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Charles Sturies Aug 2017
Neither one seems highfalutin
not worried whether their salads have croutons
and the myths surrounding both of them,
and that tear 'em apart, they'd both seem on the mend.
Discussions seem pertinent
not about the latest street merchants.
Topics include climate change.
I wish everybody would drop the subject
and be satisfied with the climate as it is.
It gets to be a haze
with the problem suggested to be the public
as if we just aren't with it
if we don't care to talk about it.
The election meddling?
I don't know what was said
but there was probably someone outside heckling
and in the meantime wanting a med.
They discussed aspect of war
maybe
but not so much, I bet who they're for
and they didn't make casual remarks like save me.
This topic was suggested
just like the Spiderman poem.
I did my best with both of them!
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Charles Sturies Mar 2018
Lyle Lovett might not agree
he might have a degree
in accounting
as far as buoyancy
Toy with me
Killer
but let me be
in the end
and I'll seek as you Ann Miller
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Nov 2017
He's lost in unsweetened choc-a-lot
down at the latest shop-a-lot.
Let people talk-a-lot.
We'll (was as in I thought I was his secret pal once)
Just mock them-a-lot.
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies May 2017
"I'll get by as long as I have you"
"Willow weep for me"
Time after time"
Boney Marone
Yeah Mike Barone too
and yeah the song a lot from Runaround Sue
1- song by the Sports
2- song recorded by a number of people, I believe, including James Brown
3- same as 2, above

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Charles Sturies Mar 2018
Especially Pence
They claim to be conservative
but they're giving away
the taxpayers' money
in torrents
just like Democrats do
They might have cheated
with the Russians to get elected
but everyone knows communism is our arch enemy.
****** harassment -
there shouldn't be any place
for that in today's politics.
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Jan 2018
Rapture in Muscogee
Perfection down by the courthouse in your hometown
I'm square so bear with me,
as I would wander about
Tiffany's and Company
and how it has to do with Southern Comfort.
Nothing like southern hospitality
and just iced tea with a realistic amount of sugar
and there's nothing wrong with those who devour a ******* for a snack
rather than a kosher roast beef sandwich.
I'm not implying this is a ***-crazed decadent country,
only that I use the excuse of being a square for
a turned on ***** mind sometimes, in my opinion.
Yeah, the movie Splendor in the Grass, though
and the sublimity of the TV show Felicity.
Long live alacrity and profanity, too
and the perfidia
of proclamation general.
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Aug 2017
No one looks like Bozo.

One I thought looked like Emmit Kelley without makeup but I really don't know how that is.

One looks like a humorous orderly in Mount-Sade.

One looks like Magpie, a little movie scene whom I think might have a great Native American seeing her right there in the picture gallery of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

One looks like how you'd imagine an African-American Wyatt Earp would look.

One looks like that mafia I saw in Sport Magazine once where he was in a crowd at a major league baseball game and somebody yelled **** the umpire and it showed him pulling a revolver out of his zoot suit coat pocket.

One looks like a humorously very windy African-American man like Bill Cosby might have looked to some.

Motley Crue they're not.

Roocoo trying to trip on kerosene fuel they're not.

This group of fellows are funny without being snots.
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Mar 2017
Sanchez and Frazier sound like keys
Tate and Judge got me on my knees
Though
They know so much about Torre’s blow
Five ‘o clock high
And Greg Bird is hitting one
into the sky
This spring training
what with late afternoon day games,
not reminding me of veteran
remains
and even Mason Williams
could be used
even if Aaron Hicks
blows a fuse,
there.
All is fair . . .
Charles Sturies Apr 2017
Sanchez and Frazier sound like keys
Tate and Judge got me on my knees
Though
They know so much about Tree's blow
Five o'clock high
And Greg Bird is hitting now
into the sky
The spring training
what with late afternoon day games,
not reminding me of a veteran
remains
and even Mason Williams
could be used
even if Aaron Hicks
blows a fuse,
there.
All is fair...
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Jan 2018
Garvin
Garvey
Garvin
We're starving for Marvin
as in Hagler
Let's snag her
"You gave your promises to me
and I gave mine to you.
You gave your promise to me
and I gave mine to you
Love is all around us
So let the feeling grow"
1- a pro basketball player
2- a music professor at the U of I
3- a pro football player
4- a famous boxer
5- lyrics from the song Love is All Around by The Froggs

Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Jul 2017
I don't think so
in little bits
the Milky Way Bites
and the new sweetened diet drinks
Bit of Honey
and Peanut M7Ms
unique little candies
the bits of sugar in them
made my teenage crushes
gone bad broken hearts
mend
and even had enough of them to lend
Yeah grains of sugar
even when less
reminding me I like
to think I have a sister Tess
to them is like me
"living dangerously"
Granted she's the latest scourge
but she necessarily makes me gorge
when I need a sugar ix
due to diabetes
or needing a quick burst of
energy as too a fix
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Apr 2017
Brooms
made room for me
to hear a tune
and remember Daniel Boone
King of the Road by Roger Miller
where he says
2 hours of pushing broom
made me think to
write of a simple, mundane
thing like the broom to me at least
and how the broom could
be a best friend of mine
as for a seeking out work
pushing it
Enough said?
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Jan 2017
I'm looking forward
to getting more CD's
cozy, nice Christmas gifts,
Illinois basketball is blooming
a batch of my poetry
typed up by one of my caregivers for me to read
Rejoicing in the social aspects of Christmas
as some Muslims do
Reading a couple of easy read books
Enjoying the cold weather
(I like it cold rather than hot)
Doing some rewarding activities here in the hospital
Sending out Christmas cards to old friends
Pertinent emails to and from family
Timely phone calls from them and back
and the signing of Illinois football recruits
and the Yankee hot glove league
December is my favorite month
mainly because that's when
Illinois can win some ballgames in basketball,
mainly non-conference
Charles Sturies Sep 2017
I don't know whether it's a deadly sin - I just can't help it.
Just you, cool black Jew in a way, you'll do
Tjose tight-fitted legs
generate ,y mind
as I anticipate marriage
and my thighs on yours.
You nice breath
will enable me to anticipate
a nice Italian beef dinner.
Your go, Yahweh, is similar
to us Muslims' Allah
so it'll be spiritual, too.
Maybe there will be
more modes than that.
Then we'll e down
for an evening on TV where you
explain to me
the significance of MAS*H
or the Beverly Hillbillies
or as we watch a DVD
what's so hot about Tom Hanks
I didn't change with the times
but my **** will be hard enough for you
I bet.
Cheers
(I could follow that one a little, though.)
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Sep 2017
Looking in on
Jack the Giant Killer, the movie
and nestling my head right
into your shoulder dear

I arouse you,
I bet,
from time to time
but you arouse me back
such that I want to have you
But to all concerned
a VA psych ward
is not the appropriate place
for a love tryst
in my opinion
but let's let
nature take its course
and anticipate some prolonged
foreplay.
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Charles Sturies Jan 2017
Splotchy lipstick
from there at the piano,
I know you're not a
"rooch" as they say, and a *****, of course
but high class
But I cant' help but call myself a
male "rooch"
and a male *****
and you're obviously
not a *****
You look kinda daring and come hither
in the face a little sometimes.
What I'm saying is
Young Lady
Opposites sometimes
do attract
and I love your voice
Let's get together
in the tether
and wax heavier
and heavier
and write letters
and know what it means
to be "more better"
Charles Sturies Aug 2017
Your lithe figure,
nice and boney,
makes you bad to the bone.
You have those high legs that stride,
not pigeon-toed,
not that that makes that much difference,
you're so tastefully dressed,
and you have one of the most beautiful faces
I've ever seen.
Hell yes, I'd like to do the town with you,
have you make me fudge
and popcorn
every other night for a while,
and have us check out
this new and improved TV,
(that is, except for the same old
boring sitcoms,
except for Big Bang Theory, a little bit)
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Jul 2018
What inspires me to write poetry-
A disstressed spirit looking for
Culmination
What inspires some people to write
Prose- they see details as a way
To tell a story
Songs- melodies swim around
In some peoples head
Also I write for therapeutic
Reasons which I've already said
In one of my works just like some
People write prose and song for
Therapeutic reasons
Some people write because they
Think they have a message to convey
To their ideal listeners when they
Converse or to convey a
Message to what is known as "people"
I guess they mean open minded every-
Day people
Some people write because they're amused.
Some people write for sentimental
Reasons.
Some people write because
They fell they can see beauty where
The average person can't.
Enough of this
I'm back to square one when it
Come to what inspires people to write
Poetry, prose, and song.
Charles Sturies Aug 2019
To you Kelly,
bravo for your success
just as much as newly
reminding little ol me
of the finest in even newly
and teaching me him
to read a poem by Sherry
you smell so good.
your regure is exquisite
and you're probably at home
in the hood.
Your face has such grace
you as witt just wouldn't roam
and you probably know what is a kirutz.
you're such a pretty girl
I'd love to smooch with you
without haste
love, Mr. Charlie Sturies
Charles Sturies Jan 2018
Back to Arizona
the procession goes
no more of a bona
than king stuck in those caves
It just goes to show
everybody has their very own favorite fave
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Charles Sturies Jun 2018
I'm not funning
About you being stunning
And I have no cunning
About you
And having heard of Jim Bunning
I'm just running
Off the mouth
About gunning for you
When you're much too young
Much too unsung
And maybe never been flung
Off
Toffer
See!
Charles Sturies Jan 2018
Well done flapjacks on both sides
reminds me of the mellowness of both of your skins,
dark maidens.
Throw in a throwback
to retaining the exotic dark hues you exude
in a true way.
I can almost smell both your nice scents from afar
and see you both like a genie arising from
a mysterious potent canister.
Lady M. - Yeah you also remind me of Sen-Sen.
This post is a gas
with you in it
My two dark ladies, you're quite the classy ones.
You wouldn' t even sin if for you both
there was something in it.
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Nov 2019
You alert me to when someone is
trying to put me down and tell me what
to do.
You buck me up with a secret signal
body language wise when you can
tell I'm depressed.
you know I like to speak but
it doesn't have to be first.
You know I admire you.
Like I say I like your odor or what
I imagine your odor to be
and your clothes and your build
I've already said
finally I like to pretend
I have someone of the opposite
*** like you specifically to rely
on again.
Charles Sturies Aug 2019
you alert me to when someone is
trying to put me down and tell me what
to do
you buck me up with a secret signal
body language wise when you can
tell i'm depressed
you know i'm relieved to see you.
you know I like to speak but
it doesn't have to be first
you know I admire you.
like I say I like your odor or what
I imagine your odor to be
and your clothes and your build
I've already said
finally I like to pretend
I have someone of the opposite
*** like you specifically to rely
in again.
if I entrust you with your
gut feeling about such and
such what would you do?
if I let you know that I apming well
influenced you to the nta degree what would
you do?
if I let you snow how you can fall shoelessly
in life easily like me what would you do?
If I let you know I love your bluntness
with me about aspects of me what would you do?
if I let a slew of people know that
i'm impressed with their taste inspire
of them being name preppy and socall
compare maybe what would they do?
if I let Donald Trump know i'm envious
of his snacking out his neck for the U.S.
what would he do?
when a medical professional might let
me know that "that's not good" about
connecting "wrong with me" and that all about
me do I still consider them as reassuring
me that they're concerned about my in
ground health?
if I got "secret pills" know that I feel
there's awesome love retrilen us what
would they do?
so much for that
Charles Sturies Jul 2018
Regard me.
Don't discard me.
My garb clothe me in
But just let me measure
with a wife
The size of my notebook
And I'll be again at the exit to Altoona.
Now Allentown
I don't know exactly
How to get to it
But I can just offer a urlentine
For every ***** I could love who lives there
As I guess I am now
Yeah the broadway play Hair
Charles Sturies Mar 2018
No I don't think you're the Wendy
the hamburger stand is named for
and I know when we think of
Wendy's we think of Wendy Miller
but you are on the night shift
here on this ward have the
kindest, nicest Mona Lisa
Smile I've ever seen.
You might not resemble her elsewhere
in this face but that smile sure
reminds me of that Mona Lisa.
I think there's a country song
that I thought reminded
me about Mona Lisa losing her smile
that reminds me of yours
yeah some of us look so benign
in the face we feel we could never be
dangerous as in trouble
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Charles Sturies May 2018
I'd stub my toe
If you'd blow
The glow
Right out of my flow.

I'd puff and stuff
If you'd bluff
On my Fluff
And leave me gruff.

I'd prpulate
If you'd coagulate
And leave a demilitarized zone
For your horses that roam.

I'd be difficult
If you'd discover that occult
In my tote bag
So my duffel bag wouldn't sag.

In passing
I'd just want a kiss
A not to my sis,
And a chance for us to do the fist.
Charles Sturies May 2018
I saw you on James Corden.
I liked your lime-mirange outfit.
It fought, yes, the boredom.
(I know, i seem fascinated by life,
But i still wouldn't handle it
With a knife).
I needed to watch it -the show
I needed a person like you just as much
As you Diana your mother.
I just wanted to be reminded of it like sometimes I feel there's
No other
Passion
posit - traction
Relaxin'
When there's a tax-in.
(It was around April fifteenth.
My money goes stright to
Don Monteita).
Just kiddin?
What's ripplin?
So the story goes
As sting says,
Just lookin in
On TV Land.
Is that such a sin?
Tracee-
You're better that Macy's
And your clothes have nice laces
I don't mean to be racist.
Charles Sturies Jun 2017
Uncle **** was soft and kind.
My brother-in-law ****
is smart and on time.
My mother always said I was good looking
'cause I looked like
**** Tracy.
I say both me and him are too
tough looking and hard
and yeah the real Tracy (whoever it is)
is one of the most beautiful
instruments I've ever heard.
Tracy's Theme
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Jun 2018
Don't it by in it,
Belt a car even especially
Steel does anything but heal
And you'll miss more than a meal
And if it's waves
You might never heal
Charles Sturies Aug 2019
Tristan,
probably Christian,
probably know the system,
and probably like
Lawrence Fishborne
not that he's ugly and that's iconic
that beautiful hair
would like whom I'm implying thought is ugly
Lawrence
since summary people
think like attracts like.
I don't know what i'm saying here
for you'd think
if a hippie looking chick like her
would like one if those rude dudes
with a lot of hair.
me have a cute nickname
like Pobje like to think
I'd probably about that make a stink
not that I'm what is know
in ministry circles as a stinker
I like to think I'm a thinker
though
but maybe I crave Tristian
I probably shouldn't
since I see myself an ugly home runt
so no one I probably should envision.
Charles Sturies Jul 2018
Giant crackerjacks roll
Down the highway,
A huge christmas ornament crashed down on it
And I'm about to flip
I think
So I won't make a big stink
About what I see
Even i it's on TV.
Yeah the fuzz
Will do something about time.
I hope not
I just want to be let be
To willow in my sorrow
Charles Sturies Jul 2018
Tall, slim striking brunettes,
Striking redheads,
Short, pect chicks,
Slender, sassy looking blondes
Saucy little redheads with freckles
Especially,
Blondes a Marilyn Monroe,
Handsome blondes like Maria Schell
And Eva Maria Saint,
Portly, kind appearing women,
Shy, introverted, inviting looking sexually,
Intellectual looking, black chicks
Whose looks I like who usually wear
Glasses and "Finally" which who remind
Me of my 2 sisters
Charles Sturies Jun 2019
Dream merchant
for the red man
squand, maiden,
come back from the
formica cracks
to lend a bear
like me
to where I wanna be
in the tetons
in yellows to nf,
down on Stone Mountain Creek
there's a brake
who says wrong turn,
you have much to learn.
I will go with you,
young lady
as you back him up,
sweat that your white boyfriend
won't get upset
and have a jolly good time
and not go bereft
Charles Sturies Jun 2018
Keeping you loyal,
Not letting you boil,
Or worry about toil
Is no foil
For me
But a chance to pay my fees
And set me with this goal
Of feeling glee
And not playing the roll.
Charles Sturies Jun 2019
Names I've heard of certain
men associated with modern music
Jerry Wexler-had something to do
with Ketha Franklin

Bernie Taupin in David Geffen-
could berated with Elton Jon on
propuncing soke or his hits,
Nat Hentoff-jazz critic for down
beat jazz magazine
Holland Dozier, and Holland-Composers
if many Motown composer
collaborated with Harvey Fuqua and
later Johnny Bristol, I believe
B. Hobgood, a James Brown band
member who collaborated with Brown
In many unique good hits,
so much for that.
Charles Sturies Jun 2019
To one of my new "my girls"
love entanglement- not to the old-
I'm just putting you on hold



Our legs get tangles
we try to pretend we're tough
and up to *****
motioning maybe
wanting to for their motion,
irregardless of whose conching
at the latest railroad crossing
but we're just tossing
and turning in our sleep,
wanting to be more yearning.
Charles Sturies Nov 2018
I imagine Kathryn Mcphee as a crocheter.
I imagine Kyra Sedgwick as cooking
Divine tuna noodle casserole.
I imagine Liz Taylor as being a good
Crapshooter
I imagine Brandy as an expert in  making
Chocolate layer cake
I imagine Tina Turner as a collecter
of rare beer bottles.
Charles Sturies Jun 2019
Down the Street,
to the left of the Burger King,
to the right of the McDonald's,
above the Wendy's
just beyond the Culver's,
lies a body
of water,
a lake,
there to try to take
on the way to Boston
beyond Providence,
coming
from Philadelphia and New York.
confused?
that's the East Coast-confusing?
Charles Sturies Feb 2017
Create.
Be Sensitive.
Look good in the face
Dress up to date
Have a nice build
Have a great personality
I tell myself
I want to attract somebody really nice
if I'm to get married again
Even if I'm already 72 years old
I worry
I fret
I scurry about
waiting for someone to particularly tout
I may seem all out
but with 2 older sisters
I know
how women
discuss about
catching Mr. Right.
I want to be someone's Mr. Right
or flight
the blight of being uptight
and just get out of my sight
with all my might
with no more fright
and attempt to take it light!
But I love being uptight
and wallowing in my pity
but in right now
I wanted to go see "Sul"
but if I burn the midnight oil
worrying about being married to a real dish
then my toil
over termites or sumpin 1
without seeing
the Olde Miss
in women
won't get me
what I probably desire-
a woman like Rumpken
2
and along with "it"
a nice house near a forest preserve
where there wont' be one fore fit
What I'm saying is I'm  looking for Miss Right
and if I don't find her I'll
go into hiding
but I probably should actually look for
someone I'm compatible with,
if that's the rule of thumb.
1-whatever that means
2-the nickname of a "for real old female buddy
Charles Sturies Jun 2018
Hidden money,
Hidden Cigarettes,
***** sweat socks,
Neat articles of clothing
You didn't know you had,
Shoes you had forgotten about,
Especially bedroom surprises,
Books you've been putting off reading,
Wadded up colored funny papers
From old Sunday papers and their Sunday
Papers right there, some rotting
You name it, you can find it
Including ***** plates with spoiled food
And ants collecting all about them
Or even a dead mouse, stuffed from
The spoiled food.
Charles Sturies Jul 2017
Hold on.
Don't mess your water.
You do everything for spite
including help your dead father
even though
you feel that's drearily trite.
An empty feeling
I usually have
lacking love
even for my dead father
Empty is an understatement.
A misrepresentation
of an undertaker making a statement.
No program
No musician programs
could twist
my arm
in the name of love
That's how I feel
about what is my lack of zen
about being full of love
like so many other people
I hope I'm wrong
about my lack of zeal
I pray to Allah
I'm wrong!
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Jan 2018
I like to think
I was born with a sense of humor,
maybe not like the Harvard Junior!
But enough to qualify as a zoomer.
They used to call me here at the VA
because of my loudness, I guess, boomer,
I still feel like a ham
but I get serious now because of the jam
I listen to
and the qualities in me that exist too
like a bit of cynicism,
a bit of skepticism
and even a little bit of a sickie in me, too cool.
-Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Sep 2017
I liked professional wrestling at one time, but mainly because I thought the names Rick Flair and Andre the Giant has a nice ring.

I liked kickboxing when it first came out.
Home plastic, right?!

I just loved Treasure Island when I was reading it as a little boy and like either Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn, whichever was the easy one - at least for me - I think it was Tom Sawyer and I found Huck Finn hard when I started it - too hard for me so I stopped that chore, to me.

I hate to read, but yes, I think it's good mainly for just little old me I think I'm so (as a friend called it) im-po-tent.

I think it's east to like the Yankee in baseball, Brooms Brothers in Ivy League clothing, and Land Lubber and Britannia in jeans.
It is, isn't it?

I like barflys. They're loveable to be with to me and their base baby faces and a certain inseams, fake or not, I think.

I practically say in my writing that I like all underdogs irregardless but I've found at one time or another some Jews to be offensive, some blacks obnoxious, and some Latinos hateful.
That smacks of real hypocrisy, right?
Enough of this.
I'm just spouting off,
I guess.
Charles Sturies
Charles Sturies Aug 2019
John Drill,
hiding atop the brill building,
afraid of being thrilled
by the cousin bill,
make out her will
and then least
down to the ground
only to discover her now found
mounds by
atop a wooden marijuana
hacher!
how far out
that I didn't turn this
into some ***** minded some
about Joan getting reigned
in the scene
at a taxi cab stand
underneath the ticket ****
by tape worms.
Sicicok ****!
Charles Sturies Jul 2018
Maria,
Cleanse my message
And let  her know
This has nothing
To do
With Tom Seaver
In my opinion,
But being in Dutch
With Ike Futch,
Old time colorful yankee farmhand
I guess,
You bet.
Charles Sturies Oct 2018
Biteable lips
Nice wool order
Nice breath with a hint of basil
Subtle , exotic perfume
Come close,
I like your sigh
I think she'd call me butch which
I've been called before,
A shy, dirt redhead or
Strawberry blonde - I can't tell the difference.
Charles Sturies Sep 2019
I don't know if anyone
looks that qualified
I ko know
that rough parts of my
poetry might qualify.
and an occasional charity card
is worth saving
just in case I become famous
and go back on life for fun
and the used wrappers
let me know that latest paper back is right for ***
and the rest of the stuff
insane for men
even Ken can old daycare apartment with
and add in a pocket full of miracles
too.
the parse water have
you fine for periodical
come in clear too
and warm
Charles Sturies May 2018
It occupies my time,
Opens up new visits,
Gives me a chance to interact,
Yeah the refreshments.
And a chance to win something,
Gives me a chance to share,
There are funny people,
You can kid around,
There's reminiscing,
Mind twisting,
And it's educational usually.
Charles Sturies Oct 2017
The all-around beauty of Brie Larson
The sassy rascally *** appeal of Shaun Robinson
Yes, Charlize Theron's dignity
Yes, Courtney ***'s nice smile
And oh those legs of Olivia Newton John's
The raw beauty of Melissa Claire Egan,
The joy of life that Jane Fonda exudes,
etc.
Charles Sturies
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