Topic: My Beautiful Universe
HuckleberryFinn's photo
Sun 11/29/09 07:45 AM
My Beautiful Universe

a biafra child
who didn't eat
air filled stomach
echoed drums we beat
SAVE THE CHILDREN!
a phrase we repeat

a soldier's limb
has returned from war
tears from loved ones
who expected more
WE WANT PEACE!
hangs on every door

postpartum depression
is the new excuse
to kill the child
suffering from abuse
WHERE'S THE JUSTICE!
what's the use

villages of genocide
mercenaries rape and rob
stolen booty
benefits of the job
HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD!
to catch the tears we sob

streets littered with vials
of the newest drug craze
while we laugh it off
as just another phase
SAY NO TO DRUGS!
as we idolize purple haze

another homeless man died
a horse with no name
pulling the plow of poverty
we hang our heads in shame
SHELTER THE HOMELESS!
animals of cardboard fame

corruption at every level
robbing its citizen's blind
the constant trickling down
leave two pennies hard to find
SUPPORT YOUR GOVERNMENT!
democracy of a different kind

then there are those
the ones who understand
the poet's of the world
bringing beauty to a hapless land
MY BEAUTIFUL UNIVERSE!
has been created by your hand.....

Dedicated to all the poet's
throughout the world, who
through their words make
life livable....write on!, Peace


no photo
Sun 11/29/09 08:56 AM
such is the world we live in...

one of hope
one of love
my beautiful universe

jimz's photo
Sun 11/29/09 01:14 PM

My Beautiful Universe

a biafra child
who didn't eat
air filled stomach
echoed drums we beat
SAVE THE CHILDREN!
a phrase we repeat

a soldier's limb
has returned from war
tears from loved ones
who expected more
WE WANT PEACE!
hangs on every door

postpartum depression
is the new excuse
to kill the child
suffering from abuse
WHERE'S THE JUSTICE!
what's the use

villages of genocide
mercenaries rape and rob
stolen booty
benefits of the job
HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD!
to catch the tears we sob

streets littered with vials
of the newest drug craze
while we laugh it off
as just another phase
SAY NO TO DRUGS!
as we idolize purple haze

another homeless man died
a horse with no name
pulling the plow of poverty
we hang our heads in shame
SHELTER THE HOMELESS!
animals of cardboard fame

corruption at every level
robbing its citizen's blind
the constant trickling down
leave two pennies hard to find
SUPPORT YOUR GOVERNMENT!
democracy of a different kind

then there are those
the ones who understand
the poet's of the world
bringing beauty to a hapless land
MY BEAUTIFUL UNIVERSE!
has been created by your hand.....

Dedicated to all the poet's
throughout the world, who
through their words make
life livable....write on!, Peace




nice write

no photo
Sun 11/29/09 01:33 PM
"There was a place I went, a stretch of beach where I could be alone. One clear tropical night I watched across the bay as an aircraft landed, an aircraft took off. I heard the sound of distant engines and the spill of the gentle surf. Moonlight glinted along the curl of the breakers. I became aware of another sound, a scratching, a scurrying. Off to my right was the body of a dead pig, rocking back and forth in the waves. It was covered with crabs, devouring it. Maybe in everything beautiful that there is, somewhere in it there is a dead pig."

- David L. Koren

You probably know that quote.

I always appreciate your work; it seems maybe more than you do, man. You're a writer. A poet. That's a lonely ****ing road but it seems like you walk it.

This is one of the few pieces of writing where I had to re-read the stanza before to move on it was so compelling. If I could, digitally, I would give you a standing ovation. This is truly a work to be proud of, stranger. I want you to know someone thinks that.

MsTeddyBear2u's photo
Sun 11/29/09 03:48 PM
bravo (((Huck))) flowers