Tag: life
member name: Christopher Cole
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December 01, 2008 04:56 PM EST --
Each shriek from his contorted body cut into me, as I desperately tried to control his flailing arms and kicking legs. It was almost as if he was trying to jump out of his very skin. Restrained, . . .
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February 18, 2008 12:33 PM EST --
The mid-winter wind blew icy cold against the window pane.
As I splashed water upon my face
to begin my morning ritual - there she was on my bathroom mirror,
scampering across its edge . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
Our Love ...
Our Love is a red red rose
A hope held tight within it's folds
A winding river throughout our souls
A tide pounding upon the shore
An anchor on the . . .
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June 26, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
I drive the twenty miles to work where I live in Pennsylvania along some beautiful country roads. When school is back in swing I have to remember to stop for school buses. Early in the past . . .
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October 13, 2007 07:17 AM EDT --
Who Am I...
I am a child who was battered
I am a kid with learning disorders
I am an adolescent who lost his best friend to suicide
I am a young man who loved deeply and lost
I am a seminarian who . . .
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October 21, 2007 08:07 AM EDT --
If you had to answer this question what would you say?
Happiness is_ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
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November 18, 2007 10:04 PM EST --
Just the other day I was sitting in my doctors examining room staring into the full length mirror on the wall, when I took note of my face. I examined the scar which ran across the bridge of . . .
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February 07, 2008 08:57 AM EST --
I gazed into her soft brown eyes and cried
Such beauty I never knew within could reside
The sweetest fragrance my heart did receive
Throughout my soul her essence did breathe
The warmest . . .
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June 01, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
I caught your reflection again last night.
Perhaps you have always been there
Buried deep in my thoughts,
Hidden and tucked away
In a room I seldom visit.
Though I often . . .
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June 05, 2008 04:38 PM EDT --
I grew up in East Irvington New York. I was the oldest of eight children and my family was poor. My father was in and out of work and had a mean disposition. He often exploded and beat mom, the . . .
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January 03, 2008 06:05 PM EST --
I had my first colonoscopy seven years ago at fifty years old. My dad had colon cancer, and I was at risk. It took all my nerve to set up an appointment. I was very afraid and repulsed by the descripton . . .
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September 25, 2007 09:41 AM EDT --
After his grandmother’s death, life with Gerald’s father got even worse. He seemed to have violent mood swings and would often lash out at Gerald and his younger siblings, and especially his . . .
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August 11, 2008 05:04 AM EDT --
I came to Woodstock to Die in 1969 - an angel saved my life....
I knew it would happen. It's 3:am in the morning and I can't sleep. I'm thinking about the trip I made back to Bethel NY . . .
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November 03, 2008 09:58 AM EST --
I wrote this response to an article written on an association against helping the autistic:
Listen brother, I had autism as a kid. I still suffer the aftermath with rare and isolated bouts of . . .
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November 26, 2007 06:37 PM EST --
One Sunday I decided to take a ride on my Yamaha 1100 VSar custom North along the Delaware River just outside of Philadelphia. Once on the road I followed the old canal which hugs the river and decided . . .
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May 24, 2008 06:28 AM EDT --
THE PIERCING:
Her beauty was such it blew me away
As she stood before me on that fateful day
Tall and well proportioned and in her prime
So knock down perfect I wanted to rhyme
My . . .
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October 28, 2007 04:49 PM EDT --
I have gained many friends since I first posted this poem:
Gnosis:
I once thought I could go it alone,
Embrace the things of this world, find my way home.
Exhausted . . .
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January 26, 2008 08:45 PM EST --
Mellow and mild a soft wind hisses,
Beckoning me back to white wine kisses,
Purple ribbons round white fences twisted,
Peppermint moons and marshmallow fishes.
An angel's call prompts me thither, . . .
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February 26, 2008 12:06 PM EST --
First let me say I have enjoyed the sandwhich which made Philly famous since I came to this town twenty years ago. However, I ate my very last Philly cheesesteak on Saturday afternoon. . . .
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June 03, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
I spent my entire life trying to figure that one out. I once attempted a poem to investigate this gnawing urge to comprehend human existence.
HUMAN CONDITION
Salubrious slime thinly . . .
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