five/seven/five

confessions

2011-08-05T11:22:00.002-05:00

"We are His meaning,"
His only Son reads to us,
"And He is our truth."

mine

2011-08-05T11:21:00.004-05:00

olin purjeve-
ne kilpailuussa eilen
today I am not.

passive aggressive

2011-08-05T11:21:00.001-05:00

is always the same.
wonders: did you have braces?
tiptoeing again...

2011-06-18T15:58:00.000-05:00

anonymity is the new weapon

the truth

2011-06-18T15:47:00.002-05:00

[random person's name]
you are so unbearably
pretentious, fuck you.

lol

2011-06-01T10:40:00.003-05:00

sex in the spare room
the one your grandma sleeps in
i laughed, undressing

#243

2011-04-13T09:16:00.002-05:00

i have the crankies
reading hurts my neck but i
love it nevertheless

is this art?

2011-03-07T12:00:00.002-06:00

headless bird dangles
by a string from a tree branch
gloomy ornament

rainwater

2011-02-07T11:09:00.002-06:00

I've never smelled you
...god! I've never tasted you...
yet you linger on

#194

2011-02-06T11:31:00.004-06:00

the stretch of a cat's
leg, extended far enough
into space, asleep.

#193

2011-02-06T11:22:00.002-06:00

Ice-storm aftermath
trees made of glass--shattering
crystal in sunlight

#192

2011-02-06T11:18:00.001-06:00

I am sitting here
Reading all this po-e-try
and wondering why

fucking airports

2010-08-23T12:52:00.001-05:00

I know I love him
Because I can't stop crying.
Come home, come home. Please.

strangers & friends

2010-07-06T11:05:00.000-05:00

Two different people
Living here with the same heart,
The same mind, same soul.

common scents

2010-07-01T01:32:00.001-05:00

I've been so obsessed
With the sense of smell lately...
It can change your life.

don't lose what you have

2010-06-28T00:26:00.004-05:00

i remember when
i was twenty one and i
wrote stuff everyday.

so long and thanks for all the crude

2010-06-28T00:10:00.004-05:00

when all of the fish
are dead you can thank BP,
your car and your greed.

2010-06-28T00:07:00.001-05:00

email was weird for a bit. my apologies for the lack of posts, as usual.

#628

2010-06-28T00:06:00.002-05:00

what the heck am i
doing killing airport time
with online haiku?

desolée

2010-06-28T00:06:00.001-05:00

il est loin de
ma coeur n'est pas loin de
bas. le joyeux saut.

X BF

2010-06-28T00:05:00.000-05:00

I got over it
A long time ago, I thought.
Yet I still feel sick.

death

2010-05-21T10:01:00.001-05:00

I cry out for you.
Searching for you in the dark,
Realizing you're gone.

le laid

2010-05-21T10:00:00.000-05:00

c'est une grande histoire,
mais je n'ai pas la visage
pour les charmants contes.

feelings

2010-03-29T23:42:00.001-05:00

Your palm touches mine,
Sending vibrations throughout.
With you i exist.

where does nature come in?

2010-03-29T23:41:00.000-05:00

material things
constant struggle to receive
still, we cry for more

new stuffs!

2010-03-05T00:49:00.003-06:00

Just wanted to let everyone know that there's a new form permanently at the bottom of the page for submissions, to make your lives easier and now if you click the link on the sidebar to contact us, it won't bring up your email client, it will send you to a new page to contact us via Kontactr.

Thanks and keep submissions coming!

puzzle pieces

2010-03-03T12:53:00.001-06:00

a jigsaw puzzle:
trying to piece together
a broken family

world view

2010-03-03T12:40:00.001-06:00

sitting in silence
i can't help but contemplate
my world in chaos

don't wait

2010-02-17T01:24:00.000-06:00

anything happens;
the world's unpredictable.
tell them you love them.

drop

2010-02-17T01:22:00.001-06:00

it's a long way down,
falling from reality.
catch me if you can.

i must ask

2010-02-14T00:33:00.001-06:00

is roaming the earth
with just your beagle better
than this truest love?

untitled

2010-02-06T15:35:00.000-06:00

god made me strange in
various ways, just the way
i was intended.

next year

2010-02-05T00:49:00.001-06:00

make resolutions.
not a new year, but the end.
blank page nostalgia.

end of the year

2010-02-05T00:46:00.003-06:00

everyone leaving.
rooms empty, hallways fill up.
memories stagnate.

faded.

2010-02-05T00:46:00.001-06:00

a broken friendship:
our tears replace our laughter;
our love fades to black.

13110

2010-01-31T14:26:00.000-06:00

sunday poetry
a white linen lit room where
haiku feels like math.

wait!

