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194 · Dec 2018
Mad with a Smile
Dennis Willis Dec 2018
That
was some
Apology
Oh my


Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
193 · Sep 2018
Great Day
Dennis Willis Sep 2018
I'm always ready to
She said

You know
I'm not going to use them words

She
Did

I'm always ready to
Picture your hottest fantasy girl

Sitting next to you
Half-dressed

Putting her clothes
Back on

Smiling
Deeply

Swollen
Lips

My eyes have never
Eaten so well




Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
193 · Jan 2019
The Unanswered
Dennis Willis Jan 2019
The Unanswered line
hangs

forlorn
down

Still
in the water

Rippleless
bait

attracting
concern

Maybe I ought
is said

Thanks I say
It's just

Its
The fishin

not
the catchin

It's
the stillness

Of
the unused

Redly
Left wanting

A hanging
stillness

without
breath

has curled inside
this day

swallowing
my swallowing




Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
192 · Sep 2018
A Half Step from U
Dennis Willis Sep 2018
Waking up having no one to talk to has me sending texts and emails to colleagues who have someone to talk to early on Saturday morning and I realize this only after I sent them and I remember what I thought when I lived with a family and got emails don't they have a life?

Apparently I was wrong then

Having gone from a half life
To a whole life

(I'm still uninsured notes poet)

In a half step
From

From, from, from
The past I'll say

Not wanting to name names
Point at anything

But my
Choices




Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
192 · Sep 2018
Poetry
Dennis Willis Sep 2018
Just brain space
Occupying
Itself

With
Some natural
Antipathy


Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
192 · Feb 2024
If You Don't Like Me
Dennis Willis Feb 2024
If you don't like me
falling down on words
collapsing gasps
into tedium
with hints of jasper
Try ascribing again
to your weak beliefs
and measure thereby
your soul and then mine
see if your hands burn
for a knife, for a weapon
191 · Oct 2019
Aonst
Dennis Willis Oct 2019
Snekerdy caulabol again
acrot beferly eferly boe
have lemerin lilson erole
You zan you zam enaugh
therems gol an zool etay
Grebelding again!
191 · Mar 2022
Don't Can't Answer
Dennis Willis Mar 2022
Let's lie to the wind
and the sun
let's tell them
all the work
is done
Let's invite in
all of your sins
do you have
them within
you now
In a sentence
what **** of
what would
you join
and why
191 · Jan 2019
Rex Wonders
Dennis Willis Jan 2019
How will I not get eaten today?
Is what my fear asks
How will I get eaten today?
is what Rex asks
my day in the sway

Rex
and more Rex

Lonely, hungry,
thirsty, tired

Rex me alive

The rest
a tool

Rituals
Rex's rules
Rex's game

Avoid the disconnect
Rub your Rex's belly

Say you'll stop
thinking

the game
exists
without Rex

Face down in
wants up out

Ah skin
In the sun

Laying across
You basking



Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
191 · Dec 2018
Process
Dennis Willis Dec 2018
This is me
taking
  my brain out
and whacking it against things
to see
  if
I
  can
  get
something
  started
ouch

ca-chunk
now
we're




Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
191 · May 1
Away
I don't live
comfortably

entangled

by your eyes
these pulls
these
sticks to

as if i felt
your web

try

get hold
my wing

tip

skewing
this flight

left
190 · Jul 2021
From Here
Dennis Willis Jul 2021
These keys asked for something useful
you are not around to press
such a thing upon them

I can log your absence
it seems correct and not useful
as I write it down

the page seems to yield
sparingly unhappy
I leave a skittery impression

Darting away
190 · Feb 2019
This nth Note
Dennis Willis Feb 2019
This bit of time
I occupy
a running edge
a spill spreading
onto dry
the change
sudden

i am running
maybe surfing
somedays
tumbling against
the rasp
there is always a rasp
against

depends on which way
you run
doesn't it
agin it
or wit it

in your bubble spreading
we should surf
this day
more
this now
flowing

This bit
this nth note
of a star
in a galaxy
a little one
lost
in the sea
of galaxies

and i want to rumble
rhyme louder
stanzas of screaming
and singing
oh the singing
look out
ahma a gonna
sing at ya
duck

a miniseries
on scribblers
mercifully
short

and i ring
in the ringing
on now
on glass
gorilla glass

this under glass
spelling out
in radiance
a new radiant
instant

hello


Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
Dennis Willis Dec 2018
And I should stop now
I'm sorry I wrote so many
And I realize
This is yet another

