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Apr 2013 · 843
I deflated my brain sac.
M Clement Apr 2013
Explosions in the sky
Wildfires in my eye
As I realize my composure's
Slowly dying

Alligator tears
And puppy dog fears
Bring the children
To the edge of madness

As I reside
A bedside manor
Filled with fears
Ghost stories
Lies

Break me down
Freddie Brown
And bring motivation back
Escape, Escape
Away I say
And Press Enter to confirm

I hope that someday
I'll write a hook
To please the great
Ear Worm
Apr 2013 · 1.2k
Cramps
M Clement Apr 2013
I mixed liquid nitrogen
With my *** juices
Now I'm cool as ****

Interested in interesting intellectuals
Bringing bacon back, bread-bringing *******
Alliterating alliterative allocutions allowing abusive acronyms

For goodness and badness
And for some ugliness
Here’s the facts and I’ll lay them down right:
I’m a ******* sorcerer
And I don’t finish lists

Irony in the ironical first-person
I left someone behind when they told me to
And now I’m better off,
Know this poem’s for you.
Every time I see your face, I really hope you’re doing well
But deep in my mind I know that nothing’s changed
And you’re still the same, as I’m trying to change
To be a better person than I was when we met
But it’s something that you never noticed, yet
Something inside of me says we’re polar
Opposites and what really happened
Was for the best, for both of us
So I still keep in touch with
Friends around you
And I hope secretly
That you fall in
Unending mercy
And that I’m wrong.
M Clement Apr 2013
I have 116 poems to read
And even fewer cares to give
I'm thinking less than 10
But greater than 9

In a sense, this is to say I'm sorry
I'll probably never read you
Don't take this the wrong way
I hardly remember to get on to write.
Maybe someday, when everything chills down
I'll be able to spend my day burning a cigar
Drinking in all your beautiful words,
Your wonderful idiosyncrasies
And every little feeling you leave behind with every single letter you type

But listen, as of now,
I'm swamped
Life is coming at me from all sides,
and if I weren't to make an excuse: I just don't give it enough time.
Take this community, and love me?
Actually do what you want, I'm not your boss.
Just know that I'm sorry for not paying attention
You're not a red-headed step-child
You're the family that lives far away
I don't call them either.
I feel bad, because everyone here writes so beautifully, and there's a reason I followed them in the first place; however, here, at university, I have *no* time. So, I pop in to write and be thankful for all those who enjoy what I write, but not much else.
God Bless, Guys. Sorry I'm not around.
Apr 2013 · 751
Drained
M Clement Apr 2013
I wish it would rain on my face more often
Allowing the water to wash my pores
And add more dirt to the face of a ***** child

I wish I could fall in the ocean
Off of a cliff (I hate heights)
But oh what a beauty that picture that would be

Jump into the lady that is the sea
And allow her to embrace me
A storm would embrace my body
As I fell
Plummeted towards inevitability
I don't even have to die
That's not necessarily the point

Embrace
Love
Care
While she may not offer everything
She offers a few
The Ocean

I could wash up on the sands
The cruel lands would dry me of all traces of her
And I'd be left staring at once was, rather than being in the thick of it
There would be times where I'd long for her touch
When I'd wash my hands
Take showers
Baths
Pools would be terrible

All imitating, taking a bit of what she was
And leaving me with a longing that would be immeasurable
Like her breadth and depth
Though science could always ruin it for me, I suppose
They tend to dry the world of wonder, or spark it
(Glass half empty/half full mentalities)

I would miss her heart
And how it beat as waves crashed
And when it rained, I'd remember the day
Where her and I became one
She welcomed me with embrace
The ocean and I
"Blue Ocean Floor", by Justin Timberlake, oddly inspired me to write this. I hope it's as enjoyable as it was to feel.
M Clement Apr 2013
I wish my hands were rockets
So I could see the show
Watching them blast off, whe'er they go

