Showing posts with label poetry that makes a lot more sense when you understand the context. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry that makes a lot more sense when you understand the context. Show all posts

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Poetry that makes a lot more sense when you understand the context, Part II

Confessions of an Unwanted L

You want her to be straight
So she can fit in
Like everyone else 
So all the lines can be clear
Everyone in their places
So everything can be perfect
In your little world
Well guess what
That's not who she is
Sorry if you're disappointed
You'll just have to deal with it








Wednesday, October 10, 2012

When we first saw the world
It was in primary colors
Even though it was really in black and white
Or rather
Green

When we first saw color
We were enthralled by silver and gold
But the world we knew had dilapidated
The forests burned to the ground
The mountains collapsed

Yet when we looked back with wider eyes
At the primary colors
They glittered like gemstones
Even as the world was swallowed
By earthquakes and floods

While space and time warped around us
And our vision doubled 
We were lost in the glimmering of our diamonds and pearls

Until nothing else was left
But black and white
And black
And white
Again.