Submissions by lolasurf99 (Shawnelle Martineaux)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I've been searching forever. For what? I don't know...but I've managed to find some cool relics to prove I'm on the right road.
Thoughts on Religion
I lifted up my eyes to the hills
where the shanty towns dance to the beat of a million drums as
residents flock in their Sunday's best
to houses of praise mangled between the rubble of their livelihoods.
I lifted up my eyes and saw a Hamas rocket fly across the sky and
an Israeli rocket fly across the sky while
God's foot soldiers died in a war fought for a face never seen.
And as voices rose singing Hallelujah and Alhamdullilah men forgot that they were men and that blood always runs
red.
I lifted up my eyes to see an American missionary board a...
where the shanty towns dance to the beat of a million drums as
residents flock in their Sunday's best
to houses of praise mangled between the rubble of their livelihoods.
I lifted up my eyes and saw a Hamas rocket fly across the sky and
an Israeli rocket fly across the sky while
God's foot soldiers died in a war fought for a face never seen.
And as voices rose singing Hallelujah and Alhamdullilah men forgot that they were men and that blood always runs
red.
I lifted up my eyes to see an American missionary board a...
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The Art of Murder
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Fade Away
Verse 1
Many days I try to understand
How the world can spin on no man's hand
And every time I close my eyes
It falls apart.
See the heart's always been no man's land
Every beat of ocean on the sand
Contemplates the nothingness of man
An illusion.
Bridge
So tell me why we've come around so many times
Without ever figuring out the reasons why
Chorus
Get up!
Make the world a better place.
Look up!
Stars aren't there to light your way!
Just breathe in life through everyday.
Some day your life will fade away
...
Many days I try to understand
How the world can spin on no man's hand
And every time I close my eyes
It falls apart.
See the heart's always been no man's land
Every beat of ocean on the sand
Contemplates the nothingness of man
An illusion.
Bridge
So tell me why we've come around so many times
Without ever figuring out the reasons why
Chorus
Get up!
Make the world a better place.
Look up!
Stars aren't there to light your way!
Just breathe in life through everyday.
Some day your life will fade away
...
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If God Was Right
Verse 1
If God was right
I'd be afraid
For the people who don't even know his name.
They'd burn in hell
For not believing
That belief was all that mattered in his race.
If God was right
How fair is he
If world hunger doesn't even break his heart?
But he answers prayer to his opulent believers
While the rest of us can't help but fall apart.
Bridge
Your sky daddy don't like the texture of your hair
So he sets up life for you to disappear.
Your sky daddy don't like the nature of your dreams
So...
If God was right
I'd be afraid
For the people who don't even know his name.
They'd burn in hell
For not believing
That belief was all that mattered in his race.
If God was right
How fair is he
If world hunger doesn't even break his heart?
But he answers prayer to his opulent believers
While the rest of us can't help but fall apart.
Bridge
Your sky daddy don't like the texture of your hair
So he sets up life for you to disappear.
Your sky daddy don't like the nature of your dreams
So...
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Stop Thinking About It...It Makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE!
My dog loves cheese and there's no doubt about it
She guards it like a bitch and I'm
not sure if that's nature or if she doesn't mean it.
I think she's a rat...
but I don't really give a damn.
Every time I make a sandwich, she
finds a reason to come inside and steal it.
Why am I telling you this?
She guards it like a bitch and I'm
not sure if that's nature or if she doesn't mean it.
I think she's a rat...
but I don't really give a damn.
Every time I make a sandwich, she
finds a reason to come inside and steal it.
Why am I telling you this?
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It's Complicated
I want you.
I love you.
I need you.
I want to love you.
I love to need you.
I need to want you.
I want you to want me.
I'd love it if you need me.
I need you to love me
more than you do.
I love you.
I need you.
I want to love you.
I love to need you.
I need to want you.
I want you to want me.
I'd love it if you need me.
I need you to love me
more than you do.
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Making Love to Death With My Eyes Wide Open
Kiss me.
Hold me close and let me know how much you care.
Tell me a story with your hands.
Those fist hugs around my throat make me want to stay.
Blue and black reminds me just how much you care if I leave.
You love me.
You really love me.
You'd die if I walked away
so I don't have any other option
but to stay.
Whisper words of love into my ear.
Yes. I'm ugly.
I'm fat and nasty and disgraceful.
I pity you have to see me.