I don't really want them anymore
So to them I wave adieu
Well, I would if I had hands...
Instead I flop arms
Like a seal waiting for a meal at your local circus

I pitch tents
And people sometimes visit (read: never)
but a few have wanted to see the show
And see me bark
They probly honk the horn better than I

In the end of the day I pray for a sickness to leave my body
And to not struggle anymore
But I don't think that's really the point
I think it's a story about rising above...
I'm still at the ocean floor, though
And there's a long way up

but away from the dreary, let's focus on cheery
As I carve pumpkins in the shape of silence
There's nothing in April for the stuff in October
So I fold over a game of poker
For another month or two
Pour me a drink, Scottie!
A fifth of ***, and a shot o' her
Wondering eyes cut ties to those morals we hold most dear
None of you are mine, and I have little right to peer over as I do
But oh, do I
Wondering eyes are best plucked out by Ravens
Like that's so Edgar Allen Poe
Half Black females can squander careers... or blame
it on the *****... or disney channel
Spring Break, *******
Apr 2013 · 362
Can you tell me otherwise?
M Clement Apr 2013
If mental sprawlings were explosions
I would be very dead
Apr 2013 · 696
Trite
M Clement Apr 2013
You scratch my back,
I'll scratch my back.
Funny thing about my **** is it's on my front
Would you rather?
I would lather

I need to shave
Worse than shearing sheep
Norelco needs to hook me up proper
M Clement Apr 2013
Ultimately, whether function or form
inevitability strikes at the achilles tendon of
anything with a pulse

There's a **** in my hair
Choke it out with a hangman's noose of silk
Platinum, diamond, and gold
Elderly women scrubbing under folds

This disgust, contempt, and ill begotten logic
of false idols, impressions, and spiritual fog
Breaking backs of lambs for the feast
And watching them writhe and struggle

Darkness
And on the sunny side of day
There's Ice Cream in my Snicker's bar
Spider-Webs
Lowered beds
I wish they had wheels
So I could drive by night
Assaulting with dreams and wonder
No nightmares here
Just night mares

Walking along the sandy beaches
Staring at the sandy beetches wondering
Why am I here?
Right now, at this moment,
And why for the life of me, can I not escape the demons on my back

The worst part of life is the truth
It's the hardest **** to swallow
Fiber for the human centipede

I wish my wit were a tad sharper
And my **** a tad longer
I had a mental image of a thumbtack...
then I thought of my ****
I'm not that small, honestly

Mental webs sprawling on paper (?)
No, this is the computer
I'm just typing ****
What happened to the days of writing in cursive
to show affection to one far away?
In the end, we send an text to close another day
"LU Q T, ILL BE GON 4 2 DAYS"

In reality it's me that's gone away
No sweetie, no honey
No baby here
Self-pity party for the rather queer

I am not what I want
And I am not who I should be, right?
That's the reason I fight this fight?
I need to be better, I want to be better
And that's why I'm writing this
Letter by letter
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I know I feel it, but...
Apr 2013 · 1.8k
Dead by Dawn
M Clement Apr 2013
A werewolf in London
and a deadite in my basement
Ghosts in my TV
as Predators hit the Pavement

Engineers face the stars
On distant planets far
As Aliens bleed green
Leaving armor charred

The king of Lizards
sets foot in San Diego
With a Chupacabra
dwelling in Mexíco

Zombie Redneck Torture families
Say goodbye to the cashpot
Merman flopping forward, determined
A man's face really hits the spot

