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Apr 2021 · 274
Counting
John B Apr 2021
44 grams of cereal
225 grams of milk
+ An unweighed dognut
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Apr 2021 · 108
Untitled
John B Apr 2021
I had a killer sequence

A formula for words

I came here to imprint it

Like raw metal found to shape

I came here to refine it thinking this would be the place

I forgot the melody

I forgot the rhymes

I forgot the feeling
And
I forgot the lines

I stood a gasp in wonder at what this place became

From A poetry journal with endless pages to a stupid political games

To the muses of my life
And
Inspiration wasted here

For all the venting done
And
Energy invested here

Another wave has come and the waters aren't so clear

I remember when the site creator tried to get my ear

I remember what I told them

A warning made quite clear

Of course they did not head it and the consequences reared

It's stunted growth a factor of its early brooding years

Now the complications surface from the damage done before

Things take a time to rot and die but stop and smell these shores...
Not sure where I'll back all this up but I think it's time I backed all this up.
Jan 2021 · 92
I Screamed
John B Jan 2021
She was there but could not hear me

Pain welled up inside

I realised why she was there

My eyes hung heavy but stay wide

She waits her turn with others

I truly start to cry

My whales shake the building

I want us all to die

I scream away the earth

I scream away the sky

I scream away the heavens

A new sun finds my eye

It's warmth is that of comfort

A reassuring embrace

One does not look at the sun

I have seen no face

The earth moved around me

The house I see no more

If this worry isn't for me

Someone better save the *****
Getting between me and my goals makes you an enemy. I don't care how viable you think the mission is. If I'm going and you get in my way that's being an enemy. Being my enemy *****.

If you send me home saying you got it and don't do it. That's treason. Traitors are infinitely worse then enemies. Enemies are a fact of life, often just as honorable, simply at cross ends. Traitors are ****...
Sep 2020 · 132
sinew
John B Sep 2020
Unto Caesar what is Caesar's
Give the devil his due
As above so below
If not by us then who
Jun 2020 · 97
Keyspin/Oldways
John B Jun 2020
Shoes in hand
Ready to go check the mail
I tried to put keys on my feet
My eyes crossed
Vission blurred and head spinning
I reeled back in my seat
I groped for the arms
I figured "oh that's a bit strange"
I was ready to think only of the keys
I was ready to take on tunnel vision
To avoid the terror of what I'd glimpsed

Last night I walked into the wall
I had turned out the light in my room
Standing on my phone in the dark
For however long it takes
To finish conversations
Turn on some music
Forget orientation

The light from my blinds
In the tired of my mind
Cast on the wall a line
That reminded me of home
Just a step and I'd be there
Must have remember where I'd been
My nose struck textured sheetrock
"What stoped me?"
The usless part of me retorts
Image of the thermostat burned
Itching in my periphery
Probobly Indigestion...
Jun 2020 · 112
Open Mic Right?
John B Jun 2020
Crazy?
Maybe, or at least so you say to me
Hazy days phase me?
You've got a ***** loose not me.

Drugs?
Sure, my baseline state is baked
Do I struggle to concentrate?
My visions another vibration yet

shrugs
Where others quest in dreams
I've long allready been
Where acid whispers plans
Who asks just where they began
When mushroom people walk with you
Do you ask them?
Who they're walking with too?

****.
No, I walk with the vision.
I speak with the venom
Cuz I fear no evil
Not in past or in present
why do you?
Are you some kinda fool?
Don't imply an insult, that's foolish.

"Demons can't stand scorn"
Paraphrased from CSL in the preface to Screwtape Letters

Were you a fool?
Jun 2020 · 151
My first pet exorcism
John B Jun 2020
I dreamed I was pined under a table

Fighting a daemon who had taken my brothers cat

A fleeting moment of sanity struck me and I rebuked it

"In the name of Jesus" in jest

So taken aback it stopped in it's tracks without breath to laugh

I watched it react, retract, and redact

From combat to convent

In mind and in body

The tables had turned

"In the name of the almighty then?" Who's names I've long known

Trying to be modest a feint of a smile I'd shown

With prey before me my heart is quick to be hotted, though

It's eyes locked with with mine in a bleak stare, it nodded...

