A Hostile Environment
Our cheating, drug use
stealing, screams and lies
We've been screwed up since birth
Wow, what a surprise
For years they've abused us
Everyway that they could
How can my hatred for them
Now be misunderstood
May I trade in
The memories I have
For the good ones are long gone
I've been left with the bad
I'm tired of advice
From people who can't see
That this disease is evil
Not my problem no more
My only wish
[...] Read more
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Why Vote?
Here we go again
Sign after sign
Only but, for a brief time
The willful deceit
All the lies
Why should we care?
Can they carry a tune?
Will they save the earth and all man kind
By my vote, no, not just mine
Why call it a first class community
When all the rich are heart less punks
Runnin' this society, oh my, oh my, the calamity
When neighbors talk behind your back
Spreadin' rumors we sell drugs
Will they take a dealer
Give them hugs?
Let the chips fall where they may
Just for this
Election day
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Paint
Pick out a color
pick out a brush
don't forget the roller
don't be in a rush
Your spectrum of colors, may scream loudly
just don't let it be drab
brighten your room and your life
your office, perhaps, even a meth lab
Remember the dropp cloth
wear grungy clothes
you need to patch the wall with spackle
cover all the holes
Sand them lightly
then prepare to paint
grab that java
florescent orange
Oh, hell no!
[...] Read more
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Still Invisible
Where are you?
Still uncertain if you really excist
Can't resist
Thinking you don't
Spiritual leaders push
Life after death
An endless love of the mind
How do they know?
I ponder a doubting Thomas
Were they there?
Did they experience pain
From a dark wooded endless road to no-where
Do they cry dried tears?
Witnessing
The morning of a blue sky
For no reason
Just the beauty of it
[...] Read more
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Return to Monterey
Twenty-two ticks gone by
Wondering till this year why
I would come back to nothingness
A joy to visit none the less
The sandy beach where I once called
Home
Just a simple release
From the military madness
They tore down my base
Where I was training for a war
Walking for peace
Seemed such a waste
There's a college now there
What is to be learned?
Where will the next brain come from?
Should I care?
[...] Read more
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
My Brother Gerry
Whistles blowin'
Trains a comin'
You on that track with
Endless rails
Poundin' the sledge
Drivin' those spikes
Dating redheads
Even the dikes
Recallin that line
Above the toilt seat
Under the T.P
Nose of concrete
Runnin' amuck
Playin' ball spring through fall
Your hobby of wood
Seems to quite thee
Swingin' them clubs
Unhackin' like me
Thanks for the memories
The times we had
[...] Read more
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Tossing Chairs
four hundred to be exact
onto rolling racks
perfectly to be stacked
every single, solitary night
tossing chairs
until the dawns' early light
I often must gaze
with my head in the air
peeking upward in wild wonder
toothpicks in the ceiling
are you freaking kidding me
is this a modern aged college genius
who fail to see
is this why we're here to clean
to clean up after pompous kids
oh well, I guess it is what it is
[...] Read more
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Auto Mechanics Mentality
on a crystal clear blue
morning day
passers by, hear clinging and clanging
of ratchets and rotors turning
on main street
in the borough of Emmaus, PA.
greased up mechanics faces
filled in dirt and grime
repair limping cars and trucks
round' bout' inspection time
only a customers hope
that the bill not be too high
for these days of despair
would make a car and truck driver
simply sigh
yet a man named Dan
at Hendricks motor sales
[...] Read more
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Rappers
Rappers flow
With lyrics they curse
Prosper making dollars
By and by they will go
At times for some, meeting death
A turn for the worse
So often
From the dead of night
Till' the dawns early light
Feeling their pain
Ruling their plight
Peace, love and hate
Feelings of desperation
Pierce their souls
Some with truth
Heart felt pain
Some with a war stick
They watch it rain
[...] Read more
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Beyond Sobriety
Here we go again
Back to a world of insanity
Question
To drink or not to drink
Return to bitterness
Another calamity
So well a gift of sobriety
For a brief blink of this alcoholics eye
How can this happen?
To a husband, father, fiend or foe
I am clueless once again
Recovery is history
One day at a time
Take it easy
Let go and let GOD
Gone
In my spiritual sense
[...] Read more
poem by Matt Mondschein
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!