I have a hotpocket for lunch
And an appetite for destruction
Let's turn on the TV
And use it for one function
Mar 2013 · 878
Oceanic
M Clement Mar 2013
I search the shores of San Diego
Couples embracing
Rocks bracing against the wind
Lonely hearts embracing the
massiveness that is the Pacific, Atlantic,
whichever
I watch as surfers awaiting the next gift
that the ocean will bring
I watch the waves,
they fall into themselves like a man losing everything
And slap against each other like a man slapping his own knee
hearing something too comedic to leave be
I watch the birds as the encircle but a measly patch of land
covered in sand
and others encircle but a small, infinitesimal speck of ocean
I watch the pier stand firm in face of waves that threaten
the stability of the entirety
and people, like ants,
walk up and down the way
The infinity of the ocean is something that I take no part of.
Like a child that doth not wish to take part of a game in the schoolyard
I traipse along the sand
looking towards infinity.
M Clement Mar 2013
ah
gotdang
im tired of all these *******
not using proper grammar

for goodness sakes
this is brutal
i desire to capitalize
but in my minds eye
the goal was irony
irony for all the people who intend
and all who dont
to ***** up the english language
as many wont

its funny
im not mad
just be glad that we can type in the first place
and read and write
and understand and fight
for what we believe in whether or not we are wrong or right
in the end
this is for you dear vandals
dear robbers
dear crooks
robbing the english language of its odd sort of beauty
its backasswards
ridiculous
difficult
wonderful beauty
whether young or old
you make me squirm in the worst sort of way
i love you
God bless you children
because its taking everything in me
not to yell at you

instead
look here
ill join your ranks
i will mess up eery single grammar right
and do write by eery grammar wrong
no commas
one capitalization
no proper i's
and only one apostrophe
no quotations
no brackets, no parenthesis
no subtlety
only irony
and me writhing on the floor

bad grammar kills
This became drivel... I hope it's still enjoyable!
M Clement Mar 2013
Becoming what I'm not
And who I am isn't who I am
But might be a mixture of both being
and unbeing

Celestial lack of knowledge
Becoming learned by lack of sense
Watching birds on the porch
Pay the family recompense

Walking in a wheelchair
Aborted walk the earth alive
Amish on cellphones
There's something wrong, here.
I've never written a line that I've disliked more that "Aborted walk the earth alive". That being said, I'm not going to change it.
M Clement Mar 2013
3 days
4 months
5 hours
6 minutes
7 ways to make you say "ooh"

I bought pizza kittens flying through space
Find your advertising ***-hole on my shirt

Let's travel to Pacoima
I hear it's nice there
Left field relationships
Right behind the nearest Amusement Park
It's getting easier not to give a ****

Oh goodness, language, good sir
Let's me and me lay down naked
Bear's fur

I do enough self loathing for the both of us
Single-awareness
I've tried to keep vigilant
Self-******* for the hell of it
I spaced this one to the right

I take showers in flowers made of Novocaine and sea salt
I just realized the misspelling of lyrics and song names will never by my fault
Long lines of words and *******
Let's go to the nearest cineplex
Bottellas de vino y mas cerveza para mi!
Let's watch Jurassic Park in 3D
M Clement Mar 2013
Are we on my **** yet?
Because it's coming up
Conversation of time
six to noon
Innuendo
Ending up inside of you

It was going to happen
Sooner rather than
Lather you later
******* up with new
Ways to make pretzels

Carnival sideshow

We make *******
Confections
I REALLY hate Hot Topic, but the name of this poem came from a woman there who was rather attractive. The poem was not inspired by anything in particular.
Mar 2013 · 1.1k
I/finished
M Clement Mar 2013
I want my doctorate in English
And my Doc to be Mexican

Mixin' cans of paint as potion
Break fluorescent glowstick lotion

Orifice ******* quite ridiculously
Saying the OPQRS-for starting the next
Sentence

Spell out Cookie Crisp,
I poet with wands
Cookie wizards take funny jokes
For far too long

Black-si-can
Waxing can
Love me longer time

Cleaning off hair wisps
Off the top of the Tacoma Dome
Hell's riders are weak again

Break falls with Tylenols
And an entire tube of Tums
Wash it all down, a bottle of ***

Sickly suite suicide of all the ones
We deem young
Romeo and Juliet
The lady doth protest
Breaking pellets of Mydol
Off my hairy chest
I finished Alien Vs. Predator by Michael Robbins. This is a poem of mimicry.
M Clement Mar 2013
Take an anti-air gun to my brain
I'm higher than I kite
So put some holes in me before I reach the stars
Gang Wars
Low Drawers
Garage Doors
Storage Wars
Puff/Blow, Click/Clack, Scritch/Scratch
All the sounds made to satisfy cravings
Take another run of this verbal drug
I've heard it's called poetry
I'll pass the pen if you'll
Take a hit with me
M Clement Mar 2013
Scrap what've been saying,
Let's start over.
I'll be nicer
But you be wiser...