A visible aura of evil passed from the creature

And If its color was any indication

The demon wasn't all that bad
None the less, my household is off limits, pets included...
Jan 2020 · 78
Today I
John B Jan 2020
lifted my phone with purpose

Brought my eyes to focus

Searched my mind for context

Gawked blankly at my phone
Sep 2019 · 97
I'll Never Forget You
John B Sep 2019
A long awaited meeting set the mood for a dream

Only intrupted by a piercing scream

I never could place how that came to be

Waking up again without you beside me

We walked on stardust and enchanted the sky

Nothing quite as bright as the sparkle in your eyes

Supose that maybe why I never realized

That sparkle was a tear and you were trying not to cry

Now I see it clearly as it's spelled out on the floor

Her blood spilled in cursive

"I don't love you anymore"
Jul 2019 · 578
Maypole
John B Jul 2019
I'd act as your maypole
An utterance to stir your soul
Meh day at your whims
Say we have gone riding into the echos even throughout the lowlands

The minstrels bello and promenade
Causing youths to parody
Meh day at your whims
Say we have gone riding into the echos even throughout the lowlands

Within and surrounding the loch
Monoliths reach from the heavens and take root
A parcel yet afore we arrive to bare witness
Honest decades passed now we shall bare witness with joy
In A day meh paramour our party will show and you will know we have arrived at your call

I will burn it into meh mind
The energy of your shape across the horizon
And the heavens beyond
Say we have gone riding into the echos even throughout the lowlands

Within and surrounding the loch
Monoliths reach from the heavens and take root
A parcel yet afore we arrive to bare witness
Honest decades passed now we shall bare witness with joy
In A day mah paramore our party will show and you will know we have arrived at your call

Flowing with nimbus a bird of pray scours midgaurd
Caught in torrents a mariner catches fleeting glimpses of midgaurd
Bird of prey stiring air the torrents becomes untenable

Inch toward shore and grasp it to understand it's only soil
With the potential of our end millenarian revelations come within our grasp
However faced with dread nightmares and the vastness of time

I'd act as your maypole
An utterance to stir your soul
I'd act as your maypole
An utterance to stir your soul

Within and surrounding the loch
Monoliths reach from the heavens and take root
A parcel yet afore we arrive to bare witness

I'd act as your maypole
An utterance to stir your soul
Meh day at your whims
Say we have gone riding into the echos even throughout the lowlands
Within and surrounding the loch
Monoliths reach from the heavens and take root
A parcel yet afore we arrive to bare witness
Honest decades passed now we shall bare witness with joy
In A day meh paramour our party will show and you will know we have arrived at your call
Yes
Jul 2019 · 152
Dashing
John B Jul 2019
Dastardly diehard downs dark draft
Ardent adventurers admire affectionately
Solemnly sure something serious stirs
Here handling hunger and homesickness
Ideally in ignoble inns
Not noble nor negligible
Gently grinning ****** gaucho gotcha
John B Jul 2019
An enigma wrapped in a hard taco shell
The musical based on the movie based on the novel based on the misical by Elton john's second cousin's former room mate Bob Obviously...
Jul 2019 · 105
Harlequin Romance
John B Jul 2019
Cutely holding cards to their chest

Ones I've already seen

Tho to follow such bluffs would foolish

A smile would mark me as mean
Things done for birds are often for the birds because bird brained birds trained birds with bird brains.

Not saying don't do it! Just remember what's sane...
Apr 2019 · 188
Ribbit
John B Apr 2019
It's not like I'm a joke

For all the time I've carried this

The feeling of hope

As the sensation of wariness
Jan 2019 · 132
Earth
John B Jan 2019
Double point of the human spirit

Without the strength to live

Without the strength to die
Jan 2019 · 166
Wire
John B Jan 2019
Something so simple

As a straight line drawn by nature

In the distribution of flora

Can be like a touch of magic

For better or worse
Why are all the trees dead here?
John B Jan 2019
****!!!!! Atheists, Protestants, **** Zoroastrians, Jews a spectacle, Muslims are filth, Catholics can't decide if they're mono or polytheistic and Mormons are an theocratic metanation.