I pity you.
Punch me again.
Slap me.
Kill me when I crawl into bed.
We both know what love is....
Hold me close and let me know how much you care.
Tell me a story with your hands.
Those fist hugs around my throat make me want to stay.
Blue and black reminds me just how much you care if I leave.
You love me.
You really love me.
You'd die if I walked away
so I don't have any other option
but to stay.
Whisper words of love into my ear.
Yes. I'm ugly.
I'm fat and nasty and disgraceful.
I pity you have to see me.
I pity you.
Punch me again.
Slap me.
Kill me when I crawl into bed.
We both know what love is....
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Vindicated
I'm a veteran flyer.
A soldier in the army of my lord.
For years I slew the armies of truth
that tried to conquer my nation with guilt.
My pockets have sung hymns to that god.
Powder. The smell of victory!
I pray you open my eyes even more!
That green man trying to possess me must be killed.
Hearing my son's cry for clothes on an empty stomach
never shook my faith.
I had to go to war again.
I had to win.
My demons would not rest until I cast them into hell.
Life is my godforsaken game of Russian roulette where I like...
A soldier in the army of my lord.
For years I slew the armies of truth
that tried to conquer my nation with guilt.
My pockets have sung hymns to that god.
Powder. The smell of victory!
I pray you open my eyes even more!
That green man trying to possess me must be killed.
Hearing my son's cry for clothes on an empty stomach
never shook my faith.
I had to go to war again.
I had to win.
My demons would not rest until I cast them into hell.
Life is my godforsaken game of Russian roulette where I like...
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He is...
He's an onion;
layered in sweet complexity.
And as I cut him open he burns my eyes.
Conscious of the self inflicted suffering,
I cry tears of joy and determination,
fostering the truth that he dares deny.
And love's way, often parched and hard,
draws me closer to his brilliance.
I smile as he smiles.
He is a sunrise.
At a distance he glows and
up close he blinds me by his overwhelming incandescence.
He is a new day but he
doesn't know how to start over.
He has blinded many. He has burnt many.
He...
layered in sweet complexity.
And as I cut him open he burns my eyes.
Conscious of the self inflicted suffering,
I cry tears of joy and determination,
fostering the truth that he dares deny.
And love's way, often parched and hard,
draws me closer to his brilliance.
I smile as he smiles.
He is a sunrise.
At a distance he glows and
up close he blinds me by his overwhelming incandescence.
He is a new day but he
doesn't know how to start over.
He has blinded many. He has burnt many.
He...
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Haikus on Nature
Glory shine on down!
A new day's dawn ignites
a fire within.
Trees sway back and forth,
humbled by the wind.
Hurricane rage on!
Moonlight guide me by
thy grace, To keep the darkness
from overtaking.
Winter is cold for
all those who have no power
to fight for their love.
I see the green life.
Death's angel lingers here still.
Spring brings me no hope.
Summer dear! My summer!
Come quickly. Go slowly please.
I need a break dude!
Grass loses no sleep
over the fact that he will
be stepped...
A new day's dawn ignites
a fire within.
Trees sway back and forth,
humbled by the wind.
Hurricane rage on!
Moonlight guide me by
thy grace, To keep the darkness
from overtaking.
Winter is cold for
all those who have no power
to fight for their love.
I see the green life.
Death's angel lingers here still.
Spring brings me no hope.
Summer dear! My summer!
Come quickly. Go slowly please.
I need a break dude!
Grass loses no sleep
over the fact that he will
be stepped...
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Pointer
A red spot on the whiteboard
moving left to right,
line to line,
pointing stories out so we can see exactly what they mean.
Clasped in a teacher's hand,
while the drone of students dictating the
content of a textbook or website or document
overpowers the purpose of the reading.
Education. Edification. Illumination.
You illuminate every line.
You make the message clear.
We never have to wonder what we have to learn to do
or fix.
A red spot on the whiteboard moving
ever forward.
Your light never shines back on you....
moving left to right,
line to line,
pointing stories out so we can see exactly what they mean.
Clasped in a teacher's hand,
while the drone of students dictating the
content of a textbook or website or document
overpowers the purpose of the reading.
Education. Edification. Illumination.
You illuminate every line.
You make the message clear.
We never have to wonder what we have to learn to do
or fix.
A red spot on the whiteboard moving
ever forward.
Your light never shines back on you....
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