No

That's what I've been saying all along.
That's not really starting over, eh?
All right, really, now.
Let's do this.
I'm sorry
I'm sorry for swearing so often
I'm sorry for never respecting myself
And more than anything, I'm sorry for the downward spiral that I never stop until
It's too late
That's what I'm sorry for.
I'm sorry for my hedonistic tendencies, and I'm sorry that I forget about you
The funny thing about relationships is that they require both people working
...I haven't worked since I was five.
Child labor
Mar 2013 · 1.0k
(Native) American Flags
M Clement Mar 2013
Productivity is for the birds
So let's start the pecking order

Zoom like starships, did you know they were meant to fly?
Pop stars tell facts

Let's name my ****
We'll call it Mr. Richard
Too formal?
What about Mr. Pritchard?
I added a "P" at the beginning
P for *****

*******, Freudian holiday
A Holy Day of obligation?
I better stop before I get struck with lightning
Blasphemy
Passed to me
Last of me
Squeeze out every drop

Make sure you swallow
It's rude to talk with your mouth full
M Clement Mar 2013
Sit down,
Enjoying Jazz in a far away land of California

Smoke in hand
Let's talk scandal
Suit & Tie **** every **** day

I bet you money we could forget tonight
A dollar per shot, we could bet
I'll drink you under the table
Stick a fork in you, I'm done

Love you till I make it pop
You back, your legs, your neck

Grow a pair of Nine Inch Nails
Let's be men, **** it

This music ***** up my thought runs
******* all over paper creates weird art
I need some literary fiber or something

I tried to write a million things yesterday
But instead I almost committed ****** to the nth degree
Tunnel Vision
With a bright light at the end

Spiritual distance in a great cold miss-stance
Dance around poetry like it was flame
I'm trying to make it rain
Native American

Have you ever performed elephant oral?
You'll get it in the trunk
Mar 2013 · 919
The Canvas of Golden Linens
M Clement Mar 2013
I desire to frolic in land mines
Toxic compatriots desiring little past flesh

I talked like moving my mouth was compulsory
Word *****
Actual *****
Alphabet soup

Teenage mutant ninja hurdles
I think most of us have failed those
Switch my mind from off to on
But you can keep your ***** hose

Destructively productive
In all the things that don't matter

Pope brings glad tidings
Of what the Holy Spirit's after

Let's talk about ***, bay-bee
Let's talk about running free
Let's talk about all the mistakes we've made
Let's talk about Sexually transmitted infections
Let's talk about my music collection

20/20, John Stossel
I don't care if I get your name wrong
Justin Timberlake
Dances through your mind in a man-thong
Bringing Sexyback
Mar 2013 · 827
Unicorn Palace
M Clement Mar 2013
I walked through a park, today
There were a lot of trees
I walked in the park today
I started to daydream

The fog rolled in
As the trees stood listless
Not speaking, but being devoured
By the moss that covered their bark like
A terrible skin disease
The fog was oppressive
My spirit depressive
As the fog spoke
Telling me that nothing beyond it
Existed
No one lay beyond the fog
Experience loneliness
Mar 2013 · 350
In my mind (10 words)
M Clement Mar 2013
Thunderous explosions destroying
    Every thought that once existed with purpose
Mar 2013 · 385
It's been a couple of days
M Clement Mar 2013
I don't feel like weaving you a story in words
I don't feel like writing
I don't want to give you poetry to chew on
I don't want to feed you
I don't know what I'm doing now
I don't know what I'm saying
All I know is I'm not writing now
All I know is I'm not staying.
I don't know when the urge to write will strike me again, but it certainly hasn't recently. This was more of an explanation.
Mar 2013 · 699
Poet's Society of the Dead
M Clement Mar 2013
Neil's dead
He's been that way for a while

"I was good; I was really good"
Oppression

Focused on the scales of what makes poems great
Acting the entirety of life
Trying to be ok
Trying to let it roll off your back
You'll be a doctor
You'll be a doctor
You'll be a doctor

Was that hammered home?
That hammer home
The hammer at the back end of the revolver
Pushing forth metal
To flesh

He ended his life
Tears can't bring him back
No help from a doctor
Watched Dead Poet's Society... forgot about that harsh section of the film.
M Clement Mar 2013
I sit in the abyss,
       Screaming.
            There’s an echo.
       Am I alone?
Maybe
Mar 2013 · 461
Two Lines for Two Fines
M Clement Mar 2013
The prison of my prison
is my mind
I often forget things can be said with so little.
Mar 2013 · 696
Captain Mel
M Clement Mar 2013
I do the best with what I have
But I wonder if that’s enough
A call to sin greater than I can handle
I punish myself with misery

My own self-loathing,
The devil and I discuss
God desires so badly to speak to me
But I’m in the middle of a conversation!

Like a parent to a child
I talk down to God
Like the mouths of babes
Are not worth listening to

I know better
I do
I swear
I made four lines starting with “I” right there

I said St. Francis’s prayer without any help
My brain is better than I thought
God grant me grace and serenity
Fly me away from the Reavers
A pseudo attempt to bring talent into my own religious sphere. I feel like I should write more like this. I'm not really sure.
Mar 2013 · 2.0k
Stabilization
M Clement Mar 2013
The Kuwait Warriors are in my Jeans
My new favorite cartoon
Saturday mornings, sugar cereal, spoons
I use force to deal with the mentally ill

Prison gauge my earrings, brah
Psychiatric hospitals for playtime with myself

I can ******* to hippopotamus
Look to me like I’m amazing
I’ll be a living god

Not really, more flu shots
Put them in my eye
Sky for my eye and flanksteak for my heart
Give me all the Bacon and Eggs you have

I call my mustache the crop duster
Cuz I’m always cleaning bush with it
Blow a load
Of cash
On my body shots
Mar 2013 · 1.6k
Thor Has Sexy Teeth
M Clement Mar 2013
Another, another! My fine-feathered brother
Tie me to the post and set me alight
I read the many poems you wrote
Please gag me with a spoon

I expect around 6 inches. Hoagie rolls of Garlic and cheese
Subway to the nearest, newest country
Let’s build nuclear weapons
Burn this mother down

I tore my shirt open when I looked at your mouth
The **** that I saw was more than I could handle
Let’s get crazy, baby
Let’s play schizophrenia

Foreplay, moreplay, doorplay, whoreplay
Rhyming is the second cutest thing you can do
With your mouth
Start yelling, I will, I will!
Champagne drownings
It's weird; I recognize these don't make sense, but there's a piece of them I feel. I do hope you enjoy it.
Mar 2013 · 1.9k
Walking on a Sunny Day
M Clement Mar 2013
Yellow jackets’ yellow jackets
Licorice made of Venison
Stand over there, quite queer, my dear
While I drink a handle of Jameson

**** wizards and Eddie Izzard
Speak to me in glad tidings
Astronauts, sweet lizards' space gizzards
Jump over the back of book bindings

***** the misconceptions
Drive off the road into gravy
Split the checks, and **** on decks
Mistake my sound perceptions

Habeus Corpus
Parlay with ***
Start with darts
And move to the porpoise
Mar 2013 · 924
Look, we've made triplets
M Clement Mar 2013
The one-eyed man
With his one-finger hand
Told me the one secret to life

