You shouldn't have |
You put a child on a pedestal/and you poured yourself into him/and no one could say there was anything you didn't give or that you left yourself anything/You turned over your soul/almost let yourself ...
Posted by Jon on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:25:00 PST |
If we could always be in coffee shops |
I met you under soft lights/in a coffee shop at night/Something about coffee shops makes for easy conversation/Sometimes we get pressured/Sometimes we come through/Sometimes we can talk to someone lik...
Posted by Jon on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:05:00 PST |
You |
I've been breaking promises I had no business trying to keep/The one I really meant, later on I'll probably break it too/I put on my best pair of shirts and go walking down the icy road/Inside my head...
Posted by Jon on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:54:00 PST |
Coward |
I fall asleep thinking things the world can't handle/But I wake up before morning and I can't handle my own world/So I call myself out of the shadows/And, coward that I am, I'll never answer/I will so...
Posted by Jon on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:42:00 PST |
Friend of the Magpie |
This poem is inspired by Claude Monet's painting, "La Pie." See it here.
Silently pressing my calves against snow/I am melting her secretlyshe is making me numb/Arresting my att...
Posted by Jon on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:06:00 PST |
Resurface |
Hold back effort/What it produces only ever disappoints me/What I could start is what I can't finish/Something that I made/and I am something that you made/How does that leave us here?/Are you still h...
Posted by Jon on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:21:00 PST |
...but you couLd have heaRd it sooner |
What separates a man's soul from skin?/Could you carve it out of all my friends?/They are lining up to serve me meals/On paper-thin china held over their heads/It's all dirty dressings on left over me...
Posted by Jon on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:30:00 PST |
Little Sister |
Little sister, you've got a universe in your mind/with your own stars and views of the sky--they aren't mine/They aren't anyone else's, and you choose whose eyes get to see it/Little sister, I know th...
Posted by Jon on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:44:00 PST |
The fragile task of appreciation |
Let's take the world your mind sees when you're dreaming and turn it into substance. Hold it in our hands, mix our breath into its essence, expose the light to its presence. Let it witness the reality...
Posted by Jon on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 06:19:00 PST |
I |
Save the wires for heaven/Wash my face from your mind/Dip your drink in my dinner/Darken rooms to feel blind/Add my fist to your struggle/Witness armor and shield/stay the morning in my tent/aimed at ...
Posted by Jon on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:12:00 PST |
