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May 2016 · 540
Eratated
John B May 2016
I pay my rent on time

I put up with incompetence

I get this all the time

I guess I should be used to it

It puts me out of my mind

Invaders come to scrutinize

The quality of care

I've paid to castle fair

What Lord won't hold a feast

But host an inspector?

Never in kind
I've been here for a few years and you build the place with cardboard, you have a ******* problem with anything? seriously **** with me right now, I could accidentally **** you with a flaccid **** twitch I'm so on edge.
May 2016 · 378
F U
John B May 2016
F U
Fake unary

Falling under

Flatterings ugliness

Frothy usury

Forgoing unity

For use
Furthermore (your) unattractive

Frankly (I'm) uninterested
May 2016 · 311
Were I A Criminal [I'd]
John B May 2016
I'd have the woman but not the love

I'd have the smarts but not the wisdom

I'd have the finance but not the security

I'd want for nothing

I'd have nothing I need

I'd have nothing

I'd be empty
"And oh the fight to fill oneself, so easy to misguide" Lucy
May 2016 · 404
Composet
John B May 2016
Rosemary

Honeydew

Honeysuckles

Buttermilk

Homemade

Honeymoon­

Forgone

Fireworks

Forgiven
May 2016 · 293
Has it occurred to you
John B May 2016
Perhaps preventative measures can be harmful in and of themselves, as they deprive us of much needed experience.
May 2016 · 518
Magnets
John B May 2016
How the **** do they work?

Seriously?

We know if then sure but not why!

Does that not bother anyone?
May 2016 · 359
Trump v Clinton
John B May 2016
We the people lose

There will be talk of War

But you drink the water

You will wallow through grudgingly

And show that you are absolute slaves

No longer able to acquire your freedom back from the corporate masters

This boost of confidence will be costly

As hydras Ego grows as does its avarice

As does its boldness

To all you who haven't found means to live outside the system

Or better yet to siphon off of it

I genuinely hope you rot and die

For what harm you do in your cowardice
For the sake of Humanity's very survival, let it be visible, let it be violent, let it shake the sleeping giant, untill it wakes we're in for it.
May 2016 · 247
Humans!
John B May 2016
Stop ******* stupid people

I know it's easy and fun

But it makes more of them

That's an issue
May 2016 · 255
Dont Act Confused
John B May 2016
I never told you to forgo skill for luck

Simply not to forgo luck for skill
May 2016 · 341
08
John B May 2016
08
If we look to the numbers

0-9

0 & 8

Beyond that

629, 62529 & 6252529

But not 69

Can you think of any others?
Comment...
May 2016 · 181
Got Any plans?
John B May 2016
Crying in my beer.
"Don't do that brother."

Why not?
May 2016 · 305
Loud As a Thousand Volumes
John B May 2016
She diligently reads every word that I write

Yet she remains silent

As I overanalyze everything

Silence

As I pour out my soul

Silence

As I beg for an answer

Silence

As the world has never been silent

My insides writhe in violence

Yet here I'm sitting

Silent
So what did I expect?
May 2016 · 251
Mothers Day
John B May 2016
The worst day of the year

To be torn up over another woman
Obviously I try to act normal but she can tell; she digs it out to understand.  She's sharp, but her memory isn't what it used to be, and having to fill in the blanks on things she should remember may **** me....
May 2016 · 194
Forever
John B May 2016
Do you promise?

I know you're unsure but I'll believe you.

Even knowing how bad it will hurt

When we find out you were wrong

I'll buy in and give my all to the ignorance

For the memories of something magical

Impossible

Eternal love
She once asked me what I wanted her to say, she must have known I was asking for too much, if only I could have put it in words, we may have had a laugh and not a schism.
May 2016 · 239
Tears
John B May 2016
Wretched festering

This poison liquid in my eye

Salty acidic dihydrogenmonoxide
You know she does this to you, why do you pursue it?

