Read At Your Own Risk by Deandre Echols (best novels to read for beginners txt) 📕

Celebrity


Duck using your fine tuned reflex,
Imprints on Hollywood Walk of Fame,
Promptly enjoying everlasting pain,
Rich beyond belief, perfect, no defects
Sailing onward, despite lack of respect
Inherited success, due to family of legends
Curse cloaking my happiness, ready for heaven
Cameras steal my essence, just as I'd expect
Humbled regalement, for wages caught worries
Winning the Oscar, father's teary eyed glare
He'd never won, I was a star before I'd grew hair,
Surged with praise, envy's taste hot like curry
Photoelectric light addictive, talent, none could compare
Overdosed, last scene, no peace for the buried

Publisher


Good Evening, How are you Mr. Echols?
Smile protrudes, as chuckles are released
Never agreed to being a Mr. until deceased
Its company policy, accent foreign, like Euros
Center of my enjoyment, pain's eclectic photo
Eager to discuss the cover's flamboyant ideas
Semi-attentive, skimming for major points to hear
Conversations inspiring, like soft pedals of a rose
Business aspects pouring smooth like a daiquiri
Unknown to true intentions, I treat you like a salesman
As you know, clearance and bargaining are used as a radar
Research leads my scent to yet a different company
Pleasurable aura, satisfying persuasion, tasty like waffles of Belgium
Receive my refund, then activate my betrayal like an avatar

Roses


Swallowing my spit and taking a huge gulp as I pass by, glancing at you while you work, in the hometown diner
Daydreaming of reaching out to experience which brand is used as skin moisturizer
Submerging my shadow into a drunken pacifist who can't embrace masculinity and ask you out on a date
Tingling, nostalgic feelings emerge as I reminisce of your tender, iconic beauty yet rejection is something I can't face

Dammit, stop being a immature and a imbecilic punk, rejection is part of you life shared in more than one endeavor
Use proper decorum, introduce yourself but please reframe your defiled pickup lines which aren't too clever
Clearing my throat, developmental plans for approach is underway, rehearsed hand gestures and calamity proof
Her pre-determined savory scent manipulates my nose, tomorrow nestles as a day of love that's new

There she goes, my heart doing internal exercises in her presence
Nervously I sit on the barstool, perspiration is already evident
According to the plan, I'll order a hot chocolate with extra creme
As she departs, palsating pulse induced with infatuation full of morphine

Just to be your everything is all that I want, is that too much to ask for
She returns with my delicious hot chocolate, mission execution go forward
"Hi, my name is Jonathan and I was hoping we could journey off on a date?"
"I'm Janice, unfortunately being a single mother and working, leaves no time to date"

"We could always make time, please at least give me a chance"
"Ok I'll try but only as friends, don't even think about romance"
YES!!!! Joyous eruption overflowed, her beauty was mine
Next week I wore slacks, best cologne and picked her up at nine

Anxious to show beauty to beauty, I took her to my most precious scene
We sat and talked, for a 27 year old who works at a diner she quite interesting
Investments, business plans, and a part time job as masseuse, how alluring
As the date ended, sadly, I admired her greatly, she didn't seem as into me

I attempted a passionate kiss to her soft, mellow lips but was rejected
"Sorry honey, I'm just not feeling the chemistry between us as expected"
Disorientated, at home I weeped, I actually loved this woman undeniably
Seized her, my necrophilia, her beauty was mine again, with roses for her eyes to see

Poet's Love


Love is thin, rigid, fragile of literary terms available for use,
Giving you the stars, the moon, my life and my afterlife if need be,
Met through a poetry contest, without receiving the grand prize I was still a winner,
But two poets being together is no walk in the park, a very excruciating concept at times

Bipolar, moody, competitive, and cynical but love reviled in being the champion,
Reciting unpublished, unedited, and unrehearsed yet special poetry to your ears,
Ominously receiving mixed reviews from complaints of not enough love as I recite to overwhelmingly being suffocated with love,
Despite the bickering and disillusions, sitting next to you and caressing each other compensated for that,

Would you please stop completing your sentences in riddles, for I am not the Batman?
Jealous of my ex-girlfriend but for no apparent reason however, I discreetly shared in the envy with your ex,
I concluded that for someone to have privileged in previous indulgence in your love could only create animosity,
You are mines now, I posses that unique key to your heart and soul and you likewise,

Yearning to ask the genie for a wish of time freeze, for in your presence I am parasitic,
Opposites similar to a proton and neuron, I write best while touching the stars, you write better while touching the manipulated clouds,
Patient in designing a miniature representation of our combined genes,
I am absolutely sure the younger version will be overly loved since our love is at remarkable 200%,

