Poetry!

[toweringniceguy]

Death points to me
With a long, bony finger.
Encapsulates me in darkness,
Soothes my angry soul.
Tells me to be calm
And guides me through the tunnel.
I cannot see any light
Just neverending blackness.
After an eternity
I arrive in Hell.
Perpetual drones,
Piercing screams.
Fires burning,
Scary dreams.
Death has taken me,
I am no longer existent
For I am hers.

[toweringniceguy]

Knowing our love is salty makes me think:
In ocean towns, love is part of the weather,
the wide hands of the breeze fanning it in from the sea.
In ocean towns, love gets inside your mouth when you yawn,
until you have to brush your teeth again, and it hangs in the air
above your food, and you can smell it in your clothes,
and somewhere are smells of crab meat and suntan lotion,
but you can't find them because all the love's around.
And the salt hangs like a love letter on the fridge,
reminding you so much that the charm gets as redundant as the waves.
And you wish to God that for just one minute of your saline life
you didn't have to be so damn happy!
But our love stays next to the pepper, and near it are smells
of shoes and cat hair so thick our eyes water.
Our love is contained. We keep it in a porcelain sailboat and take it
in small sprinkles with french fries and watermelon because it gags us straight.
But there are times when you come in from the wet air of July,
I can taste love on you, like drinking from the ocean.
And there's the smell of hair, and the smell of shoes,
and of watermelon and french fries and the wet air of July.
And we all crawl in bed, seasoning it, shoes underneath,
and the cat curled like a seashell near the window, unaware he is an ingredient.

[toweringniceguy]

Smiling is infectious,
you catch it like the flu,
When someone smiled at me today,
I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner
and someone saw my grin
When he smiled I realized
I'd passed it on to him .

I thought about that smile
then I realized its worth,
A single smile, just like mine
could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin,
don't leave it undetected
Let's start an epidemic quick,
and get the world infected!

[toweringniceguy]

"To be an angel, one need not have wings.
In giving love there is an equal grace.
Nor need one seek the aura in the face,
As love unveils the beauty of all things."

[toweringniceguy]

One SONG can spark a moment
One FLOWER can wake the dream
One TREE can start a forest
One BIRD can herald spring
One SMILE begins a friendship
One HANDCLASP lifts a soul
One STAR can guide a ship at sea
One WORD can frame the goal
One VOTE can change a nation
One SUNBEAM lights a room
One CANDLE wipes out darkness
One LAUGH will conquer gloom
One STEP must start each journey
One WORD must start a prayer
One HOPE will raise our spirits
One TOUCH can show you care
One VOICE can speak with wisdom
One HEART can know what is true
One LIFE can make a difference.

[toweringniceguy]

The Boys of Labadi Beach
On the shores of Labadi Beach, live harbingers of treasure:
Star fish, cowry shells, snails sweet as coconut,
Coke bottles, broken, cut and polished into ocean emeralds,
Magic stones--sacrificial offerings.
Oblation for the sons of Teshie, the children of Nungua,
Barefoot village boys, no shirts, no knickers, no fees for school.
Yet they are abosom--gods of the beach.

Up and down Labadi, they alone can find the treasure
Power-drilled by sand and water, spiral tunnels, filled with magic.
"Good luck . . . in here," the beach boys promise,
Raising them to the African sun: transubstantiation,
Ancient magic, under the species of stone.

"Five thousand cedis," they say, "six on down the way."
Two dollars can feed a family for a day; I buy the useless rock.
The boys of Teshie and Nungua, heads bowed,
Counting money and good luck,
Disappear, leaving behind only land-turtle trails
To be eaten by the next hungry wave.

[prettyss0]

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