King K's Poetic Stories

It's 1986 We're two dynamic people Together for the long haul Surviving all things that could go wrong We have arrived Because now we have 3 lives Ours, yours and mine Our 3 lives Sharing with pride Working together perfectly I couldn't ask for more And technically I adore this score Isn't it... Sign in to see full entry.

Had we but world enough, and time This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber (river) would complain (sing love songs) I would Love you ten years before... Sign in to see full entry.

The Latest Latin Dance Craze " First: You throw your head back twice Jump out onto the floor like a kangaroo Circle the floor once Doing fast scissor work with your legs Next: Dash towards the door walking in a double, cha cha cha! Open the door and glide down the stairs Like a swan, [and] hit the... Sign in to see full entry.

Mom was a woman of spontaneity She lived a life of multiplicity She lived what she knew was best Best for everyone's happiness She lived life to her fullest capacity Never did she hold back in complacency This is me, and how I should be It's in my system, I need to be free Talk to me mother, and... Sign in to see full entry.

Upon a simple inspiration occuring before my eyes Must I confess a sickness seemingly detestable by my guys Sickness or not is not for me to say or see I only know that I am; the AM I only know to be Be you male or be you of the sex that is of the opposite The aforementioned question lends itself to... Sign in to see full entry.

She walks in beauty, like the night, Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which... Sign in to see full entry.

It was a beauty that I saw So pure, so perfect, as the frame Of all the universe was lame, To that one figure, could I draw, Or give least line of it a law! A skein of silk without a knot, A fair march made without a halt, A curious (carefully constructed) form without a fault, A printed book... Sign in to see full entry.

© 1918 by Siegfried Sasson (a 2 medal WWI Captain against war) I knew a simple souldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps (exploding shells) and lice and lack of rum, He put... Sign in to see full entry.

I found this poem interesting given our nation's current state of affairs: "Next year we are to bring the soldiers home for lack of money, and it is all right, Places they guarded, or kept orderly, must guard themselves, and keep themselves orderly. We want the money for ourselves at home instead of... Sign in to see full entry.

from AMORETTI "My love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat? Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold, But that I burn much more in boiling... Sign in to see full entry.