You took me as I am, illiterate, somewhat egotistical and a liar in the beginning,
I'm chiseled into a loving, married statue who is appreciative for the basis of life,
Awarded many recognitions for your unorthodox style and its deepened affects for your readers,
Experiencing mediocre success my poetry endures repetitive criticism for being narrow and simple-minded credited by you,

Hormones
 

They can distract one's mind so easily,
Immersed into indulgence it naturally seeps through me,
Genetically composed to maintain its annoying presence,
Hell it even got the best of Clinton our former president,
 
The devils has enraged my thoughts like I'm an hired advocate,
Yet in the back of my mind cherishing what we have because its so delicate,
Maybe its my masculinity and hormones combined which seem to irritate,
The loneliness amplifying my hormones giving them the urge to emancipate,
 
It definitely pisses me off and creates the urge to drive me crazy,
Having the ability to cloud my judgement and making everything seem hazy,
However, my loyalty to you contributes to my redefined humbleness something I won't forget,
Blocking the demons I would never want to make a mistake that I would eternally regret

Last Kiss


Warmth near the log-fire, doesn't' compare
Missing the sauteed aroma of your curly hair
Till death do us part, a phrase you died by
What do I do now? Where do I go?

Rough edgy look, no one here to oppose
Eyes bloodshot red from crying, with each thought
Take a deep breath......another tear sneaks out
............. just staring at your picture

STOP patting me on my back, my children
you can't fathom the idea of feeling numb, so long
Never cared for money, now I do
Never cared for materialistic, now I do

Legion of sadness, punctures my fortitude
Requiring heart surgery, but medically my heart is fine
The only true love I'd ever known, why didn't you take me with you?
Hospital corridors, she died as I purchased a damn drink, no last kiss

Politics


Hated
but loved
Despised
but praised

Corrupt
but pretentious
Smiles
and frowns

Promises
but lies
Debauchery
but ethical

Historic hopefulness
Disappointing agony
Dysfunctional family
Approval seekers

Self-gratifying intent
Unselfconsciously caring
Bearer of injustice
Enforcer of justice

So much for that rainbow in the sky
You've given me a headache from hell with so much interchanging
Don't worry, no need to resign politics
Until the next election, I quit

Gratitude


Past and present elements foretell a lifetime
Perseverance, used to surpass hardships you faced
Privileged, enduring publishing, my time
Oblivious like emptiness of how its involves race

Honor those who tried for years without being heard
Those being rejected due to their skin color, not minds
Unknown to the feeling intensively, I can freely be heard
Pathed the way of my writings, your souls are so divine

Sadly, I did not want to be referred to as African American Poet,
I wanted people to recognize my words, not my appearance
For you, its my destiny to inherit the title, keeping the door opened
For you, I will read a lot more, exploring your weariness

Selective few male poets, gravity of pressure revealed
A cause, a reason, a movement more significant then I know
These gentleman stood for my rights, facing opposition without a shield
I'm a writer, not a devoter, questioning that leap, due to financial woes

Smile
 

Pain we endure throughout our existence runs deep like the shallowest of lakes
Dealing with the adversities of life we realize that it is our own we surround with hate
Smile during the rough spots and constant obstacles
Damn I wish I could see the future using forcasting opticals
 
Baby don't cry always keep your head up
Even when the road is long and hard never give up
Wanting to be there, conjoined and I could possibly share your pain
Ultimately knowing that deep down inside our pain is never the same
 
Using a rehearsed smile I walk around the world hiding in the refugee of my own saddened and restless mind
Anyone with an inclination of concern followed by a barrage of questions for I'll dignifiedly decline
Unknowingly there are other people experiencing life's unfair and overwhelming treatment and spontaneous rapture
But that smile I use for concealment and for sanity informs them that love and hope are still ongoing factors

Hearts Demise


Willfully I'd give you a piece of me
Special torrent of pleasure, Lady Desiree
Marriage set in stone, I, Derrick, am aware
Grateful for loyalty, natural way of the Filipina

Kisses tempt starry surprises, goosebumps arise
Connections bonding like a team's cohesion
However, love is not without misery, as you know
Living in seperate continents, strains my patience

So when not surround by love, wandering commences
Carmen, the Romanian Goddess, strikingly beautiful
Interrupted my vision for an unparallel happiness
I can't let it go

Rice thrown at our harmonious ceremony
Congragulations, Derrick, randomly thrown my way
Desiree, my angel,