Live by twos
And find two truths
And hopefully, never find two lies

Three people can join
While three can soil *****
And three pairs of pants will be needed

Four mistresses
Take four distresses
And pop four pills a piece

Five dollars is all you need
For five pound of speed
To do, for five days, about nothing

Six skin flicks
With six dude-chicks
Make six uncomfortable scenarios

Seven is what you need
Seven of the kindest deeds
And then you'll find perfection in seven.
Mentally, started with the first 3 lines, wanted to continue with numbers, this is what I got.
Mar 2013 · 1.8k
Haikus for yous
M Clement Mar 2013
I
"I never thought," said
She awaiting responses
I cared none at all
II
Bring about all change
Said the women in the hats
Voting for switched thoughts
III
Irreversible
Unexplained, mispoken thoughts in
Slightly elder speech
IV
Steampunk, take old junk
Make them into something grand
The robotic hand
V
If I were asian
I'd eat my cultural food
In Panda Express
VI
Ironic, lightly
Grazing lions on the grass
The Antelope hunt
VII
Haikus for all yous
Travelling down the dirt roads
Win Sobriety
VIII
**** jokes take folks and
Make them into prudes, so rude,
But I keep joking
IX
I'm at nine, can't stop
I'll keep writing till the drop
Of the pen runs dry
X
I pay no heed to
All the words said by Sifu
I am poor student
I figured, why not try haikus.
Mar 2013 · 822
Children's Playtime
M Clement Mar 2013
One, Two,
**** in the shoe
Makes walking
Hellishly uncomfortable

Three, Four,
You'll find me a bore
If you spend enough time
With me, unfathomable

Five, Six,
You make me sick
And I know that we
Won't be the same

Seven, Eight
Tell it to me straight
Because, frankly
I've already lost you

Nine, Ten
Said again
Missing you
Is the last thing
on my mind
This is to no one in particular; I just wanted to play with the number rhyme scheme.
Mar 2013 · 1.7k
Psycholology
M Clement Mar 2013
Anachronous monogamy
Schwarzenegger gets to the choppa
Invisible maliciousness awaits to those who
Explore the jungles, Danny Trejo just wants help
Crisis in the management takes two eggs to heal it
Two eggs, two dregs, two more lines to make it through
The day. **** like howitzers, snake in my trousers, wearing overalls
Doesn’t make me gay. Pig farmers, snake charmers, **** undercover, pigs
Make the best companions. Dead of night, chill or fright, I’m here so talk to me.
Sharing is caring
Inspiration of Predators, Predator, and personal thoughts.
Mar 2013 · 326
From Russia with Love
M Clement Mar 2013
We don't own money
It's True
In Capitalist society
Money owns you
Sharing is caring
Mar 2013 · 1.4k
A Mash of All Your Favorites
M Clement Mar 2013
Color me confused,
As one most often will do,
To strike a note with a concordance of thieves.

Away, away sweet thoughts on paper,
Melodrama and cherishment be thine.
Add a dash of insecurity
And away all conscious thought processes go.

A tongue-tied shade of green, you always seem to put me.
Playing without knowledge, with my thoughts and mind.

Deep within the castle walls, a creature stands listless,
With eyes of hazel and face chiseled in anguish and confusion.

To say that a man is a man is but one side of an ever-evolving equation,
And I can’t help but feel at loss.
For what should be with great elation to be near, all I feel is lost

With emotions in a tizzy,
To keep my mind busy,
One must try almost too hard.
So take what I say,
Writ it okay,
And pay no attention to my advances.
Sharing is caring
My poetry's pretty dark, right now; this was something lighter.
M Clement Mar 2013
Movement issues
Occupy Parkinson’s
We are the 99% of the muscles
That don’t ******* work right.
I watched a video on Parkinson's disease. Interesting stuff.
I don't know what put me on the Occupy Movement, though.
Mar 2013 · 912
A Triage of Sacktown
M Clement Mar 2013
Gas station, masked man
   Save tolls for the gas can
Clean feet, ***** dozen
   Remedies for the cousin

