Submissions by Ely (E.A.Rothwell)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
If I could explain, I would have... but then I would not need to write the poem... art happens... sometimes it comes easy, often not. I can't explain.
If I Could...???
When I was young, I done...some things I shouldn'ta...
but youth and stupid got in my way...
I thought maybe that...
I would get to go back...
and change those stupid things...
if I could...
but I can't...
not without changing me...
and I'm OK with this version...
I mean... who knows what the difference might be???
but youth and stupid got in my way...
I thought maybe that...
I would get to go back...
and change those stupid things...
if I could...
but I can't...
not without changing me...
and I'm OK with this version...
I mean... who knows what the difference might be???
#evolution
#WritingPoetry
#LifeCycle
413 reads
8 Comments
Somos Sin Verguenza... ???
Good Manners are important...
they are the balm...
that greases the wheels...
of Civil Discourse...
Just ask the Japanese...
they live in houses made with paper...
where privacy is implicit... and
good manners make the walls...
they are the balm...
that greases the wheels...
of Civil Discourse...
Just ask the Japanese...
they live in houses made with paper...
where privacy is implicit... and
good manners make the walls...
#politics
#humankind
#frustration #culture
#frustration #culture
436 reads
6 Comments
A Little Town in Texas
The Elephants live in Cut'n'Shoot;
The Circus has come to stay...
The town's tucked back in the woods
somewhere...
... a little bit out-of-the-way...
The Circus has come to stay...
The town's tucked back in the woods
somewhere...
... a little bit out-of-the-way...
#animals
#nature
#travel #America
#travel #America
389 reads
2 Comments
nameless
We are ever changing
yet allways the same...
Balance, to function
must never be static...
Your growth will show
in the knowing you've gained...
Dance with it for a while...
Get to know what you know...
before you let go...
and seek...
the next step...
in your evolution...
yet allways the same...
Balance, to function
must never be static...
Your growth will show
in the knowing you've gained...
Dance with it for a while...
Get to know what you know...
before you let go...
and seek...
the next step...
in your evolution...
#identity
#learning
#LifeCycle
401 reads
6 Comments
The Write Therapy
Poetry is therapy... I guess
Sometimes I feel... that deep inside...
may reside...
the answers...
or maybe not...
But my head will be straighter for the effort...
Sometimes I feel... that deep inside...
may reside...
the answers...
or maybe not...
But my head will be straighter for the effort...
#MentalHealth
#WritingPoetry
455 reads
17 Comments
on EDITING...
There are those times,
I must confess...
when it doesn't pay...
to second guess...
I must confess...
when it doesn't pay...
to second guess...
#WritingPoetry
341 reads
11 Comments
Slinky Little Lover, Who Visits in the Night
Oh, we got us one o' those alright
She comes to us on furry feet
to leap with teeth and claws
upon...
any part
having the audacity... to move
even the
Least-Little-Bit...
including my honey's ding-a-ling-a-ling
and my naked toes, lickedy-split...
She comes to us on furry feet
to leap with teeth and claws
upon...
any part
having the audacity... to move
even the
Least-Little-Bit...
including my honey's ding-a-ling-a-ling
and my naked toes, lickedy-split...
#dreams
#cats
#nightmares
404 reads
0 Comments
Along the Way
Persistence Pays off...
and failure is just...
one...
of the stops...
...along the way...
and failure is just...
one...
of the stops...
...along the way...
#identity
#LifeStruggles
406 reads
8 Comments
Of Fame and Fortune
No... I don't think so...
Fame has no privacy...
Rich has a downside too... everybody wants to know your business...
And still no privacy...
What's next... bodyguards!??
Yuk!... to need protection is to be imprisoned...
In a Hell of your own making!
I think I will hope for Health and Happiness...
for those are wealth that needs no taking.
Fame has no privacy...
Rich has a downside too... everybody wants to know your business...
And still no privacy...
What's next... bodyguards!??
Yuk!... to need protection is to be imprisoned...
In a Hell of your own making!
I think I will hope for Health and Happiness...
for those are wealth that needs no taking.
#money
#PowerOfWords
#PopCulture #FeelingTrapped
#PopCulture #FeelingTrapped
347 reads
2 Comments
Weather... or Not
Lots of spots get lots of rain
and lots of spots do not.
Lots of spots get lots of both,
are cold... though some are hot.
It all depends on where you are
and also on the season.
The vagaries of weather leave
no room for rhyme or reason.
and lots of spots do not.
Lots of spots get lots of both,
are cold... though some are hot.
It all depends on where you are
and also on the season.
The vagaries of weather leave
no room for rhyme or reason.
#rain
#storm
#wind
371 reads
10 Comments
On Writing Poetry
I find most of the joy in making a poem
lies in actualy writing it down...
then there is a brief period of post-partum glow
when one wants ev-erybody to admire the new baby...
After that it's post-partum depression... as the glow fades
and leaves a big empty hole in my middle...
and I reach for my pen... again...
lies in actualy writing it down...
then there is a brief period of post-partum glow
when one wants ev-erybody to admire the new baby...
After that it's post-partum depression... as the glow fades
and leaves a big empty hole in my middle...
and I reach for my pen... again...
#birth
#addiction
#WritingPoetry
387 reads
11 Comments
Flash!
Rep. Chris Collins said, "Trump is a Movement!"
and he is absolutely right... he just didn't
spe-ci-fy... what kind of "Movement" he meant.
and he is absolutely right... he just didn't
spe-ci-fy... what kind of "Movement" he meant.
#corruption
#politics
#greed
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14 Comments
DU Poetry : Submissions by Ely (E.A.Rothwell)