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  • Empty spaces
    Fill the places
    Where you once stood

    Inside this heart
    And filling the
    Mind, body, soul

    There is a void
    So black
    It's blinding

    Feel around
    And seek
    Find nothing

    Hurl myself into it
    Seeing nothing
    Feeling nothing

    Nothing, but you
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Walked along the lake shore
    Sat on the rocks
    Watched the tide roll in, out, in, out...
    Sort of hypnotized
    Enjoyed the darkness
    The coldness of the oncoming winter
    The silence
    The lack of people
    I think I was the only one out there at that late hour
    I started to wonder what would happen
    If I just dove in
    Clothes, shoes and all
    And swam
    Until I could swim no more
    Until I was tired and numb and sore
    Until the water went in my eyes, my ears, my nose, my mouth
    And filled up my lungs
    And covered my head
    And I went down, down, down...

    It would be like I was never here at all
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Your mistakes like a polluted lake
    Flowing through your veins
    Pumped by a black heart
    So the cavernous thoughts
    Carry over the line to her ear
    And infect her mind
    Which in turn taints
    The beautiful angel you both created
    He keeps his sweet vigil by the door
    Only to have his hopes dashed
    By deceitful deceptions,
    Devious deeds,
    Demented dillusions,
    Doors to depression,
    You are the keeper of the key
    He just turned five
    Do you even care that he's alive?
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Sometimes my thoughts are too much to bear
    Sometimes my feelings too hard to share
    Then I remember the lonely street kids at Christams
    And Simon, the resident glue sniffed chasm
    And all the sad, sad souls
    And the unwanted children
    And that in 100 years the snow capped
    mountains of Kilamanjaro will be melted
    And that 1 in 7 people are malnourished
    And that HIV is an epidemic
    And that so many think money is king
    And that I can be so fucking selfish
    And I don't understand why
    And that love can really hurt sometimes
    And I could go on but I won't
    Sometimes my thoughts are too much to bear
    Sometimes my feelings too much to share
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • feel the air
    full of stale thoughts
    and monitors
    losing the feelings
    that once were dear
    feeling the nothing feeling here
    falsified, stagnant, phoney smiles
    flash before my face
    taunting me
    haunting me
    flaunting there tempting emptiness
    devoid of anything
    offering only false promise
    shushing me
    pushing me
    flushing their wasteland through my veins
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • I will try to behave myself tomorrow
    I will try to only do my work
    I will try to ignore sexual innuendos
    I will try to be a good girl
    I will try to be "all they want me to be"
    I will try to behave myself
    I will try
    I will try
    I hope it's not a lie
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Originally posted by Being Enlightened
    I used to go walking in the rain
    It was always something I enjoyed
    I'd just let it pour on me
    I'd ponder
    I'd wander
    Until I was soaked
    And chilled to the bone
    And my head hurt
    And my feet hurt
    And my heart hurt
    And I was too tired to go on
    Then I'd return home
    Only then did your embrace almost feel warm

    This is pro'ly my favorite of those I hadn't already read from you. The ending is biting and out of nowhere. At least it caught me by surprise.

    I would just like to say that it's completely different seeing all of these works by you put together. I've seen a lot of them already, and appreciated each for it's value and voice... but seeing them all next to each other gives me quite a respect for who you are and what you do as a writer. You have some remarkable talent and a wide pallet of styles. It makes me want to give you a present.

    Check your PMs. Your present will be waiting! Thank you so much for sharing!
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  • Originally posted by CranMalReign
    This is pro'ly my favorite of those I hadn't already read from you. The ending is biting and out of nowhere. At least it caught me by surprise.

    I would just like to say that it's completely different seeing all of these works by you put together. I've seen a lot of them already, and appreciated each for it's value and voice... but seeing them all next to each other gives me quite a respect for who you are and what you do as a writer. You have some remarkable talent and a wide pallet of styles. It makes me want to give you a present.

    Check your PMs. Your present will be waiting! Thank you so much for sharing!

    I'm all choked up CMR! You honour me with your kindness! :D

    I LOVE my present!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    THANK-YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Love,
    B.E. :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • There are days
    When you wake up
    After too little sleep
    Too much red wine
    Feeling somber, melancholy
    And the rain is falling
    And it isn't helping
    And you're feeling so down
    And someone confirms those feelings
    So it makes it that much worse
    But then a little light breaks through
    Then it floods in encompasing you
    Lifts you up so high from the depths
    It comes from the kindness of friendly strangers
    And hits you like a sweet arrow through the heart
    And warms you from the inside out
    And reminds you that goodness exists
    And makes you glow with happiness
    Brightens your soul
    So you feel you shine
    Helps you believe in selfless love
    Makes you kinder yourself
    Kinder to others