Not it, its always there she just brings it out to be dealt with, give her its pelt as a matching hat and jacket!

What he said.

Which one?

Right?
May 2016 · 276
Tell it to the Mic
John B May 2016
I got this feeling that I cannot erase

You're something else I cannot face

Because she was everything I wanted,

And that's not a lie

And as my cup runneth over

I could have been alright

She deserved to date princes,

And it cuts me inside

To know that she's chosen to be an abusers wife
Please consider me an alternative to suicide.
May 2016 · 340
Retitled
John B May 2016
My dealer came and went

We talked about the war

I read 100 poems

It only scratched the sore

My mind keeps playing music

My ear is to the door

It plays upon the tension

Of my heart down on the floor

I know I'm not a mastacist

I know you're not a *****

But I would give up anything

To see you once more

My heart strings played by telephone

This ringing in my ears

My drug of choice before me

I can't squelch the flow of tears

I don't want a taste

It's clear to me this pain insides for you

So I won't waste it

Should it do you good

I'll suffer worse than wounds

If it would make you smile

I'd pluck out my eyes

I'd gouge out my ears

But the rain itself would be your tears

They soak my tired shoulders

Is it in my heart or in my mind

What can I cut to free myself

I can't leave you behind
I was born for the end but if you were a zombie I'd seek a cure.
May 2016 · 377
Not So Common Sense
John B May 2016
"A" is one

"A couple" is two

"A few" is generally three

"A bunch" is certainly more
May 2016 · 271
Serious
John B May 2016
Just now and for the first time ever

The lightlings calls have pierced my essence

And I feel not sick but better

Oh what lays behind this message
May 2016 · 357
This Poem is for You
John B May 2016
Passive aggressive message

Flaming cuz I feel slighted

So slimy I speak in riddles

Small so I don't name names

Nothing has ever been my fault

I always cast the blame

If you're heated by this poem

It's a stab at you

Feel ashamed
You're garbage, seriously, folks like you, collectively.

This was inspired by someone sending me veiled threats and making vague insinuations over pm, then getting banned before I could see the name or figure out what I did, all very vague, I see poems that are direct attacks on people, we are writers here, we have that in common. If you don't like someone give them space and if they attack you ignore it, leave them to wallow.
May 2016 · 288
Two Saith The Oracle
John B May 2016
As our sun finally sets on the orient

We will learn immutably

That most painfull of lessons

Man keeps forgetting
Ha Ha Ha
May 2016 · 245
Morning Tokes
John B May 2016
How do I keep up appearances

When as dreams break

I'm not quite sure what I am
May 2016 · 274
Spring Has Us Sprung
John B May 2016
What of spring?

That it brings fire to the hearts of men

Is it the stars in the sky

Or

The songs of birds courting

Returning Persephone freshly in mourning

I've hidden alone in my cave

Far from spring time and still

I'm a fool for the lady's inuring

Slack from my chest

This marionette of heart strings

Played with in passing

No tuppence given for time or trouble

Worn out in that way only free things do

Salt of the earth this Patina entombs

A heart that was meant to be given to you

Yet this poem was meant for the spring time

It's true, she will miss it I'm sure

But you got it too
John B May 2016
She held my heart like a peace of fruit

Took a knife and cut off the bruising

Took a bite and began confusing

Sour taste for wanton roots
Discarded waste left on the ground

Still all it wants is you
Apr 2016 · 662
Spider and the Fly
John B Apr 2016
A spider sat and waited upon his tower high

For death to come and take him

Or for prey to come and die

When in the dark of night his home was shaken by a fly

The spider says "I thank you"

"You will give my children life"

The fly says up to the spider

"Please oh please just end my strife"

The spider says back to the fly

"Should I could to spare your life"

Says the fly unto to spider

"I am not afraid to die"

"My life is spent in circles"

"In decay I'm left to writhe"

"It is no mistake"

"Not happenstance"

"Luck has not the right"

"I am prepared to be entombed"

"I chose to die tonight"

The spider took a final look upon his meal to be

Says the spider to the fly

"You are braver far then me"
Crunchy!
Apr 2016 · 218
Inside
John B Apr 2016
I don't like to feel to think

To think the feel has leaned my inkling

To feel my thinkings wreak of feelings

I don't like to feel I think

I don't feel I like to think

When I think I feel like drinking

When I drink I feel like thinking

As I think I feel the meaning

Dreadful pains inside I'm screaming

Stop the feels

Stop the thinking

Stop the hurt

Can't stop the bleeding

Restless eyes can't stop from seeing

Through the tears I have this feeling

I will never be done thinking

Grave the thought of life's toward healing

Faint the itch of scars still reeling

Seems like my thresholds hit a ceiling
Apr 2016 · 839
Big Words
John B Apr 2016
I use big words

You use big words too

Big words help me communicate

Complex things to you

But as I am reading

The things that you write

I see communication as far from your sight

Instead it would seem

At the core of your plight

Is a need to be valued

And that isn't right

For the value in words

Exists in their content

Content obfuscated by all of this nonsense

I'd just hope it's clear

At the heart of my fear

Is thought I'll be scorned for verbosity
Apr 2016 · 343
A Feat Indeed
John B Apr 2016
You claim to see me

When I cannot see myself

I'm sure you had meant something

Guess it can't be helped

I'd love to see myself

I can squint and fuss or bite

I just get light I once bumped into

Falling into my eyes
Apr 2016 · 611
Good
John B Apr 2016
We seem to be confused

About what good is

It's not of heart

It's not of soul

It's of the mind

Regardless of what man may desire

It's in actions that goodness we find
Apr 2016 · 323
Last Night
John B Apr 2016
I dreamed I could sing in two notes at once

My heart free to express itself

Words flew from my mouth

Like water over a hill

Putting less jagged shape to feelings

That cut me deep inside

A crowd gathered to hear me

Like a bird inside a zoo

But she was in the audience

It seemed clear that she knew

This was no performance

I hadn't chosen the place or time

Simply a victim of circumstance

With far too much on my mind
She asked for *** later on and I forgot what came before but it must have been stupendous, I was myself around her, comfortable, however excited and surprised by the change in gears, I woke up....
Apr 2016 · 365
Oriental Americana
John B Apr 2016
Necessity's amenities

Simplicity and clarity

Like the air on our skin

Forgotten until the wind blows
Because Panda Express
Apr 2016 · 415
Snub
John B Apr 2016
******* ducking

Never ever clever

Just evasiveness

Cowardice

Not a facit of wit
Apr 2016 · 376
It's Alive
John B Apr 2016
Aloof fool toiling on 22s

Torrent in toe

Tangible branchable bearings beset

Animus stagnent infact

Solution in stasis

Compacted it's stable

Refracting the bable

Encoding the tables

Producing the key
Feb 2016 · 546
Angular
John B Feb 2016
On this rock not so far from the place where I sit

There's a women and she's thinking up a reason to quit

She's beautiful, cunning, able as youth

But she's lonely, worried, respite long overdue

She sits quiet with her friends, in her mind she pretends

She is the queen of the dead

Hadies lady and the left

She's the princess Udeit from grand luminit

Constable Griech of the Scotland Yard stretch

Nevermind the feeling like her harts gonna retch

She lays awake in her bed

Can't wipe the sleep from her head

Designs a spell to call a man to make her feel less dead

Spacetime was warped and hitherto he was

Not before her eyes in fact he came before her crys

Intact he slowly dies while waiting

For devine hands to stop plateing and present the feast in kind
Feb 2016 · 413
Morgana Le Fay
John B Feb 2016
It's been awhile but still

I wake up entranced

Stuck on your mannerisms

Locked in a dance with your memory

Like you could pop in any minute for dabs

Sorry my heart is so weak

I wish I could rekindle my inner fire

If only just to call you back into my life

To douse it again

Suspect that certainty

You cut me so deeply

By mistake

In passing
Only time will tell me if your fated to be a curse on me, a blessing hard earned or just a memory well burned into my mind.
Feb 2016 · 248
King
John B Feb 2016
"Can't we all just get along?"
R.King
Jan 2016 · 480
Skin Scarabs
John B Jan 2016
Grunge Sponge

Bake Ache

Grand Starts

Great Hearts

Death Foust

Life Louse

Grasp Flap

Run High

Let's

Got Light

Get Right

Too Fight

Those Mites
Jan 2016 · 423
Crucible
John B Jan 2016
Damp chill

Red lights from my clock shrill

Passed four by a hair

Feeling

Warmth on the mattress

A door slams as keys turn

I suppose you're not thinking about me

Afterall deeply

As I'm thinking about you
#spoken
Jan 2016 · 244
One Night Stand
John B Jan 2016
Liquid love

Warm crimson tongue

A night of fun

Then morning comes

Then mourning comes
I don't mean to stare

We don't have to breed

We can plant a house

We can build a tree

I don't really care

We can do all three she said
Jan 2016 · 370
I'm in a Hurry
John B Jan 2016
To get busy living

Or

Get busy dying

That is the question
Jan 2016 · 272
One Saith The Oracle
John B Jan 2016
In an age where history

Has become a mirror

Our shame will lead us

To an enlightened future
Ha ha ha ha
Jan 2016 · 254
Treasure
John B Jan 2016
No matter the climate

Uneaten

Ripe fruits rot off the vine
Jan 2016 · 330
Evolution
John B Jan 2016
Silly little Sally

Sings like fresh sriracha

With a zest for life

Her sour life is savored

Defensive acid

Spice

Adds flavor
"I don't like sour drinks."
Naota Nandaba
Jan 2016 · 241
Nothing
John B Jan 2016
Nothing to do

Nothing to chose

Nothing for me

Nothing but you
Jan 2016 · 292
Eye of the Tiger
John B Jan 2016
I don't want to be awake

The sky alone too much to take

I do not want to see the clouds

Their fluffy white too heavy now

I do not want to be alive

Maybe soon I'll take a dive
As if I'd ever be broken enough to fall in this joke of an arena
Jan 2016 · 1.6k
Unbridled
John B Jan 2016
Criminal justice

This riot will see the light

Good men in shackles

The evil ones hear their plight

Fire from good men

Like moth to the flame

Burns the evil out

Leaving a man in its place

Put a man in a cage and he's bound to go rabid

Hungry for freedom

The good men will plan it
Almost wish I was there to help, oh well I tried.  Guess some folks upstairs still know their *** from a hole in the wall.
Jan 2016 · 399
The Benedictions Aloof
John B Jan 2016
Let us sing of your sorrow over our glasses

Until all your past has been cleaned of the dust

Taken out for a walk and sat down in good trust

Even the darkest maledictions can be assets
Jan 2016 · 591
Don't Worry
John B Jan 2016
Not sure what I'm doing today

Got money in my pocket

Probably throw it away

It's all the money I've got

That gnaws at my brain

But the stern compulsion remains the same
Easy go, easy come, a posteriori, so don't be dumb.
Jan 2016 · 346
Crap Shoot
John B Jan 2016
Roll the dice

Don't think twice

Life or death on these streets

Wrong or right

Shoot first and ask questions later

Larger the *** less patience with the trigger

It's a contest of luck and greed, wits and speed

They blast as we pass

I guess the game's on

Dropping deeds
Jan 2016 · 521
Club 33
John B Jan 2016
Never always ever after also echos fugue endeavors

Foust ends before the dawning heavens

Carousing flout with dry umbrellas

Cloudless sky masquerade showers

Left us soaked in lust for hours

After ever always never fugue endeavors echo also
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