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I thought I knew this world, you see,
And I was wrong.
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Sometimes in my life I find
I'm almost drowning, swimming blind,
by Jobob
18 lines, 3 comments,
on Aug 12 6:20 PM 2007
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The dappled sunlight dances through the green
of summer's trees and lights my way ahead;
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If all the days and all the years that lie ahead
by Jobob
20 lines, 1 comment,
on Mar 27 5:47 PM 2007
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Perhaps I only had to run so fast
To know that I had come home safe at last.
by Jobob
32 lines, 2 comments,
on Oct 30 6:04 AM 2006. In Love, Hope
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I was there.
I saw the mountains standing.
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A hundred years of progress
years of fighting shifting sands
by Jobob
25 lines, 8 comments,
on Nov 26 11:30 AM 2005. In Society
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I close my eyes. I know it's here at last,
my chance to seize my destiny. I breathe:
by Jobob
62 lines, 8 comments,
on Oct 2 5:04 AM 2005. In Lyrics
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Did you ever strive for something?
Stretch to reach the moon?
by Jobob
53 lines, 11 comments,
on Aug 9 1:09 PM 2005. In Lyrics
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And is it futile? Can our simple rhymes
encapsulate a sound that's never heard?
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Leave me to my sky, and to my kingdom
and you may have your water and your earth.
by Jobob
53 lines, 4 comments,
on Jul 22 5:58 AM 2005. In Nature
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and all at once
that sense of sudden joy
by Jobob
37 lines, 16 comments,
on Jun 14 12:25 PM 2005. In Love
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clothing scratches, towels scrape, (argh, please, *squirms*)
wind tickles, cold burns and (heeeet! Argh!) heat burns
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A single step will start a thousand more,
and in my journey I've found joy galore.
by Jobob
16 lines, 5 comments,
on Apr 27 12:27 PM 2005. In Personal
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Within, the favoured few await
adorned in multi-coloured splendour.
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Blue, then red, then black the skies:
Another sunset fades and dies...
by Jobob
25 lines, 5 comments,
on Apr 7 1:24 PM 2005. In Dark, Hope
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High places. I hate high places: there, the only way out is down.
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a single name, a date or two,
a passing glimpse of love
by Jobob
66 lines, 12 comments,
on Feb 5 4:35 PM 2005. In Society
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In loch, the shy wee otters play. Sometimes
You'll see their heads, so blunt and brown and round.
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So cut me out and dress me up and stick me on your wall
a million times.
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On booted feet, three children ran
to beat the fast-descending night.
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I stand beside you,
two of you to little me
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\Feel empty, and despair.\ Remember hope.
\The universe is chill.\ It nurtures life.
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In the spaces between words
by Jobob
85 lines, 11 comments,
on Oct 15 5:01 AM 2004. In Love
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Prose, defining art and beauty.
by Jobob
70 lines,
on Oct 12 12:17 PM 2004. In Other
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I understand, you quip
as if it's true.
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I knew you once.
Do you remember me?
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"Why do you turn away from me?"
go away, it's not there. make it stop.
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Blue and green and white
spinning forever from one extreme to the other.
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Summon the demons of the mundane
Let them strip the colour from my world
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I thought it would be rather...
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The sky is deepest blue, and underfoot
fine desert sand, soft and golden, crunches on stone.
by Jobob
85 lines, 19 comments,
on Jul 14 8:52 AM 2004. In Fantasy
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I am unique
genetically formed
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