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Every cloud has a silver lining.... Mine must be hiding Hope and keep your fingers crossed.... My hope must have got lost Good luck and break a leg....
#household Spare me a prayer to your lord, By voice, letter or song and cord, Think of me over breakfast, Please, be my generous guest, Send out those electric pulses, Your positive thoughts and...
Tyger. Tyger. burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry. In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes.
As I drove home I crashed the car And died. Standing beside the wreck Steaming And crumpled, A strange man appeared. Carrying a bunch Of flowers. 'Call for help!' I cried.
I woke up this morning to quite a surprise, At first I thought I'd broken my eyes. My life's canvas is blank, completely wiped clean, I've simply no clue what this might mean.
#household mirror, won't you tell me fair see nothing when at you I stare mirror, what is it that's wrong perhaps I've been around too long mirror, all that I can see sad face staring back at...
It didn't happen like she had thought it would. There were no explosions, no raging fires, no ruptures in the ground... and nothing but silence.
There is a quaking in my heart, A quarrel not to be quelled, I walk on my hands With my head in the clouds, As the sun does its dance For the rivers that glance, And the trees as they counsel, I...
I was slow to finish but quick to start. I'm hard and strong yet soft of heart. I'm soft and loving yet never cry. I love to shop yet never buy. I like smart clothes but never dress smart.
I went for a walk. To get some fresh air. I went through the town. There's nobody there. Where have they gone. Where could they be. I thought to myself. It's just lonely old me.
Watched a firefly dance across the midnight sky A little burst of beauty against the night Will you find a lover with your glow I certainly don't know, but I sure hope so For something as lovely as...
Life goes on; so I've been told, Days fly by and we'll all get old. We're all afraid to be unique, To find ourselves is what we seek.
I feel the rope wrapped around me I feel the strain release me I've trapped myself I'm my own trap I can't escape for there is no feeling in my body no feeling in my body I see the...
Often times we don't notice that we draw lines in between things so that we don't confuse ourselves in what's real and what's not. But there are times when those lines doesn't always remain clear.
Without word of warning. The sun rises. It's morning. What shall I do. Some people will say. No-one else knows. It's up to you. Maybe go shopping. Or visit the sea. I do not know. It's not up to me.
What if one night the moon weren't there. Would I even stop to stare. What if all the stars fell down. And fell as shards upon the ground. What if mountains crack and crumble.
In all the 329 years, 4 months, 6 days I've lived, I've seen chamber pots filled and long since emptied.
Only you I choose among the entire world Is it fair of you. Letting me be unhappy.
Morning Star, Son of Dawn, so high in the sky. So close to the top, but never close enough.
*this is one of my older opuses. Decided to use it* #household Moonlight reflects, My greatest respects, This distant place, Gives me such a distaste, Sparks shower, This is the glass hour.
Pour in. Pour in. Pour in. Displace and replace. Like storm clouds into a peaceful sky. A shout into a quiet room. A tragedy into a dull day. Or common sense into an otherwise Republican mind.
Written while really wasted: There's something special about a human's last breath. You can hear their soul getting sucked out of them, sucked away from time like it never existed.
If I should die Think only this of me: 'Thank fuck he's dead. ' That should be the elegy. Don't glorify the life I led.
(inspired by @earthbound, others have done them also, so those authors as well.) Twinkle twinkle little star, I already know what you are.