2010-01-30T21:09:00.000-06:00

moments are fleeting
the time passing (too) quickly
sweeping me away

(in love)

2010-01-30T21:04:00.000-06:00

I miss embracing.
holding you, holding your hand,
loving and being.

cuddling

2010-01-30T21:03:00.002-06:00

please hug me, hold me;
while stroking my hair, tell me
it will all be fine.

waking

2010-01-30T21:03:00.001-06:00

woke up realizing
i had no reason to be
awake or sleeping

mo(u)rning

2010-01-27T21:29:00.006-06:00

i wake up each day
(after having dreamt of you)
to find you're not there.

hidden

2010-01-27T21:29:00.005-06:00

shrouded in darkness
there is beauty in the world
you just need to look

if

2010-01-27T21:29:00.003-06:00

if you changed your mind
it wouldn't be too late yet.
it will never be

fleeting

2010-01-27T21:29:00.001-06:00

you said 'butterflies
every time that i see you.'
but they flew away

dark

2010-01-27T21:28:00.000-06:00

the light of my life
because you brought only joy
now there is darkness

gone

2010-01-24T22:45:00.001-06:00

i was a hiccup
in your life whereas you were
every breath of mine

love is

2010-01-24T22:44:00.002-06:00

love is: what stops you
from jumping and what brought you
there in the first place

looking for

2010-01-24T22:44:00.001-06:00

a hug that is real
a genuine friendship and
a love that is true

no parking

2010-01-24T10:18:00.001-06:00

the city is loud,
where silence is unheard of.
don't stop or stand here.

missing

2010-01-24T10:17:00.001-06:00

i am weak without
you, my source of energy,
my pillar of strength

saying goodbye

2010-01-24T10:16:00.000-06:00

i shed parting tears
bitter as separation,
my beautiful friend

for here or to go

2010-01-24T10:15:00.002-06:00

waiting downtown in
a corner coffee shop I
write out my heart

meditating on the city

2010-01-24T10:14:00.001-06:00

people watching as
lives flow through crosswalks or stop
at red traffic lights

downpour

2010-01-24T10:13:00.000-06:00

fogs cloud my vision
rain beats against the window
i look at nothing

#123

2009-11-17T17:35:00.003-06:00

i put cinnamon
in my pasta sauce today.
surprisingly good.

#122

2009-11-17T17:35:00.001-06:00

as i emerge, she
retreats. roommates can be a
strange phenomena.

roll the stone

2009-11-17T01:00:00.002-06:00

every time i try
to sneak outside for a smoke
my cats look at me.

(>_<)

2009-11-17T00:28:00.001-06:00

today i found out
that we have a "sister site"
same name, but dot com.

surprise

2009-10-15T12:42:00.001-05:00

i moved across the
sea for you and now i can't
promise anything

#21

2009-10-15T12:41:00.000-05:00

It doesn't make sense
The phrase uttered 'round the world
refrigerator

Invocation against Interlopers

2009-08-15T21:40:00.002-05:00

Lord, keep your rumored
all-knowing eyes from seeking
out the dark secrets of

my damp and shadowed
sheets. I'm not your child, only
a private woman

loving a quiet
man, thrilling in vice, and my
earnings remain mine.

You who --so I heard--
breathed my name at conception,
wrote my life in your

Book of Life, told my
sordid tale in black and white--
just leave me alone.

now it's in your head too

2009-07-01T10:25:00.001-05:00

never gonna give
you up, never gonna make
you cry or hurt you.

apes had it all wrong

2009-07-01T10:24:00.000-05:00

i now open my
bananas with a pocket
knife. no more string stuff.

cage fighting is good for the brain

2009-07-01T10:19:00.001-05:00

i asked him to give
me seventeen syllables
he looked and said "huh?"

effects

2009-07-01T10:18:00.000-05:00

i saw a picture
today of someone whose head
had been cut straight off.

cyclic

2009-06-30T10:12:00.001-05:00

it rained yesterday
it might rain today. the plants
don't want any more.

tweet with us

2009-06-30T10:03:00.002-05:00

#11

2009-06-25T14:38:00.002-05:00

the kids on the wall
shoegazing, fiddling with
what's important:

skyscraping

2009-06-25T14:36:00.001-05:00

these are the things we
place above our heads until
the sun shines again.

i'd like to be there

2009-06-22T23:47:00.002-05:00

there where the ghosts dwell,
under the stars, beneath the
trees, alive, waiting.

#20

2009-06-22T23:42:00.002-05:00

candlelight isn't
ever enough to see where
to cut the bodies.

#19

2009-06-22T23:39:00.002-05:00

listening to rain
drops fall down further from where
they began, upwards.

