Nursery Rhymes

SD533SD533 Posts: 221
edited September 2009 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
This is the nursery rhyme thread
A place to post the little songs
That you sing in your head

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I would gladly trade away
All vestiges of a false liberty
For a social contract guarantee
A place to work
A place to live
A way to raise a family
A society with benefits
For its citizenry
The electric grid and the medical profession
It should be given away for free
Access to education at the local free public university
Cheapskate tightwad selfish backward ass country
A corporation controlled and run greedy america
Was something that the founding fathers could not foresee
Not going to bury me
In interest rates and late fees
My country that's not free
I'm tired of tithing to thee

To our brightest and our best
Is this the best that you can do
Your answers and solutions are a joke
Just like you
Standing on our backs
Does that afford a better view

Social architects and engineers
Step up there's work to do
Our country calls on you
The whole world is waiting
To see what we come up with here

If you can't fix what is broke
Throw it all away
Put something new in its place
Imagine what could be
Then turn it into our new reality

Quality of life
Should be part of the new decree
The fundamental basis
For the new society

No need to proclaim equality
In a perfect harmony
We'll all be one
Distributed on and treated equally
United in minds heart and country
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  • DangDangDangDang Posts: 1,551
    Not sure that the nursery is ready for what rhymes with "ass". :o
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    All the best
    And all the rest
    Recognize that you're blessed

    Road is long
    The road is wide
    I'm on the other side

    Be courteous
    On your way out the door
    You're leaving us
    Not getting anymore

    No more music
    They're sweeping the dance floor
    Left all alone
    Your essence is your core

    You can't shut out
    Pain that you hold inside
    Don't be about
    The things you try to hide

    Young trees will snap
    If they don't learn to bend
    The thunder claps
    Before the storm begins

    You've had your time
    But now you're not so young
    Your song's over
    Nothing left to be sung

    The days are short
    The light is growing dim
    The dawn won't break
    The dark you're drowning in
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    Stubborn as a mule
    Let your will be your fuel
    What you say is what you do
    To yourself you must be true
    Follow your own way
    Live to see another day

    Your fate has been cast
    Don't get stuck in your past
    Let those who hold you back there
    Know that you don't really care
    Let them live gone days
    Leave them and their ways
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    He was the ace of spades
    The big king pin
    On that shoveling crew
    Dig a hole for you

    The ace of spades
    He studied their books and got their grades
    Worked hard earned everything he made
    Determination never fades

    She was the queen of clubs
    Too much party
    She had to go too soon
    On a road to ruin

    The queen of clubs
    She lived a life of butterfly days
    Candled to the wind of their bad ways
    It's sad to know she's gone away
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    Keep pushing my buttons
    This is not something that I'll miss
    Feel like punishment's gluttom
    I won't pull the plug out on this

    I know something is wrong
    When the truth from either side hurts
    Thick skin won't be thick for long
    When cut by a knife made of words

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    Whatcha gonna do
    Hey whatcha gonna do
    When the big C
    Comes calling on you

    Are you gonna run
    Are you going to hide
    Can't get away
    It won't be denied

    Whatcha gonna do
    Hey whatcha gonna do
    You want your life
    Now it's almost through

    Will you try to do
    The things that you wanted
    Not enough time
    Your house is haunted

    How you gonna breathe
    The last breaths that you know
    Will you take them short and slow
    Or will you just let them all go

    Whatcha gonna do
    When time is called on you
    Are you gonna pray and cry
    Wait for your god to tell you why

    Whatcha gonna do
    When your light's going out
    Will you fall back on your faith
    Or will you riddle that with doubt
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    Left my shit in a 25 cent locker
    Got those living out of the greyhound
    Downtown bus station depot blues
    Lost the key to my belongings
    This surely ain't paying no dues
    I don't have anything left
    And a lot less more to lose
    Man says that I have to move

    I've seen life from the downside
    Bottom's a ceiling over me
    Don't have enough for a bus ride
    The dirty floor is all I see

    I go out to the airport
    I watch the planes arrive and leave
    Tell me there's no place for my sort
    Not much hope but I still believe

    Traveling light I feel free
    I'm wearing my shirt on my back
    The only baggage I carry
    Walks inside of my shoes with me
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    I've been trying to find a state of grace
    Need to have a sense of the reverence
    Trying to get into that sacred space
    Still waiting around for deliverance

    Transcend and go beyond the commonplace
    Keep on trying to make a difference
    Try to be a part of the human race
    Need to overcome my ambivalence

    Have to learn how to be intuitive
    About my general overall health
    Defying gravity where I must live
    That's the only way that I'll heal myself

    I know now there's nothing but a fool's gold
    In the forges of alchemical fire
    Surrender my ego as I grow old
    Beat back the urge to express ny desire
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    Running down the road
    It's dusty and hot
    Now you can take
    What I have not

    I'm hauling my load
    It's all that I've got
    Might get a break
    Then I might not

    Ready to explode
    The lid off the pot
    The sun will bake
    Then it will rot
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    SD533 wrote:
    I've been trying to find a state of grace
    Need to have a sense of the reverence
    Trying to get into that sacred space
    Still waiting around for deliverance

    Transcend and go beyond the commonplace
    Keep on trying to make a difference
    Try to be a part of the human race
    Need to overcome my ambivalence

    Have to learn how to be intuitive
    About my general overall health
    Defying gravity where I must live
    That's the only way that I'll heal myself

    I know now there's nothing but a fool's gold
    In the forges of alchemical fire
    Surrender my ego as I grow old
    Beat back the urge to express ny desire

    i really like them all, a lot. but i especially like this one. :)



    also this:

