise, Tea, Token, Tree, Vine, war, world
By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
Well I’ve never bought a garage, but my searching never fails To provide me with some novelties, at all those garage sales; And I don’t think I’d be interested to own a pachyderm; But White Elephant retailing’s how to end a school’s third term. I’ve a china cabinet (from a second hand store) filled with [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Ash, Friend, garage sales, house, joy, Lad, people, School, Sea, Shame, Trash, war
By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
(1)My first Blue Mountains journeys were on Sydney’s country trains, With scenery improving, once I’d gone past Emu Plains. I did not know the passengers around me, but perhaps one Might care to play a card game, since we’d only come to Lapstone (2)I closed my vintage fiction novel fast. So I could then look, [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Autumn, Bloom, child, childhood, class, Concrete, cool, Ears, fiction, Fire, Flower, flowers, Friend, Game, Gloves, Hill, Horses, house, Journey, joy, Lace, Lad, Lain, Life, Lost, Lost love, love, Map, memory, night, Rain, scene, School, Sea, sin, spring, Sun, Train trip, Travel, Tree, Trees, war
By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
Professor Brint was 30, when he built his best invention: The Chrono-Car, and used it to explore the fourth dimension. He revved it up, and traveled back through 23 years’ history, And then the engine used up all supplies of his magistery. Now trapped back when his childhood self had only just turned seven, And [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Angel, child, childhood, Choice, class, Ears, Journey, Lad, Liar, lies, Life, love, Mother, Muck, Romance, S Child, School, sin, Tea, Time Travel, Torment, Travel, Truth, war
By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
Is she waiting in the snowfall of an unseen distant plateau, That still lives today on Christmas cards all packed up now? Is that so? Would the lamps that light the pathways put a glow upon her face? Are these images of fantasies all gone without a trace? Is she staring from the window of [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Cease, Christmas, Clouds, cry, dark, destiny, falling, Fantasies, Fog, Frog, Grass, Happiness, house, Images, kiss, Lad, Lost, night, Romance, Sky, snow, soul-mate, Sun, Tea, Tree
By Debojyoti on December 8, 2009
What lies beneath your flaws? Your lies or your laws? And what is your lie? Is it everything that you try? And what is your law? The things that you tried and saw. Then is there any way to go, And hide from these lies and laws? ‘Cause they aren’t the virtue, they are my [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Flood, Foe, Lad, lies, Moss, Sky, Truth
By PrairiePoems on July 19, 2009
O tree of trees, neath skies of blue I once was glad and young with you! And now at last you sing to me, Of all the years, that used to be! a tree who slowly, softly weaves, The “Songs of Summer” through her leaves! A tree who bends, as winds go by And autumn [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Autumn, Ears, Lad, love, Music, Musician, night, pain, Rain, sin, Sky, Sun, Sunset, Tree, Trees
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