Vicious Vices
Greed is more than lusting for gold.
Greed is a parasite that invades your conscious and weakens your mind.
You want wealth then you want glory then you want power then you want the world.
You become a slave to your devious desires, damned to do the deeds of a devilish urge.
Greed has done treacherous things.
Greed has pinned man against man, sister against brother, child against mother.
Greed has bought death and suffering.
Greed has bought a sound man to the brink of madness.
Greed has bought the sturdiest of strongholds to their knees.
We like to believe greed is so inhumane.
We deny that we posses it and believe we're above it.
Everyone says greed is a malicious mannerism.
Greed is too crude and barbaric for us civilized individuals.
Nevertheless, greed is a vicious vice that is deeply imbedded in our person.
An Avarice for Innocence
I have an avarice for innocence
Especially for the innocence I’ve lost
Those moments that have both
Slip away willingly
And
Those ripped from me
Unjustly so.
They are so hard to retrieve
The innocence gone
That I hoard the few remaining
And
Weep on the off chance
I get a precious one back.
So sweet, even if slightly altered.
I watch with a bit of envy,
Those still rich with innocence, play.
I silently beg them to not be so careless with it
To not let it so easily siphon away.
Knowing it is folly to speak the words aloud
For such wisdom can only be gained
When it is almost too late.
When it is almost too late
To have develop an avarice for innocence.
more
his lips awakened every cellular structure within her
split molecules
and exhausted her dimensions.
she could not help but to let him.
because he understood her,
like her shadow
he knew her every move
and for a second he realized
that there is more,
there always will be...
there is something that can shatter your soul,
rattle your bones
and it feels like home.
it feels like it should,
splendor wrapped in sacrifice
and giving of yourself,
despite the fear, despite the possibility of splitting hearts and
splintering souls.
too much of life is lived in greed, sin and sadness
but there is more..
and for a second he reached for it,
unafraid.
Crybaby Queen
The girl is red-cheeked,
her lashes wet.
And everyone can tell,
Her emotions got the best of her head.
She thinks it'll go away,
Like pimples or the oily sheen.
In a few more years,
She'll stop being their crybaby queen.
Oh, sweetheart,
you know not what I know,
this is one trait of yours,
that'll never go.
You'll be better at hiding,
Memorize tile in the bathroom,
but you have to use water,
to make a flower bloom.
Caring too much isn't your fault,
it's what you do with that feeling,
and you, my dear,
will leave the world reeling.
An EPIC Poetic Compilation
(This is the product of a challenge. Only the first paragraph is mine, the rest are YOUR words. And thanks to all who participated. I am sorry to those who didn't get a chance to post. Next time I will allow more time to do so. I'll tag everyone [whose pieces are included] in the comments below.)
Love ricochets in haste
Bouncing off the dew
The cherry blossoms blink
And my heart reciprocates
Sweet chance resonating
A new beginning resounds
And reaches up through fertile death
Puddles of frozen past
Redemption awakes in springs
Of manifested lust
Hunger grows as blossoms fall
Lips seek one another in wet embrace
Bed of petals cushion their ardor
Shedding garments as passion flows
Desperation grips and surges
Hesitant thoughts aggressively tossed
empowered yearnings forage
devouring unexplored meadows
that feed the ravished appetite
conceding to vulnerable aches
Only cured with crooked dignity
between the sheets of heart & mind
battling wanton desires to trace silhouettes
of those who haunt my sleeping pillow
i drag my feet thru'
a quagmire of emotions
heart heavy sloshing with desire
sagging low to my groin
cuddled under the covers of sky
our hands see more than the eye
Do or die I can't deny
a vie for the cosmic connection
erection of bonds in every direction
a predilection for pleasure over pain
only to be bitten by my demons again
That bite seeping deep into virgin flesh
Exploding every pore with Alizarin Crimson fire
My name pouring from your tongue
Exhaling delight reverberating haze
Licking the dripping flavors of you
I devoured you hungrily
The cool breeze did not dampen the raging fire inside
As the scented mix of crimson and falling pink heightened my desire for you
What chance did I have,
Against such alluring enticement?
Inevitably, our bodies collide
with a spectacular explosion -
Breathtaking fusion, frightening intimacy,
Uncertain intent.
