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Dec 2021 · 146
There is a Poem #3
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
that's not poetry you say
yea but it works for me
it's not a dance that's refined
I tell the other side of my mind
just another lame attempt
a wannabe first of its kind
mush stuckina digital rind
feelin' this is quite a
fine mess
only /IP
can parcel this
Dec 2021 · 167
There is a Poem #2
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
Unsure as to why that is
it unravels itself openly
unreels, uncoils, unfolds
even spills itself further
into this shallow dish
foolishly as always
and impetuous
not careful
or measured
just emptied
out
Dec 2021 · 299
Poem Playing Dead
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
I looked Death in the eye
quizzically, and asked,
sincerely surprised
Why are you here?
Death seemed surprised
too
That's not what
I usually
get asked
it said, kinda measured out
listening to itself and thinking
obviously as it went on
Why am I here
doing this
anyway
While I wondered
where else would Death be
or go?
if not on the job
is there a hangout
ghouls after work?
and now Death
was glaring at me
well even more really
and well even quieter than
and I wondered why I
had even asked
as if it weren't my end yet
Why are you here?
Dec 2021 · 292
There is a Poem
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
There is a poem
arising on this page
hesitantly

It doesn't know you
or what to festoon itself with
to get your attention

which is worth more
than diamonds
Dec 2021 · 120
High Heel of My Hand
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
Look at your hands
tell them
how to hold
oh they already
know
Whisper about
the feel
of my

Rest them
in the crook
of my
place for them

Spin them around
each other
and you feel distance

Let them flutter
up from the keyboard
and sing

They ache
you know
for entwinement
your fluttering hopeful
birds
Dec 2021 · 230
Get Away
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
Get away
get away all of you
just get away
I can no longer
pay
Dec 2021 · 88
Safe
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
This thirsty day
asks everything
asks deja vue
asks slaking
and I drown
in nothing at all
privately
I'm at a loss
which were you
on these bases
running
Dec 2021 · 80
Revel
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
it's dark in here with you
I thought you would
light it up just being here
I thought you would
revel
Dec 2021 · 122
Hello My Neurons
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
Hello my neurons
What's it take
To be happy?
Since you are
The endall
The beall
******* sugar
From my blood
What am I
In you?
A song played
On flesh
A story written
In protein synthesis?
A song
Played on nerves?
Flailing dendrites
submit and fire
Oh the breach
Dec 2021 · 64
;Out
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
Striated things
run counter
as the effort
crashes into
rivulets and dashes
not sintences and *****

Suspecting this result
I've already accounted
and even set aside
i never know what
until later
this follows exactly

though, we may all
be barking here
and the tree there
trying not to be
proverbial again

again things cause
more againing again
and so on and "so it goes"
upland is "straining against"
allthatsilliness that is the trick
that takes us
Dec 2021 · 129
For More
Dennis Willis Dec 2021
This small life
unadorned
by fame
or money
or even
friends
still longs

Smaller
than intended
alone
with words
abundant

To describe what
whilst nothing
becomes anything
like something
that doesn't ring
or sing

On this side
I emit nothing
fibers of wannabe
criss-crossing sight
so many
they mat up
Nov 2021 · 64
Nuts to Start My Day
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
Nuts upon which to wrench
this one looser, this one tighter, ah
a field of these happily adjustables
spread out reflecting in some morning
oblique light enough to prevent focus
rows of shining facets wanting turned
and I'm the one to turn them I say
Nov 2021 · 207
The Time I Have
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
The time I have elicited
elongates or even
telescopes to this' end

Reaching into the dark
bag of tomorrow
disappears my hand

Could it be on you
forever dismembered
leading a happy second

dancing in neural halls
now imagined in mine
absurdly drawn
Nov 2021 · 99
The Water
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
You've got a clef in your note
just there, use your banjo
or guitar to pick it out

you have to scream and then
they say, you have to shout
it's very certain to work it all out

I'm an orphan of endorphin
pharmacologically uncertain
about to dissolve it all out

