A Thread For The Budding Poets/writers Etc..

[jacksondonut]

What is ‘it’?

I have a question
Is it love? Or is it infatuation?
My waking hours are spent wondering
Is it my loneliness and desperation?
Can it be something else?
Do I miss you every day?
The answer must be; yes I do
What is it about you that I cannot forget?
I’ll let you know, when I know too

I have no answer to my question
Maybe it is both love and infatuation
I can acknowledge these feelings
It isn’t loneliness, or desperation
This is not heartbreak and pain, not this time
I wait patiently for the answer
And although I miss you every night
And I think of you so very far away
Whatever ‘it’ is; it will be alright

[Beowulf]

ok here's another daft one from me..

I wrote this when trying to understand one of my friends and thought if people were more like computers then at least I could understand them.. anyway, poetry's not my thing.

oh that some power was on me bestowed
the secret ability to instantly decode
The software and programming one could Find
in the innermost workings of the female Mind

The Formulae which I must compute
To solve the equation found at the root
of the females wants and needs and desires
that fans and fuel their lustful fires.

To me women are strange alien creatures
with odd procedures and hidden features
i wish I had the correct processor installed
to allow me to understand what leaves me enthralled

For , if I understood the entire female range
then Upon me I could effect a change
I could upgrade myself to a compatible specification
and reprogram my brain with a new control application

A new body For myself I would reverse engineer
soley designed to bring women near
and as I interfaced with these beauties in all their finery
.. I'd beep and whistle and chatter in binary

no wait, scratch that, for that idea is absurd
The delusional ramblings of a computer obsessed nerd
Now all this wishing may well just seem
like a lonely geeks sad techy pipe dream

No, You can't treat love like some computer game
everyone is different, we're not all the same
I'd rather have someone illogical and unique
who'd be loving and caring to this crazy geek.

[bigdjiver]

The nearest I can come to summing up a woman 's effects in binary is:

IOIO

[bigdjiver]

and its off to work I go ...

[jacksondonut]

Through the Window

Looking through glass
The moon stares back
White light, cold and distant
Nature’s perfect circle
Riding high in the sky
Twinkling stars; tiny fairy lights
Wink at the icy moon
She seems to stare back balefully
Silent and grave as the night glides by
Timeless, everlasting and eternal
Moving majestically around our earth
This place that we call home
In a circle for all of time
Watching quietly and in awe
I am struck by her beauty and grace
And as the moon traces her nightly path
I shiver and close the window
One last look before sleep takes me
For its cold outside and I am tired
I must give in to sleep
Inside it is warm and I close my eyes
The night takes me and carries me away
The lonely moon stares down
Waiting for the night to end
On her never ending journey
Through the skies

[bigdjiver]

On a songwriting forum someone issued a challenge to write a song on the theme of someone who is close friends with someone of the opposite sex, and is fearful of trying to take the relationship to a more intimate level in case it did not work out and they then lost their most valued friend. I made pages of notes, and ended up throwing them all away. I looked at our window and started to think "It needs clea....", but then saw the garden outside and the lyrics just came to me:

On the other side of the window the flowers have a scent
Bird's cries and humming flies paint the firmament
The breeze will caress me, the sunshine may bless me
and raindrops may anoint my head.


This side of the window, we are safe and warm
our fears a'sleeping, safe from the storm ...

[quiet_flame]

Through the Window

Looking through glass
The moon stares back
White light, cold and distant
Nature’s perfect circle
Riding high in the sky
Twinkling stars; tiny fairy lights
Wink at the icy moon
She seems to stare back balefully
Silent and grave as the night glides by
Timeless, everlasting and eternal
Moving majestically around our earth
This place that we call home
In a circle for all of time
Watching quietly and in awe
I am struck by her beauty and grace
And as the moon traces her nightly path
I shiver and close the window
One last look before sleep takes me
For its cold outside and I am tired
I must give in to sleep
Inside it is warm and I close my eyes
The night takes me and carries me away
The lonely moon stares down
Waiting for the night to end
On her never ending journey
Through the skies

lovely... I have to spread the love around before I can rep you again...
Keep up the great work

[Juju]

Dancing haiku thread anyone?

Dancing in summer
Flower petals on the breeze
Dew under armpits

[stewart38]

question............... why ?


Answer.............. why not ??


I want to start a business to write proper fortune cookies

[Juju]

Dancing in summer
Flower petals on the breeze
Dew under armpits

Nights are drawing in
Dancers flicker like firelight
Beats watching the soaps

[stewart38]

What is ‘it’?

I have a question
Is it love? Or is it infatuation?
My waking hours are spent wondering
Is it my loneliness and desperation?
Can it be something else?
Do I miss you every day?
The answer must be; yes I do
What is it about you that I cannot forget?
I’ll let you know, when I know too

I have no answer to my question
Maybe it is both love and infatuation
I can acknowledge these feelings
It isn’t loneliness, or desperation
This is not heartbreak and pain, not this time
I wait patiently for the answer
And although I miss you every night
And I think of you so very far away
Whatever ‘it’ is; it will be alright

that is no real have some rep

[jacksondonut]

Just for today..