The sky comes crashing down
All around us.
Sinking like stones
On the bed that lies
Hands clawing into the night
Determined to rip through
The flesh that craves such lies
Our breaths like raging storms
Filled with energy as we fall under
As passionate as the swirling wind
As loud as the rolling thunder
Every touch lightning
Sparking that lust within
& So Our Journey Begins
you & I Lovers Intertwined
Through Cascades & Land Slides
Our Mission UnFolds
Tracing Tiny Spirals In Memories Hold
How we Meat the Best Tale Told
and as I feel your skin become mine
you sigh through your teeth
asking for a love you won't return
well-written chapters of silence
begging for the want of yesterday
The cherry blossom scents fall down around us
Reminding me of Niagara Falls and I get lost in the shooting stars of your eyes
Our fingers caress the secret pages hidden on each other's hips
That hold the stories we never shared
But we became the two protagonists of the same adventure:
co-authoring our book,
we scattered our chapters across the world in our most intimate moments
like pink petals, divots of love in a bland landscape.
Our bodies and lifetimes are hopelessly entangled--
but I wouldn't want it any other way
As the graying sky reveals
Frost nipped buds, we arise
From our bed of crushed petals.
Earth turns, daylight wanes, yet we remain.
Your hands feel like forever.
Let the real adventure begin.
As we take our first step into this world unknown
Wildflowers grew at our feet
Our love was overflowing from a memory
of last night's volcanic heat
The waves of passion
From crashing cliffs now laps the beach
True loves, truest form.
Eat the words we wish to speak.
Like the vines we once made love on,
My veins wrap around your feet.
Sparks of lust burning holes in my body,
Thoughts of caution now retreat.
Three basic needs that existence requires:
to sate, to sleep and to slake,
when distorted by the haze of desire
become necessary steps to forsake;
for I have learned there is fuel in the fire
licking me, as I'm bound to your stake.
Breath deep to drink your heated breathe.
Worlds tremble, urgent shuddered release.
All is life, we succumb to bargained death.
Climb in to me, blood lust, love lust appease.
I am your heart, your meat, petit mort sired,
Forever one, gods of the impassioned, enfired.
Unravel my soul, siphon my sins
To crawl upon my skin
Drink my rain, tantalizing honey liqueur
Speak to my flesh, wake the ferine
Arousing passion,sultry rosebud bloom, open me
Enthroned, Sir
Forever one, Gods of impassioned, enfired.
A pause, shivering,
Like fog upon the mirror;
My heart, quivering,
Sudden doubt draws nearer.
And sands rush and race the encircled time stance, tall and flowing through hourglass confinement. Carrying dream sacks weighed down by bondage, a crime found lost, down the flow of silence.
And as the sands crash over us, we breathe deep.
This is life, this eternal crush.
Our souls are blended deep beneath the rush of waves.
We are limitless in our passion.
There is fire in our veins.
We are fed by the sun.
As it falls,
It heals all,
As it heals,
It renews
As it renews,
Love appears.
How unfair a thing to befall us both,
That love requited in our great oath,
Is bound by flesh which surely dies,
'Til we return unto the skies
Enantiodromia seems to be breathing me
Where sly worries fell aside, atavistically
where laments become the pride
Subsequeint looks and stories and I'm numb
inside.
I arrived in time to behold
the glory of the curtains closed
Stage dark, players gone
Yet I hold your hand and hum along.
A new beginning resounds
I remember the bangles
I remember the velvet
I remember that night in Monsoon
You're all soaked
Soaked enough to soak the angels
I being a mere mortal
Could've done nothing
but rid of you of all those
wretched,soaked velvet
I remember that night
Cherry blossom scent
Dewdrop velvet night descent
Emotional storm of passion swarms
the moment of my mortal life's end
Freedom I find within
Each time bangles chime
I replay the scene in my mind
Entwined our souls float as one,
I can caress your skin til the morning sun,
The blood in my veins glows with your heat,
Lascivious as it may seem, there is no retreat.
Being you -- being me... No,
We can't be undone!
I thought it was a new beginning
I had my chance at love
But as the cherry blossoms blinked
All I received was heartbreak
As Love ricocheted in haste
Bouncing off the dew.