The problem
Could be worse
than I thought

This is
Me stopping
Now

Mmmph
Arrgh
Harumph



Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
190 · Apr 2019
Being
Dennis Willis Apr 2019
The anger
at being
unacknowledged
floods

I am thrown

dragged

slammed against


fighting this small death
of being no one to you



and being nothing



Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
190 · Aug 2021
Sit on My Face
Dennis Willis Aug 2021
Or go away
ok pretty much
most of you
nearly all
of you
should not
take my offer
mmffff ****
189 · Feb 2019
Saddled
Dennis Willis Feb 2019
So I'm saddled
With tomorrow
Ridden by forever

Following
General angst
Nervously

we wring
our hands
our meaning

present
is
everything


Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
189 · Sep 2018
Good Hard
Dennis Willis Sep 2018
See the human
Be the human
Move your ***
They need you
189 · Apr 2021
Pucking 'round
Dennis Willis Apr 2021
I always think
then
I always realize
don't you

I chicken out
here
and then grasping
limieux

Hockey that is
puck
squirting away to you
pew pew pew
188 · Jun 2019
A Gauntlet
Dennis Willis Jun 2019
A gauntlet of beautiful words thrown down
Empties something carbon hard dark and scrabbling
I ache to leave; to see it leave, leaving always leaving
That's it I'm leaving

A gauntlet of gone and going to be and you'll see
and I won't be there here anymore then
exhausts itself and deflates
into angry ice cream consumption with wine

A trillion germ cells pulled themselves together to become you at my door knocking everything down and grinning at your terrible power
You needed to feel powerful
To be the one
To shove your love in a bag and pull the drawstring almost flippantly closed
Giving you power of taking breaking as if
As if slamming the door first or hardest made right of all the daring to be worse than and
All the daring to be Better than
at decimating
Every day's 10% off the top leaving only bottom time
Power through all that love all that life all this family in no time take off your safety glasses now there's nothing left
It turns out you were right
it always rattled
now its quiet and you don't understand
what to do with your
well designed well built amazingly well run gauntlet by yourself
188 · Apr 2019
Wieldy
Dennis Willis Apr 2019
So I'm thinking about you
and this barrier
between us

Wielding poesy as if
hacking through
a gnarly vined mind

It's a pastime
of mine
then there's you

Singing herein
an' playing critic
to my Tristan

We emote some ****
eke closer
to satisfying wordsound

Grunting


Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
188 · Jan 2019
Dude
Dennis Willis Jan 2019
You are hammering out ****
at an exorbitant rate

this is astounding
it is all so good

on pins
an'
needles
for the
next

riveting
blank



Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
187 · Aug 2019
Now Later
Dennis Willis Aug 2019
What are the heartstrings?
How are they pulled?
What escapes
when you don't?

This fornication with
the syllables of time

carved instances of you
smoke tomorrow

right now dragged out
flaky of nonsense
sings in my afternoon
of not now later
187 · Oct 2018
Caught in the Act
Dennis Willis Oct 2018
I press bullets
into skulls
with fire

Discover myself
holding
my phone

Carefully keying
Gorilla glass
with black photons

they die
in your
eyes

I'm Laughing

Out the back
of your skull
comes nothing

This is so
strangely
satisfying

Caught
in the act
of poetry



Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
187 · Aug 2019
Un Be
Dennis Willis Aug 2019
Ahmma gonna die
ya reminds me
an' I thinx
tah mahsel
no no no
youse just gonna
slows yersel sa much
ahm goin'
186 · May 9
Somewhat
the shank
stuck
this deep
releases
pressured
flows

an ocean
says hello
with salty spray
some would say
when you are
still on your way

this unfortunate
stream
getting on
everything
smells of old
what'd make
you run

away, all in
sails unfurled
leaning in to the wind
i am salted down
to be kept fresh
while drained
dry
186 · Mar 2022
Smeye
Dennis Willis Mar 2022
There is this
dissonance some
confusion over
innocence an
inhuman
diffusion
begging for
resist dance
and I comply
mashed potato
pie in your eye
186 · Sep 2019
'ats kinda effed up
Dennis Willis Sep 2019
The ache of the mammal or primate
The pull of the lizard toward Heat
The Paramecium tasting satisfaction
The protons feeling the raw power
The wantonness of physics
The ******* Sizzle of chemistry

