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599 · Jan 2012
"- She -"
Obadiah Grey Jan 2012
She is:
that canary bird
who sings
the sweetest song
that‘s to be heard,

She is:
in the ever
maddening sound
Of everything
that’s earthly bound

She is;
the eagle,,,
see her soar
lion in the jungle,,,,
hear her roar,
all of these things
she is and more
she's even the tigers --
front left paw,

She lives in so many
differing things
azure blue on
butterfly wings
even the monkey
as he swings;
the pleasure and pain
that love brings,
when you look at her --
--what do you see???
595 · Jul 2011
"- Grubs up -"
Obadiah Grey Jul 2011
Bones
make reeaal
goood soup

dig mine up when
I'm done with 'em.
586 · Feb 2014
"- A Godly leg up -"
Obadiah Grey Feb 2014
"- A Godly leg up -"

The day will come
when I will die
of this I can be sure,
stick my body in the ground
let it ripen and mature,
just in case I’ve got this wrong
and in heaven God I’ll meet,
I’ll prostrate myself,
kiss her ***,
and worship at her feet.
586 · Oct 2012
"- Stipendium -"
Obadiah Grey Oct 2012
The fare we pay for
penning rhyme
is want of sleep and
pilfered time;
But a poem is a poets
fair redeem,
when weighed against -
a dream.
576 · May 2010
"- we -"
Obadiah Grey May 2010
but a breeze in the midst
of a storm at sea;
this precarious spark,
we; humanity,


Alan nettleton.
575 · Dec 2010
"- Hush -"
Obadiah Grey Dec 2010
In the
gathering of
silence - in the
mustering of the dark;
in every comforting shadow
hollow beats a heart,

Hollow
beats a heart
in every comforting
shadow, in the mustering
of the dark,  in the gathering
of silence - hollow beats a heart.
570 · Feb 2017
"- Ergo sum -"
Obadiah Grey Feb 2017
There is a brilliance
in the darkness-
that only the blind
will see.

There is a symphony
in the silence-

A heaven - for me.

We are but a breeze
amidst a storm at sea,

This precarious spark,
We-- humanity.
554 · Sep 2013
"- R,I,P Anon -"
Obadiah Grey Sep 2013
R,I,P.

Here lies the body
o' poet Anon.
broke wind once
and then was gone.

so, think on this
afore you depart,
life is but one--
unencumbered ****.
546 · Oct 2010
"- Cease -"
Obadiah Grey Oct 2010
Today my friend stopped
--- being.
there he was --
then he wasn't.
----- being that is.

alan nettleton.
520 · Feb 2021
: Doggy paddle:
Obadiah Grey Feb 2021
feets, are the foundation
of our uprightedness,
knees, are for the leanings
in advance of our fall.
hips, are for the twisting-
and swivelling of it all.
necks, keep our head up
in back stroke, or the crawl.


Obi.
518 · Dec 2015
"- Wabbits n stuff -"
Obadiah Grey Dec 2015
Croak with the raven
bluff with the crow
the urchin
the field mouse
beneath the hedgerow

Yelp with the *****
howl with the hound
and bay at the moon
till the sun comes around.
491 · Dec 2015
√2
Obadiah Grey Dec 2015
There is a perfect angle
at which the bottom
of the left *** meets the
rib cage of your woman and its
the square root of two.
486 · Nov 2013
"- A whimsey -"
Obadiah Grey Nov 2013
In that moment, of slender breath,
death grants purchase
to relinquished dreams,
and whimseys t
                              r
                                  i
                                     c
                                         k
                                             l
                                                e
                                                  - free.
472 · Feb 2014
"- Optional 2 -"
Obadiah Grey Feb 2014
.

Oh, for the snap shut skin
in the blue twang of youth-

I wish them well in their stretchy hell………….. ******* !!!
457 · Sep 2013
"- Haiku 1 -"
Obadiah Grey Sep 2013
Gathering silence
in mustering of the dark-
hollow beats the heart.
442 · Jul 2019
Love.
Obadiah Grey Jul 2019
Feathered, daft,
leaning sweet.
compliant, reliant,
we, complete
436 · Jul 2015
"- With a nod to Spike -"
Obadiah Grey Jul 2015
Somewhere, there
is a fat man dancing,
and behind his rusty grin
lies a man thats lithe and thin.
421 · Mar 2015
"- Reply from God -"
Obadiah Grey Mar 2015
"Reply from God"

Sometimes silence is violent,
unspoken words beating
you about the ears
and paranoia going about his business
403 · Apr 2016
Untitled
Obadiah Grey Apr 2016
First, we fashioned
our gods of stone,
and then from
a sacred wood,

We even tried
out flesh and bone
but it wasn't
- quite as good,

we lauded him as
the "SON OF BOSS"
then promptly nailed
him - to the cross, !!

the next shall be
of ones and zeroes
pay per view
and pixelated -

a Super Hero.
403 · Mar 2016
Untitled
Obadiah Grey Mar 2016
Gimbal eyed and shrugged -
at rooks caw and ravens croaked
shriven threaded dawn.