    To all my friends here (you know who you are)---I LOVE YOU ALL!
    :D:D:D:D:D
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Originally posted by Being Enlightened
    There are days
    When you wake up
    After too little sleep
    Too much red wine
    Feeling somber, melancholy
    And the rain is falling
    And it isn't helping
    And you're feeling so down
    And someone confirms those feelings
    So it makes it that much worse
    But then a little light breaks through
    Then it floods in encompasing you
    Lifts you up so high from the depths
    It comes from the kindness of friendly strangers
    And hits you like a sweet arrow through the heart
    And warms you from the inside out
    And reminds you that goodness exists
    And makes you glow with happiness
    Brightens your soul
    So you feel you shine
    Helps you believe in selfless love
    Makes you kinder yourself
    Kinder to others





    To all my friends here (you know who you are)---I LOVE YOU ALL!
    :D:D:D:D

    Kindness makes me feel good. :D
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  • Originally posted by CranMalReign
    Kindness makes me feel good. :D

    ME TOO! :D Guess what! That means YOU make me feel good!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • A vicious cycle
    A vivious circle
    Bruises the body
    Bruises the mind
    See those faces
    The ones behind the numbers
    Staggering to think
    That human beings
    Would cause such suffering
    On such little babies
    No matter what their story
    Let's not forget them
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • coleen
    coleen Posts: 938
    its been too many days without being enlightened.

    now please don't think that i don't appreciate a thread dedicated to the mistress of the poetry hut because i think there should be temples built in your honor. :) but the thought that you felt that you had to confine yourself and your joy and sunshine to just one thread is ridiculous. i hope this doesn't mean an end to our fun and frolic.

    that being said, i'm exhausted after the weekend and it is almost a blessing to find many of your lovelies in one place....don't think i won't go looking for the other little beauties you've no doubt scattered about the place because they are certainly worth the read.

    :)
  • Originally posted by coleen
    its been too many days without being enlightened.

    now please don't think that i don't appreciate a thread dedicated to the mistress of the poetry hut because i think there should be temples built in your honor. :) but the thought that you felt that you had to confine yourself and your joy and sunshine to just one thread is ridiculous. i hope this doesn't mean an end to our fun and frolic.

    that being said, i'm exhausted after the weekend and it is almost a blessing to find many of your lovelies in one place....don't think i won't go looking for the other little beauties you've no doubt scattered about the place because they are certainly worth the read.

    :)

    :D:D I'm still up for some frolicing baby! :o

    And thank you my little sweet pea!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Friday night
    Red wine
    Imported pints
    Quite a few joints
    Your girl friends buzz in
    We all have some laughs
    A few too many more beers
    A few too many more joints
    They head off to a party
    You head off to bed
    I try to concentrate on T.V.
    But I just can't
    So I lie on my stomach
    On the hard wood floor
    Head propt up on a pillow
    Writing this bunch of nonsense





    It seemed much more exciting while I was getting drunk and high!
    Then left alone with nothing but my thoughts, well, I had to do something to keep from thinking about things I didn't want to think about. :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • I'm adding some more old stuff I found in the recesses of the board's memory banks now. This is fun! :D
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • How can you look me in the eye
    And try to sell me the lie
    As the world continues to die
    Will you be the one to cry

    Your thoughts have been
    so clearly concocted
    You deliver them with
    such egotism and ease

    Your suit looks so sharp
    it cuts to the touch
    Just like your words
    through their brains

    Selling thoughts of
    freedom and love
    Through fucking wars
    and children's blood

    Work that hatred
    Teach it in your history books
    Hand it down and hand it down
    Generation upon generation

    Tradition and religion are so important
    They only want the shit
    that you say is dipped
    in the finest of gold

    Sell your soul to the infantry
    They really believe you care
    Think they may get a better education
    Then their country fucking rapes them

    "Manufacture of consent"
    by your god & government
    Media fraud and false statements
    The truth is latent
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Try to live my life undaunted
    Haunted tho I am
    Stories to fill the pages
    Engages my thoughts

    A child born of children
    Filled them too full
    Pressure just too much
    Such pain has visited me

    I try to overcome
    Become someone I may not be
    Unsure of the path
    Hath I have no home

    I have been the rock
    Block out the past
    It has it's ways
    Lays it's head on my shoulder

    Some things become obession
    Repression of reality
    Questions unanswered still
    Pills don't make it go away

    Where is the good
    Should I be so bold
    I need to feel it
    A bit, just a bit

    Emotions prickling my skin
    Again I push away
    Been pushed so many times
    Crimes of love
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • I alone
    find myself here
    I'm drawn back
    again and again

    I alone
    see all the thoughts
    left here for all
    to look and feel

    I alone
    walk these halls
    I like the silence
    it calls my name

    I alone
    want to absorb
    all that you are
    and feel whole once more
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • I listened to you
    call my name
    Your beauty astounds me
    I am speechless
    I close my eyes
    Your waves crashed
    in my ears
    Oh to taste you
    would be so sweet
    A drink of the divine
    My tongue is parched
    with such desires
    There are nights
    when I know
    you want to consume me
    You're so alluring
    Sometimes I want
    to be one with you
    To drink you
    into my lungs
    let you devour me
    But something keeps me
    on your shores
    I have touched you
    as you have me
    Each of us
    a part of eachother
    Our time may be drawing near
    but it has yet to come
    Farewell my sweet
    I leave you for now
    But I shall return
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen