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18.4k · Feb 2016
Dirty Limerick #3
A guy and his gal were abed,
when she looked over at him and said,
"The way your ***** is bent
is my only lament."
So sideways they did it instead.
© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
17.9k · Jun 2015
Quiet Dawn
quiet dawn's dim light
serenity at its best
sneaking up on you
© 2015  J.J.W. Coyle
14.9k · Aug 2016
Ride to Work
ride never showed up
boss not answering
guess I'm not working today
© 2016  J.J.W. Coyle
14.6k · Apr 2011
I Sat with a Cat in My Lap
I sat with a cat in my lap.
This cat is having a nap.
I wish she'd get off me,
I have to go ***.
This cat in my lap should ****.

This kitty is itty & bitty.
She jumped up to where I was sitting.
She needs to get down,
I'm wearing a frown.
My bladder is making me giddy.

So here I sit like a twit.
My lap must be made of catnip.
My need is so great
But she just won't vacate.
This cat in my lap should get.
The cat's name was Mystery, by the way.

© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
12.3k · Jun 2015
This Thread of Mine
a spool of heart's thread
pulled taut just for you
tie a knot and watch it break
© 2015  J.J.W. Coyle
11.3k · Dec 2014
hot shower/clean pyjamas
there is no cure quite like for the dour
than clean pyjamas post-long-hot-shower.
with a sigh and a hug and flannel kisses to yer ***
hot shower/clean pyjamas: for when a day is done.
© 2014  J.J.W. Coyle
cannot hand in code
stupid website will not load
this is getting old
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
11.0k · Jun 2015
Dirty Limerick #2
Canoodling his significant other,
Our man Henry was loathe to discover:
The **** had run dry,
But rather than cry,
He decided to go get the butter.
© 2015  J.J.W. Coyle
10.9k · Apr 2011
Man All A-Rush
a man all a-rush...
he's not a man who can wait;
perhaps he should try
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
A window flung open with drapes barging into the room,
The sun's smug shine tells my toes that the rest of the world is awake,
And so my eyes make their first journey into today's forever.
© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
9.9k · Aug 2011
Happy Days
happy days are here
now go **** the messenger
'cause the beat's too much
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
7.9k · Nov 2011
Ode to the Zombie
Perhaps the zombie,
in all his uncanniness,
is truly the definition
of asymmetrical anthropomorphism.

Perhaps the zombie,
with his slow shuffling gait,
is really the word
when it comes to unbridled determination.

And perhaps the zombie,
his hunger bottomless,
is indeed the very picture
of a man who can have it all.
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
7.4k · Mar 2012
Marsh and Cope
Marsh and Cope
lovers locked in embrace
took it upon themselves
to make each other great
by destroying what they had
all the while
mapping new life with old bones.
© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
5.5k · Mar 2012
Out of Touch (10w)
It's been a year
(and a half)

*where are you?
© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
5.3k · May 2012
One Moment, Please
hold on, it's coming
be ready, it's almost here
too late, now it's gone
© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
5.0k · Mar 2012
Differentiate Impression
Differentiate impression
to understand the question
that guarantees concession
of alternate force of will.
Adopt a Metaphor:  http://hellopoetry.com/experiments/adopt-a-metaphor

© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
4.8k · Mar 2012
Synthesize Pride
A test is nothing more

than:

one man's way of gauging

another man's way of calculating

another man's way of thinking

all so pride may be synthesized

in forms of correct and incorrect

put to paper for someone's satisfaction.
Friends watch with real wonder
taking the high ground soon
just as sure fingers silence wrongs
seen in the dark.
© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
1 poet,
0 thought;
Wordy,
Often
Reaching
Deep,
Pens
Obdurately
Excessive
Mi­ssives.
*with a wink.

© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
It's not the haze of the early morning
taking up your side of the bed
that tells me it's time to pretend
you weren't here again last night.

It's not the gaze of a silent songbird
peering at me through the window
that tells me it's time to act
like I don't know who you were.

It's not anything I can pinpoint
or explain, convey, or describe
that would let you know how much
I wish this wasn't so.
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
Lying eyes
disguise goodbyes;
the Honest ones will tell you.
2.6k · Dec 2015
my happiness tonight
snow on the leaves
and
leaves on the snow
frost on the moon
o'er
a red and green glow
the evening is silent
whilst
I trim up the tree
a warm fuzzy fire
and
Vince Guaraldi
hot cocoa in hand
I
look out through the glass
and softly reflect
on
Christmastimes past

this is my happiness tonight
© 2015  J.J.W. Coyle
It's a special kind of ******
what makes you shake like this
and yer feelin' quite certain
that you're seein' red curtains

so

"*******!" you exclaim
and then you pop a vein
and you rage and shake a fist
because you're just. that. ******.

but

In the end it ain't your doin'
to the people that yer screwin'
and everyone can go to hell and
hey! — yer just the one to tell 'em.
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
2.3k · Aug 2012
Dirty Limerick #1
There once was a man named Munn,
whose wife in bed was no fun;
but the horrible part
is when she would ****,
and say, "Get off, I'm all done."
© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
2.0k · Oct 2021
Weekend Haiku
man with a bandsaw
incredibly obnoxious
7am, ****
© 2021 J.J.W. Coyle
2.0k · Aug 2011
Coffee Shop Thoughts
Copious amounts of lava
seeping over the table
steaming mugs of java
cutting off the cable.

Rara Avis is a Latin term
no sneakers for me today
eaten by the Conqueror Worm
during the month of May.

******* drugs
and Sugar Twin
white punk thugs
chasing Rin-Tin-Tin.

Rainbows of black
babies howling out loud
guerilla attacks
a huge raver crowd.

Windshield wipers
with ribbons attached
little sticky diapers
and gates made of thatch.

Alphagetti monsters
smoking a jay
card-carrying punsters
greasy burgers on a tray.

Cute cotton *******
on lithe little nymphs
disappearing shanties
owned by drugged-up pimps.

Rhymes gone bad
a little cash in my pocket
hanging at the pad
and watching Davy Crockett.

People eating doughnuts
***** up on the beaches
hips that do the low strut
and blood ******* leeches.

It all comes down
to a single final thought:
was the Queen's big crown
really traded for a ***?
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
Be Not Bitter in Thine Writings,
for They Be Most Wondrous Things;
Catacombious Monstrocities,
Though You May'st Conceive Them.
Words Stray'd and Pluck'd into Near-Woven Dressings,
Gone Fade with Thine Temperament—
These Things that You Shrug and Forget!—
Shall ****** Adventures unto the Intrepid,
Kind Caretakers as yet Unknown to These Days.
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
1.7k · Dec 2011
This Ain't Really It
It's Christmas Eve
and here I sit
drinking a drink
and giving a ****.

The mistletoe's hung
way up in the air
on the semi off-chance
that you'll give a care.

With stockings and trimmings
and **-hoes and tree
and candies and dandies
and gifts not for me.

So welcome to Christmas
a wonderful time
with tannins and balms
and lonely red wine.
Seriously, I'm having a great time tonight. Lit three ways from yesterday's Christmas tree. Just goin' for a feel here. Hope all y'all in the Hullo Poetry World are doing the same. Murry Xmasses.
1.5k · Mar 2012
Intentional Disarray
I occasionally
skip a beat
just
to watch you falter.
© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
1.5k · Nov 2011
My Cat's Goodnight
My cat howls at night. I sometimes wonder why.

I don't think it's 'cause he's lonely.
The door is open a crack and he knows how to get in.

Maybe he's going deaf. I heard that can happen.
"They howl real loud, like echolocation."

Or maybe my cat is a mutant.

All I can tell you, when he starts up like that,
is when I call his name he stops.
And comes into the room.
And jumps up on the bed.
And starts to purr.

So here's what I think—
that maybe what he's doing,
when he howls like that,
is scaring away the monsters so we can sleep.
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
1.5k · Jun 2013
Eat A Star
Pure shadow, breathing;
seeing the question in your embrace —
     the color of heat...birds in a secret storm.  

Let's  be  tight.

Weak legs.

A crazy shine.

A dry catch, safe;
love's stone a spent breeze —
     laughter's lot...short emotions that needed to rise.  

Gentle sounds.

Closer.

Eat a star.

Minds died, began;
cool facts giving way —
     later...night's secret covers the skin.
...for M.C.

© 2013  J.J.W. Coyle
She's looked, you speak, finally, yes;
Dancing the talk of a child...
Hearts strong shall fight soft,
Falling, young, set, and sorry...
Held, they gave peace.

Soft music and falling leaves.

She's spoke, you look, finally, yes;
Knowing she heard sad in a bright laugh...
No reason, her mouth at peace,
Her eyes bring dear hell;
Lost, there is no longer a longer.

Snow brings the cold.
1.5k · Dec 2015
Beguiling Winter
beguiling winter
clouds waiting idle and calm
moon and sun argue
© 2015  J.J.W. Coyle
1.5k · Apr 2011
That Scent
It was a last late night
late last night
and your perfume has lingered.
1.4k · Apr 2011
Grim Death
what's this, my good man?
I dare say you are quite wrong:
you are not Grim Death
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
1.3k · Oct 2011
Out (In a Literal Sense)
Hellz yeah!
I wanna do that!
It'd be a right gas
and
the night is young!

The best part will be:

...waking up in the morning?

Pfft. We should go here.
But
He can't.

Lame.

Movin' on -
Hey!
Dude, it's gone.

Y'know it's not right.
Dude, it's gone.
Yeah.

****, that stuff is nasty!
Does.
Not.
Matter.
Movin' on!

Out?
Need it.
Call it.
Got it.

Safe.
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
1.2k · Nov 2015
The Therapod
You'll never know a fairer pod,
Than when you meet a therapod;
For a therapod will care a lot
And doesn't want to scare a ***.

So if you chance to meet a therapod,
Don't think that it's a terror pod –
A therapod is a rarer sod,
Unless you meet a pair o' pods.
Feels a little forced, but I still like it. Happy Dinovember!
In the end,
you've only managed to pull the trigger first.
And yet,
knowing full well the consequences,
I struck on,
hoping that someday my love would fall true.

It was my mistake.

How was I to know
— a man bereft of possessions and purpose —
that you
— glorious, important, so very very tired —
required more than:
                    a single glance,
                              a sidelong smile,
                                        a tender touch,
                                                  a silent moment...

These things no longer exist,
or, at least,
if they do,
I have no idea how to find them with you.
1.1k · Jun 2015
Hide & Seek
in the misty wood
hoping I'll find you
smiling from behind the trees
© 2015  J.J.W. Coyle
1.1k · Jul 2016
I Have To Go
It's not that I want to leave,
it's that I have to go.
It's not that I don't love you,
it's because I love you so.
It's not that I can't tell you yes,
it's that I have to tell you no.
It's not your fault, or mine, or his,
but still I have to go.
© 2016  J.J.W. Coyle
1.0k · Aug 2011
Frinigh in the City
Whomever
Whatever
Whenever:
You'll never win.

Anyone
Anywhere
Anytime:
Many ways to sin.

Underneath
Overpass
Inside-out:
Ride it 'round the bend.

Converse
Immerse
Reverse:
Disperse it to the wind.
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
950 · Mar 2012
10 Word Poet (10w)
My excuse?
                            —  I
                                  never learned
                                  to write a sonnet proper.
© 2012  J.J.W. Coyle
949 · Jun 2011
2010
Wasn't she the best ever?

