On The Surface I Appear

 

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On the surface I appear

Staid

Calm

On the surface I appear

An ugly old broad

Vessel of lost aspirations

On the surface I appear

Devoted daughter

Doting mother

What appears

A lie

 

APPEAR
1a : to be or come in sight <the sun appears on the horizon>
  b : to show up <appears promptly at eight each day>
2: to come formally before an authoritative body <must appear in court today>
3: to have an outward aspect : seem <appears happy enough>

Seventy-Seven

 

Consciousness Shifted

You were gone from the world

A candle flame snuft

May 31 would have been my father's seventy-seventh birthday.

He passed from the world on November 28 2010 after a long period of declining health.

 

  

 

A must-have tool for Haiku. My father, a professor of literature and social sciences, would have approved.

Brave Sabrina

Please go here and show Sabrina your support. The comments on this video are so disgusting and cruel! This young woman is brave and deserves our support.

Pedantic

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PEDANTIC (adjective)

1 : of, relating to, or being a pedant(see pedant)

2 : narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned

3 : unimaginative, pedestrian

Why is being pedantic

Being boring

Losing one’s dreams

Confining one’s spirit

Caging one’s soul

Somehow seen as a badge of honor

Do we really need an external hell?

Is not the destruction of the desire to create

Punishment enough?

~Faye~

Split Screen

Here is a neat little short film that I enjoyed. I think of it as poetry in motion!

Hold On To the Dream

 

Hold Onto the Dream

by

Illsa

 

No quarter is given

No means too extreme

When you're trying your damndest

Not to wake from a dream

 

You cling to the branches

Of the storm-shaken tree

Lest you lose your grip

And fall to reality

 

The painful realization

When one wakes from sweet scenes

Cause the Quixotic with great zeal

To hold onto their dreams

 

Falling from great heights

Can cause dire hurt

You plunge from the Heavens

And end up in the dirt

 

The most beautiful of fantasies

Is the sorriest of vanities

 

~Illsa~

 

Party Time

 

It's always a painful thing

To be the unpretty one

In a group of pretty people having fun

 

Paint your smile on

Pretend it doesn't bother you

Though you'd give anything

To feel a little pretty too

 

~Illsa "Never The Pretty Girl" Gorrey~

 



Mostly Misunderstood

 

Mostly Misunderstood

 

It's easy to look at someone like me and say

"Ooh, she's so weird!"

I may appear common, but I'm reluctant to open my mouth

Because when people know the truth they say

"You have to keep people like her at bay."

Even though I never make a move to do any harm.

 

It's easy to reject when you've never known how it is

To hate everything that you are

To wake up wishing you were dead many days

It's easier to be cruel than kind

When you don't live with a mind like mine

It's easy to say "she's just crazy."

 

The truth is, I know the score

I know the difference between physical reality and fantasy

I also know which I prefer

It's easy to label what you don't understand

Easy to fancy yourself to be grand

When you're stepping on someone already downtrod

 

It's easy to look and say "she's just stupid"

When you see where I live, what I wear, what I drive

It's easy to judge one who has less than you

But does this really make you superior

Does it really make me inferior?

If this is the way you are

 

Then misunderstood me

Doesn't give a damn

About being understood

by the likes of you.

 

~Illsa Gorrey~

 

Cross-posted to:

Crazy Town in Looney Land

Poetry of the Netherworld

Undead in the Netherworld

 

And shared with:

 

Gone Trippin'

 

Gone Trippin'

by

Illsa Gorrey

 

A fellow who frequently trips

With reality could not come to grips

He sought acid and shrooms

And opium blooms

To give day to day living the slips

 

~Illsa~