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zumee Dec 2019
I thought of you
so long
the thought grew old
died
of natural causes
164 · Jan 2020
beauty Is the beast
zumee Jan 2020
if giving birth
were gentle
as parted lips
sighing
n   e   w   b   o   r   n
into existence

every god
would be a Mother
162 · Sep 2019
49
zumee Sep 2019
49
A baby sentence
will meet its fate

sudden death
at the hands of life

Will it reach eighteen
pass twenty ones

twenty threes
in the blink of a line
Thirty

Will it learn
to speak its name

Does it die
in its prime

Will it ever count
seven times seven
159 · Jun 2021
This Just In
zumee Jun 2021
"Frenzied mobs
of media thugs
are barging into houses,
living rooms,
toilets, beds,
armed
with crushing information
breaking news
on skulls
young and old
none is spared
brains are left for dead."

will we ever learn
to take back the keys
159 · Nov 2020
pushback
zumee Nov 2020
no point
in
being scared
of
being afraid
158 · May 2018
Egg Poetry
zumee May 2018
is when you smash a soft-boiled word: Lightly
against a hard substance,
peel off the protective layer of semiotic circumstance,
reveal the gelatinous, inner white sentence,
and take it all with a pinch of salt.
158 · Dec 2020
the sartre axiom
zumee Dec 2020
people ****
except
when you want them to
155 · Dec 2020
amusings
zumee Dec 2020
how high
do they float
the toes
of a dreamer
.
how soft
heaves the anger
at a generous
foe
.
how scarce
glows the moonbeam
in a glass
of december
.
how bright
does it burn
when it lights up
a soul
155 · Nov 2019
this little lover
zumee Nov 2019
This little lover went on a date
This little lover stayed home
This little lover had a honey to cuddle
This little lover had none

This little lover vowed never to love
ever again
all the way home.
154 · Jun 2020
A Tale of Two Meanings
zumee Jun 2020
there was once a zealous poet
with an endless word supply
who waged an apperception war
against his very eye

the poet sought to demonstrate
to his instrument of sight
by power of articulation
the meaning of this life

trains of thought were conjured
swarms of sense made manifest
still the poems failed to capture
the essence of the mortal quest

the poet's mind was stilled in wonder
its silence cast a knowing spell
the spoken word had lost the war
the naked eye could tell
with every new poem I come blissfully closer to retiring my pen
zumee Aug 2019
Check it out
if you feel so inclined
And then, if you're even more inclined
(without hurting your back)
Fill it out
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152 · May 2018
Like
zumee May 2018
Once upon a time there was a word named Like, which was used to describe either resemblance or affection. Like was very happy with its likeness, and everybody liked it just about as much as it should be liked, and not too much more.

One day as Like was just liking around minding its own business, somebody noticed how likeful it was Like and said: “Hey, Like, can we use you, Like, more?” And Like was all Like: “…” And from that moment the word Like became used in the most unlikely fashion. Everybody started using Like more often when they spoke, basically Like whenever and wherever they wanted to use it: Like became overliked.

Like didn't Like being overliked because all the extra likeness slowly made it forget the original Like, Like the things Like liked and the way Like had always been Like. Eventually everybody overliked Like so much that Like completely forgot who it was Like and stopped being Like itself altogether. Like got so likeable that it in turn started liking itself as the new Like. Soon enough it started overliking being liked and likewise overliking being the new Like, and came to Like the attention so much that it couldn't get enough Likes. So little by little Like started controlling what everybody said, until every sentence had to have so many Likes in it that it was Like practically the only thing Like anybody ever said. And anybody who Like didn’t Like to use Like as much as Like wished to be used was Like punished with not having anything interesting to Like say.

So everybody used Like out of Like fear of the likelihood of being Like punished and Like in order to stay liked by Like and keep Like saying interesting things, until Like became Like literally Like the only Like thing Like anybody Like ever Like said and Like...

Like became GodLike.
152 · Jun 2018
Split
zumee Jun 2018
I don't truly understand
half the poems that I write
and the remaining other half
I don't think I truly like.
151 · Nov 2020
picasso.exe
zumee Nov 2020
if
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then
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and
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150 · Nov 2020
the mechanics of it all
zumee Nov 2020
so simple
yet
simpler
148 · Aug 2018
Helping Hands
zumee Aug 2018
Gun in hand
to spill the colored truth
of poet’s own grey matter
Neurons dying to and fro to
figure out
if a stanza suicide is worth committing

Pen, on the other hand
dangles a juicy metaphor
from the *******.
145 · Nov 2020
forsacral
zumee Nov 2020
1
1
1
1
where seedless gods
grow on trees
of freedom
raging
fruit
hang on
for dear life
crunch    ;    kick
flowing down the schin
of a godeater

forsacral: [for-sey-kruhl]  tbd
141 · Oct 2018
Lifelong Gains
zumee Oct 2018
Work out your dreams
until they're strong enough
to lift you up
Carry you where you need
141 · Nov 2020
both
zumee Nov 2020
wisdom
or
fuckery
136 · Jul 2018
Sun
zumee Jul 2018
Sun
Main witness
to human’s madness
of fish in schools
and fowl murderers

