selfishness
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Stormy clouds are traveling through your heartAnd bitter grudges are ruining your happinessHate destroys and love builds everything whichIs beautiful. Get a grip on yourself while the midday sun
love precipitatesselfishness evaporates~ true love’s gentle rain......Mark Toney © 2021.5/21/2021 - Poetry form: Senryu (for you)
What it seems most people find inspiring
Is people who have, what they’re desiring
Those that have money, fame, or power
Those that live on top of Trump tower
Aren't we all like Perseus?Looking for what we can conquerFor what will give us gloryAnd immediate satisfaction?
you taste too much like money
the kisses aren’t sweet
less and less like cherry
no longer smooth like cream
love exchanged for luxury
silver plaited rings cold
the tang from fingers bloody
Sitting behind a desk encaged by walls of gold
What did I do to deserve the world and more
I’ve never felt true hunger and I’m rarely ever cold
They said she would stay,
that she wouldn't feel a thing,
it would be quiet and still,
our goodbye's wouldn't matter
because she'd never know,
that they were said,
Mother Earth, I am so sorry
Apologizing on behalf of all your inhabitors
I weep as I caress you with my hands in the dirt
We have disrespected you Mother
It is too late to make it right
She was lost
In New York City
And had nowhere to go.
There was people everywhere
Going up and down the unending sidewalk
Far into that ire sky rose
a suble glint
too quick deposed;
a mirror to what lies in throe.
yes, far beneath that acrid storm
lay jewlers' land,
How complicated we are;
never wanting to lose our luster,
just to be malleable in the most devious of ways.
How selfish we are;
not being able to burn to ashes,
His hand reached out towards hers, the barest kiss of warmth between their palms. Her face lit up with the promise of his eyes reflected across the bow of his lips.
Oh you poor little humans,
You Selfish Ignorant Humans
you think that your cause is right,
but your fight is not a just cause.
You fight for injust reasons
hoping for change
Need
Speech deemed unimportant, dented.
Bleed
That which you are presented
Need
When not provided, crumbling commences
Bleed
You will, and be rendered defenseless.
The winter rain at a driving pelt
Did batter the city park
And on a bench sat a city beggar
Far past the hour of dark
He sat and with a mighty shiver
Groaned deep from the outer cold
All that reigned primarily in his mind was getting home fast
Getting home to his woman’s loving and waiting arms,
To the comfort of his puffy couch,
To gaze upon the towering screen,
The animal was suffering cruel conditionsYou may ask yourself whyThe answer lay on monetary commissions The reason thousands of animals die.
I'm sorry I took your time for granted
I was shy but very romantic
and I wish you'd understand that I loved you
even more than I did myself, too
On this island, in the middle of nowhere
I find pleasure in my solitude.
The one thing I could never covet (despite the
Never-ending depths of my selfish nature),
Is you and your sweet love
He said he wanted a kiss,
so I gave him my love.
He said he wanted that,
so I gave him this
He said he would never ever leave,
yet I'm all alone.
Because he always wanted and I gave more.
The city of Los Angeles
It draws you in with a hope for glory,
A chance to truly improve your story,
Yet as you walk the city streets
You hear the sound of a thousand feet
Telling you, "It's not your day.
A tender muted rain drips through the trees like lead paint down a child's throat.
Surrendered couples romantacize in fields of oleander.
An ode to God clings to the fingertips of the esteemed criminal.
Today I am tired
Of being everything.
Friend, sister, lover, student, teacher
Stretches a little to thin
But I'll never complain
I'll even off you a smile
Because its not about me
Selfish.
All of us.
Pretending to unite in a commmon cause
When really that cause is just
Another picture for our decopage
Line on a resume
Glitter for our own parade.
We volunteer our time
I follow as a poison-tipped arrow would,
tracking the heels of Achilles,
honing in on a weakness you were
powerless to prevent
my path is one of
greed,
hunger,
thoughtless self
humans are selfish
all to the core
whether they show it
matters not one bit at all
sure some care
but they're a bore
humans can dis
if they dare
always seeking more
In hard times as these
Life has a strong cost.
To be begging on your knees,
And all hope to be tossed.
I too, was the child who longed see a meal.
I saw lavish spending from a friend.
In hard times as these
Life has a strong cost.
To be begging on your knees,
And all hope to be tossed.
I too, was the child who longed see a meal.
I saw lavish spending from a friend.
In hard times as these
Life has a strong cost.
To be begging on your knees,
And all hope to be tossed.
I too, was the child who longed see a meal.
I saw lavish spending from a friend.
In hard times as these
Life has a strong cost.
To be begging on your knees,
And all hope to be tossed.
I too, was the child who longed see a meal.
I saw lavish spending from a friend.
In hard times as these
Life has a strong cost.
To be begging on your knees,
And all hope to be tossed.
I too, was the child who longed see a meal.
I saw lavish spending from a friend.
The opportunities given to us by the mother Life herself
Have been stored into our vault of love and hope
That shines at the tip top top of the hills
So high up nobody can see
with their own
I do not know what she is to me.
I cannot say how I feel.
She’s like a pebble stuck in the back of my mind.
How can I tell her how I feel?
With my body pressed close against her frame,
He said if not for God what is it you live for
I said I want to be happy
I said I want to be happy
I said I want to lie in my death bed with eyes barely open
and I want to be able to smile
Say this- was good
Please, darling, tell mehow you want me to see,how you want me to fake,how you want this to be.
Does it pique your interestwhen my lipstick's like this?Does it fall into place?Did I follow your wish?
I had a note that I wrote
That started off as an anecdote
But I left it in my coat
And I gave it to a boy so eager and cold
But he didn’t know how to float
A beast.
I was strong, fast, unbeatable,
Red eyes, hot breath,
Power flowing like blood.
You were my pet,
Your only purpose was to make me
Happy.
And when you failed
Wonderful, Beautiful, Awful boy.
Spill from your lips only lies
With a smile and silver tongue
You slowly make me come undone
Unravel me with honeyed words
And dark deceit that settles deep
Of shrimps and steaks and sizzling soups
And turpentine rolls and cabbage groups
Comes a man of greedy, vicious frosting
The essence of virtue he is lacking.
An effervescent mind when he wants it to be