   Sweat shops, floor mops
Save the blood for the dance floor
   Bewitched, leg twitched
Good Aiming Rednecks

Saving gay couples from the ***
I'm reading Michael Robbins, at the moment, and I find his style similar to what I wish I could write. Stuff that's open, a little ******, but honest and witty. Maybe that's what I already write; I'm not sure, but this is an offspring of mimicry.
Mar 2013 · 479
Well rooted
M Clement Mar 2013
I was once a great tree
My circumference wide
My branches long
I reached to the heavens
I yearned for water
and drank heartily
And the sun,
the sun greeted me daily

There were days
Us trees
We would lounge about
Being trees
After a time; however,
I saw so many leave
So quickly
Cut down at such ripe ages

The teeth
The teeth
The teeth they gnashed
They tore into the flesh
To the bark
I was a tree
And there were many with me
But slowly, we disappeared

The teeth
You brought
The teeth
They gnashed
You held nothing back
And ripped apart my flesh
Just like the many before me
Mar 2013 · 920
Fever in the Forest
M Clement Mar 2013
Strap me up to an I.V.
And let the words flow deep into my blood stream

As everything seems to leave
I cleave to words
Words, words, words

I sit on islands
There are multiple
For multiple deserters
The sand an
Aggravating reminder
That one's loneliness is
One's own issue

Truly, if one were to realize
We are sand
That person would realize the multitude of people around
Instead, individually,
We fall through the hourglass
In a pile of loners
Some, reaching towards others
Others, just proud to be at the top for a bit
Still others are left at the bottom
Remembering what it tasted like
To be at the top,
For everyone to look at you.

The hourglass sits beside me
On the newest island
That I swore never to visit again
Mar 2013 · 465
In essence(s)
M Clement Mar 2013
Trying to turn off
Lights that were never on
Fear
Mar 2013 · 2.7k
The Streets
M Clement Mar 2013
He sat, completely repentant
He had hurt her before, he knew
There was defeat in his shoulders

"I would like to pray about this," he said, searching for change in a greater aspect.

Beratement
Scolding
She needs a husband who's going to be around
Better around beating than away?
He had put that past behind him
She felt reason to bring it up
Over
And
Over
She needs a husband
He's there, but apparently,
Not enough
Miscommunication
Frustration
Defeat in his being

She keeps talking and talking
Saying the same things over and over
Beating him with the same verbal stick
He feels awful
He knows his wrongs
He lacks self forgiveness
He fears himself
He fears losing her due to his own actions

He desires to pray
He wants, and is seeking change
She's stuck
Stick in hand
Ready,
On the attack

Prayer
She's stuck in a
Loop
No forgiveness in the
Hardened heart
He's defeated,
Wanting so badly for change
I watched this scene unfold before my eyes. I'm not sure why I was a bystander, and I wanted to speak; however, it was not my war; it was not my place.
Feb 2013 · 582
Paying my respects
M Clement Feb 2013
Why, in God's name, are you so beautiful?
Can I buy you a drink?
Can I talk to you a bit?
No, I swear, if I was trying to get into your pants
I'd already be there.
****-y
(Insert jokes about *****, Caulks and the like)

Really, though,
I'm here to listen
I am hear
I want to be here
Like a fisherman
Your face the bait
I had to take it
The chance
Now I'm here
And I want to listen
Now I'm hear
Just pay me the same respects
I'm really trying
Just for you
****, you're beautiful
Feb 2013 · 591
Alan in Wonderland
M Clement Feb 2013
Here's the truth dear Rabbit
I've fallen down the hole, now
And I need you take down what I'm saying
It's important, I tell you
Important

I want so dearly to reveal myself
Let me rephrase:
I want to lay with someone
To
In a simple way
Give of myself
Someone else will enjoy me more than I
Rabbit, you understand, don't you?
You of all...
animals
Know of *******
You're a rabbit.
Don't look at me so *****-ly
You're a rabbit, you have a reputation about you