You see these waves washing up
you see this shore of heart
weathering about everything

you know it wants to sleep
you know it wants to keep
and listening, it turns around

the water, the momentum of ought to
thrown against hard tomorrow
halt is ground out
Nov 2021 · 100
Clam Bay
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
Bang a slang gang
I have to rhyme a crime
cram a frambe' hey
big brain in a sleigh
what is a frappe
anyway
say
I have
to hey

I'm down here
tapping away
Nov 2021 · 65
Cup O'
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
I am spilling out
here in a chair
hair above
nothing there
not even square
speeding some
where is away
from I heard
from I am
from

that excavation
is done

as is you could
brush away

the crumbs from
your smile
and be happier
Nov 2021 · 376
a Gain
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
I'll take this space
adequately filled
with no one

And I'll drown it
introspectively
with ire

Conspicuous
consumption of
high regard

of breathless absence
and your presence
so willful

straining against
flitting away
from here
Nov 2021 · 88
|Thinking of a Poem
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
I am thinking
of a poem
I might
write someday
that is so good
you will
love it
and
tell everyone
and then
I will
be happy
Nov 2021 · 64
Nailed It
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
this is my goal
head drooping
nearly unconscious
barely able
to get up
and collapse
into bed
darkness
Nov 2021 · 79
Ways2theSide
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
This is a nevermind write
something I started without
a light
Something I push on am not
pulled|And I recoil here
And run off.  Or try.
What cravenous
keeps me here
incongruous with the night
and your desires
Nov 2021 · 245
Thas a Moment
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
Searching thru the
"there is"'s I might employ
there is a way
there is a thing
there is a certain
and flipping 'em over
I find the lifter
of I am telling you
the penetrant  
of the membrane
invading
every molecule of now
you sitting knees up
happy in that chair
there
Nov 2021 · 287
If So
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
I can't write
I can lie
I can pay attention
in the wrong direction
and raise questions
that do not care at all

because you
are safe aren't you
I can't ring your phone
or rap on your door
to ask about your hate
hidden smirk appears
Nov 2021 · 69
Waterline
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
This is how high the river got, he said
pointing to the line at my head level
half way up the door frame

This rising above which I hold my head
Marking its climb in lives bright line's end
and the thrashing about of my protests

These slashes and the abruptness of missing
Limbs of my life, upon which I have clambered
thinking them permanent turned out other

Time is a razor working tirelessly at trimming
away everything to make room for everything
and I am just these lines moving out of sight
Nov 2021 · 621
Notions 11
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
It came to get me
this notion of you
dragged me over
some rough road
Nov 2021 · 121
Still Lazy
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
If I stay fed up
you know I won't
Nov 2021 · 154
I Wonder
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
why does it hurt
just there
when I press in
like this
Nov 2021 · 102
Please
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
These hatreds I feel towards you
since you're rich and good looking
and lucky; enough to have my envy
in your packed pockets too

What comfortable shoes you wear
strolling magnanimously through
my imagination my inflammation
my constitution my restitution

Yet you sit in your small space
and wonder at my accusations
wonder at your own perniciousness
and why you haven't recognized it before

it's that you lack imagination specifically mine
it's what writes you in and out of confusion
it's what gripes you into roles so guilty you may as well
resign now and admit I've got you
Nov 2021 · 128
Ink?
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
So I went to the gods
and beseeched them
to give me more ink

they laughed mightily
and gave me a lifetime's
before going digital
Nov 2021 · 561
Some Thirst
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
I've run out of sober
and am left
with inebriated

Sober, what art thou
I'm wondering
with Sarsaparilla

To a tee
I fit
some feeling

And it isn't
the one
you think

It's closer
to one
you drink

with sunshine
I am
slaking
Nov 2021 · 284
Dang, ling
Dennis Willis Nov 2021
On my way here
waiting for the box
I forgot the line
that I thought of
Oct 2021 · 199
Favorite Lies
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
I'm successful
I have my **** together
I'm not alone
You'll read this far