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Syllabically
­Oversimplification
Abomination
396 · Sep 2018
Aching bones.
Obadiah Grey Sep 2018
Aching bones n bladder stones
are signs of gettin old,
missing teeth n droopin beef
two more,, or so i'm told.

Hairy backs n saggy sacks
are afflictions of old men,
havin rants n ****** pants-
happen now n then !

when the gut is sagging more n more
and it's dragging on the floor,
when ******* are banging on the knees
and armpits smell like cheese,

when teeth they sleep within a glass
upon the bedside table,
and as for giving girls a thrill
you find you're quite unable,

But don't think that I’m unhappy
after everything I said,
e'en though I wear a grown up *****
and soon be ****** dead.
378 · Nov 2014
"- Of love -"
Obadiah Grey Nov 2014
Let me be your drowning man,
then you could be my saviour,
when you are all that is, and all I am,
for your love, I am but a slave for.
374 · Sep 2021
Bit of an animal.
Obadiah Grey Sep 2021
I wanna scoop your marrow
wanna peel your teeth,
Wanna feel you laying
bare beneath.

I wanna savour your sweet
****-u-lant meat,
I wanna fillet your soul

make the - We,

complete.

Obi.
359 · May 2019
Eerrmm.
Obadiah Grey May 2019
Look, its poached, or fukin fried.

Its either, or,
there ain't no more,
tertiary options, out de door.
357 · Mar 2016
Untitled
Obadiah Grey Mar 2016
leaf litter rustle
urcheon beneath the hedge row
mother and hoglets
318 · Jun 2018
Untitled
Obadiah Grey Jun 2018
I could wax on the wings of a butterfly
but, I aint that kinda o' guy.
rather kick the nuts off ******* squirrels
pull the wings off blue arsed fly.

I'm the stuff that flops off dog chops
when he's up fer it and high,
I'm a metaphor to drink s'more
I'm the toe nail in the pie.
318 · May 2019
"- Gracie -"
Obadiah Grey May 2019
thought I filed her
in the drawer,
third one down
I thought,
in amongst the
clutter of things
I should have ought,

her name is lost
to reason,
many seasons
past and gone

though her face-
her face is
emblazoned on
this evening setting sun.
311 · Sep 2021
A brace o' Eeeeejuts.
Obadiah Grey Sep 2021
******. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson!!!

Yer've spilt yer seed
yer've spent it
as did Onan
on a barren land
and no flower grew
where you shot through
off a ninety nine change hand!!

obi.
(There ought be a winky emoji thingy following
but alas,,,,, I'm lacking the wherewithal whatnot.)
-------------------------------------------
Elon's musk...

I'm a conceptual millionaire,
my unpaid gas bill means **** all to me,
tomorrow, I'm a gonna buy me
a mind coat lined with thick meta fur
ignoring them chilblains that
just -- isn't there!


Obi
289 · Apr 2019
ROSLA.
Obadiah Grey Apr 2019
In our snap shut skin,
in our blue twang of youth,

When we bound young wolves
in a palette of grey,

When we shackled
a snowflake in white.

When we manacled the sun
unto the day,

And, we tethered the moon- -
to the night.




(****, I have absolutely no-idea how to reply to anyone, Sorry! )
285 · May 2018
middle fer diddle.
Obadiah Grey May 2018
There once was a theist, I hear,
whom thought he'd bend Gods leftist ear,
now feeling contrite
Gods deaf to the right.
the atheists thought that - quite queer.
274 · Jan 2020
"Boing, time fer bed"
Obadiah Grey Jan 2020
"-Boing !!!!-"


Afore you up and shuffle
out the door
for god to tally up
yer score,

may I make jus'
one suggestion-
that you ask of him
this question.

Why was Zebedee
so rude
and what became of -
Ermintrude??
273 · Jun 2018
If's buts n maybes !
Obadiah Grey Jun 2018
Lumbago ought be a flower,
but it ain't.

Goldfish could have shoulders,
but they don't.

Death should have meaning
and my windows need cleaning
by the missus -

but I know- she just -- won't.
273 · Nov 2019
Death of a poet
Obadiah Grey Nov 2019
didn't know him very well,
didn't even know he'd gone,
though, what I know is that he was,
The idiot, in an idiotocracy.
262 · May 2018
Untitled
Obadiah Grey May 2018
'er pons and medulla oblongata
makes Annie the ****** a bit smarter
than the average gal, joe pete or al
and her mystery is - pro rata.
129 · Jan 2020
bigglybop.
Obadiah Grey Jan 2020
I
the he
that is me
when the we
just could not be
finally, sees this truth.

SS.

— The End —