I was always impressed with
her wit
her beauty
her intelligence
her charm.

It's too bad you never got married, eh?
I had a bit of a crush on her too!
She was a cutie.

I bet she was a good kisser, huh?
Was she a good kisser?
Do you remember kissing her?
Was it nice?
Pretty nice?
Are you worried that one day you'll forget what it was like?

Wouldn't that be sad?
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
936 · Aug 2011
The Other Guy
I walk the miles,
ruining smiles,
people throwing stones;
I find the hours,
failing powers,
spiteful hateful man.

A lazy man,
adoring fan,
watched God with pride;
yet his lord,
wielding sword,
slices low and wide.

Ice-age glacier,
species erasure,
nothing here for me;
I am above it,
I am summit,
I am Lord to thee.

Bow before,
come adore,
all smitten by my grasp;
death to all,
'gainst my pall,
striking as an asp.

And still...

I walk those miles,
body piles,
bearing a disease;
I am true;
Lord to you,
it is I you must appease.
899 · Aug 2011
My Day Is Done
My Day is done
and all is calm;
the sun goes down
and the sky is long.

The breeze picks up
as night comes to play;
the branches a-rustle
for the leaves they display.

The woods they sparkle
'neath a darkening hue;
a veil is falling,
as if on cue.

Thus I sit so quiet
near a gnarled old tree;
thus the shadowed woods
are calling to me.

I'm at peace!
The first in a while;
for my Day is done
and now I can smile.
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
895 · Apr 2011
Going Through the Motions
Wanna try a kiss?
Yes I think we should
Take our relationship
Where a relationship would.

Wanna get a room?
Wow that was fast
But I'm all in
If you think it will last.

Breakfast at noon?
I suppose that's just fine
As long as we go
Where I usually dine.

Living together?
I'm a bit unsure
Your stuff's already here
It was kind of a blur.
© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
I'm all squinty-eyed this am (A.M.)
with a certain je-ne-sais-quoi
here,
in my brain,
today.

Strumblin' about, trippin' on stuff;
My body responds not as it should!
I'm in dire need of coffee or bacon or toast or ELECTROLYTES
(my friend assures me this is so).

Hands up! Who's all broken?
and disjointed
                         and confuddled
                                                     and hell — bedazzled!?

The sparkles in my eyelids won't go away
and-
I've-
had-
the-
hic-
cups-
since-
last-
night.

What a great time tho? I think...YES.

Later that day...
— Happy ***** Times!
830 · Oct 2011
Tit for Tat?
I'll never understand
what could possess
one to tell one
that they have no skill?

How do you not know
that they know how to do
things you could never
master yourself?

And what if they ****
at math or soccer or
just being social
and stuff?

Maybe they have
this awesome innateness
that endows them ability
to rock your wife's socks off?
There's this thing that I think
that I thought I once knew;
but the thing is I think
that I ain't thunk it through.

~

Perhaps this is old,
perhaps this is new,
this odd little thought
I thought I once knew.

~

So I sits and I scritch
and I says to myself,
"Sort your wits slowly,
like plates on a shelf."

~

Maybe it's big,
perhaps it is small,
this odd little thought
that I cannot recall.
w.i.p. - There's so much more I want to do to this.

© 2011  J.J.W. Coyle
762 · May 2012
The Shower Is My Refuge
The Shower is my Refuge
hidden home to unfound thoughts
each drop an incandescent ode to joy in the sunlight
floating up
and left
and right
in the sunlight
these are my lives
each one more necessary than the last
each one recounting the lost stories of imagination
each one timeless and insecure and fragile and tiny

The Shower is my Refuge
with curtains drawn on my private stage
a hot haze of steamed applause
where each member of the audience is required to dance
and the echoes of my voice can be heard
o'er the tumultuous rapture of this orchestrated flow
soft and yielding
hard and battering
until the waters have ebbed and my time here has passed
so cleansed I step into a new world

The Shower is my Refuge
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