Precious Memory

It only took a moment
But, it seemed like a lifetime then
The seconds stretched
And melded themselves into minutes
And my heart leapt with joy briefly
Just for a short time I felt at peace
And how I try to recapture that blissful moment
But, it is a fleeting as the autumn sun in November
Or the rapidly fading rainbow after a storm
And as elusive as a startled deer, in the forest
It keeps me warm on a cold bitter night
No one can take this away from me
For no one knows my secrets
A few moments to remember always
Wrapped up and treasured in my heart
More precious than anything
Is my memory of you

[Beowulf]

ok here's another daft one from me..

Your coding does not compute;
I tried this once and faild to re-boot!
"Fatal exception" was just one cause;
the program was just riddled with flaws!
To say she's right, and never wrong,
cased an overflow with integer (long).
To gosub praise without return,
caused the main processor to burn.
The memory measured in giggabites,
to store the variables on avoiding fights.
Checksum failed on procedure call;
on each response to a shopping mall.
Random beeps and failure to respond,
when trying to input all she was fond.
A deathly scilence as the fan shut down,
when inputting all that made her frown.

In the end I started from scratch:
this new verson only requires a patch -
A quick plugin of chocolate and flowers,
saves decoding the program for hours!
Memory lapses are built into the machine;
a convenient excuse to blow off steam.
It does what you ask, and not what you want:
and you're stuck with the input in an obsolite font.

{Gadget: Can't be bothered signing in as me }

[Beowulf]

!! I let gadget browse the forum on my PC while I iron my shirts and I find I've written another poem !!

hehehe.. (Yup,, must be gadget.. it has his.. UNIQUE grasp of spelling )

[jacksondonut]

Something a little more lighthearted..

The Simple Life

Oh, how I wish I was my cat
A simple life with no regret
Food in my dish at my request
Occasional visits to the vet!
I'll spend the day beneath a bush
Watching as the world goes by
Sit on the wall, wail to the moon
It's light reflected in my eye
The moonlight keeps me company
As I go stalking in the night
Dodging shadows, catching moths
Maybe a mouse, a tasty bite!
On winters days I curl up small
quietly dreaming all day long
Until the night time calls me out
Up to the wall, to sing my song
But most of all I love my bed
I lie there warm and snuggled deep
And when you call me for an hour
I'll just pretend I was asleep!
Finally, I'll stroll down to my dish
To nibble on a tasty snack
Look very grateful, purr a lot
And LET you gently stroke MY back..

[quiet_flame]

Something a little more lighthearted..

The Simple Life

Oh, how I wish I was my cat
A simple life with no regret
Food in my dish at my request
Occasional visits to the vet!
I'll spend the day beneath a bush
Watching as the world goes by
Sit on the wall, wail to the moon
It's light reflected in my eye
The moonlight keeps me company
As I go stalking in the night
Dodging shadows, catching moths
Maybe a mouse, a tasty bite!
On winters days I curl up small
quietly dreaming all day long
Until the night time calls me out
Up to the wall, to sing my song
But most of all I love my bed
I lie there warm and snuggled deep
And when you call me for an hour
I'll just pretend I was asleep!
Finally, I'll stroll down to my dish
To nibble on a tasty snack
Look very grateful, purr a lot
And LET you gently stroke MY back..

lovely... fairly accurate too

[quiet_flame]

She smiled today,
I felt my heart soar.
We laugh, I cry,
I stay behind closed doors,
Asking my mind to rule.
My heart calls out, crying,
And my mind shuts down.

Why, when I feel like crying,
Do I go back?
Some days are easy,
Some days, there is no repreive,
I smile for those around me.
But do I act, or am I truly happy?

Days seem like months,
Months seem like hours,
I'm going crazy in here,
No room for rationality,
No room for a fight.

I feel myself pushing against the walls,
No light,
Just the dull thudding,
Like a heartbeat,
Holding me there,
In a prison of my emotion.

[stewart38]

Think twice thats my only advice


I rarely follow this

[jacksondonut]

Waiting for the End of Summer

Will you be here this time next year?
I need to know I’m full of fear…
The time when all the leaves will fall
A golden brown carpet wall to wall
The skies go grey and turn to lead
You’ll always be here, that’s what you said
When birds fly south to other lands
With warmer winds and golden sands
Will you still be here, Daddy?

When black storm clouds come rolling in
The sun turns pale, shrivelled in its skin
The rain falls in steady streams of tears
To wash away oh so many years
I’m frightened of what’s yet to come
The future looks like it’s come undone
You have always been right there for me
So sad and scared, I just can’t see
Will you still be here, Daddy?

And when the snow falls deep on the ground
We’ll walk together quietly, without a sound
I’ll tread so carefully around your pride
I can stand strong, right by your side
I will not show my fear and dread
I will not think of what the doctor said!
So when the autumn comes back next year
I’ll make sure that this is crystal clear
I’ll always love you, Daddy

[quiet_flame]

Another waiting one... but believe it or not I didn't read yours first...

Waiting,
Wating on a stream of events,
Sitting, perched on the platform of outcomes,
Falling off the broken chair, staring at the sky above.

Is this the mental evolution?
To pass the time thinking of nothing,
to pass by, unknown to the rest of the world,
Who am I to ask questions?
Who am I to miss the point?

Help me father, I've fallen down again,
Help me soldier, protect me from the wild,
Help me my league, I need some company,

Splitting hours on a dime,
Asking more of the soldiers past,
Asking less of my fathers future,
Asking all of my sorrow to depart.

I sit, I lie, I wait.