What are your favorite
lies to tell?
Oct 2021 · 90
That Should Do It
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
I don't even
like my stuff
anymore
unwrite unwrite
unwrite
Oct 2021 · 96
Eh Since
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
There is a spender
in the attic
of time and silly
ness as if it was
essing on thru
yesss I borrowed that
an' won' give it back
Oct 2021 · 328
I Live in Fear
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
When I am out in here
and think of things
I can say to you there
I'm not here nor there
I am nowhere
and talking about
being there
as if it were
somewhere
and its always
too hot there
Oct 2021 · 113
Say
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
Say
If I were gentler
these are the
things I would
Oct 2021 · 116
Dear Reader
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
This latest poem is early
and burley
and surly
and isn't going to sit still
for any nonsense from you
Dear Reader
Check that reaction
that exaction
That Narrowing down
past my crafting hand
to your wanting
your line here

Or something
of piercing beauty
like you
Oct 2021 · 76
Sornyom
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
Sornyom Ah nisbaum
anabow muh hannem
you are welcome here
Oct 2021 · 122
He Sit Ate
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
In the wrong place
Oct 2021 · 385
Meant
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
I'm not sure how to stop you
from reading further
Oct 2021 · 68
Gen
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
Gen
I'm already broke down
and it's a good thing
I've been afterthoughted
left bobbing along here
by the wave of time
eddy my new exciting friend
has my head spinning
that's when I thought of you
needing something
I could see from here
your hidden longing
and if I just acknowledge it
I take part of it with me
and you exhale or inhale
and we all know
Oct 2021 · 239
Bro
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
Bro
Will this sound
ever catch up
with your vibe

is this still
part of you
vibing

you always
remain part
of the universe

really not
sure about
the multiverse

this verse
however
carries  you
Oct 2021 · 132
Unhappen About That
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
I reject your rejection
now what
I combat your
combativeness
fooling no one
I'm negative
on negativity
particularly yours
I perpetrate myself
further on
forcing a happening
upon happening
I'm thinking
it's laughing I'm
not happening
Oct 2021 · 67
Take Up
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
We should never
create a hate campaign
I heard a politician say
on Amanpour and Co.

They say it is not hate
we just love how we are
Love which excludes
is the same as hate
Oct 2021 · 86
Scalloped Moments
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
scalloped moments
like following curves
on skin to our begin

again at losing our minds
we press in
for escape out
into not us
no longer
worried I

only something
wagging a sine wave
into a grinning day
Oct 2021 · 412
Next
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
This shattering light
showering through
the tips of our fingers
spraying out of diodes
off the backs of skulls
onto the backs of hands
with enough pressure
Oct 2021 · 134
Approx
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
I am undetectable
this is a castigation
of a perspective
I slip away from
we aren't seen here
at this synapse
as much as structural
the nuance is not
our nuance it is
how the weight
of our notes
shifting suddenly
derails every vein
and you and I
pump out
endlessly
maybe even
rhythmically as
far as we know
Oct 2021 · 92
Clear
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
This sip
of the firehose
will be the one

I can tell
by the feel
as it courses

I have on
one sock
my left

the language
has changed
again

hasn't it
this means
that

again
and I'm swimming
I think

upstream
by the lessening
scent of you
Oct 2021 · 78
Not Knowing
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
It's this hum that starts in me
that has to get out
that starts generating
feelings that sound
like words as
my back arches
shoulders stretch spasm
pulling my neck in
and then I type
and stare
spent
Oct 2021 · 431
Anymore
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
Answer my own question
swallow my own lie
lay here and die

Get up to pie
and toast
and coffee

Heave a great sigh
settle around
death's discomfort

Riddle me why
we husband these lies
paint 'em so high

they are nigh
to the wind
on scuppers of rye

all out
we cry
lay here don't cry
Oct 2021 · 76
Young Single Mothers
Dennis Willis Oct 2021
This world misses
the bodies
we stare out from
this midwife of life
so used so often
so alone outside
our enterprise
when they should be
the center
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