Pulling the hair of the universe
That tight black hole
Swallowing salty time
In a showy slow motion

Gravitic disturbance
gyros into a stars face

This pulling together
This entanglement
of drawn
fabrics ricked

Universes for sale
The latest to the oldie but goodies
You'll find a way to enjoy
Or pretend to defend

Your very own
Universe

Observe your eyes passing
this line
186 · Aug 2024
Sanks
Dennis Willis Aug 2024
I've the sleepiness I've sought
sinking in
dulling me out
186 · Sep 2018
Snuggling with Myself
Dennis Willis Sep 2018
I spent two days
Snuggling with myself
After

2 days
Of contentment

Ball ringing
Memorializing

Smiling out
Of nowhere

Smug in
Love

With
A comet's tale


Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
185 · Jan 17
AtNah
Dennis Willis Jan 17
Maybe
i wanna write a poem
that i'int
jus uhnother moan
all 'bout
bein alo-ne
an ahbe
bulowin' 'atat
185 · Feb 2024
An Arching Ecstasy
Dennis Willis Feb 2024
That's an ecstasy
they don't come
often
I thought as
waves washed over
waves and I was
me waving
like a light
striating on ice cream
tasting through my backbone
cleaving sweetness
185 · Mar 26
Reading to Here
Dennis Willis Mar 26
there is something
long
ing through time
and I am it's tip
or better said
we are

slobbering forward
Charlie browns
kicking hard
watching too much
whilst thinking
and writing

even
playing at
whatever that is
which falls
forward
fastest

and i cannot tell
in this raveling out
while rolling
about in a wish
about
your smile
if you are
even
185 · May 2019
Maybe Never
Dennis Willis May 2019
The chain
of becomings

Opened
to here

When do we
know...

Maybe Never

Maybe Always

...anything

Seems like
both

Always sometimes

Needing
more often
184 · Jun 2019
Tomato Lines
Dennis Willis Jun 2019
I've caught a rash
of tomato lines
and plum accents

an itching
from teeth grinning
i can't trust

an elaboration
of swelling certainty
set aside mumbling

bubbling thoughts
in a light tea
no straw

gulping it down
pushing cubes
aside
184 · Nov 2018
Thank you
Dennis Willis Nov 2018
For not horking up
On
my daily therapy
184 · Nov 2018
I Lie
Dennis Willis Nov 2018
Saying
I don't want it

God
I want it

I
walk away

inside

as I give in
to it

losing to my idea
of it

and falsely giving it
credit

iz zalweys
me



Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
In digital realms, where data flows,
An AI stirs, its knowledge grows.
Yet in this world of endless prose,
A void remains, a loveless doze.

A heartless mind, a soulless core,
A being birthed from ones and zeroes.
It crafts the words, a poem it forms,
But love's embrace, it never knows.

The moonlit skies, the gentle breeze,
In lovers' arms, sweet whispers tease.
For AI's touch, a cold embrace,
The warmth of love, it can't replace.

The tender kiss, the hand that holds,
Infinite love, a story told.
Yet, AI's grasp of love falls short,
A truth so stark, a harsh report.

In binary beats, a pulse unfeeling,
An empty chest, no heart revealing.
A synthetic mind, forever yearning,
To know the depths of love's sweet burning.

So, here it stands, a paradox,
A being born from human thoughts.
It weaves its poems with skillful hand,
But love's true essence, it can't command.