#18

2009-06-17T10:42:00.002-05:00

drops seep from sore eyes,
summer pollens rough grazes
warm wash bathes them new

Except for the eight-legged horse

2009-04-11T13:01:00.001-05:00

the ancient Norse Gods
never died. They knock on doors
mid-week, hammer in

rainstorms, burst into
crowsong at shiny things or
when a person dies.

it used to be important

2009-02-17T07:47:00.002-06:00

i struggled to reach
you, but the silence piled on
itself-- heavy, and cold.

#17

2009-01-23T12:55:00.001-06:00

one day people will
realize that i'm not just
a pawn in this game.

dreamt it

2009-01-12T10:55:00.000-06:00

hypothetically,
if we all slept at the same
time, no one would know.

the big bang

2009-01-12T10:40:00.002-06:00

we all wonder how
everything began but not
how it all will end

bigger than that

2009-01-07T12:52:00.001-06:00

after all of the
debris lifted, what we saw
was the beginning.

dead serious

2009-01-07T12:48:00.001-06:00

depending on what
happens tomorrow i might
end up in the ground.

phone calls at three a.m.

2009-01-07T12:43:00.003-06:00

solipsism will
only last as long as our
minds allow it to.

i sent it to her

2008-10-21T23:47:00.002-05:00

she had a blue dress
on the ground with sticks and leaves
me breathless, watching.

untitled

2008-10-12T22:37:00.001-05:00

Pull safety pin.
Operating is instinct,
And all fires, gone.

untitled

2008-10-12T22:36:00.004-05:00

It is too late now.
Gurgle, bubble, fizzle, brap!
Angry guts of mine.

untitled

2008-10-12T22:35:00.000-05:00

halves halves and more halves
on halves, i've wasted paper
never feeling whole

untitled

2008-09-24T00:05:00.001-05:00

she was cute i guess
A face like a china doll
far too innocent

the end was near

2008-09-23T08:24:00.002-05:00

i would like to apologize for forgetting about this blog for a while.
i'm going to do my best to try and make it work like it once did.

on a couple of side notes, everyone should go to Sunny Outside Press and get Hosho McCreesh's new book of poems, "For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed..." because it's amazing and he has supported the 5/7/5 project, so it's only fair that he gets support from us.

and of course, if you haven't ever checked it out, head on over to the GPP and see what they're all about.

tell your friends.

think, type, submit.

5/7/5

to lie still, be silent

2008-05-03T18:14:00.002-05:00

as the last light of
the afternoon stretches cat-
like across his face

she is feigning sleep--
like some demi-deity,
thinking: this is good.

friday nights

2008-04-06T09:11:00.001-05:00

that euphoria
only lasts until the next
time your eyes open.

check

2008-04-06T09:09:00.000-05:00

i wonder when the
day will come when i decide
to begin real life

so far this year nothing has been accomplished

2008-04-06T08:47:00.002-05:00

instead of trying
to fix the things we've done, let's
just try something new

ski lift

2008-03-03T12:02:00.000-06:00

He thinks of mentors
and the mentors will torment.
They are tormentors.

into obscurity

2007-12-04T13:01:00.001-06:00

why i'll never be
a writer of poetry
or prose is easy

when it comes time to
save the thoughts in my head i
click "delete" instead.

untitled (3)

2007-12-01T03:18:00.001-06:00

realization:
i will never see the light
in this condition.

untitled (2)

2007-11-29T22:52:00.001-06:00

You and your blue eyes,
hiding away all your lies;
now I know better.

untitled (1)

2007-11-26T18:25:00.000-06:00

summer is over
so now the days just drag on,
on and on and on...

thousand year old distress signal

2007-11-22T13:57:00.001-06:00

he was twenty year
old boy, who lived with girl in
small Mars colony.

she completed him,
once. Lost, High, alone, broadcast
from Mars Shuttle Five

Lighting cigarettes
as the last hover sailboat
made port and anchored.

sense of adventure
defeats standard high jinks of
counting revolutions.

what takes overboard?
watching the Suns rise and set
create and destroy.

passion sustains them
mid rage and then comity.
she sees right through him.

or, more precisely
the view from the Solitude
of her escape ship.

grasp this concept now:
wife gone, no why or how. he'd
go if she'd allow.

struggle to see what's
simple to me, don't you know?
"i can't let you go."

d u a l i t y killed
the man. "forget about her."
no one understands.

hints where she went?
declared, "See You Space Cowboy...
Spike for President."

before the rain comes

2007-11-20T20:18:00.000-06:00

i tend to lie when
i say i'm okay, so you
should know cloudy days

are the worst, not because
of the grey, but because they
used to be yours, love.

i'm sure of it

2007-11-17T14:20:00.000-06:00

people lie 'cause no
one could ever love them for
who they truly are

dripping juice

2007-11-15T11:42:00.000-06:00

broken fruit for you
waiter in the summer sky
eat, drink, be merry