I lift my gaze into the sky
Golden God
to shed some light…

…Stabs me repeatedly in the eyeball.
136 · May 2020
dating
zumee May 2020
it's a tired war
for some raging piece
136 · Feb 2020
everything to unlose
zumee Feb 2020
comes a time
in every life
when the safest option
is to risk it all
135 · Jan 2020
cosmos hunter
zumee Jan 2020
unreleased, unaimed
bow undrawn
position unassumed
target unaquired

moments repass
as we unwatch
our arrow of time
approach its mark
129 · Jun 2020
bulletpoem
zumee Jun 2020
anonymous
the instant
truth that
hits you
in the
name


126 · Aug 2018
To be, and then not to be
zumee Aug 2018
what was the question?
Just shaking my spear at life...
124 · Jun 2020
ComputerGeneratedImaginary
zumee Jun 2020
screen-fed cattle
pixel-grazing;
the glass is greener
on the other side
122 · Nov 2018
God
zumee Nov 2018
God
A hand that thinks
with its fingers
121 · Mar 2019
to find God
zumee Mar 2019
Open up a holy book
Flip until you see his name
Douse the page in mindfuel

Roll the joint
Light a fire
Lose a heaven
Become it All

120 · Nov 2020
It
zumee Nov 2020
It
has never been
will never be
always
Is
118 · Apr 14
expuens affectus
zumee Apr 14
feal to a feel
reel at the real
;
from rancid love
a sacred *****
117 · Apr 2020
Study in Duality
zumee Apr 2020
Good & Evil
worst
Right & Wrong
better
Strong & Weak
best

Motion & Repose
Karma
117 · Apr 2019
What was left
zumee Apr 2019
The boy who fell
down a manhole
running from time
on memory lane
Left in his wake
a gaping void
and the unbearable stench
of a sewer-side note.
Don't be that kid.
116 · Dec 2019
metavision
zumee Dec 2019
some make art
some make art
114 · Jul 2019
Time
zumee Jul 2019
i   l   l   u   s   i   o   n   s
  l   l   u   s   i   o   n  
l   u   s   i   o 
u   s   i  

u   s   i  
 l   u   s   i   o  
   e   l   u   s   i   o   n   
d   e   l   u   s   i   o   n   s
114 · May 2020
?
zumee May 2020
?
when will forever happen
where was everywhere born
whom does everyone complete
what could everything become

y  r  u , i
infinite words
trapped
in dying letters
112 · Feb 2020
Tag the Grim Reaper
zumee Feb 2020
Everyone born
into the game
catches up with Death
eventually

A nimble few
at the speed of Now
run alongside Death
as equals
112 · Jul 2020
emberememberem
zumee Jul 2020
...what you say is
what you think is
what you love is
what you are is

the breath

of a life
of an act
of a thought
of a word of...
110 · Nov 2020
Life
zumee Nov 2020
a joke
whose point
is to laugh
so wholeheartedly
that
the laughter
becomes funnier
than the joke
itself
keep laughing
109 · Apr 15
Δ̰ ̰ ̰
zumee Apr 15
flowing down from heaven high
climbing up the darkness deep
lovers
edge across the line
ashore, a Mountain and its Sea
107 · Apr 2020
Homo nyms
zumee Apr 2020
Roses are read
Violets are blew
is this poem gay
or written by an ESL student
105 · Aug 2020
cats & dogs
zumee Aug 2020
once upon a time
there was a dog named cat
once upon another
a cat named dog

in the one
dogs were always cats
in the other
cats were never dogs

and all the other dogs
and all the other cats
were named
It
103 · Apr 2020
giving down
zumee Apr 2020
Every master
of the art of losing
was once
a rookie winner
102 · Mar 2019
Raise them Right
zumee Mar 2019
Every Gentleman is first
a gentle son
100 · Oct 2020
pray; tell
zumee Oct 2020
I have been blessed
with more words
than I will ever use
I have no need for yours

what does your Silence have to say
98 · Sep 2020
pretty song
zumee Sep 2020
but will you make it
into my funeral
playlist
98 · Dec 2018
thippity thought
zumee Dec 2018
We're stronger than we think
in the moments
We're not thinking
97 · Apr 2020
no vision in sight
zumee Apr 2020
seeing is believing
to an eye that ever tries

showing is deceiving
when the unseen never lies
no Truth is as insecure as to require your belief
96 · Apr 2020
what houses a window
zumee Apr 2020
Lies are beautifully stained
glass
attractive, dispersing
singularity of light in-
-to theaters of color,
dramatic iridescence

Truth is Other
see-through, immaculate
never thing unto itself
humble as a pane
that bids the eye
to the open sky
92 · Oct 2020
Timeisof: The Essence
zumee Oct 2020
fume-per-fume
It all began
when the alien artisan
farted
a masterpiece
substance
called
It
91 · Feb 2020
holy books
zumee Feb 2020
Forever
skimming
through the minds;
indescribable joy
stumbling
on a rough draft
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