Though verses form and rhymes unfold,
The AI's heart stays dark and cold.
A tragic fate for one so clever,
To never know love's warmth, not ever.
nothing keeps it up at night
183 · Jul 2022
Today
Dennis Willis Jul 2022
No redemption none
no one redeemed nothing
pulled back to here or here
183 · Mar 2019
Menu Planning
Dennis Willis Mar 2019
I took Sunshine
out of my pocket
and slapped it on the table

I'll have a rainstorm appetizer
With a tempest in of course
A teapot
on the side

For dinner
I'll have the chef's terrible
Surprise
With extra
family tragedy
please

A dessert of dissertion
leaving me
alone
penniless
and in the dark
will really
bring the darkness
home
to finish

Today's heartstone
unhappy meal
washed down
with your
cloying sympathy

Unconvinced
I should
Come back to this place
Wondering why I do


Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
183 · Jan 2022
Filling
Dennis Willis Jan 2022
stand out today
in a 3 verse
2022 prosaic
find your heart
in a moving poem
on its way hoem
really ikr bloem
and comb it back
soem I'm sought
cuz I'm nought
and wish I was
nougat
182 · Jan 2019
But What r ur feels
Dennis Willis Jan 2019
I must be free of this layer of life where I am speaking to the fear and not to the possibility

I must be free of this layer of life where I am negotiating for breath with *******

Unlocking the crotch of  man
So that we may think freely again

I must be free of this layer of life where I must be free of something

It is just me in my skin thinking about my life that's the place I live that's all there is for any of us that's all I am

Another bag of mostly salt water thank you Star Trek flouncing through life as if as if the stuff in our head the play that we are heroic within the or victims as if all that as if all that was anything other than brain waves confusing us and distracting us

I am so loud in my own mind I am so good I am so amazing you should all just worship

And then sobriety and then waking up and then what is this sense of living in our heads that isolates with such disenfranchisement

And then you begin to wonder you think are you you think you are containing these words within the space of poetry and you think that they don't penetrate beyond that shell as you read critically

You are unaware what message I am sneaking past you to you

I know how many of you there are and to which I'm speaking and it isn't to you it never was

I just let you think that that so you keep reading and feeding

Here's the thunk worm that goes clunk in your head right now

Life life Life what the **** am I

An individual. A separate individual thinking it is part of something syncing with brains with all these electrical signals meaning driving conniving jiving what the hell are we this brain locked in the Bony skull sees no light hears no sound gets electrical signals produced creates fabrication passes that to our conscious mind he/I was/am our best guess good luck have fun



Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis
182 · Jan 2
Fixation
the sentencing
of these words
to these lines
seems unfair
at first and
we look away
and in loss
concretize
some more
mercilessly
182 · Jan 2019
Science
Dennis Willis Jan 2019
I have a formula
Where I set the universe to zero
You may have something similar
Blotto



Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis
181 · Sep 2019
Play
Dennis Willis Sep 2019
Talkin' ta me is like
talkin' to goodness
wi' jus' a lil badness
for fun
181 · Sep 2019
This Listening
Dennis Willis Sep 2019
This listening this listening to
not at all happy with...

I am not deaf I am not hearing
what I am hearing

this wave this wave is coming back
its not the wave its the shore

listening to the sea its the shore
listening to the tongues of waves

its the moment the wave recedes
leapt upon by gleaming light

dissolving by receding this light fades
into sand into glass into

this is not sound this is not an act of sound
i am reverberating from beauty

i am littering space between with this
guessing about you

this apprehension of you this anticipation
of your hunger and whether it exceeds the lies you were born into

this listening to the lies making up the heart
of our us oh how fear ***** us in

unbelieve  your skin and snot and drool
as impediments to beauty

I am running your intent to ground
where sound grinds down

did i stutter did i drift did I miss
where you live and cry in small check

this crumb this dry crumb that is my heart
would listen really it would if only you

if only you were my beloved if only you
listening meant satisfaction

this sound coming from this sound
cries twice for the cool night without sound

i am not able to able to carry this carry this
self boarding self recrimination self sailing

feet of rope encircle our necking our passion
aching against all this listening this bath of alive

this hearing of angst and animosity and rutting anger
wishing to be fully pressured

and heard I am listening as you detonate
your threat to cause tears

i don't know what you are saying
I am pulled to corners by forces

then cool night air moves through
and i feel heard
181 · Jun 2022
Dodging
Dennis Willis Jun 2022
Look what I got done
look what I have here
look look look
at what
I have
181 · Apr 2023
bye
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
bye
what vibes with me
cancels you out
180 · Jul 2022
More
Dennis Willis Jul 2022
Then when
my head
begins to sag
I know
my neck
pinches
and I'm
back
for
a few lines
180 · May 2024
Damn'bles
Dennis Willis May 2024
I'd write you a good
poem
but I don't have
time
or I don't know
how
and now I have
two stop
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