I guess I could summarize by simply saying that organized religions are garbage as ****, but that would not properly bring home the point that not one of these ******* is above of my tongue.

**** Rastafarians, pagans and heathens, Buddhists think numbers over a thousand or fake. Sikhs carry swords so I'm not going to badmouth them it's not that I can't just that Sikhs carry swords.

I guess I could summarize by simply saying all these known religions are garbage is ****, but that would not properly bring home the point that's not one of these peoples cannot be made fun.

Shintos and daoists, yes you scientologists, Hindus and shamans I don't give a ****. You're making a serious mistake by taking philosophy from such a narrow outlook.

I guess I could summarize by simply saying all known formal religions fail in this way. but that there are still ways you can fail without crossing that line just take a quick look at AA.

The fact of the matter is nothing can really replace introspection and serious thought, so if you have felt like there is something missing get right with yourself and **** anyone whos not.
Loosely set to turkey in the straw
Sep 2018 · 197
The you for me
John B Sep 2018
Mourning of mourning to miss you so soon

As the warm womb of hope softly opens her tomb

I crawl deep inside as the you for me dies

And we wonder if this is our doom
I wonder if she made it, never know unless I wait. Perhaps it all seems dated but I'm an old hand at twisted fate.
Jul 2018 · 307
Breath
John B Jul 2018
Bounding breach

Rather rough ride

Entrancing elucidly emitting epiphany

Actually acting artfully allright and

Tho those that think they took that

Hype here hook hand

Hum how he had hoped

Tripe toddler tip toes

Ample air arranged

Exceeding effort enough

Rather rotten

****** broken bent
Brakeing rhythm even after the hex
Jun 2018 · 174
Silly
John B Jun 2018
Never underestimate

The folly of mankind

Allow yourself to bask in comfort

Knowing torrents come

Not to batten up the hatches or run

Just playing games and having fun
Untill the storm comes

{Apparently I've got to move by the 15th, think I'll play videogames and mess around with unreal 4 today)
Jun 2018 · 300
Like a sir...
John B Jun 2018
Hark, hear me! I spin the tale of a squat dandiprat residing within the cerulean sphere. Sunup to sundown suffering visions of cobalt. As he was inside and all around.

Sky abode! Likewise periwinkle aperture and icy steed. All is azure in his eyes, personally and interpersonally, as he lacks ears to hear him.

I am turquoise non lexical vocables

I am teal non lexical vocables

Behold my beryl lodgings and indigo casement! Such is the tone of all my vestments. The roads and flora follow suit. Lo my sweetheart also Sapphire.

Like the plebeians as they Promenade, as my steed. It is within and throughout. My utterances and perceptions, the operative stirrings deep within.

I am royal non lexical vocables

I am ultramarine non lexical vocables

Most Central and public.
Sky abode! Likewise periwinkle aperture and icy steed. All is azure in his eyes, personally and interpersonally, as he lacks ears to hear him.

I am turquoise non lexical vocables

I am teal non lexical vocables
I'm blue, dabu dee babu die...
Apr 2018 · 600
Overriding Sagacity
John B Apr 2018
With a snap of my fingers

The fourth wall brakes

In a drop of the lights

I bow for the audience

Saying goodnight.
PSHAW DIM WISENHEIMER GESTALT

YOU ARE A TRIFLE RIPE OF PLATITUDES
Mar 2018 · 225
Slander
John B Mar 2018
Sangha saccus scroll scribbles say

Laboratory labourisms leakances legitimatize lavatory

Another actuality altered although abominable

Newsworthy notifications never naturalize, normalize

Dangling doomed decay depressed duressed

Entrepreneurial endeavors erased encased, evapotranspiration

Reason reserved, ridiculousness returned, ritualization
Unjust Because
Jan 2018 · 548
Colloquia
John B Jan 2018
Tone set by a sun hiding

A king weeps for good men dieing

Clash of steel your exotic melody

Shout and squeal as a choir

The symphony blaring

A wave hits the door to his court

Blast open

A stave of wood anchors his foot to the ground

He hadn't planned on moving anyhow

He stood with a roar

Readying shield and axe

Not for combat but show he thought

None the less proud

He fought hard

Bringing countless men down

Broken weapons and ****** wounds

The body pile stacked around

Eclipses once grand steps

To the last throne worth sitting in

Held still to this day

By the last king worth sitting in it

Holding tightly onto those

His broken weapon and mortal wound
Dec 2017 · 301
This Harem
John B Dec 2017
May this harem commence