You do understand me, don't you?
I guess I should explain
No, keep writing
If I'm gone, it should be told
I want to lay with someone,
Because my vulnerability is not something I want to share
If I truly open up
Rather than acting like I have it all together...
By the way, I hardly accomplish that
You saw me crying by the tree, did you not?
That's the whole reason I've fallen down
I wanted to escape
I so badly want to be with a woman
To escape
I know better
But that doesn't mean I act better

Dear Rabbit, have you finished?
I think I'm done ranting.
If you would please,
Post that on the tree outside this hole
I have to explore escape
I just realized how much I hate this poem.
M Clement Feb 2013
Simple meanings in abated days
Tainted tones in patient abnormality
I refuse to elaborate to the adorate
So hope for better prose

My skin has turned desert
Death comes when the oil's burned down
Slaughtered the fattened calf
Only to drown in the oil drum

Bear with me
      Bear with me
This is all I have left
I'm so close to the breaking point
Like a man pulled by horses
I feel my tendons tearing
                               my eyes tearing

I am drowned desert
       Emotion, my life
              My death
Sharing is caring
I'm having a rough week, this week. Last night's poem, and this, is meant to reflect that.
M Clement Feb 2013
Like an army in my mind
I hear the pulse of 1000 soldiers' footsteps
Ringing in my ears
Horns screeching across pavement lines
As fools of importance show that they are
the ones with the bigger ego

Shaking away everything
that demands my attention
I tire of this
I am so very tired.
M Clement Feb 2013
There was failure once
In abundance
Where trees were fruitful
Where animals were playful
Where humanity rested its head
On the luscious ***** of created and Creator

Wrought with destruction
Hellfire eclipsed
Snakes, serpents, leviathans, dragons
Eclipsing the sun where it stood in the sky
Changing out the staff for a noose
Hang thyselves, created
Hang

To bite at the ankles
To inject a great debilitator
Break your backs, created
Break
Labor in pain
Labor in vain
Understand your place

A second go
The desert showed
There was no flora to be fruitful
No abundance, but lack thereof
The antithesis of the first
Down to the outcome
Perhaps a former so we can see the glory
Of the latter

Out of desolation
Came great reserve
Out of desperation
Came great determination
Out of humanity
Came divinity
This is one of the first religious poems I've made that I legitimately enjoy and stand proud of. I hope this tend continues.
Feb 2013 · 540
Curbside remedies
M Clement Feb 2013
Sometimes I stare at the inevitability of life
As if it were a seed in my hand

I know that I’m not quite what you desired
I’m here, and I’m tired

A seed in your hand
Inevitably

I could write you a world
A world that we’d never leave
But a jailer, I’d be
Keeping you in words and not allowing you life
I know, to an extent, what you say
Is not what you mean

I saved myself
Took the blame for the entirety
Curb-stomped remedies by witchdoctors
Satanic dealings in secret
Satan steals away in darkness

This wasn’t to scare you
I want to remind you
As we sit on the curbside
A seed in the hand
Of a King
What we have the ability to create
Is beyond the imaginings I could write
Beyond the world I could bring about

We are not as lost as we think
Collective thoughts scream otherwise
As cars still fail to touch the skies
We are not as lost as we think
We are not as lost as we think
Feb 2013 · 312
Poetry knows no bounds
M Clement Feb 2013
I wrote
and wrote
and wrote
and wrote
and wrote
and wrote
and wrote

And you read
And kept reading
And said so many things
And most were not hollow
But in the morning, we're still
Across borders
Across highways
Across Oceans
Separate lives
Feb 2013 · 533
Poetry n' shit (response)
M Clement Feb 2013
Glob
Of poetry
Flowing down her throat
She didn't stop
So neither did I
A response to Rikki's poetry n ****
Literally made it up to her on the spot, figure I'd post it.
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