| Earthcup's Poetry |
| Pain Do you feel pain deeply? it can ache and bend like writhing souls dark holes and pulsars don't exist only in outer space but within emotions die and the pulsars throb until only a black hole is left to suck and strive twisting your spirit until sudden breath sets it free and healing begins |
| Pirates rising from a sea of bark a pirate ship emerges equipped with crazy gadgets and a crew of half-wild urchins their rule is wild abandon overboard parents all aghast they're swinging on the monkeybars and climbing the topmost mast but the setting of the sun brings drooping curly heads the pirates captured, one by one, to be tucked into their beds |
| Poetically Challenged Carpe Diem I wake early Grab a muffin and cocoa Jump in my truck Carpe Diem Make my hair curly Singin' carols and actin' loco Wearing charms for luck Carpe Diem Talk like Liz Hurley Drink milk and mocha Spend my last two bucks Carpe Diem Moon so pearly Wonder why John married Yoko Lift my soul outta the muck Carpe Diem |
| Rape you don't have to touch someone to rape them you use the expressions of freedom the ones they keep hidden away the ones they sob out in their despair and mock them with them make them feel guilty for having problems, emotions dreams of a different life without you later you wonder how they could have had such a headache (heartache) that it took a bottle full of pills to relieve it |
| Red Clay Country the orange-red soil stains all it touches there is no myth explaining it's color no one ever glorified a bloody war with a legend of the red clay no fairytale of love or trickery featured the everpresent heavy orange earth the buzzard made the mountains maybe he knows why the dirt is red |
| Sculptress I wish I was a sculptress that my hands had the talent to take your face of fire and passion and give it a twin of smooth, white marble |