    All the best
    And all the rest
    Recognize that you're blessed

    just touched me.
    thanks for your posts!
    8-)
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    If you don't know where you're going
    You have to know what you're doing
    Let go and the path takes you there
    When you arrive then you'll know where

    Keep your love alive
    That's what keeps you sane
    There's writings on the wall of your brain
    Parts of the soul won't die
    Let time wash away the pain

    You can stop the clock
    But you can't stop time
    Start to end one continuous line
    It marches forward on
    Moving at its own design

    *******************************************

    See there's the girl watchers
    Watching girls go by
    They can't look them in the eye
    What are they looking for

    Hear self-ordained experts
    They're the big talkers
    Not able to run walkers
    They tell themselves their lies

    *********************************************

    I'm not preaching to the choir
    I'm not walking on the wire
    Won't hold my feet in the fire
    I won't quietky retire

    I'm not afraid to tempt fate
    It's better never than late
    Can't have it now I'll just wait
    Unfounded hope is my trait
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    SD533 wrote:
    I've been trying to find a state of grace
    Need to have a sense of the reverence
    Trying to get into that sacred space
    Still waiting around for deliverance

    Transcend and go beyond the commonplace
    Keep on trying to make a difference
    Try to be a part of the human race
    Need to overcome my ambivalence

    Have to learn how to be intuitive
    About my general overall health
    Defying gravity where I must live
    That's the only way that I'll heal myself

    I know now there's nothing but a fool's gold
    In the forges of alchemical fire
    Surrender my ego as I grow old
    Beat back the urge to express ny desire

    i really like them all, a lot. but i especially like this one. :)



    8-)

    Thanks for the feedback, I'm never sure if I'm connecting. The above was written after listening to a Caroline Myss webcast. Certain words stood out and stuck with me. I hodgepodged what I liked into my own singsong based on my own homebrew philosophy and weirdo's outlook on life.
  • DangDangDangDang Posts: 1,551
    SD533 wrote:
    Whatcha gonna do
    Hey whatcha gonna do
    When the big C
    Comes calling on you

    Are you gonna run
    Are you going to hide
    Can't get away
    It won't be denied

    Whatcha gonna do
    Hey whatcha gonna do
    You want your life
    Now it's almost through

    Will you try to do
    The things that you wanted
    Not enough time
    Your house is haunted

    How you gonna breathe
    The last breaths that you know
    Will you take them short and slow
    Or will you just let them all go

    Whatcha gonna do
    When time is called on you
    Are you gonna pray and cry
    Wait for your god to tell you why

    Whatcha gonna do
    When your light's going out
    Will you fall back on your faith
    Or will you riddle that with doubt


    This poem does a pretty good job of describing what you must be feeling because after reading it, I caught a shuddering glimpse of what it must be like.
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    DangDang wrote:
    SD533 wrote:
    Whatcha gonna do
    Hey whatcha gonna do
    When the big C
    Comes calling on you

    Are you gonna run
    Are you going to hide
    Can't get away
    It won't be denied

    Whatcha gonna do
    Hey whatcha gonna do
    You want your life
    Now it's almost through

    Will you try to do
    The things that you wanted
    Not enough time
    Your house is haunted

    How you gonna breathe
    The last breaths that you know
    Will you take them short and slow
    Or will you just let them all go

    Whatcha gonna do
    When time is called on you
    Are you gonna pray and cry
    Wait for your god to tell you why

    Whatcha gonna do
    When your light's going out
    Will you fall back on your faith
    Or will you riddle that with doubt


    This poem does a pretty good job of describing what you must be feeling because after reading it, I caught a shuddering glimpse of what it must be like.

    Thanks, DangDang. That's cool that you're able to understand how it feels by just reading this. I would never have been able to imagine it or describe it until it really happened - the big 'C' came calling out for me.
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    Invading my space
    You're over your line
    Already got your own
    You want to take some of mine
    I'll let your shit slide
    I'd rather not whine

    I know there's a hell
    For assholes like you
    It comes alive on earth
    Part of whatever you do
    Your own walking curse
    When will it be through

    A dry water hole
    They're lined up to drink
    Pigs like you bellyfull
    So full you're starting to stink
    Still want to wallow
    No brains left to think
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    I'm so tired
    I can't get no sleep
    But I'm not even wired

    I'm so tired
    Don't bother to speak
    My words are uninspired

    I'm so tired
    Thoughts are getting old
    They're run out and expired

    I'm so tired
    Nothing left to hold
    Dreams have not transpired

    I'm so tired
    The life that I live
    Is not what I desired

    I'm so tired
    Gave all I can give
    There's nothing more required

    I'm so tired
    Seems a long time gone
    Since a thought has been fired

    I'm so tired
    Feeling drained and drawn
    Reserving and retired

    I'm so tired
    I've worn out the groove
    It's rutted and quagmired

    I'm so tired
    Things don't shake or move
    What confusion's conspired

    I'm so tired
    Left to gnaw the ache
    That emptiness has sired

    I'm so tired
    When will the spell break
    My drive has been cross wired
  • SD533SD533 Posts: 221
    Don't worry about the cause
    When you're dealing with effects
    There's no way to bring back whole and save
    What's already been lost gone and wrecked

    Always looking for someone
    Or something on which to blame
    The source might unlock a solution
    That and the answer are not the same

    The way things always happen
    It's not a great mystery
    Now's born out of an infinite past
    Into all that is and meant to be

    Nothing comes down from on high
    It flows outward from within
    A fool will know this and still ask why
    The end is known before you begin

    Human nature wants reasons
    Even if they don't exist
    The need for purpose when there is none
    An empty quest that's hard to resist

    What if we knew from the start
    We're specks in the universe
    That doesn't hear the call of our heart
    Our fate is a blind unknowing curse
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