To the beat of my empty chest

We'll best any challenge beset

Without regrets or frets

In the style of Bassett

Melancholy

Missing something
Transition
Dec 2017 · 247
Boobies
John B Dec 2017
Forgive me for rambling

Lost in a haze

****** on the oil

Eyes over glazed

No pain on the outside

Slime inside writhes all the time

Generating my power

But it's chiseled my glower

Now I stopped smoking flowers

Just awaiting my hour

Still bidding my time

For reclaiming what's mine

Until things unwind

It's a good thing I'm high
Bloop
Dec 2017 · 234
No World = Order
John B Dec 2017
Blasting caps for the gigaton bomb

Size of king kongs forearm
And twice as long

Overkill is an understatement

Sometimes you just need to know
It's gonna get the job done
You can't buy manpower for a job like that, But people who believe things are dangerous... #NwNoThanks #Mama do you think they'll drop the bomb #too long to be a hashtag. #shamelessly making a longer hashtag just because I think it's kind of funny that hashtags are even a thing while simultaneously ignoring the tags section blow notes in the editor.
Dec 2017 · 404
Each Lament In Descent
John B Dec 2017
Grape seeds stacked

Like rounded things shouldn't be

Slightly cracked

In ways you can't unsee

Plans for Vineyards

Cider from trees

Gathering dust

Becoming debris
I miss you
Nov 2017 · 220
Dating advice
John B Nov 2017
Grapes are good but wine is better

The older your wine more wet it'll get her

The longer she's wet the more she will need

The longer you are the more she will plead

The bigger it is the more it will please

If she asks for seconds then more you should bring

Now aren't you thankful you learned good cooking
Nov 2017 · 652
Unsolicited Advice
John B Nov 2017
Ask not that you be followed blindly

But lead by example

To be followed for its virtues

In this every follower is a leader

Providing a template for success

By succeeding
Oct 2017 · 219
H
John B Oct 2017
H
Harrison hangs horizontal

His hangover hating him

Horrendously heaveing

Hideous hit he had

Horrors hover

However holden his honor
May 2017 · 326
Śramaṇa
John B May 2017
Level with me

Slay the elephant leaned

On the mezzanine door

Let the pachyderm bleed

Wash us clean with the truth

In a shower of pink

Yes our roots go deep

Our fruits can't take seed

But they taste so sweet

Over ripe, in need

To be carried free

Too become a tree

As strong as we
May 2017 · 274
Come What May
John B May 2017
I don't want to be rude

I don't want to intrude

I want a Starry Sky

And warmth at night that has your smell

So in this interlude

While I toil with attrition

I work on a me your mine in

And hope he finds you well

I tried to keep the wavefront coming

Close to scare but never there

I fear that now I've skipped the shore

To see what comes

Your nevermore

Washed away in wake of pain

The cards say that I've not but gained

I never came at you with games

But here afoot, I'm a winner
Apparently...
Mar 2017 · 449
Blocked
John B Mar 2017
What changed

You never had anything bad to say

We spoke so little and there's nothing new

I fear he's doing this not you

Its strange you don't tell me

Last we spoke you promised not to be a stranger anymore

But I'm blocked on everything And its got me low

How do I know that your breathing

How do I share those feelings that explode from me

Not here among the rabble

If not for my pet I'd have gone home

I just want to go home

But she would miss me like I miss you

I'm not so selfish.
Id glass this rock faster then you can say "what now?" If I was so easily swayed but if its her I want a why and if its him I want to see him suffer for decades. So to just suddenly no longer be a habitable planet. It does not pass. I'm angry and hurt. Mostly disappointed. Ready for war with our world but hung up on a girl.
Dec 2016 · 529
The New Age
John B Dec 2016
In a previous patch of the simulation

Anglo-Saxons were the only humans

What you know as an ethnicity is homogeny of a race

Our blood was dominate and we were ashamed

We knew the loss and mourned it

People knew then door is synonymous with portal

It was taken for granted over time

The grandeur of motion

We move only the one way in time

Probably backwards based on our speed

Our galaxy the same it seems forward regardless

We also move through potential but that's another story

As we progress we take more and more for granted

Become more confused by new things

We don't understand the fundamentals anymore

Is it possible to go back?

Can we recover our eye for the oracle?

Survive what time has in store?

One way or another

Lets hope for Aquarius
So the patch is delayed. lets not pressure them to put it out half finished. It will be better when its ready.
Dec 2016 · 304
Worthy
John B Dec 2016
I need her but I'm not needy

I love her and she thinks I'm fake

Just not sure what I can tell her

My still trying's no mistake
I am unworthy and she's unready. All in so how to raise the stakes. I don't suppose she knows my investment. all I can do is appreciate.
Dec 2016 · 307
Shmoe
John B Dec 2016
A state of being

A petite girl so cute and bubby she deserves an equally precious descriptor.

I met this girl at the show who was just so Shmoe turned me inside out and I want some more.

{sush-mo}
Something me and and once good friend came up with. Like early high school late middle school.
Dec 2016 · 706
A Moral Suicide
John B Dec 2016
Numbered in our instincts is the truth of natures right

Slow our chosen poisons wrought with agony unkind

Known within the moral wrong of cutting short a life

Beginning our own torments to temper tantrums might
tobacco, alcohol, food and stress, make a slow death.
Nov 2016 · 304
Joy
John B Nov 2016
Joy
Joy is found and joy is had

Never lost and never drab

And you may think that's not so bad

But I think of it as rather sad

Like a child new to hurt

Appalled someone feels different

We live in a brutal world

But pretend harm is distant

Blind to pain or just plain ignorant

Joy is delusional and indignant

Frankly mirth or myth

A content man could do to part

With focusing on long term happiness

Prepared for all the random crapyness

Acknowledging that folks cause havoc

For fun and profit or just because their good at it

As an island, self sufficient

Find happiness and practice dwelling in it.

Maximize but know it's finite.
Like anything it takes practice, no magic just a skill. No acquisition just accomplishment. Some things are our of your control but nothing is beyond your control. Time is the only limiting factor and life span is not the limit it once was.
Nov 2016 · 375
Quantum Existence
John B Nov 2016
In a world of nobodys and somebody's

I'm ether a nobody trying to be something

Or a somebody pretending to be nobody.
Its not so bad, just lonely.
Oct 2016 · 606
ska
John B Oct 2016
ska
Ska is dead it died with the 90s

Bliss we burned for December 99

I loved the sound of a horn with the snare drum

Joyous anthem of celebration

Sharing honest recollections

Unafraid of doing harm past its candy coated tone
Lock me up, and throw away the key, there's no use in hiding her from me, I'm far to swift and far to keen but that, you'll see, the only chance to save her is to ******* me, I will perform the courting dance and play the song of my people loud as war drums outside of her house, untill her court and vessels come out, my sword could spit them with a joust but I want the approval of your counts and clowns, you can try all you might, I can suffer slings and arrows like the bravest knight, I can dance and sing but best of all I'm free, and I've chosen to spend my fall and spring in the process of persuading your father the king, to let me buy you a ring, but with a planets core sized diamond I am sure he will be kinder, then he has been.
Sep 2016 · 342
Friction
John B Sep 2016
I touch lives like priests touch alter boys

Hungry like the wolf

For a taste of chaste ****

Tugging at the hem of freedom singing

You wouldn't be my first lesbian~!

"But would I be your last?"
God willing, I consent....
Aug 2016 · 250
When I'm Gone
John B Aug 2016
Folks will talk about how much they miss me

Not bringing to mind

That they knew were to find me before now

Yet

Admittedly

Haven't seen me in ages
Jun 2016 · 293
Blessed Be
John B Jun 2016
For every sentence you found

That stole pieces of me

Blessed be

I'll cherish the pain

like a hot summer breeze

Blessed be

Until you see fit

And return them to me

Blessed be

If you never submit

In a lifetime or six

Blessed be

I'll be here contemplating

How I could become worthy

Blessed be
You deserve better, better than him, better than me, one day you'll see.
Jun 2016 · 261
Wrap
John B Jun 2016
To grow without limitations

One must have sufficient support

To never wonder how tall they have become
Jun 2016 · 621
[Rant] understanding [Rant]
John B Jun 2016
As of late I have been told an excruciating number of times, by a couple types of people, that they do not understand me, these people are often in positions of power, between me and some goal, usually I would wonder why they neglect to specify what they don't understand but I've gone so far as to enumerate and source my messages in point-by-point explanations, in about three messages I'm just pasting quotes from where I've already answered their questions, I've tried being "reasonable" for weeks in some cases, if only when I was obligated to try and make it work, bureaucracy has finally hit its boiling point, The Stanford prison experiment could be redone for office work, Forum Administration, and any number of benign micro powers, it's not just absolute power corrupts absolutely, people are absolutely corrupted by power, it's statistically quantifiable now given ninety-plus percent plea bargain convictions to say the only courts that still exist are kangaroo courts, there's no point in testimony or evidence, even our scientific community is learning from our governments, fixing things by definition, like the unemployment rate, yes 5% unemployment, celebrate while nearly 60% of people don't have jobs but I may as well being trying to discuss the *****'s in Germany.
It's not as though our Joker's are still honest, this just seems to line up with my feelings on the matter.
https://youtu.be/sacn_bCj8tQ

Also if you claim to not understand something for literally any reason other than not understanding, IE laziness, clownery, suppression of guilt, etc. Seriously how low do you have to be to not know of or have disregarded that little lesson about crying wolf, whatever the case it comes down to Common Sense, if after a certain period of time you still claim to not understand, your either unable to understand and should subside or you are under the impression that I am stupid enough to think I'm not making sense, given all of History's philosophers and the copious work on logic not to mention ontological understanding, I can state with near hundred percent certainty not only that I know what I'm talking about but also that you are a destructive force in the world and should be dealt with accordingly, now once again this is a problem with communicating to people in positions of power, so if you end up dealt with it won't likely be accordingly, it will likely be excessively, which is why I'd like to be uninvolved, such a difficult position to be in, tossing fuel and spitting sparks at a powder keg to convince others its safe and that they should take my place, rather Tom Sawyer meets Guy Fawkes, heck, maybe Guy Fawkes was just whitewashing the fence for somebody else.
Jun 2016 · 1.2k
Authority
John B Jun 2016
If you have authority in a field

You must acquire expertise

For if you scrutinize a master

From your *** he'll take a piece
Jun 2016 · 271
What tragedy
John B Jun 2016
To be queer as an Amber Spring Meadow

Yet heterosexual
Jun 2016 · 371
Withdrawn
John B Jun 2016
I have been pulling back from the internet.

It gave me a place to be for so long

As a child I was afraid

To make a place for myself

In this topsy turvy world

However this place

Is succumbing to sickness

A progressive illnesses that has faced

Litraly every technology of its kind

Radio and Television before it

They will not die

They will decay

Ever more slowly ever less valuable

Ever more costly

In innumerable ways

I can no longer give myself to this place

I need to make room on the rock for us

The web is coming undone

As the earth welcomes us

To be her friend again

Or leave.
Jun 2016 · 438
Preserve Trivium Education
John B Jun 2016
When a child asks you questions

While they are learning of this world

Never anwser them directly

Instead help them to test personally

To understand and see

This is logic!

Michanics, mathematics and reason.

But soon

They will find themselves privy to treasons

Liers and cheats mix with fools in deceit

With the tools of logic this is plan be seen

You must teach them the art of rhetoric

To stop those who would just cause havoc

For if the wise are Ill equipped

Our idiots will face the whip

Believing they deserve of it

The human beaten out of them

The monsters spawned left free to swim

Let this warning full sink in

For next my kin comes academ

The weight of fate!

In the hands of mammalia

To come up to speed

In the fridge of ideas

There you may study

Above all the turnery

To lift up our people

In rightness and honesty

Solving lifes problems

Improving its quality

For all who have yet to come
All I ask of the world!
  Is to follow not blindly but to lead by example and be followed for its virtue, in this every follower is a leader providing a template for success by succeeding.
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